Cardin Reading Series: Fall 2008

 

Tuesday, October 28, 12:15-1:30, Wilde Auditorium

Kurt Brown (poetry), Connecticut Poetry Circuit Touring Poet

Mr. Brown is the author of six chapbooks and five full-length collections of poetry, including Return of the Prodigals, More Things in Heaven and Earth, Fables from the Ark, Future Ship, and a new collection, No Other Paradise, due out in 2008 from Red Hen Press. His poems have appeared in many literary periodicals, and he is the editor of several anthologies including: Verse and Universe: Poems about Science and Mathematics; Night Out: Poems About Hotels, Motels, Restaurants and Bars (with Laure-Anne Bosselaar); Blues for Bill, for the late William Matthews; and his newest (with Harold Schechter), Conversation Pieces: Poems that Talk to Other Poems from Alfred A. Knopf, Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets Series.  Additionally, a collection of the poems of Flemish poet Herman de Coninck entitled The Plural of Happiness, which he and his wife translated, was released in the Field Translation Series in 2006. Kurt Brown founded the Aspen Writers' Conference, and Writers' Conferences & Centers (a national association of directors).  He teaches poetry workshops and craft classes at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, and was recently the McEver Visiting Chair in Writing at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Georgia.  Mr. Brown is married to the poet Laure-Anne Bosselaar

 

Thursday, November 6, 12:15-1:30, Wilde Auditorium

Teresa (T) Stores (fiction)

T. (Teresa) Stores is the author of three novels, Getting to the Point (Naiad, 1995), SideTracks (Naiad, 1996), and Backslide (Spinster’s Ink, 2008). Her short fiction and essays have appeared in Sinister Wisdom, Harrington Lesbian Literary Quarterly, Rock & Sling, Cicada, Out Magazine, MotherVerse Magazine, Harrington Gay Men’s Fiction Quarterly, Blithe House Quarterly, and The Oregon Literary Review. Poems have been published in The Beacon Street Review, Bloom Magazine, Rock & Sling, Earth’s Daughters, Blueline, Damselfly Press, SawPalm, and Kudzu. Her work has been supported by grants from the Vermont Arts Council and the Barbara Deming Fund, and she was a resident at Bread Loaf and a scholar at The Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. A graduate of the M.F.A. program at Emerson College, Stores directs the creative writing program at the University of Hartford where she is an associate professor of English.

 

Thursday, December 4, 12:15-1:30, Wilde Auditorium

Cate Marvin (poetry)

Cate Marvin's first book, World's Tallest Disaster, was chosen by Robert Pinksy for the 2000 Kathryn A. Morton Prize and published by Sarabande Books in 2001. In 2002, she received the Kate Tufts Discovery Prize. Her poems have appeared in The New England Review, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Fence, The Paris Review, The Cincinnati Review, Slate, Verse, Boston Review, and Ninth Letter. She is co-editor with poet Michael Dumanis of the anthology Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande Books, 2006). Her second book of poems, Fragment of the Head of a Queen, was published by Sarabande in August 2007. A recent Whiting Award recipient and 2007 NYFA Gregory Millard Fellow, she teaches poetry writing in Lesley University's Low-Residency M.F.A. Program and is an associate professor in creative writing at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York.