Readings & Events
If you have an event or reading you would like to post, please contact Deedra Hickman at dhickman@cas.usf.edu.
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Rita Ciresi
Visiting Author
October 21, Plant Hall, Music Room, Univeristy of Tampa
Rita Ciresi, professor of English, will present a fiction reading at the University of Tampa, Plant Hall Music Room, on Tuesday, October 21, 8:00 p.m.
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Phillips Sipiora
Visiting Author
October 23
Professor Phillip Sipiora will give a lecture about E. L. Doctorow's novel, The March, on October 23rd. Time and place TBA. This event is co-sponsored by the English Department and the Humanities Institute with generous support from private donors.
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English & History Panel Discussion
November 10
A joint English/History Department panel will convene on November 10th to discuss the relation(s) between literature and history. The panelists will be Professors Elizabeth Hirsh, Regina Hewitt, Shirley Toland-Dix (all from English) and Professors Scott Perry and Tamara Zwick (from History). Each will speak for five minutes followed by general discussion. Department Chairs Fraser Ottanelli (History) and Hunt Hawkins (English) will moderate. This event is co-sponsored by the English Department and the Humanities Institute with generous support from private donors.
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Lisa Zimmerman
Visiting Poet
November 12, Reeves Theater, Univeristy of Tampa
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E. L. Doctorow
Visiting Author
November 13, University of South Florida Alumni Center
Author E. L. Doctorow will visit USF and give a talk the evening of November 13th. Edgar Lawrence Doctorow is widely recognized as one of America's great masters of the historical novel. His novel, The March, is a fictional account of General William Tecumseh Sherman's infamous military rampage from the burned-out ruins of Atlanta to the Atlantic ocean, and north into the Carolinas, leaving a path of destruction that affected the South for generations. The March recently received the 2006 PEN/Faulkner Award and the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award. The talk will take place at 6:00pm at the Alumni Center and is free and open to the public. This event is co-sponsored by the English Department, the Humanities Institute with generous support from private donors.
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25th Annual Miami Book Fair International
For more information on workshop times, instructors and how to register, please visit www.flcenterlitarts.com, or call 305 237 3940.
Shaping Memory into Memoir
Friday, November 14
Presented by Honor Moore, acclaimed poet, biographer, memoirist and teacher.
Publishing Boot Camp: Everything You Wanted to Know About Publishing but Were Afraid to Ask.
Friday, November 14
Presented by super agent, Sandy Dijkstra.
SPECIAL EVENT--Writing Poetry with Andrei Codrescu
Friday, November 14
Note: Class size limited to 10 people
Don't miss this opportunity to work with a renowned poet in an intimate workshop setting.
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Jenny Browne
Visiting Poet
February 2, Scarfone Hartley Gallery in the R.K. Bailey Art Studios on North Blvd., University of Tampa
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Kao Kalia Yang
Visiting Author
February 25, University of South Florida, place and time TBA
February 26, Vaughn Center, Reeves Theater (2nd floor), Univeristy of Tampa
Born in 1980, Kao Kalia Yang is the co-founder of Words Wanted, an agency dedicated to helping immigrants with writing, translating, and business services. A graduate of Carleton College and Columbia University, Yang has recently released The Place Where We Were Born, a film documenting the experiences of Hmong American refugees.
Visit the author's web site at www.kaokaliayang.com.
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QUILT (student literary magazine): [writer TBA]
Visiting Author
March 25, Univeristy of Tampa
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Ben Grossberg
Visiting Poet
April 9, Univeristy of South Florida, place and time TBA
April 16, Vaughn Center, Reeves Theater (2nd floor), Univeristy of Tampa
Benjamin S. Grossberg is Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Hartford, where he teaches poetry writing and English Renaissance literature. His poetry has appeared in such journals as Paris Review, North American Review, and Southern Review. His work also appears in The Pushcart Book of Poetry: The Best Poems From the First 30 Years of the Pushcart Prize. A chapbook, The Auctioneer Bangs His Gavel, was published by Kent State in 2006. Grossberg's second collection of poetry won the Tampa Review Prize for poetry. He has received grants from the Ohio Arts Council, Culture Works of Montgomery County, and the Cultural Arts Council of Houston and Harris County.
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