Warren Wilson Summer Readings

The summer residency for the Warren Wilson MFA program is underway, and readings continue through the 12th. Here's what remains of the schedule:

READINGS (8:15 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall behind the Warren Wilson College Chapel unless otherwise indicated)

July 7 - Rick Barot, Grace Dane Mazur, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Peter Turchi, Stephen Dobyns.
July 8 - (6 p.m., Malaprop's, 55 Haywood St., Asheville) Poets Joan Aleshire, Rick Barot, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Stephen Dobyns, Reginald Gibbons, Heather McHugh, Steve Orlen, Alan Shapiro and Daniel Tobin.
July 9 - Heather McHugh, Charles Baxter, Steve Orlen, David Haynes, Ellen Bryant Voigt.
July 10 - Graduating student readings: Laurie Capps, Bryan Furuness, Layla Carroll, Sarah Grano, Abby Wender, Frederick Weihe.
July 11 - Graduating student readings: Lauren Alwan, Timothy Cook, Ann Knol, Victoria Bosch Murray, Lili Flanders, Ross White.
July 12 - (4:30 p.m., followed by Graduation Ceremony) Graduating student readings: Maudelle Driskell, Christopher Causey, Marie Pavlicek-Wehrli, Janet Crossen, Judith Westley, Krystn Lee.

LECTURES (Fellowship Hall)

July 9 - (9:15 a.m.) Stephen Dobyns, "Linebreaks."
July 10 - (9:15 a.m.) Stacey D'Erasmo, "Love Among the Ruins."
July 11 - (9:15 a.m.) Heather McHugh, "Rhetoric Rocks, Grammar Matters."
July 12 - (9:30 a.m.) Reginald Gibbons, "The Apophatic in Poetry."
July 12 - (10:45 a.m.) Peter Turchi, "If it makes you happy, why the hell are you so sad?"

The readings and lectures, each lasting about an hour, are free and open to the public. For more details call the MFA office at (828) 771-3715.

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I'll be busy this week finishing some work for a reading this coming Friday in Marshall (more about that very soon), but I do plan to venture out for a few of these, including, in all likelihood, the reading at Malaprops on Tuesday, July 8. Perhaps I'll see you there.

Warren Wilson Winter Readings

It's time for the Warren Wilson MFA winter residency, which means lots of readings between now and the 12th. Here's the schedule:

READINGS (8:15 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall, behind the College Chapel, unless otherwise indicated)
Jan. 3 (8 p.m., Canon Lounge of Gladfelter Student Center) - Brooks Haxton, Anthony Doerr, Barbara Ras, Dominic Smith.
Jan. 4 - Marianne Boruch, Charles D’Ambrosio, Van Jordan, Michael Martone.
Jan. 5 - C.J. Hribal, Debra Allbery, Debra Spark, Steve Orlen.
Jan. 6 (Canon Lounge) - David Haynes, Betty Adcock, Victor LaValle, Heather McHugh.
Jan. 7 - Wilton Barnhardt, Jennifer Grotz, Maud Casey, Maurice Manning.
Jan. 9 - Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Megan Staffel, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Peter Turchi.
Jan. 10 - Graduating student readings: Amy Cloud, Kira Obolensky, Henry Kearney, Matthew Simmons, Maeve Kinkead.
Jan. 11 - Graduating student readings: Sara Bauer, Kande Culver, J.J. Penna, Tom McHenry, Mark Prudowsky.
Jan. 12 (4:30 p.m., followed by Graduation Ceremony) - Graduating student readings: Allison Paige, Justin Bigos, Sunil Rao, Scott Challener.

LECTURES (9:15 a.m. in the Fellowship Hall unless otherwise indicated)
Jan. 4 (11:15 a.m.) - Maurice Manning, "In Kind: Some Thoughts on Sympathy."
Jan. 9 - Debra Spark, "New Wave Fabulism."
Jan. 10 - Jennifer Grotz, "The Pathetic Fallacy."
Jan. 11 - Debra Allbery, "‘When Light went Forth Looking for the Eye’: A Meditation on the Contemporary Ekphrastic Poem."
Jan. 12 (9:30 a.m.) - Heather McHugh, "Matters of Letters."
Jan. 12 (10:45 a.m.) - C.J. Hribal, "Vision and (Re)vision."

Warren Wilson Readings

Here's the schedule for Warren Wilson's summer session:

Readings (8:15 p.m. and in the Fellowship Hall behind the Warren Wilson College Chapel unless otherwise indicated)

July 5 - (8 p.m.) David Baker, Laura Hendrie, Mary Ruefle, Thomas Mallon.
July 6 - Murad Kalam, James Longenbach, Erin McGraw, Heather McHugh.
July 7 - Elizabeth Arnold, Pablo Medina, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, David Shields, C. Dale Young.
July 8 - (Canon Lounge) Stephen Dobyns, Adria Bernardi, Brooks Haxton, Grace Dane Mazur.
July 9 - C.J. Hribal, Ellen Bryant Voigt, T.M. McNally, Alan Williamson, Frederick Reiken.
July 11 - Karen Brennan, Joan Aleshire, David Haynes, Dean Young, Peter Turchi.
July 12 - Graduating student readings: Jean Hallingstad, Larissa Amir, Heather Maki, Edward Porter, Leslie Shipman.
July 13 - Graduating student readings: Natalie Baszile, Daniel Harris, Majka Burhardt, Karen Llagas, Janet Thornburg.
July 14 - (4:30 p.m., followed by Graduation Ceremony) Graduating student readings: Kathy Nguyen, Katie Bowler, Suzanne Wilsey, Ann Stanford.

Lectures (9:15 a.m. and in the Fellowship Hall unless otherwise indicated)
July 6 - (11:15 a.m.) Karen Brennan, “Beyond Accessibility.”
July 7 - (9:30 a.m.) Stephen Dobyns, “The Origin of Metaphor”; (10:45 a.m.) Frederick Reiken, “The Legacy of Anton Chekhov.”
July 8 - (Jensen Lecture Hall) Peter Turchi, “Puzzles, Mysteries, and other Problems; Or, Chekhov, Kasparov, Howard Garns, and You; Or, The Seven Bridges of Konigsberg.”
July 9 - David Baker, “Daring, Drama, and Melodrama.”
July 11 - Adria Bernardi, “Half-Day: The Nearly Unbearable Suspension.”
July 12 - Mary Ruefle, “On Secrets: Eight Beginnings, Two Ends.”
July 13 - James Longenbach, “Poem, Prose, Prose-Poem: Three Definitions.”
July 14 - (9:30 a.m.) C.J. Hribel, “Comic and Cosmic Distance.”
July 14 - (10:45 a.m.) Heather McHugh, “Ars Poetica.”

The readings and lectures, each lasting about one hour, are free and open to the public. For more details call the MFA office at (828) 771-3715.

As always, details are subject to change.

I'll try to catch Stephen Dobyns and Heather McHugh, but I must admit I don't know most of the other folks, or their work, so I'll probably pick a few at random when time permits and check them out.

Warren Wilson MFA program readings

Over at 1000 Black Lines, Matt's got the complete schedule of readings for the winter residency of Warren Wilson College's MFA program; they begin on the 3th and run through the 12th. No doubt I'll catch some and miss some, but I'm especially looking forward to the faculty reading next Monday, the 8th, at Malaprops, from 5:30 to 7:00.