| HONOR
MOORE
Reading and Book-signing |
Friday,
June 8, 7:00 p.m.
Weber Music Hall |
TED
KOOSER
Reading and Book-signing |
Saturday,
June 9, 2:00 p.m.
Weber Music Hall |
PANEL
DISCUSSION:
All Three Writers will serve as panelists discussing
The State of Publishing |
Sunday,
June 10, 1:30 p.m.
Library Rotunda
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ROBERT
OLEN BUTLER
Reading and Book-signing |
Monday, June
11, 7:00 p.m.
Weber Music Hall |
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HONOR
MOORE
Reading and Book-signing
Friday,
June 8, 7:00 p.m.
Weber Music Hall
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Moore is an accomplished non-fiction writer, as well as an award-winning
poet and playwright. Her memoir, The Bishop's Daughter, for which
she received a Guggenheim Fellowship, will be published in 2008. Her biography,
The White Blackbird: A Life of the Painter Margaret Sargent by Her Granddaughter,
was a New York Times Notable Book in 1996. Her poems and prose have
appeared in The New Republic, The New Yorker, Paris Review,
other journals, and anthologies. Ms. Moore has taught non-fiction in the
graduate program at the University of Iowa and currently teaches in the
graduate writing programs at the New School of the Arts and Columbia University.
Her play Mourning Pictures was produced on Broadway, and her edition
of the selected poems of Amy Lowell was published by the Library of America. |
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TED KOOSER
Reading and Book-signing
Saturday, June 9,
2:00 p.m.
Weber Music Hall |
| Ted
Kooser, two-time United States Poet Laureate (2004-06), is the
author of eleven collections of poetry, including the 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning
Delights and Shadows. His latest book, The Poetry Home Repair
Manual, gives beginning poets tips for their writing. Over the years
his works have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker,
Poetry, The American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner,
and many other journals and magazines. His work has received two NEA fellowships,
a Pushcart Prize, the Stanley Kunitz Prize, The James Boatwright Prize,
and other awards. Mr. Kooser's writing is known for its clarity, precision,
and accessibility; his poems are included in textbooks and anthologies used
in both secondary schools and college classrooms across the country. He
is currently a professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. |
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ROBERT OLEN
BUTLER
Reading and Book-signing
Monday, June 11, 7:00
p.m.
Weber Music Hall |
| Robert
Olen Butler has published ten novels and four collections of short
stories, including A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, the 1993
winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Severance, published
in 2006. His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire,
Paris Review, Harper's, GQ, The Virginia Quarterly
Review, The Sewanee Review, and other journals and anthologies,
including four annual editions of The Best American Short Stories,
seven of New Stories from the South, and numerous college literature
textbooks. His numerous awards include an NEA Fellowship, a Rosenthal Foundation
Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a National Magazine
Award in Fiction, and the Tu Do Chinh Kien Award, recognizing his "outstanding
contributions to American culture by a Vietnam veteran." His works
have been translated into a dozen languages. |
