Founded in 1967 as a function of the Department of English, the Forum is recognized as on of the outstanding series of readings in this country. Its guest have included many distinguished poets, writers, and critics. In addition to its program of readings, the Forum sponsors residencies, workshops, symposia and festivals--all dedicated to the art of writing. A unique audiovisual project initiated in 1968 by the Department of English, with the assistance of the Educational Communications Center, The Writers Forum Videotape Library currently numbers over 300 interviews, readings, and discussions of craft with major contemporaries. The collection has recieved national recognition as an educational and scholarly archive, and is believed to be the finest such record of contemporary American poetry in existence.
The New York Room, Cooper Hall
8:00 p.m.
*Free Admission*Receptions Follow*
Supported by the Committee on Global Interdependence and Cultural Diversity
Keynote Guest
Denis Donoghue: Irish Man of Letters
Author of many books including: Reading America; We Irish;
Warrenpoint (a memoir of growing up Catholic in the Protestant North)
Stephen Dunn: Poet of Suburban America
Most recent collection: Loosestrife (1996)
Sherman Alexie: Fiction Writer
Native American author of best-sellers
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven,
Reservation Blues and Indian Killer
Thylias Moss: Poet
MacArthur Fellowship awardee
African-American Author of Small Congregations: Selected Poems
Diana Hume George: Essayist
Pulitzer Prize Nominee
Author of The Lonely Other: A Woman Watching America
Peter Marchant: Honoring our Emeritus Professor
An English/Jewish Experience of World War II
Special Seminar with Michael Joyce, author of Two Minds: Hypertext, Pedalogy, and Poetry
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Zotero (Education focus)
5 pm - 6:15 pm
Naturalization Ceremony
11 am - noon
Leadership Program Kick-off
3:30 pm - 5 pm
ADP Distinguished Speaker Series "The Audacity to Heal: Our Rape Culture"
7 pm - 9 pm
Faculty/Staff Campaign Kickoff
noon - 1:30 pm
