Althea Ward Clark W'21

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R E A D I N G S E R I E S 2013-2014althea Ward Clark w ’21

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T h e P r o g r a m i n C r e a t i v e W r i t i n g p r e s e n t s

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Berlind Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center

Reading by Hodder Fellows:

Katy Didden [poetry]Adam Ross [fiction]

For more about the Program in Creative Writing visit princeton.edu/arts

all readings take place at 4:30 p.m. at the Berlind Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center unless noted otherwise

Readings are free and open to the public.

Wednesday, September 25Hodder Fellows: Katy Didden [poetry]Adam Ross [fiction]

Wednesday, October 16Richard Blanco [poetry]Geoff Dyer [fiction]

Wednesday, November 13David Ferry [poetry]Jamaica Kincaid [fiction]

Wednesday, December 11Student Readings [Chancellor Green Rotunda5:15 p.m.]

Wednesday, February 12Denise Duhamel [poetry]Teju Cole [fiction]

Wednesday, March 12Dana Levin [poetry] Claire Vaye Watkins [fiction]

Wednesday, April 16D.A. Powell [poetry] Ann Beattie [fiction]

Wednesday, April 30Student Readings

[Chancellor Green Rotunda5:15 p.m.]

Monday, May 5Thesis Readings in Poetry, Screenwriting, and Translation

[Palmer House]

Wednesday, May 7Thesis Readings in Fiction [Palmer House]

T h e P r o g r a m i n C r e a t i v e W r i t i n g p r e s e n t s

2014-2015

Althea Ward Clark W’21

The Program in Creative Writing presents

Reading Series

wednesday, September 24 Hanna Pylväinen (fiction) & Roger Reeves (poetry)

wednesday, October 15 Ben Lerner (fiction/poetry) & Steven Millhauser (fiction)

wednesday, November 19Aleksandar Hemon (fiction) & Dean Young (poetry)

wednesday, December 10 Student Readings (Chancellor Green Rotunda)

wednesday, February 11 Evie Shockley (poetry) & Meg Wolitzer (fiction)

wednesday, March 11 Akhil Sharma (fiction) & A. E. Stallings (poetry)

wednesday, April 15 Rachel Kushner (fiction) & John Yau (poetry)

wednesday, April 29 Student Readings (Chancellor Green Rotunda)

MOnday, May 4 Thesis Readings in Poetry, Screenwriting, and Translation (Chancellor Green Rotunda)

wednesday, May 6 Thesis Readings in Fiction (Chancellor Green Rotunda)

Tuesday, October 21Kevin Young delivers the Theodore H. Holmes ’51 and Bernice Holmes Lecture(James M. Stewart ‘32 Theater)

wednesday, november 19, 2014Reading by:

Aleksandar Hemon (fiction)

Dean Young (poetry)

the Berlind TheatreMcCarter Theatre Center

Reading Series 2014-15Althea Ward Clark W’21

The Program in Creative Writing presents

all readings take place at 4:30 p.m. at the Berlind Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center unless noted otherwise

readings are free and open to the public.

for more about the program in creative writing visit arts.princeton.edu

aleksandar hemonIntroduced by Jeffrey Eugenides

dean youngIntroduced by Tracy K. Smith

Dean Young’s numerous collections of poetry include Strike Anywhere (1995), winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry; Skid (2002), finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; Elegy on Toy Piano (2005), finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and Primitive Mentor (2008), shortlisted for the International Griffin Poetry Prize. His poems have been featured in Best American Poetry numerous times. He has also written a book on poetics, The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction (2010).

Upon presenting Young with the Academy Award in Literature, the American Academy of Arts and Letters noted, “Dean Young’s poems are as entertaining as a three-ring circus and as imaginative as a canvas by Hieronymus Bosch.”

Young has also been awarded a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, as well as fellowships from the

Photo courtesy Dean Young

Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He has taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the low-residency M.F.A. program at Warren Wilson College, and the University of Texas-Austin, where he holds the William Livingston Chair of Poetry.

Young will be introduced by Tracy K. Smith, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Professor of Creative Writing at the Lewis Center.

Photo by Velibor Božović

Aleksandar Hemon is the author of The Lazarus Project, which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award, and three collections of short stories: The Question of Bruno (2001); Nowhere Man (2004), which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Love and Obstacles (2009).

Born in Sarajevo, Hemon visited Chicago in 1992, intending to

stay for a matter of months. While he was there, Sarajevo came under siege, and he was unable to return home. Hemon wrote his first story in English in 1995. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003 and a “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation in 2004.

About his latest collection of nonfiction work, The Book of My Lives, Junot Díaz wrote, “Incandescent. When your eyes close, the power of Aleksandar Hemon’s colossal talent remains.” This autobiographical work was a finalist for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award.

Hemon will be introduced by Jeffrey Eugenides, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the novel, MIDDLESEX, and Professor of Creative Writing at the Lewis Center.