The Guy Owen-Tom Walters
Reading Series
Fall 2008
Owen-Walters Reading Series
Admission to all events is free and open to the public.
Thursday, September 11th
DORIANNE
LAUX &
JOSEPH MILLAR
7:30 p.m., Caldwell Hall Lounge
New NCSU Faculty Member Dorianne Laux joins our MFA and Creative Writing
team; among her volumes are Facts About the Moon, What We
Carry, and Smoke; she has edited a number of books including The
Poet’s Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing. Poet
Joseph Millar (Dorianne’s husband) is the author of Fortune and Overtime,
plus two chapbooks, Slow Dancer and Midlife.
NOTE NEW DATE:
Thursday, November 13th
PHILIP LEVINE
7:30 p.m., Caldwell Hall Lounge
From the 1960s, a major voice in American poetry, winner of the National
Book Award and Pulitzer Prizes, whose volumes include They Feed the
Lion, A Walk with Tom Jefferson, What Work Is, The
Mercy and his most recent, Breath.
Thursday, November 20th
NCSU Fiction Contest Presentation with
ELIZABETH COX and
C. MICHAEL CURTIS
7:30 p.m., Caldwell Hall Lounge
First, the presentation of awards for the 2008 Short Story Contests
with our Guest Judge C. Michael Curtis, the Fiction Editor of The Atlantic
Monthly Magazine. This will be followed by a reading from acclaimed
Southern author (and spouse of Mr. Curtis) Elizabeth Cox, author of The
Ragged Way People Fall Out of Love, Night Talk, Familiar
Ground and The Slow Moon; plus a collection of short stories, Bargains
in the Real World.
February [watch for final date]
ALAN SHAPIRO
7:30 p.m., Caldwell Hall Lounge
Prolific poet (and UNC brethren), author of Tantalus In Love, Vigil,
The Dead Alive and Busy, Song and Dance and Old War, among
others.
March [watch for final date]
JAYNE ANNE PHILLIPS
7:30 p.m., Caldwell Hall Lounge
The much-awarded novelist and author of Motherkind, Fast Lanes, Machine
Dreams and Shelter, plus a collection of stories, Black
Tickets; her latest novel, Lark and Termite, will be hot
off the press.
Tuesday, April 7
NCSU Poetry Contest Presentation with
ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT
7:30 p.m., Caldwell Hall Lounge
Poet and scholar, author of Kyrie, Shadow of Heaven, Claiming
Kin, Lotus Flowers and Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006,
plus the critical work, The Flexible Lyric, and Guest Judge
for the 2008 NCSU Poetry Contest.
Sometime in April
OUR MFA CANDIDATES
7:30
p.m., watch this space for new venue
Come hear our graduating MFA candidates give a
farewell reading from their best prose and poetry.
See who's been visiting NC State
recently...