Visiting Writers Series
The Visiting Writers Series brings nationally and internationally renowned writers to campus to give public readings. Please see our calendar for more upcoming events. To receive notices about our upcoming events, please "Like" us on Facebook.
All readings are free and open to the public. Please join us! Click here for a map and directions.
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Dana LevinThursday, February 7, 20134PM: Q&A, LANG 3168PM: Reading & Book Signing, Golden Eagle SuiteDana Levin’s first book, In the Surgical Theatre, was awarded the 1999 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize and went on to receive nearly every award available to first books and emerging poets. Copper Canyon Press brought out her second book, Wedding Day, in 2005. The Los Angeles Times says of her work, "Dana Levin's poems are extravagant...her mind keeps making unexpected connections and the poems push beyond convention...they surprise us." Her poetry and essays have appeared in many anthologies and magazines, including APR, Poetry, and The Paris Review. She has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN, the Witter Bynner Foundation and the Library of Congress, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, and the Whiting Foundation. A 2007 Guggenheim Fellow, Levin’s most recent book is Sky Burial (Copper Canyon), which was noted for 2011 year-end honors by The New Yorker, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Library Journal. A teacher of poetry for over twenty years, she co-chairs the Creative Writing and Literature Department at Santa Fe University of Art and Design. |
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Tiphanie YaniqueThursday, February 28, 20134PM: Q&A, LANG 3168PM: Reading & Book Signing, Silver Eagle SuiteTiphanie Yanique is the author of How to Escape from a Leper Colony, published by Graywolf Press. Her writing has won the 2011 BOCAS Prize for Caribbean Fiction, Boston Review Prize in Fiction, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Fulbright Scholarship and an Academy of American Poet's Prize. She has been listed by the Boston Globe as one of the sixteen cultural figures to watch out for and by the National Book Foundation as one of the 2010 5 Under 35, a list announcing the next generation of fiction writers. Her writing has been published in Best African American Fiction, The Wall Street Journal, American Short Fiction and other places. Tiphanie is from the Virgin Islands and is a professor in the MFA program at the New School in New York City. |
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2013 UNT Rilke Prize WinnerPaisley RekdalTuesday, April 9, 20134PM: Q&A, LANG 3168PM: Reading and Book Signing, Golden Eagle Suite&Wednesday, April 10, 20136:30PM: Reception7:30PM: ReadingReception and Reading at The Dallas Institute of Humanites and CulturePaisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee; a hybrid-genre photo-text memoir that combines poetry, fiction, nonfiction and photography entitled Intimate; and four books of poetry: A Crash of Rhinos, Six Girls Without Pants, The Invention of the Kaleidoscope, and Animal Eye. Her work has received the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Village Voice Writers on the Verge Award, an NEA Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, the University of Georgia Press’ Contemporary Poetry Series Award, a Fulbright Fellowship, inclusion in the Best American Poetry series and various state arts council awards. Her poems and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming from The New York Times Magazine, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, The New Republic, Virginia Quarterly Review, Tin House, and on National Public Radio among others. |
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