Jan. 23, 2010
Marshall University Visiting Writers Series Sets Spring Readings
Special to Huntingtonnews.net
Huntington, WV (HNN) – The Marshall University Visiting Writers Series, now in its 25th year, has announced its spring schedule of author appearances. Noted poets and prose-writers from around the nation will be reading from exciting new work.
Series coordinator Art Stringer, professor of English at Marshall, calls this spring’s calendar “one of our most ambitious.” He said a unique collaboration with the Huntington Museum of Art, as well as funding from the West Virginia Humanities Council, has helped bring the series to audiences beyond academia.
Writer Judy Light Ayyildiz will appear at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 4 in the Memorial Student Center on the Huntington campus. She is the author of three poetry collections, two textbooks, and a memoir, Nothing But Time. A graduate of Marshall and of Hollins University, she has worked as an editor and a teacher of writing for 30 years.
Graphic novelist and artist Jessica Abel will appear at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25 at the Huntington Museum of Art. She is the author of four books. La Perdida, a graphic novel thriller set in Mexico City, was featured in the first Best American Comics anthology from Houghton-Mifflin and later published by Pantheon in 2006. Abel, with Matt Madden, will conduct weekend workshops and a gallery walk in conjunction with the Museum’s Gropius Masters Series and the LitGraphic Exhibition.
Distinguished poet David Bottoms will read at the Huntington Museum at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 11. He is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Waltzing Through the Endtime. He is Poet Laureate of Georgia and holds the Amos Distinguished Chair in English Letters at Georgia State University. A reception will follow both his and Jessica Abel’s Museum appearances.
Writers Mark Brazaitis and Mary Ann Samyn will read from their new work at Marshall’s Memorial Student Center at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 21. Brazaitis is an award-winning fiction writer with four books and is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Mary Ann Samyn is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Beauty Breaks In. Both teach creative writing in the West Virginia University MFA Program.
All readings are free and open to the public. The Visiting Writers Series is supported by the Marshall English Department, the College of Liberal Arts, and the West Virginia Humanities Council.
For more information, contact Art Stringer at 304-696-2403.
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Marshall University Visiting Writers Series Sets Spring Readings
Special to Huntingtonnews.net
Huntington, WV (HNN) – The Marshall University Visiting Writers Series, now in its 25th year, has announced its spring schedule of author appearances. Noted poets and prose-writers from around the nation will be reading from exciting new work.
Series coordinator Art Stringer, professor of English at Marshall, calls this spring’s calendar “one of our most ambitious.” He said a unique collaboration with the Huntington Museum of Art, as well as funding from the West Virginia Humanities Council, has helped bring the series to audiences beyond academia.
Writer Judy Light Ayyildiz will appear at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 4 in the Memorial Student Center on the Huntington campus. She is the author of three poetry collections, two textbooks, and a memoir, Nothing But Time. A graduate of Marshall and of Hollins University, she has worked as an editor and a teacher of writing for 30 years.
Graphic novelist and artist Jessica Abel will appear at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25 at the Huntington Museum of Art. She is the author of four books. La Perdida, a graphic novel thriller set in Mexico City, was featured in the first Best American Comics anthology from Houghton-Mifflin and later published by Pantheon in 2006. Abel, with Matt Madden, will conduct weekend workshops and a gallery walk in conjunction with the Museum’s Gropius Masters Series and the LitGraphic Exhibition.
Distinguished poet David Bottoms will read at the Huntington Museum at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 11. He is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Waltzing Through the Endtime. He is Poet Laureate of Georgia and holds the Amos Distinguished Chair in English Letters at Georgia State University. A reception will follow both his and Jessica Abel’s Museum appearances.
Writers Mark Brazaitis and Mary Ann Samyn will read from their new work at Marshall’s Memorial Student Center at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 21. Brazaitis is an award-winning fiction writer with four books and is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Mary Ann Samyn is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Beauty Breaks In. Both teach creative writing in the West Virginia University MFA Program.
All readings are free and open to the public. The Visiting Writers Series is supported by the Marshall English Department, the College of Liberal Arts, and the West Virginia Humanities Council.
For more information, contact Art Stringer at 304-696-2403.
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