Readings Series
The English Department readings are free and open to the public—please come join us. Locations and times vary, as indicated below. Winston Hall is on Hillsborough Street across from Bruegger's Bagels.
Spring 2004 Calendar
Wednesday,
January 28
Elaine Orr
Scholar and author of the memoir Gods of Noonday
8:00 p.m. in 029 Winston Hall
Wednesday,
Februrary 18
Fundraiser for
the MFA in Creative Writing
Alice Sebold
Author of the literary phenomenon and best-seller The Lovely Bones
and the acclaimed memoir Lucky Free with NCSU ID; $15 general
public
7:00 p.m. in the Talley Student Center Ballroom
Wednesday,
March 31
NCSU Poetry Festival
David Bottoms
Novelist and poet, whose six collections include Vagrant Grace,
Under the Vulture-Tree, and the retrospective Armored
Hearts
Guest Judge of the NCSU Poetry Contest
8:00 p.m. in 029 Winston Hall
Wednesday,
April 7
MFA/Creative Writing
Grad Student Readings
7:30 p.m. in Caldwell Lounge—refreshments served
Fall 2004 Calendar
Thursday,
September 9
Graduate Student Reading
Short readings from poets and fiction writers in the graduate program
for creative writing.
8:00 p.m. at HELIOS on Glenwood Avenue
Tuesday,
September 21
Sekou Sundiata
As seen on Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam and Bill Moyer's The
Language of Life on PBS
7:30 p.m. in Room 216 Poe Hall
Monday,
October 18
Jonathan
Lethem
Bestselling author of Motherless Brooklyn, Fortress of Solitude,
Amnesia Moon, Men and Cartoons, and many more.
7:30 p.m. in 029 Winston Hall
Guest Judge of the NCSU Short Story Contest
Randall Kenan
Editor, scholar and author of Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, A Visitation of Spirits, and Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century.
7:30 p.m. in 029 Winston Hall
Find information about the 2002-03 reading series below.