Poetry-in-the-Round invites the world's most compelling and celebrated writers to Seton Hall University each year to read and discuss their works with students and community members. Among the many poets, novelists and critics who have come to Seton Hall are Azar Nafisi, Billy Collins, Thomas Lynch, Amy Tan, George Plimpton, Harold Bloom, Adrienne Rich, Jonathan Frazen, Frank McCourt, John Updike, Arthur Miller, Ted Hughes, Jorie Graham, Nadine Gordimer, Derek Walcott and John Ashbery.
For more information about the series, call Nathan Oates, Director at (973) 761-9388 or e-mail Nathan.Oates@shu.edu.
Spring 2012 Events
Ben Lerner
Thursday, February 16, 7 p.m.
Faculty Lounge of the University CenterBen Lerner is the author of the novel,
Leaving the Atocha Station
(Coffee House, 2011), and three books of poetry:
The Lichtenberg Figures
(2004),
Angle of Yaw (2006), and
Mean Free Path (2010), all published
by Copper Canyon Press. He has been a finalist for the National Book
Award in poetry, a Fulbright Scholar in Spain, and a Howard Foundation
Fellow. In 2011 he became the first American to win the Preis der Stadt
Münster für Internationale Poesie for the German translation of The
Lichtenberg Figures. He teaches in the writing program at Brooklyn
College.
Carolyn Forche
Thursday, March 22, 7 p.m.
Chancellor's Suite of the University Center
Renowned as a “poet of witness,” Carolyn Forché is the author of four
books of poetry. Her first poetry collection, Gathering The Tribes
(Yale University Press, 1976), won the Yale Series of Younger Poets
Award. Her second book, The Country Between Us (Harper and Row, 1982),
received the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay di Castagnola Award,
and was also the Lamont Selection of the Academy of American Poets. Her
third book of poetry, The Angel of History (HarperCollins, 1994), was
chosen for The Los Angeles Times Book Award. Blue Hour is her fourth
collection of poems (HarperCollins, 2003). Her articles and reviews have
appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation,
Esquire, Mother Jones, and elsewhere. Forché has held three fellowships
from The National Endowment for the Arts, and in 1992 received a Lannan
Foundation Literary Fellowship. In 1998 in Stockholm, she was given the
Edita and Ira Morris Hiroshima Foundation for Peace and Culture Award,
in recognition of her work on behalf of human rights and the
preservation of memory and culture. She is currently at work on a memoir
of her years in El Salvador, Lebanon, South Africa and France. Carolyn
Forché is the Lannan Visiting Professor of Poetry and Professor of
English at Georgetown University.
Jess Row
Wednesday, April 4, 7 p.m.
Walsh GalleryJess Row is the author of two collections of short stories,
The Train
to Lo Wu and
Nobody Ever Gets Lost. His work has appeared in
The
Atlantic, Tin House, Conjunctions, Ploughshares and many other venues,
as well as in
The Best American Short Stories,
The PEN/ O.
Henry Awards,
and
The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses. He has been named a
"Best Young American Novelist" by Granta and has received a Whiting
Writers Award and an NEA fellowship in fiction. He teaches at the
College of New Jersey, the Vermont College of Fine Arts, and the City
University of Hong Kong.
All events begin at 7 p.m. and are free.
Poetry-in-the-Round is part of the Seton Hall Arts Council. For more information about upcoming events, call (973) 313-6338, or send an e-mail to artscouncil@shu.edu.
Support the PiTR Series
Spectacular performances by first class artists is made affordable for everyone through the continued support of Seton Hall University. You can support Poetry-in-the-Round with your tax-deductible gift. For information please call (973) 378-2677 or you may mail your tax deductible contribution to:
Seton Hall Arts Council
College of Arts and Sciences
Room 118 Fahy Hall
400 South Orange Avenue
South Orange, New Jersey 07079
