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Wednesday, June 09, 2010

NYS Writers Institute Summer Readings

The New York State Writers Institute is proud to announce the reading schedule of the Summer Writers Institute at Skidmore University in Saratoga. All events, apart from the opening event with former U. S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, take place in Palamountain Hall. For directions to Skidmore, click here. Call (518) 580-5599 for more information. All events are free and open to the public.

SUMMER PUBLIC READING LIST 2010



An Evening of Poetry and Jazz Robert Pinsky (former US Poet Laureate) with Skidmore Jazz Institute faculty members June 28, 8:00 pm Gannett Auditorium

Fiction and Poetry Reading, Jim Shepard (Like You’d Understand, Anyway) and Mark Strand (Pulitzer Prize, Poetry) June 29, 8:00 pm Davis Auditorium in Palamountain Hall

Fiction and Poetry Reading, Joseph O’Neill (novelist, Netherland, 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction) and Frank Bidart (poet, Desire) June 30, 8:00 pm Davis Auditorium in Palamountain Hall

Poetry and Fiction Reading, Charles Simic (Former U. S. Poet-Laureate, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet) and Lydia Davis (author, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis) July 1, 8:00 pm Davis Auditorium in Palamountain Hall

Poetry and Fiction Reading, Carolyn Forché (winner, Lamont Poetry Prize; author, The Angel of History) and Elizabeth Benedict (novelist, Almost) July 2, 8:00 pm Davis Auditorium in Palamountain Hall

Fiction Reading, Francine Prose (novelist, A Changed Man) and Victoria Redel (author, The Border of Truth) July 5, 8:00 pm Davis Auditorium in Palamountain Hall

Fiction and Poetry Reading, Allan Gurganus (author, White People) and Franz Wright (Pulitzer Prize, Poetry) July 6, 8:00 pm Davis Auditorium in Palamountain Hall

Fiction and Poetry Reading, William Kennedy (Pulitzer Prize, Ironweed; Roscoe) and April Bernard (poet, Romanticism), July 7, 8:00 pm Davis Auditorium in Palamountain Hall

Fiction and Poetry Reading, Caryl Phillips (novelist, A Distant Shore, The Nature of Blood) and Campbell McGrath (poet, American Noise) July 8, 8:00 pm Davis Auditorium in Palamountain Hall

Fiction Reading Phillip Lopate (author, Waterfront) and Claire Messud (author, The Emperor’s Children), July 9, 8:00 pm Davis Auditorium in Palamountain Hall

Poetry and Fiction Reading, Richard Howard (Pulitzer Prize, Poetry, Talking Cures) and Danzy Senna (author, Caucasia) July 12, 8:00 pm Davis Auditorium in Palamountain Hall

Fiction and Poetry Reading, Ann Beattie (novelist, Love Always) and Honor Moore (author, Red Shoes, The Bishop’s Daughter) July 13, 8:00 pm Davis Auditorium in Palamountain Hall

Fiction and Poetry Reading, Russell Banks (novelist, The Darling) and Chase Twichell (poet, Dog Language) July 14, 8:00 pm Davis Auditorium in Palamountain Hall

Fiction Reading, Joyce Carol Oates (National Book Award, them; We Were The Mulvaneys) July 15, 8:00 pm Gannett Auditorium

Fiction and Poetry Reading, Mary Gaitskill (author, Veronica) and Tom Healy (poet, What the Right Hand Knows) July 16, 8:00 pm Davis Auditorium in Palamountain Hall

Fiction and Poetry Reading, Amy Hempel (fiction writer, The Dog of the Marriage) and Henri Cole (poet, Middle Earth) July 19, 8:00 pm Davis Auditorium in Palamountain Hall

Fiction and Poetry Reading, Rick Moody (fiction writer, Demonology) and Peg Boyers (poet, Honey with Tobacco, Hard Bread) July 20, 8:00 pm Davis Auditorium in Palamountain Hall

"In Conversation: What We Write About When We Write 'Creative' Non-Fiction" with Geoffrey O’Brien (The Fall of the House of Walworth) and James Miller (Democracy is in the Streets) July 21, 8:00 pm Davis Auditorium in Palamountain Hall

Fiction and Poetry Reading, Jayne Anne Phillips (author Termite & Lark, Fast Lane) and Mary Kinzie (poet, Summers of Vietnam) July 22, 8:00 pm Davis Auditorium in Palamountain Hall

Fiction and Poetry Reading, Howard Norman (novelist, The Bird Artist) and Lloyd Schwartz (Pulitzer Prize, Criticism; author, Cairo Traffic) July 23, 8:00 pm Davis Auditorium in Palamountain Hall

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