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Summer Institute for Creative Writing and Literary Translation
Unless otherwise noted, all events take place at 8:30 p.m. in the Aula Magna Regina at the Guarini Campus.
Wednesday, May 23, 8:30 p.m.
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
Tuesday, 5 June, 8:30 p.m., "A Conversation with Billy Collins, Poet in Residence" (no charge, but reservation required)
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)
Monday, 11 June, 8:30 p.m., Poet Joseph Harrison
Thursday, 14 June, 8:30 p.m., Poet Cyrus Cassells
Monday, 18 June, 8:30 p.m., Poets Johnny Horton & Rebecca Hoogs
Tuesday, 19 June, 8:30 p.m., Poet Peter Trachtenberg
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)