Holy Cross Visiting Writers Series Spring 2004 Schedule

WORCESTER, Mass. – The following writers will visit Holy Cross this spring semester as part of the Creative Writing Program’s Visiting Writers Lecture Series. All readings will take place in the Levis Browsing Room, Dinand Library. They are free and open to the public. Tuesday, Feb. 10, 4 p.m. – Jane Brox

Jane Brox is the author of Here and Nowhere Else: Late Seasons of a Farm and Its Family, which won the l996 L.L. Winship/PEN New England Book Award, and Five Thousand Days Like This One, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist. Her work has been published in Orion, the Gettysberg Review, and the Georgia Review. She has been awarded an NEA, and her work has appeared in Best American Essays.

Thursday, Feb. 19, 7 p.m. – Peter Makuck

Peter Makuck is a Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences at East Carolina University, where he has edited Tar River Poetry for 25 years. He is the author of five volumes of poetry, including Where We Live, The Sunken Lightship, and most recently, Against Distance. He has written two collections of short stories, Breaking and Entering, and his newest book, Costly Habits, from which he will be reading.

Tuesday, March 23, 7 p.m. – Sydney Lea (Michael J. Pierce Reading)

Sydney Lea has published seven volumes of poetry – Searching the Drowned Man, The Floating Candles, No Sign, Prayer for the Little City, The Blainville Testament, To the Bone: New and Selected Poems, and Pursuit of a Wound – a novel, A Place In Mind, and a collection of natural history essays, Hunting the Whole Way Home. He was the founder and long-time editor of the New England Review and has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. His books of poetry have been finalists for the National Book Award and co-winner of the prestigious Poets’ Prize. He teaches at Vermont College and Dartmouth.

Wednesday, March 31, 4 p.m. – Leila Philip

A member of the Holy Cross faculty, Leila Philip is the author of The Road Through Miyana, a memoir of her apprenticeship to a master potter in Japan (1990 PEN/Martha Albrand Special Citation for Non-Fiction), and A Family Place, the story of her ancestral Hudson River home which mixes history, natural history, and autobiography as it examines our sense of home.

Thursday, April 15, 7 p.m. – William Wenthe

William Wenthe is the author of two poetry collections, Birds of Hoboken and Not Till We Are Lost. He has received fellowships from the NEA and from the Texas Commission on the Arts, and his poems have won two Pushcart Prizes. He teaches at Texas Tech University, where he is also the poetry editor of Iron Horse Literary Review.

Wednesday, April 21, 7 p.m. – Stephen Corey

Among Stephen Corey’s many books and chapbooks of poetry are The Last Magician, Synchronized Swimming, All the Lands You Call One Country, and most recently, There Is No Finished World. In addition, his essays and articles have appeared in many periodicals. He is co-editor of Spreading the Word: Editors on Poetry. In 1976, Corey co-founded The Devil’s Millhopper, which he edited for seven years. Since 1983, he has worked at the Georgia Review, where he is associate editor.