English Department Events
Fall 2005
Crystal Williams reading, 21 September
Jeanne Marie Beaumont & Susan Wheeler, 19 October
Creative Non-fiction Week, 24-27 October
Rick Barot, 8 November
Naomi Shihab Nye, 15 November
Faculty Reading, 8 December
- Crystal Williams reading, 21 September
Concert Hall: 1014 South Michigan (5:30pm) 
Crystal Williams is the author of two collections of poetry, Kin and Lunatic. A native of
Detroit, Michigan, Williams has published poetry and essays in many journals and anthologies including, Ms. Magazine,
5AM, The Indiana Review, American Poetry: the Next Generation, Poetry Nation, Sweet Jesus and Beyond the Frontier, among
others. She is a member of the 1995 Nuyorican Slam Team and holds degrees from NYU and Cornell Univesity. She
currently teaches in the English Department at Columbia College Chicago.
See also: Electronic Poetry Review- top
- Jeanne Marie Beaumont &
Susan Wheeler, 19 October
Collins Hall: 624 South Michigan (5:30pm) 
Jeanne Marie Beaumont earned her MFA from Columbia University. She is the author of two collections of poetry, Curious Conduct (BOA Editions, 2004) and Placebo Effects, which was a winner of the National Poetry Series (Norton, 1997). She is also coeditor of The Poets' Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Blues for Bill: A Tribute to William Matthews and the forthcoming Good Poems for Hard Times. She has taught at the Frost Place and Rutgers University and currently teaches at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y in New York City.
See also: Jean Marie Beaumont online profile
Susan Wheeler is the author of four collections of poetry, Bag ‘o’ Diamonds (1993, University of Georgia Press), Smokes (1998, Four Way Books), Source Codes (2001, Salt Publishing), and Ledger (2005, U of Iowa Press); and of Record Palace, a novel (2005, Graywolf Press). Her awards include the Witter Bynner Prize for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, two Pushcart Prizes, and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her work has appeared in eight editions of the Scribner anthology Best American Poetry, as well as in The Paris Review, London Review of Books, Verse, Talisman, The New Yorker and many other journals. On the creative writing faculties at Princeton University and the New School’s graduate program, she has also taught at Columbia University, the University of Iowa, Rutgers, and New York University.
See also: Susan Wheeler's website- top
Rick Barot, 8 November
Concert Hall: 1014 South Michigan (5:30pm)
Rick Barot's first book of poems, The Darker Fall, was published by Sarabande Books. He attended the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including Poetry, The New Republic, Post Road, The Paris Review, TriQuarterly, and Slate. His poems have also been anthologized in Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century, Asian American Poets: The New Generation, and The New Young American Poets. He has taught at Stanford University, George Washington University, and Lynchburg College. He now teaches at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, and for the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.
See also: Blackbird, an online journal of literature and the arts- top
- Naomi Shihab Nye, 15 November
Film Row Cinema, 1104 South Wabash, 8th Floor (6:00pm) 
Democratic Vistas Forum with Naomi Shihab Nye Co-sponsored with Columbia
College's Center
for Arts Policy. Poet,
essayist, and children's writer Naomi Shihab Nye is the author of more
than twenty volumes, including
19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East, Fuel, Habibi, Never
in a Hurry,
and her most recent volume, A Maze Me: Poems for Girls. She has
worked for 28 years as a visiting writer in schools and communities across
the country where she uses her writing to explore cultural diversity and attest
to our
shared humanity.
For more information on this event call: 312-344-8181.
See also: Naomi Shahib Nye online profile- top
- Faculty Reading, 8 December
Hokin Hall: 623 South Wabash, Room 109 (5:30pm) - Five of Columbia's English Department faculty poets will read selections of their work: Garnett Kilberg Cohen, Susen James, G.E. Murray, Ed Roberson, and Michael Robbins. Authors of eclectic, innovative poems, these faculty members work in a wide range of forms and voices, and teach all levels of writing at Columbia.
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