Readings Series
Spring 2005 Calendar
Wednesday,
January 26
Jon Thompson & Tom
Lisk
A double-bill reading from our own NCSU
Faculty. Jon Thompson, editor of Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary
Poetry and Poetics, reads from his newly published The Book of the Floating World; Tom
Lisk reads from his newest collection, Aroma Terrapin.
7:30 p.m. in Winston Hall.
Wednesday,
February 23
Bruce
Sterling
Futurist, designer,
essayist, and a sicence fiction legend--the "Godfather of Cyberpunk"
reads from his new work and participates in a conversation about our
technological future, moderated by John Kessel.
7:30 p.m. in Kamphoefner Hall (at the Design
School)
NCSU POETRY
FESTIVAL
Tuesday, March 29
MFA Poetry Candidates
Come
hear our graduate students read their work from the past year of study.
7 p.m. in Caldwell Lounge--refreshments served!
GUEST JUDGE of the NCSU Poetry Contest
Peter Makuck
Poet, author of Against Distance, Pilgrims, and Where We Live; also the presentation of awards to fialists and winners in North Carolina's largest statewide free-to-enter literary contest.
7:30 p.m. in 029 Winston Hall
Thursday, April 7
MFA Fiction Candidates
Now it's the prose-writers' turn. Come hear our graduate
students read from their best work.
7 p.m. in Caldwell Lounge--refreshments served!
Fall 2004 Calendar
Wednesday, September 14
Bernard O'Donoghue
From Cork, Ireland (by way of Oxford University, where he is
a scholar and translator of medieval literature), O'Donoghue
received the Whitbread Prize (sort of like an English Pulitzer)
for his 1995 volume of poems, Gunpowder. In his first trip to
the American South, O'Donoghue will read from recent work
which reflects the realities of aging, weariness amid the
world's mischief, and--as always--wonder and interest in the
people and places of his native Ireland. (Undoubtedly, one of
Raleigh's Irish pubs will be the follow-up location of this night
of poetry...)
7:30 p.m. in the Caldwell Hall Lounge
Wednesday, October 12
Mary Kinzie
Critic and scholar, editor and polemicist for poetry, Mary Kinzie
is currently a fellow at the National Institute for the Humanities
in the Research Triangle. She is the author of the acclaimed
volumes Drift, The Threshold of the Year and Ghost Ship. Her
books on the contemporary poetry scene include The Cure of
Poetry in an Age of Prose and A Poet's Guide to Poetry.
7:30 p.m. in the Caldwell Hall Lounge
Wednesday, November 16
GUEST JUDGE for the NCSU Short Story Contests
Lee Smith & Hal Crowther
Former NCSU professor and best-selling, beloved novelist
Lee Smith and her husband Hal Crowther, the famous essayist
(in the Oxford American) and commentator, appear in a rare
double-bill. Lee Smith is the judge for the 2005 NCSU Short
Story Contest and, after the winners and honorable mentions
are awarded prizes, she and her husband will read from new
and familiar works. Smith is the author of Saving Grace, Fair
and Tender Ladies, Devil's Dream, The Last Girls and many
other Southern Literature favorites.
7:30 p.m. in the Caldwell Hall Lounge