Distinguished Visiting Writers Series
Spring 2012: Ben Marcus, Rae Armantrout, and Andy Fitch
Ben Marcus
Public Reading
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
7:30p.m., Clark Lounge, Campus Center
Ben Marcus is the author of The Age of Wire and String, a collection of stories, and Notable American Women, a novel. His new novel, The Flame Alphabet, will be published in January by Knopf. His stories have appeared in Harper's, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Tin House, and Conjunctions. Marcus is a 2009 recipient of a grant for Innovative Literature from the Creative Capital Foundation. He has also received a Whiting Writers Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in fiction, and three Pushcart Prizes. He lives in New York where he is on the faculty at Columbia University.
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Rae Armantrout
Public Reading
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
7:30p.m., Klingenstein Lounge, Campus Center
Rae Armantrout is the author of numerous books of poetry including Money Shot and Versed, which received the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Versed was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her book Next Life was chosen as one of the 100 Notable Books of 2007 by The New York Times. Her poems have been included in many anthologies including five different editions of The Best American Poetry. Armantrout received a poetry award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is Professor of Poetry and Poetics at the University of California, San Diego.
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Andy Fitch
Public Reading
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
7:30p.m., Clark Lounge, Campus Center
Andy Fitch’s forthcoming books include the nonfiction collection Sixty Morning Walks and the critical study Not Intelligent. But Smart: Rethinking Joe Brainard. His first book, Ten Walks/Two Talks, was chosen as a Best Book of 2010 by The Week, Time Out Chicago, Bookslut, and The Millions. He is a core faculty member in the University of Wyoming’s MFA Program.
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For more information, contact Catherine Taylor at 607-274-7031 or ctaylor@ithaca.edu
