English Department Events
Fall 2004
D.A. Powell Poetry Reading
Amy Gerstler Poetry Reading
Creative Nonfiction Week
Matthea Harvey and Srikanth Reddy Poetry Reading
John Repp Poetry Reading
D.
A. Powell Poetry Reading
Wednesday,
Oct. 20, 5:30 p.m.
Columbia
College Library
624 S. Michigan Ave.
enter the library on the first floor,
then go to the library's third level.
D.A. Powell is the author of the highly acclaimed trilogy made up of Tea (Wesleyan University Press, 1998), Lunch (Wesleyan, 2000), and Cocktails (Graywolf Press, 2004). His poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, and he has received awards from the James Michener Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, and the Poetry Society of America. Powell has taught at the University of Iowa, Columbia University, San Francisco State University, Sonoma State University, and Harvard University. He currently teaches at the University of San Francisco. Together with Katherine Swiggart, he edits Electronic Poetry Review. You can read some of his poems here and here.
Amy
Gerstler Poetry Reading
Wednesday,
Nov. 10, 5:30 p.m.
Columbia College Concert
Hall
1014 South Michigan Avenue
Amy Gerstler is a writer of poetry, nonfiction and journalism who lives in Los Angeles. Penguin Putnam published Ghost Girl, her most recent book of poems, in 2004. Her previous twelve books include Medicine, Crown of Weeds, which won a California Book Award, Nerve Storm, and Bitter Angel, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. Her work has appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies, including The New Yorker, Paris Review, American Poetry Review, several volumes of Best American Poetry and The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry. In the late 1980s till mid 90s she contributed monthly reviews to Artforum magazine. She does a variety of kinds of journalism, including art criticism, and has written for the Village Voice, Los Angeles Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Art and Antiques, and numerous other publications. She teaches in the graduate fine arts department at Art Center, College of Design in Pasadena, California, and is a member of the core faculty of the Masters program in critical writing there. She is a member of the core faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars MFA program at Bennington College in Vermont. Read her poem "Bedlam" from Columbia Poetry Review no. 8 (1995) in the Review's archives.
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Creative
Nonfiction Week
15 - 19 November
See our Creative Nonfiction Week page for more details.
Matthea
Harvey and Srikanth Reddy
Poetry Reading
Friday, Dec. 3, 2004, 5:30 p.m.
Columbia College Concert Hall
1014 S. Michigan Avenue
Matthea Harvey is the author of two books of poetry: Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form (Alice James Books, 2000) and Sad Little Breathing Machine (Graywolf 2004). She is the poetry editor of American Letters & Commentary, a contributing editor for BOMB, and has taught at Warren Wilson, the Pratt Institute and the University of Houston. She currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence. Read her poems here and here.
Srikanth Reddy's first book of poetry, Facts for Visitors, was recently published by the University of California Press. His poems have appeared in various journals, including American Poetry Review, Grand Street, Fence, and Ploughshares, and his critical writing has been featured in publications such as The New Republic, The Chicago Tribune, and American Literature. He has held fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the Whiting Foundation (in the Humanities) and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. A graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop and doctoral candidate at Harvard University, Reddy is currently the William Vaughan Moody Writer-in-Residence at the University of Chicago. Read his poems here and here.
John
Repp Poetry Reading
Thursday, Jan. 6, 2005, 5:30 p.m.
Ferguson Theater
600 S. Michigan Avenue
John Repp is the author of Thirst Like This (University of Missouri Press, 1990), The Fertile Crescent (Cherry Grove Collections, 2004), Gratitude (Cherry Grove Collections, 2005), and four limited-edition chapbooks of poetry. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Special Opportunity Stipend in Fiction, and residency fellowships at Yaddo, the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers, and Fundación Valparaíso. He teaches writing and literature at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, and works in the Arts-in-Education Program of the Pennsylvania Council for the Arts. Read his poems Mulberry and Chemicals, Other poems are online at http://www.elevenbulls.com/repp.html and http://thediagram.com/4_1/repp.html.
topAll readings are free and open to the public. Call (312) 344-8100
or 312-344-8101
for more information.
Please also check the college events calendar for up-to-date details on times and locations.
