The Literature Program

Visiting Writers Series presents:
Tim Seibles
Wednesday
November 4th 2009
8:00 pm
Alton Auditorium

Tim Seibles was born in Philadelphia, PA in 1955. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including Hammerlock, Hurdy-Gurdy, and most recently, Buffalo Head Solos. His honors include an Open Voice Award and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. His poems have been published in literary journals and magazines including Callaloo, The Kenyon Review, Indiana Review, Ploughshares, Electronic Poetry Review, and Rattle. He teaches part time at the University of Southern Maine in the MFA in Writing low-residential program. He lives in Norfolk Virginia, where is is a member of Old Dominion University’s English Department and MFA in Writing Faculty.

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Graduate School Application Workshop

If you are considering applying to graduate school this year, or simply interested in learning more about it for the future,
we invite you to the graduate school application workshop, Tuesday, October 6, at 4:30 pm in the creative writing lab, C102.

Professors Adam Miyashiro, Deb Gussman, Cindy King, and Nathan Long will discuss what you need to know to apply to MA, MFA, and PhD programs, in creative writing, literature, and comparative literature.

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CONGRATULATIONS !

LITT major Brege Shinn has won the Mimi Schwartz Creative Nonfiction Award for her dazzling essay about traveling in Spain, “The Great Masturbator.”

The contest judge, Andy Douglas (MFA, Iowa), is a writer, editor, and activist living in Iowa City, Iowa. His essays and translations have appeared in Mary, New Renaissance, Nimrod, Bayou, Pisgah Review, and a number of newspapers. Currently, Douglas is at work on a memoir about his experience living for four years as a yogic monk.

Douglas writes: “Each of these entries had much to recommend it. It wasn’t an easy decision, but ‘The Great Masturbator’, an essay portraying relationship with place [Spain] as a kind of tortured love affair, leapt out at me with its interesting approach. The author’s witty, knowing voice, beautiful descriptive language, and an unusual style pulled me in from the beginning. Her dilemma of being so blinded by desire in a new relationship that she pays no attention to the warning signs was evocative and relatable. She also captured the complexity and confusion of living abroad - treating some difficult material maturely – while getting across her underlying passion for and delight in the traveling life.”

Brege Shinn previously won the Jennifer Cakert Award in creative nonfiction for “Thank the Good Lord for Duct Tape,” a funny, insightful narrative of a mishap at a backpackers’ hostel in Prague. She tutors in the Writing Center.

Brielle Graham, an Applied Physics major, was named runner-up for “Coming Home, in Seven Acts,” and Hanna Lomonaco, a Literature major, received honorable mention for “NJ 08242.”

The Mimi Schwartz Creative Nonfiction Award is funded through the Writing Program and is presented semiannually to a Stockton student.