[Yale-readings] SCSU Fall Reading Series

[Kuhl, Nancy]

Don't miss the following readings at Southern CT State University this semester:

Mon., Sept. 20:
Reading, 8 p.m. Engleman A120
Craft talk, 6 p.m. Engleman D253
Michelle Richmond is the author of three novels -- The Year of Fog, No One You Know and Dream of the Blue Room -- and a short story collection, The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress. 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, The Year of Fog, is in development as a motion picture.

 Wed., Oct. 13:
Reading, 8 p.m. Engleman D253
Brock Clarke is the author of four books of fiction, most recently the novel An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England, which was a national bestseller and which has appeared in a number of foreign editions. His new novel, Exley, will be published in September 2010. His fiction and short fiction have appeared in numerous periodicals, The New York Times, Boston Globe, and New Stories from the South 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.

 Thurs., Oct. 21:
Reading, 8 p.m. Engleman D253
Jack B. Bedell 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 Call and Response (Texas Review Press), Come Rain, Come Shine (Texas Review Press) and French Connections: A Gathering of Franco-American Poets (LaLit Press).

 Tues., Nov. 9:
Reading, 8 p.m. Engleman D253
Alan Michael Parker is the author of five collections of poems, including Days Like Prose, The Vandals, Love Song with Motor Vehicles, A Peal of Sonnets, and most recently, Elephants & Butterflies (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2008). He is also the author of two novels, including the forthcoming Whale Man (WordFarm, 2011) and Cry Uncle. He is editor of The Imaginary Poets, 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.



For further info contact Tim Parrish at 203-392-6745 or parrisht1 at southernct.edu<mailto:parrisht1 at southernct.edu>.
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