Events Calendar

Unless otherwise noted, all events take place at 8:30 p.m. in the Aula Magna Regina at the Guarini Campus.

Wednesday, 23 May,  8:30 p.m., Poet Robert Hass

JCU Kicks Off the Summer Institute for Creative Writing and Literary Translation with a Bi-Lingual Reading of Poems by Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass.

Robert Hass, U.S. Poet Laureate from 1995-97, has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and – twice – the National Book Critics Circle Award, once in poetry and once in criticism. Recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award, Mr. Hass is the author of seven books of poetry, as well as several works of literary criticism. He has also published numerous volumes in translation, and is widely known as the leading translator of the poems of Polish Nobel Laureate, Czeslaw Milosz. A reception will follow.

Monday, 4 June, 8:30 p.m., Poets Chad Davidson and John Poch

 
Chad Davidson is the author of The Last Predicta (2008) and Consolation Miracle (2003), both on Southern Illinois UP, as well as co-author with Gregory Fraser of Writing Poetry: Creative and Critical Approaches (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). He is an associate professor of literature and creative writing at the University of West Georgia near Atlanta and director of the university's new study abroad program in Italy.

John Poch is the author of three books of poems, most recently Dolls (Orchises Press 2009). He has published poems in Poetry, Paris Review, The Nation, Yale Review, Agni, and other journals. He teaches in the creative writing program at Texas Tech University. He is an editor of the new anthology of poems, Old Flame, due out this summer from WordFarm Press.

Tuesday, 5 June, 8:30 p.m., "A Conversation with Billy Collins, Poet in Residence" (no charge, but reservation required). To reserve up to two tickets to this event, click here or cut and paste the following URL into your browser.  http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3481281607]  

Thursday 7 June, 8:30 p.m., Billy Collins will give a poetry reading at La Sala Grande in San Lorenzo in Miranda beside the Roman Forum (no charge, but reservation required).
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Billy Collins, United States Poet Laureate 2001- 2003
Billy Collins, who served two terms as Poet Laureate of the United States, is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry. His many prizes and accolades include Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation; the Poet of the Year Award from Poetry Magazine, the Mark Twain Award for Humor in Poetry, and the “Literary Lion” Award from the New York Public Library. A Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York, and the Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Winter Park Institute, Florida, Collins also served as the New York State Poet from 2004-2006. He has been called “the most popular poet in America” in The New York Times, and his similarly popular poetry anthologies have served to broaden the audience for poetry in the United States.

Monday, 11 June, 8:30 p.m., Poet Joseph Harrison

Joseph Harrison was born in Richmond, Virginia, grew up in Virginia and Alabama, and studied at Yale and Johns Hopkins. His book Someone Else’s Name (Waywiser, 2003) was named as one of five poetry books of the year by the Washington Post. His second book of poems, Identity Theft, was published by Waywiser in 2008. His poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry 1998, 180 More Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, The Library of America’s Anthology of American Religious Poems, the Penguin Pocket Anthology of Poetry, the Penguin Pocket Anthology of Literature, The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets, and many journals. In 2005 he was the recipient of an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2009 he received a Fellowship in Poetry from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He lives in Baltimore.

Thursday, 14 June, 8:30 p.m.,  Poet Cyrus Cassells

Cyrus Cassells’s fifth and latest book is The Crossed-Out Swastika. His poetry has garnered a Lannan Literary Award, a Lambda Literary Award, the William Carlos Williams Award, a Pushcart Prize, two NEA grants, and best of the year citations from Publishers Weekly and Library Journal. Still Life with Children: Selected Poems of Francesc Parcerisas and My Gingerbread Shakespeare, his first work of fiction, are forthcoming. A Professor of English at Texas State University-San Marcos, he divides his time between Austin, Santa Fe, and Paris.

Monday, 18 June, 8:30 p.m., Poets Johnny Horton & Rebecca Hoogs

Many people know John Wesley Horton as Johnny Horton. He's recently published poems in Poetry Northwest, Notre Dame Review, Malpais Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, and an anthology of Chicago poetry from U of Iowa Press called City of Big Shoulders. He also has work forthcoming from Ooligan Press at Portland State University in an anthology of Northwest Poetry. His manuscript A New World Where We Could Stand to Live was a finalist in 2011 for the National Poetry Series. He’s received a GAP grant from Washington Artist Trust and residency fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation and The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

Rebecca Hoogs is the author of a chapbook, Grenade (GreenTower Press), and her poems have appeared in journals such as Poetry, AGNI, Crazyhorse, Zyzzyva, The Journal, Poetry Northwest, The Florida Review, Cincinnati Review, and others. She won the 2011 Southeast Review poetry contest. She is the recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Artist Trust of Washington State. She is the Director of Education Programs and the curator of the Poetry Series for Seattle Arts & Lectures, and the Co-Director of the Creative Writing in Rome program for the University of Washington.

Tuesday, 19 June, 8:30 p.m., Writer Peter Trachtenberg

Peter Trachtenberg is the author of 7 Tattoos and The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning. His new book, Another Insane Devotion, will be published by Da Capo this fall. His essays, journalism, and stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, A Public Space, and The New York Times Travel Magazine. He is the recipient of a Whiting Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship and comes to Cabot from a residency at the Bellagio Center. An Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, Trachtenberg also sings with the band Gutter Glitter.

Wednesday, 20 June, 8:30 p.m., Student & Faculty reading including the finalists of Italy Writes, Guarini Campus, Secchia Terrace (weather permitting; otherwise, Aula Magna Regina)

Thursday, 21 June, 8:30 p.m., "A Conversation with Joyce Carol Oates, Novelist in Residence" and announcement of the winners of Italy Writes. 

Friday, 22 June, 8:30 p.m., Joyce Carol Oates will give a reading at La Sala Grande in San Lorenzo in Miranda beside the Roman Forum (no charge, but reservation required; details to follow)