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Each night during the Juniper Institute, acclaimed faculty and writers in residence read from their new and selected work. To get a taste of what the Juniper Reading Series has to offer, see the 2011 reading schedule posted below.

The updated 2012 schedule and location will be posted here in April 2012.

The readings were, in a word, PHENOMENAL. I left each one with fragments of poetry spiraling through my head, energized, entertained, and eager to reflect and write…they opened my mind, bent my ear, and honed my pen toward possibility.   

               —’11 participant

The readings were wonderful, amazing, fabulous! Every night I walked out feeling elated, inspired, and with a few more books tucked under my sleeve!

READING SERIES FOR JUNE 19-25, 2011

James Tate, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, is the author of over twenty books of poetry and prose, including The Ghost Soldiers, Return to the City of White Donkeys, and Selected Poems. Charles D'Ambrosio is the author of two collections of stories, The Point and Other Stories and The Dead Fish Museum (a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner award), and a collection of essays.

Steve Almond is the author of the story collections My Life in Heavy Metal and The Evil B.B. Chow. Eileen Myles is the author of seventeen books of poetry and prose, including Inferno (a poet’s novel) and The Importance of Being Iceland. Jenny Offill is the author of the novel Last Things.

Mark Doty is the author of nine books of poems, including Fire to Fire: New & Selected Poems; his nonfiction writing includes the New York Times bestseller Dog Years. Noy Holland is the author of two story collections: The Spectacle of the Body and What Begins with Bird.

Rachel B. Glaser is the author of the short story collection Pee On Water and the poetry chapbook Heroes Are So Long. Matthea Harvey is the author of three poetry collections, including Sad Little Breathing Machine and Modern Life.

Kate Bernheimer is the author of eight books of prose and children’s books on fairy tales, including Horse, Flower, Bird. Dara Wier’s eleven books of poems include Selected Poems, Remnants of Hannah, Reverse Rapture, and Hat on a Pond.

Thomas Sayers Ellis is the author of four poetry collections and chapbooks, including Skin, Inc., The Maverick Room, and The Genuine Negro Hero. Dorothea Lasky is the author of two books of poetry, Awe and Black Life. Joy Williams is the author of four novels, including The Quick and the Dead, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and three collections of stories.

Paul Lisicky is the author of the novels Lawnboy and The Burning House and the memoir Famous Builder. Matthew Zapruder is the author of three poetry collections, Come on All You Ghosts, American Linden, and The Pajamaist.

Reading Schedule, and all Institute activities, are subject to change.