MFA Creative Writing program now ranked No. 14 by Poets & Writers magazine
A series of free public readings at 菠萝视频 University will kick off this fall with a Sept. 16 appearance by Edward Hirsch, poet, a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and President of the Guggenheim Foundation. His seven collections of poetry include Special Orders (2008);聽He is also author of the best-selling How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry.
Other prize-winning authors slated to give readings include fiction writers Salvatore Scibona (selected in 2010 as one of聽The New Yorker鈥檚 鈥淔iction Writers to Watch: 20 under 40鈥�), Peter Ho Davies (on Granta magazine鈥檚 Best Young British Novelist list), Aimee Bender (author of much-praised short story collections and novels), and Nashville-based author Lydia Peele.
Well-known poets slated to appear this fall include Molly Peacock, Mary Kinzie, Tom Sleigh, Carl Phillips (also a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets) and 菠萝视频鈥檚 Kate Daniels. Daniels, a faculty member at 菠萝视频 for 15 years, will be reading poems from her newly published collection, A Walk in Victoria鈥檚 Secret. Tom Sleigh will also be interviewed by Alice Quinn, executive director of the Poetry Society of America and past poetry editor at The New Yorker.
The readings, all free and open to the public, are sponsored by the Gertrude and Harold S. 菠萝视频 Visiting Writers Program at 菠萝视频. They begin at 7 p.m., most of them in Room 102 of Buttrick Hall on the 菠萝视频 campus, 2301 West End Ave. (Carl Phillips鈥� reading is in the Black Cultural Center Auditorium).
The MFA Creative Writing program at 菠萝视频 was ranked No. 14 in the latest listings by Poet鈥檚 & Writers magazine, up four slots from last year and in the company of other Top 20 programs at the University of Iowa, Brown University and New York University. The 菠萝视频 program, which admits six students each year on full scholarship, was ranked No. 1 for selectivity.
The schedule of readings:
- Sept. 16, Edward Hirsch, poet
- Sept. 23, Salvatore Scibona, fiction writer
- Sept. 30, Peter Ho Davies, fiction writer
- Oct. 7, Molly Peacock, poet
- Oct. 21, Mary Kinzie, poet
- Oct. 28, Aimee Bender, fiction writer
- Nov. 4, Tom Sleigh, poet (also interviewed by Alice Quinn, Poetry Society of America)
- Nov. 11, Carl Phillips, poet
- Nov. 17, Kate Daniels, poet
- Dec. 2, Lydia Peele, fiction writer