RICK BASS PUBLIC NONFICTION READING: Friday, February 5, 7 p.m., The Dell Brown Room, Turner Hall, University of Montana, Missoula.
Sponsored by the President's Writers-in-Residence Series.
EILEEN MYLES A READING: Friday, February 26, 7 p.m., The Dell Brown Room, Turner Hall, University of Montana, Missoula.
Sponsored by the Hugo Visiting Writer Program.
PETER GIZZI & ELIZABETH WILLIS
PUBLIC POETRY CRAFT TALK: "Tradition in the 21st Century," Friday, March 12, 1 - 2 p.m., McGuill Hall 210 PUBLIC POETRY READING: Friday, March 12, 7 p.m. in The Dell Brown Room, Turner Hall, University of Montana, Missoula.
Sponsored by the President’s Writers-in-Residence Series.
MERRIAM-FRONTIER STUDENT AWARD-WINNERS: Lehua M. Taitano (2010) and Sara Lynn Pevar (2009) PUBLIC FICTION READING: THURSDAY, MARCH 18, p.m. in the Poetry Corner of the Maureen & Mike Mansfield Library
Sponsored by the Merriam-Frontier Award and the Maureen & Mike Mansfield Library
PETER RICHARDS PUBLIC POETRY READING: Friday, April 23, 7 p.m.,The Dell Brown Room, Turner Hall, University of Montana, Missoula.
Sponsored by The University of Montana Creative Writing Program.
MFA THESIS READINGS
Friday, April 30 - Sunday, May 9
RICK BASS is the author of over 20 books, including nonfiction nature writing, essay collections, short story collections, novellas and novels. Why I Came West: A Memoir (Houghton Migglin 2008) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Award. His most recent book, The Wild Marsh: Four Seasons at Home in Montana (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009) documents the passing seasons in northwestern Montana's Yaak Valley. Bass has received a Pushcart and an O Henry Award.
PETER GIZZI is the author of The Outernationale (Wesleyan, 2007), Some Values of Landscape and Weather (2003), Artificial Heart (1998), and Periplum (1992). He has also published several limited-edition chapbooks, folios, and artist books. His work has been widely anthologized and translated into numerous languages. Gizzi holds degrees from New York University, Brown University, and the State University of New York at Buffalo. His honors include the Lavan Younger Poet Award from the Academy of American Poets and fellowships from the Howard Foundation, The Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, and The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Gizzi has taught at Brown University and the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is currently on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
EILEEN MYLES Eileen Myles is probably America's best-known unofficial poet. Her latest book, The Importance of Being Iceland (MIT Press, 2009), is a talkative prose collection in which she describes her travels and explores art criticism. She's also published more than 20 volumes of poetry, fiction, articles, plays and libretti including Hell (an opera with composer Michael Webster, 2004), Skies (2001), on my way (2001), Cool for You (a novel, 2000), School of Fish (1997), Maxfield Parrish (1995), Not Me (1991) and Chelsea Girls (stories, 1994). The Inferno/a poet's novel will be out in October 2010. With Liz Kotz, she edited The New Fuck You/adventures in Lesbian Reading (Semiotext(e) in 1995. Eileen conducted in 1992 an openly female write-in campaign for President of the United States. In the 80's she was Artistic Director of St. Mark's Poetry Project. In '97 and again in 2007 Eileen toured with Sister Spit. She is a Professor Emeritus of writing at UCSD. In 2007 she received The Andy Warhol/Creative Capital art writing fellowship. Eileen Myles can be found online atwww.eileenmyles.com
SARA LYNN PEVAR is a second-year MFA candidate in fiction at the University of Montana and a two-time nominee to the AWP Intro Journals Project. She graduated from Oberlin College in 2008. Her Merriam-Frontier Award Winning stories will appear in her forthcoming chapbook, In Sight of Land.
PETER RICHARDS is the author of Nude Siren and Oubliette, both from Wave Books. His honors include an Academy of American Poets Prize, The John Logan Award, and a Massachusetts Center for the Book Honors Award. He has taught at Harvard University, Tufts University, and Museum School of Fine Arts, Boston. His chapbook Hibernal is forthcoming from Empyrean Press.
LEHUA M. TAITANO is a native Chamorro born in Yigo, Guam. She has published in Versal and Fiction at Work and has short stories forthcoming in two anthologies: The Anthology of Indigenous Writers of Micronesia (which includes the work of writers from Guam, Saipan and the Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Pohnpei, Kosrae, Chuuk, Yap, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, and Nauru) and The Fiction at Work Bi-Annual Report (Green Lantern Press). Her short story “Suit” was nominated for a 2010 Pushcart Prize. Her nonfiction essay, “Reticulation,” won the 2010 Contaminated Essay Contest from dislocate media journal of the arts and will be featured in issue 6. She is the 2010 Merriam-Frontier Award winner at The University of Montana. Her submitted manuscript of short fiction for the Merriam-Frontier, appalachiapacific will be published as a chapbook this summer.
ELIZABETH WILLIS is the author of several books of poetry, including Meteoric Flowers (Wesleyan, 2006), Turneresque (Burning Deck, 2003), and The Human Abstract (Penguin Books, 1995), which was selected for the National Poetry Series. She received a Ph.D. from the Poetics Program, SUNY Buffalo. As of 2002, she teaches at Wesleyan University.
Programming for the Creative Writing Program Spring Reading Series is made possible by the President’s Writers-In-Residence Series and the University of Montana Creative Writing Program. For more information call (406) 243-5267.