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Creative Writing Program

Calendar of Events

The Program in Creative Writing
Calendar of Events for Spring 2012

All events are free and open to the public.


April:  Kim Addonizio

Kim Addonizio is the author of five collections of poetry including Tell Me, a 2000 National Book Award Finalist. Her work has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, two NEA Fellowships, the John Ciardi Lifetime Achievement Award, and other honors. She has published two instructional books: Ordinary Genius, A Guide for the Poet Within; and The Poet’s Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry (with Dorianne Laux). She has a word/music CD with Susan Browne, “Swearing, Smoking, Drinking & Kissing,” available from CDBaby.

Addonizio’s other books include two novels, Little Beauties and My Dreams Out in the Street; and a book of stories, In the Box Called Pleasure. With Cheryl Dumesnil, she co-edited Dorothy Parker’s Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos.

April 5:  Reading, Memorial Union, Stotler Lounge (Room N103A) at 7:30 PM
April 6:  craft talk Tate 22 from 4:00 to 5:00

April:  Michele Morano

Michele Morano's essays have appeared in journals and anthologies such as Best American Essays 2006, the Georgia Review, the Missouri Review, Under the Sun, and The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction.  She is the author of Grammar Lessons: Translating a Life in Spain. Honors and awards for her writing have come from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, the American Association of University Women, the Magazine Association of the Southeast, the Crab Orchard Review, and the Illinois Arts Council, among others. Michele holds a Ph.D. in English and an M.F.A. in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa. She lives in Chicago, where she is Associate Professor of English at DePaul University. She is currently at work on new essays and a coming-of-age novel about a girl whose summer job involves making fireworks, literally.

April 12:  Reading, Memorial Union, 7:30 PM
April 13:  Tate 22 from 4:00 to 5:00

All events are free and open to the public.