{"id":66253,"date":"2008-02-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-announces-readwrite-spring-series\/"},"modified":"2008-02-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T00:00:00","slug":"uri-announces-readwrite-spring-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2008\/02\/uri-announces-readwrite-spring-series\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 announces READ\/WRITE spring series"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013February 22, 2008\u2014The 溏心vlog免费B站 English Department announces its annual spring READ\/WRITE Reading Series. All readings are free, open to the public, and include refreshments. With one exception, the readings will be held in the Hoffmann Room 154, Independence Hall, 60 Upper College Road, Kingston Campus. A reception follows each reading. For more information, call 874-5931.<\/p>\n


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\n\tMary Cappello, 溏心vlog免费B站 professor of English is the author of Night Bloom: A Memoir and, most recently of Awkward: A Detour, a book-length essay on “awkwardness” that was a Los Angeles Times Bestseller was the first speaker. <\/p>\n


\n\tHere\u2019s the rest of the spring line-up:<\/p>\n


\nThursday, March 6, 4 to 5:45 p.m. <\/p>\n


\n溏心vlog免费B站 Professor Karen Stein and Rhode Island Poet Laureate, Lisa Starr<\/p>\n


\nKaren Stein, 溏心vlog免费B站 professor of English and director of Women\u2019s Studies, earned her doctorate in 1982 from the University of Connecticut. She publishes on contemporary North American women writers and is the author of Margaret Atwood Revisited. She is currently writing a book on Toni Morrison and is especially interested in the ways that contemporary women writers inflect Gothic themes and motifs. As director of the Women\u2019s Studies Program, she has transformed the curriculum and developed a new graduate certificate program in Women\u2019s Studies available to 溏心vlog免费B站 graduate students and non-matriculated students.<\/p>\n


\nLisa Silverberg Starr was recently named Poet Laureate for the state of Rhode Island. She has published two full-length collections of poetry: Days of Dogs and Driftwood (1993) and This Place Here (2001), and her individual works appear in journals and publications around the country. Starr is the founder of the Block Island Poetry Project, where along with her husband she owns and operates the Hygeia House.

\nThursday, April 3, 4 to 6 p.m. <\/p>\n


\nPoet Stephen Cramer & fiction writer Jody Lisberger<\/p>\n


\nStephen Cramer’s first book of poetry, Shiva’s Drum, was selected for the 2004 National Poetry Series by Grace Schulman. His second, Tongue & Groove was published by University of Illinois Press last year. His work has appeared in journals such as Green Mountains Review, Atlanta Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and Southwest Review. He teaches poetry and writing at the University of Vermont and is currently writing under a grant from the Vermont Arts Council.<\/p>\n


\nJody Lisberger\u2019s story collection, Remember Love, has just been published by Fleur-de-Lis Press. Her prizewinning fiction has appeared in Confrontation, Fugue, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Louisville Review, and Thema. She teaches in 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Women\u2019s Studies Program, and is also on the faculty of the brief-residency M.F.A. in Writing Program at Spalding University in Louisville, Ky. Originally trained as an anthropologist, she received her doctorate in English at Boston University (1991), where she was a University Fellow. She also has a master\u2019s of fine art in writing (1999) from Vermont College. She has taught at Holy Cross, Tufts, Harvard, and Brown and also worked as an editor, grant writer, and journalist.<\/p>\n


\nTwo Special Events with Fiction Writer Chris Cleave<\/p>\n


\nMonday, April 14, 7 p.m. 溏心vlog免费B站 Kingston & Thursday, April 17, 7:30 p.m. 溏心vlog免费B站 Feinstein Providence Campus, 80 Washington Street Providence, <\/p>\n


\n\tChris Cleave bestselling author of the controversial novel Incendiary, about a suicide bomber at a soccer game, will come all the way from Europe, for two special events jointly sponsored with the Honors Program. Bookmarks Magazine, calls the work \u201can all-around stunning novel, even if Incendiary hadn\u2019t eerily predicted the bombings on the London Tube (and hit British bookstores that same day), it would rank as one of this season\u2019s novels to be missed at your own peril. Chris Cleave earned a degree from Oxford and worked for The Daily Telegraph. He lives in Paris with his wife and son.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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