The M.F.A. in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts presents —
The Spring 2008 Reading Series
Free and open to the public, in the Multipurpose room of the Student Center, 5th floor, 21 W. Mt. Royal Avenue. Seating is limited, and early arrival is suggested.
Faculty Reading: Marion Winik & Jane Delury
Thursday, February 7 at 7 pm
Multipurpose Room on the fifth floor of the Student Center
- Professor Delury is a fiction writer whose work has appeared in literary journals including StoryQuarterly, The Sun Magazine, and Sou'Wester. She teaches undergraduate and graduate creative writing and publishing courses.
- Professor Winik is the author of six books, the most famous of which is the memoir First Comes Love. She teaches a variety of undergraduate and graduate creative and professional writing courses. You can learn more about Marion on NPR's Web site, and on www.marionwinik.com.
An Exultation of Editors
Monday, March 10th at 7 pm
Multipurpose Room on the fifth floor of the Student Center
- David Dudley, Editor of Urbanite Magazine.
- Jen Michalski, Editor-in-chief of JMWW, an electronic literary quarterly, as well as co-host of Baltimore's first prose-reading series, 5ive:ten Readings. Her short fiction collection, Close Encounters, is available from So New Media.
- Gregg Wilhelm, Editor-in-chief of Apprentice House at Loyola College.
A Bookwarming for Joseph Harrison and Greg Williamson
Thursday, March 27th at 7 pm
Multipurpose Room on the fifth floor of the Student Center
- Identity Theft by Joe Harrison
Joseph Harrison's book Someone Else's Name (Waywiser, 2003) was named as one of five poetry books of the year by The Washington Post and was a finalist for the Poets' Prize. In 2005 he received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His new book, Identity Theft, will be published by Waywiser in spring 2008.- A Most Marvelous Piece of Luck by Greg Williamson
Greg Williamson is the author of three books of poetry, The Silent Partner (1995), Errors in the Script (2000), and A Most Marvelous Piece of Luck, forthcoming this spring from Waywiser Press. He has received grants from the Whiting Writers' Foundation and the NEA. He teaches in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.Patricia Smith
Tuesday, April 15 at 7 pm
Multipurpose Room on the fifth floor of the Student Center
- Recognized as one of the world's most formidable performance poets, Patricia Smith was featured in the nationally-released film "Slamnation," and appeared on the award-winning HBO series "Def Poetry Jam." You can learn more about her on http://wordwoman.ws.
For more information about the Reading Series, contact Jaye Crooks at jcrooks@ubalt.edu, or 410.837.6022.
The Reading Series is sponsored by the Yale Gordon College of Liberal Arts Advisory Council and presented by the M.F.A. in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts of the University of Baltimore's School of Communications Design.Back to Current News and Events
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