Events

2009-10 Reading Series

[Looking ahead to Spring 2010: Mary Biddinger, David Jack Bell, Mary Szybist]

Fall 2009

Art, Aesthetics, & Creativity
English Department
STUDENT ART EXHIBIT

November 30 and December 1
3rd Floor Faculty Lounge (3001) Wiekamp Hall

Opening Reception: Monday, November 30
3:30 – 5:30 p.m.

A399 Narrative Collage (Prof. Kelcey Parker)
A190 The Dramatic Art of Not-So-Instant Messaging (Prof. Jessica Chalmers)
A190 The Magic of Image (Prof. Nancy Botkin)
A190 Contemporary Art Practices (Prof Linda Wilson)

The exhibit will feature
photography (self-portraits, urban/rural, Holga)
student-produced videos
handmade and self-published books
Surrealist dream collages
handmade postcards from South Bend

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November 13, 2009, 7:30 Wiekamp Bridge
Fiction Writer Frances Hwang, author of the short story collection, Transparency

Frances Hwang

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Oct. 13, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.
Fiction Writer Darrin Doyle, author of the novel, Revenge of the Teacher’s Pet, A Love Story

Darrin Doyle

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Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009, 10:00-3:00 (reading 11:30-12:00)

<<<< poster art by IUSB grad, Naoko Fujimoto!

IUSB Faculty and Alumni writers will sell books and chapbooks at ArtBeat this Saturday, 9/26 in downtown South Bend. We will give short readings between 11:30-12:00 at the Key Bank Plaza, and our booth will be nearby. Look for the Literary Arts Collective.

We are: David Dodd Lee, Nancy Botkin, Talia Reed, Kelcey Parker, and Clayton Michaels.

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2008-09 Reading Series

Spring 2009:

Susan Choi on Saturday, April 11, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. Location: TBA

Susan Choi

A Person of Interest, Choi's latest novel

American Woman, Pulitzer Prize finalist

Susan Choi was born in South Bend, Indiana, and raised there and in Houston, Texas. She studied literature at Yale and writing at Cornell, and worked for several years as a fact-checker for The New Yorker.

Her first novel, The Foreign Student, won the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction, and her second novel, American Woman, was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize.

With David Remnick she co-edited the anthology Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker, and her non-fiction has appeared in publications including Vogue, Tin House, Allure, O and The New York Times and in anthologies including Money Changes Everything and Brooklyn Was Mine.

A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, she lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband, Pete Wells, and their sons Dexter and Elliot.

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Ashley Capps on Thursday, March 5, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. Location: Third Floor “Bridge” of Wiekamp Hall

(Ashley will also visit David Dodd Lee’s Advanced Poetry class)

Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields, poems by Ashley Capps

Ashley Capps

Ashley Capps received her MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her first book of poems, Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields, was published in 2006. New poems appear in the current issues of Granta and Black Warrior Review, and are forthcoming in H_NGM_N and Columbia Poetry Review. She is working on a second collection of poems entitled Then Self.

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Michael Dumanis on Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. Location: Third Floor “Bridge” of Wiekamp Hall

(Michael will also visit David Dodd Lee’s Advanced Poetry class and Kelcey Parker’s Intro to Creative Writing class)

Michael Dumanis

My Soviet Union, Poems by Michael Dumanis

Legitimate Dangers, Ed. by Michael Dumanis and Cate Marvin

Michael Dumanis (PhD, University of Houston; MFA, University of Iowa)
Michael Dumanis teaches literature and creative writing at Cleveland State University, where he serves as Director of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center and edits the books in their poetry and novella series. His first collection of poems, My Soviet Union won the Juniper Prize for Poetry from the University of Massachusetts Press and appeared in Spring 2007. He is also the coeditor, with poet Cate Marvin, of the anthology Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century and the Section Editor for the poetries of Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Macedonia, Russia, and Slovakia in the forthcoming Graywolf Press anthology The New European Poets, edited by Kevin Prufer and Wayne Miller. His poems have appeared in such journals as Conduit, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, New England Review, Post Road, Prairie Schooner, and Verse, and his writing has been recognized with a Fulbright Fellowship (to Bulgaria), a James Michener Fellowship in Fiction, and fellowships to Yaddo and the Wesleyan Writers’ Conference.

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Fall 2008:

James Owens on Thursday, Nov. 20 at 7:00 p.m. Location: Third Floor “Bridge” of Wiekamp Hall

Lily Hoang on Wednesday, Sept. 24 at 7:00 p.m.

Location: Third Floor “Bridge” of Wiekamp Hall.

Lily Hoang’s first novel, Parabola, won the Chiasmus Press Un-Doing the Novel Contest. She is also the author of Changing (Fairy Tale Review Press, forthcoming Dec. 2008) and The Evolutionary Revolution (Les Figues Press, forthcoming 2009-10). She currently teaches writing and Women’s Studies at Saint Mary’s College in Indiana.

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Spring 2008

1/17 6:30 Analecta’s Open-Mic/Third Floor Lounge/Wiekamp
1/30 7:00 Sam Sheridan, writer/fighter (Memoir: A Fighter’s Heart)/Third Floor Bridge/Wiekamp
2/28 7:00 Greg Rappleye, poet (Figured Dark)
3/18 6:00 Erik Reece, creative nonfiction (Lost Mountain)/Wiekamp, DW 1001
3/20 6:30 Open Mic sponsored by the English Club/Wiekamp, 3rd floor Lounge
TBA Lily Hoang (author of Parabola, Chiasmus Press) — This event has been postponed until Fall 2008.
4/19 7:00 Wolfson Awards featuring Brock Clarke (Novel: Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England)/Northside Hall 158
4/30 7:00 Grad Student Reading, TBA

For directions, questions, or additional details, contact Kelcey Parker.