Visiting Writers Series

The BFA in Creative Writing program presents a visiting writers series at each residency. Visiting writers are generous with their expertise and share their craft with students through readings, workshops, and informal discussions. Below is a list of some of the program's recent and upcoming visiting writers.

 

Upcoming Visiting Writers

Ravi Shankar - Appearing at the Spring 2010 Residency

Ravi Shankar is Associate Professor and Poet-in-Residence at Central Connecticut State University and the founding editor of the international online journal of the arts, Drunken Boat. He has published a book of poems, Instrumentality (Cherry Grove), named a finalist for the 2005 Connecticut Book Awards, and with Reb Livingston, a collaborative chapbook, Wanton Textiles (No Tell Books, 2006). He serves on the Advisory Council for the Connecticut Center for the Book, reviews poetry for the Contemporary Poetry Review, and is an occasional commentator on National Public Radio. Along with Tina Chang and Nathalie Handal, he has edited Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from Asia, the Middle East & Beyond (W.W Norton & Co.), is a 2009 recipient of a Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism Fellowship in Poetry, and has two chapbooks of poetry coming out in 2010.

 

Links to Ravi’s work:

http://jacketmagazine.com/16/dev-iv-shank.html

http://www.fishousepoems.org/archives/ravi_shankar/

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16831

 

Douglas Kearney - Appearing at the Fall 2010 Residency

Poet/performer/librettist Douglas Kearney’s first full-length collection of poems, Fear, Some, was published in 2006 by Red Hen Press. His book, The Black Automaton, published by Fence Books, won the National Poetry Series Prize in 2008.  In 2008, he was honored with a Whiting Writers’ Award and in 2007, the Poetry Society of America named him a notable New American Poet. Born in Brooklyn, raised in Altadena and now living with his family in California’s San Fernando Valley, he earned a BA from Howard University, an MFA in Writing from the California Institute of the Arts (where he now teaches) and held fellowships with Cave Canem, Callaloo and Idyllwild. Visit him online at http://www.douglaskearney.com/p-p.  Photo Credit: Los Jackson

 

Jenny Boully - Appearing at the Spring 2011 Residency

Jenny Boully is the author of the forthcoming not merely because of the unknown that was stalking towards them (Tarpaulin Sky Press), The Book of Beginnings and Endings (Sarabande), [one love affair]* (Tarpaulin Sky Press), The Body: An Essay (Essay Press), and the chapbook Moveable Types (Noemi Press, 2007).  Her work has been anthologized in The Next American Essay, The Best American Poetry, Language for a New Century, and Great American Prose Poems.  Her work has been published in Boston Review, Gulf Coast, Fourth Genre, Columbia, Verse, Seneca Review, Conduit, and other places.  She is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and holds previous graduate degrees in creative writing from the University of Notre Dame and Hollins University.  She teaches poetry and nonfiction writing at Columbia College Chicago. Her blog is available at http://jennyboully.blogspot.com.

Past Visiting Writers

 

Adam Braver

Author of Crows over the Wheatfield, November 22, 1963, Divine Sarah, and other works.

 

 

Rebecca Brown

Author of The Haunted House, The End of Youth, The Dogs: a Modern Bestiary City, What Keeps Me Here, and other works.

 

 

Renee Gladman

Author of To after that (Toaf), Newcomer Can’t Swim, Juice, A picture-feeling, Clamour, and other works.

 

 

Gale Jackson

Author of Bridge Suite, Medea, and other works.

 

 

 

Rachel Pollack

Author of Godmother night: a novel, The Body of the Goddess: Sacred Wisdom in Myth, Landscape and Culture, and other works.