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<p><strong><span style='color:black'>Don't miss the following readings</span>
at Southern CT State University this semester<span style='color:black'>:</span></strong><span
style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style='color:black'>Mon., Sept. 20:</span></strong><span
style='color:black'><br>
<em>Reading, 8 p.m. Engleman A120</em><i><br>
<em>Craft talk, 6 p.m. Engleman D253</em></i><br>
<strong><i>Michelle Richmond</i></strong> is the author of three novels -- <em>The
Year of Fog</em>, <em>No One You Know</em> and <em>Dream of the Blue Room </em>--
and a short story collection, <em>The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress</em>. She is
the recipient of the 2009 Hillsdale Award for Fiction from the Fellowship of
Southern Writers, the Associated Writing Programs Award, and the Mississippi
Review Fiction Prize. Her stories and essays have appeared in Glimmer Train,
Playboy, Oxford American, Salon, The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, and
elsewhere. Her novel, <em>The Year of Fog</em>, is in development as a motion
picture. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='color:black'> <strong>Wed., Oct. 13: </strong><br>
<em>Reading, 8 p.m. Engleman D253</em><br>
<em><b>Brock Clarke</b></em> is the author of four books of fiction, most
recently the novel <em>An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England</em>,
which was a national bestseller and which has appeared in a number of foreign
editions. His new novel, <em>Exley</em>, will be published in September 2010.
His fiction and short fiction have appeared in numerous periodicals, The New
York Times, Boston Globe, and <em>New Stories from the South</em> anthology.
He's received a number of awards for his work, including a National Endowment
for the Arts fellowship, an Ohio Council for the Arts fellowship, the Mary
McCarthy Prize, the Prairie Schooner Book Series Prize, the Pushcart Prize, and
the Emily Clark Balch Prize, and has twice been a finalist for the National
Magazine award for fiction. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='color:black'> <strong>Thurs., Oct. 21: </strong><br>
<em>Reading, 8 p.m. Engleman D253</em><br>
<em><b>Jack B. Bedell</b></em> is the Woman's Hospital Distinguished Professor
in the Humanities at Southeastern Louisiana University where he also serves as
editor of Louisiana Literature and director of Louisiana Literature
Press. His most recent books are <em>Call and Response</em> (Texas Review
Press), <em>Come Rain, Come Shine</em> (Texas Review Press) and <em>French
Connections: A Gathering of Franco-American Poets</em> (LaLit Press). </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='color:black'> <strong>Tues., Nov. 9: </strong><br>
<em>Reading, 8 p.m. Engleman D253</em><br>
<strong><i>Alan Michael Parker</i></strong> is the author of five collections
of poems, including <em>Days Like Prose</em>, <em>The Vandals</em>, <em>Love
Song with Motor Vehicles</em>, <em>A Peal of Sonnets</em>, and most recently,<em>
Elephants & Butterflies</em> (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2008). He is also the
author of two novels, including the forthcoming <em>Whale Man</em> (WordFarm,
2011) and <em>Cry Uncle</em>. He is editor of <em>The Imaginary Poets</em>, and
co-editor of two other volumes of scholarship. His poems have appeared in The
American Poetry Review, The Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, The New Republic,
The New Yorker, Paris Review, Pleiades, and The Yale Review, among other
magazines; his prose has appeared in journals including The Believer, The New
York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, and The San Francisco Chronicle. Alan
Michael Parker is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including a
Pushcart Prize, the Fineline Prize from the Mid-American Review, and the
Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='color:black'>For further info contact Tim Parrish at
203-392-6745 or <a href="mailto:parrisht1@southernct.edu" target="_blank">parrisht1@southernct.edu</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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