Juniper Institute announces schedule of readings
The Juniper Summer Writing Institute will host seven nights of poetry and fiction readings by acclaimed faculty and writers in residence from June 22-28.
The series kicks off with readings by internationally renowned writers and translators Lydia Davis and Matthew Zapruder. Davis’ honors include the French-American Foundation Annual Translation Prize, a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters and a MacArthur Fellowship. Zapruder is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship, the 2002 Tupelo Press Editors Prize and the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award.
Additional readers during the week will include Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning poet James Tate; Charles D’Ambrosio, recipient of a Whiting Award; Prize; Mark Doty, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Dara Wier, whose honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts.
The schedule of public readings is as follows:
• Lydia Davis and Matthew Zapruder, June 22
• Thomas Sayers Ellis and Chris Bachelder, June 23
• Mark Doty and Noy Holland, June 24
• Paul Lisicky and Alex Phillips, June 25
• Nick Flynn and Leni Zumas, June 26
• James Tate and Paul Fattaruso, June 27
• Dara Wier and Charles D’Ambrosio, June 28
All readings take place at 7:30 p.m. in 20 Hasbrouck Lab. The readings are open to the public; there is a suggested donation of $5.
The series is part of the Juniper Summer Writing Institute and Institute for Young Writers, a week-long intensive program offering workshops, craft forums and manuscript consultations with adult and high-school-aged poets and fiction writers. The program is a project of the MFA Program for Poets and Writers’ Juniper Initiative, an organization dedicated to bringing the literary arts into people’s lives.
More Information
Juniper Institute website
June 22, 2008.
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