English Department & Center for the Creative and Performing Arts
EVENING Events
Thursday 25 September 2008: Bill Coyle and Christopher Fauske: Scandinavian Voices with a Local Accent
Poet Bill Coyle of the college’s writing center, author of the God of This World to His Prophet, is also a translator of Swedish poetry.
Christopher Fauske, interim Dean of Arts and Sciences and a scholar of eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish literature, recently translated Norwegian novelist’s Alexander Lange Kielland’s 1882 novel Skipper Worse.
Thursday 16 October 2008: Leah Nielsen & Glenn Sheldon: New poets
Leah Nielsen was raised in Norway and Williamsburg, Virginia. A graduate of Syracuse University and the University of Alabama, she has taught writing at the University of Alabama’s Tuscaloosa campus and, for the last two years, at Westfield State College. Her poems have appeared in Cream City Review, Green Mountains Review, Passages North, and Puerto Del Sol. No Magic, her first collection, was published in 2005 by Word Press.
Glenn Sheldon grew up in North Salem, Massachusetts (a spit south of Mack Park), in a house his paternal grandfather bought during the Great Depression. He studied English and creative writing at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. A transplanted Midwesterner for many decades now, he is an Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at The University of Toledo (Ohio). His first full-length collection of poetry, The Bird Scarer, was published in January 2008 by Cervana Barva Press (W Somerville MA).
13 November 2008: Claire Keyes: Meritorious poet Emerita
Claire Keyes, Professor Emerita and former chair of the English Department, reads from her new collection of poems, The Question of Rapture, published by Mayapple Press.
DAY Events
Monday 20 October 2008: Annual Undergraduate Reading,