Spring 2009 Events
JAMES RICHARDSON
APRIL 22, 2009
7:00 pm
TRLC
James Richardson’s collections include Reservations (1977), Second Guesses (1984), As If (1992), How Things Are (2000), Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays (2001), and Interglacial: New and Selected Poems and Aphorisms (2004), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is also the author of two critical studies, Thomas Hardy: The Poetry of Necessity (1977) and Vanishing Lives: Tennyson, Rossetti, Swinburne and Yeats (1988).
You can find some of Richardson’s work here .
Richardson’s presentation will be followed by the STOCKPOT reading.
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WHAT CAN I DO WITH A LITERATURE MAJOR???
Come and learn about career possibilities from a panel of Stockton LITT alumni and staff:
· Emily Heerema, City Year, Bronx Guild HS
· Michael Nees, Reassurance Coordinator, Contact CAPE-Atlantic
· Jennifer Melora, Advertising Specialist, Harrah’s Entertainment
· Doug Skinner, Instructional Technology Coordinator, Gateway Regional HS and freelance outdoors columnist
· Sara Faurot, Director of Alumni Relations, RSCNJ
Thursday, March 26th
4:30-6:00
K-141
Contact deborah.gussman@stockton.edu for more information.
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February 26, 2009 (NEW DATE!)
Poets Peter Murphy & Barbara Daniels
8:00 p.m. in B126
Peter E. Murphy is the author of two books of poems Stubborn Child, a finalist for the 2006 Paterson Poetry Prize, and a chapbook, Thorough & Efficient. His poems and essays have appeared in hundreds of journals including The American Book Review, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Commonweal, The Literary Review, The Shakespeare Quarterly and Witness. He has received fellowships for writing and teaching from The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Yaddo, The Folger Shakespeare Library, the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars and other organizations. In addition to teaching poetry writing at Stockton, he is the founder/director of the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway held annually in Cape May, NJ.
You can read one of Murphy’s poems at The Cortland Review.
Barbara Daniels’ Rose Fever: Poems was published by WordTech Press in 2008. She received two Individual Artist Fellowships from the New Jersey Council on the Arts, was awarded a full fellowship from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation to the Vermont Studio Center, and earned an MFA in poetry at Vermont College. Her chapbook, The Woman Who Tries to Believe, won the Quentin R. Howard Prize.
You can read one of Daniels’ poems here.
March 4, 2009
Poet Stephen Dunn
5:30 p.m. in the Alton Auditorium
Dunn was born in Forest Hills, NY in 1939, and earned his BA in History from Hofstra University in 1962. He attended the New School 1964 to 1966 and received his Master of Arts in Creative Writing from Syracuse University in 1970. He’s the author of sixteen books, including Different Hours, which won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
Since 1974 he has taught at Richard Stockton College of NJ, where he is Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing. He’s also been a Visiting Professor at The University of Washington, NYU, Columbia, and The University of Michigan.
He has read his poetry at The Library of Congress, and at many universities and colleges throughout the country.
In addition to his books, his work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Nation, the New Republic, the New Yorker, The Georgia Review, and the American Poetry Review, to name just a few.
Source: Stephen Dunn, http://www.stephendunnpoet.com/
For more information about the Visiting Writers Series, contact Nathan Long.
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THEATRE EVENTS
Chastity & Destruction and Doors by Noah Houlihan
Wed. February 11-Sat. February 14 @ 7:30 pm, and Sunday, February 15 @ 3:00 pm.
In the Experimental Theatre - A world premiere of two one-act plays by a talented Stockton student & Literature/Theater major! In Chastity & Destruction we witness the comical insanity of frustrated libido on a young man’s quest to lose his virginity, while Doors takes a critical look at current society as it reveals the particular fate that awaits one who is perpetually uncommitted. Come support a Stockton emerging playwright!
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Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
Directed by Ken Tompkins
Wed, April 15—Sat, April 18 at 7:30pm
Sunday, April 19 at 3:00pm
In the Performing Arts Center - When Duke Vincentio of Vienna sets out to see how justice works first-hand, he turns to his rigidly scrupulous deputy, Angelo, whose by-the-book law enforcement and stern morality threaten to destroy the lively city’s prosperity. With wry humor, exotic locales and unforgettable characters, Shakespeare’s slightly melancholy comedy pursues the conflicts between human ideals and human nature to a joyous Elizabethan ending.
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