Visitors
The visitors series is an essential element of our graduate
program in creative writing. We try to bring in a half dozen or more
writers every year to provide our students with a broader exposure
to the current literary community.
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Our Visiting Writers Program
Visiting Writers 2004-2008
The Center has an
extensive Visiting Writers Series that will bring in 6 to 8 writers
for short, intensive stays during the 2004-2005 academic year. These
visitors conduct workshops, meet in private conferences with our
students, give readings and lectures, do panel discussions on topics
of special interest (publishing, for example), and work with the
students in a variety of ways to help them improve their work. Our
most recent visitors include Lucie Brock-Broido,
Stephen Dobyns,
Kelly Cherry, Percival Everett, Tim O'Brien, Francine Prose, Elissa Schappell,
Matthew Sharpe, Rob Spillman, Dara Weir, James Tate, Dave Smith, Amy
Hempel.
 
It is essential for students to meet and interact with, to
hear, to have their fiction and poetry workshopped by a variety of practicing
writers, and so we have had, for the last two decades, one of the
finest visiting writers programs in the nation. While the series is
a little erratic (as what is not these days?) we are pleased to have
sponsored this slightly erratic series of visiting writers, recently
including, recently, Rick Moody, Julia Slavin, Dana Gioia, Mary Gaitskill, Frank Bidart,
Antonya Nelson, Joy Williams, Padgett Powell, Ellen Douglas, Tom Drury, Thom
Jones, W.D. Snodgrass, Francine Prose and others.
The Incomplete List of Visitors
We are working up the full
list, but below is a partial list of visitors. The list goes way back. We are not
trying to give you the impression that all these people appeared in the last
couple of weeks. It is, nonetheless, an interesting and
worthy list that gives you some idea of our program's interests.
Lee K. Abbott
Walter Abish
Alice Adams
Max Apple
Toni Cade Bambara
Russell Banks
John Barth
Ann Beattie
Joe David Bellamy
Doris Betts
Frank Bidart
John Biguenet
Lucie Brock-Broido
Michael D. Browne
Robert Olen Butler
Francois Camoin
Angela Carter
Raymond Carver
Fred Chappell
Tony Church
Robert Coover
Gerald Costanzo
C. Michael Curtis
Jim Daniels
J. Madison Davis
Ellen Douglas
Tom Drury
Andre Dubus
John Dufrense
Stephen Dunn
Kenward Elmslie
John Engels
Seymour Epstein
Leslie Fiedler
Casey Finch
Richard Ford
Mary Gaitskill
Tess Gallagher
Brendan Galvin
William Gass
Veronica Geng
Gary Glickman
David Godine
Alvin Greenberg
Barry Hannah
John Hawkes
Amy Hempel
John Holman
Pam Houston
Richard Howard
Lynda Hull
Tama Janowitz
Thom Jones
James Kimbrell
Hugh Kenner
Galway Kinnell
David Kirby
Kenneth Koch
Victoria Lancelotta
Sydney Lea
David Leavitt
Laurence Lieberman
Beverly Lowry
Walt McDonald
W.S. Merwin
Bruce Meyer
Leonard Michaels
Rick Moody
Anatoly Naiman
Antonya Nelson
Edna O’Brien
Molly Peacock
Robert Pawlowski
Jayne Anne Phillips
Padgett Powell
Wyatt Prunty
Bin Ramke
James Robison
Paul Ruffin
Tomaz Salamun
Sherod Santos
Vivian Shipley
Aleda Shirley
Charles Simic
Julia Slavin
W. D. Snodgrass
Gerald Stern
Leon Stokesbury
Mark Strand
Elizabeth Tallent
Derek Walcott
Michael Waters
Roger Weingarten
Joy Williams
Robley Wilson
Tobias Wolff
Charles Wright
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Lisa Zeidner. |
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