Stephen Dunn
Pulitzer Prize Winner in Poetry
Barbara Hurd
Award-winning Essayist
The Distinguished Visiting Writers Series
of the Department of Writing
is pleased to present
Stephen Dunn
Pulitzer Prize Winner in Poetry
Public Reading
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
7:30 p.m., Emerson Suite A, Phillips Hall
Stephen Dunn is the author of fourteen collections of poetry, including the recent Everything Else in the World. Different Hours won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001, Loosestrife was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in 1996, and Local Time was selected for The National Poetry Series in 1986. His many awards include an Academy Award in Literature from The American Academy of Arts & Letters, Fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, and three NEA Creative Writing Fellowships.
Barbara Hurd
Award-winning Essayist
Public Reading
Thursday, October 9, 2008
7:30 p.m., Klingenstein Lounge, Egbert Hall
Barbara Hurd is the author of Walking the Wrack Line: On Tidal Shifts and What Remains (2008), Entering the Stone: On Caves and Feeling Through the Dark, a Library Journal Best Natural History Book of the Year (2003), The Singer's Temple (2003), Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2001 (2001), and Objects in this Mirror (1994). Her essays have appeared in numerous journals including Best American Essays 1999 & 2001, The Yale Review, The Georgia Review, and others.
For more information, contact Dr. Jack Wang
at 274-3493 or wang@ithaca.edu
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