What/When:  The Trinity College English Department presents the 2007 Fall Reading series, featuring distinguished writers of fiction, poetry, and/or memoir. The event will be followed by book signings sponsored by the Trinity bookstore.
 
David Jauss, fiction writer
Wednesday, September 12, 2007 - 5:00 p.m. 
Reese Room, Smith House on the Trinity College campus

Sam Hamill, poet
Thursday, October 11, 2007 - 7:00 p.m.
La Paloma Cafe, Capitol Avenue

Dana Brand, essayist
Thursday, October 25, 2007 - 5:00 p.m.
Reese Room, Smith House on the Trinity College campus

Kim Bridgford, poet
Thursday, November 8, 2007 - 5:00 p.m.
Reese Room, Smith House on the Trinity College campus

David Wojhan
Wednesday, November 28, 2007 - 5:00 p.m.
Reese Room, Smith House on the Trinity College campus

Background: 

David Jauss, is the author of two critically acclaimed collections of short stories, Crimes of Passion and Black Maps. Jauss, who has written two prize-winning books of poetry and numerous essays, was the recipient of an O Henry Award and Pushcart Prizes, and has received numerous fellowships and honors for his work.  Jauss’ forthcoming book, Alone with All That Could Happen, is a collection of essays on the craft of writing fiction.  For more on David Jauss, visit www.davidjauss.com.

Sam Hamill is the author of 14 volumes of original poetry. He has published three collections of essays and two dozen volumes translated from ancient Greek, Latin, Estonian, Japanese, and Chinese. He is the founding editor of Copper Canyon Press and director of Poets Against War. His work has been translated into more than a dozen languages.

Dana Brand is a professor of English and American literature at Hofstra University. He received his Ph.D. from Yale, where he would often talk baseball with A. Bartlett Giamatti, the Yale English professor who became the commissioner of Major League Baseball. Brand is the author of numerous books and articles about English, American, and French literature, philosophy, and film. Mets Fan is his first collection of personal essays and he is writing another, entitled The Middle of My Life, about being a guy in his fifties. Dana has been a diehard fan of the New York Mets since he was seven years old. His Web site is www.metsfanbook.com, and you can read samples of the book on the site, including an essay about watching the sixth game of the 1986 World Series with his wife, Sheila Fisher, a Red Sox fan who is now the chair of Trinity’s English department.

Kim Bridgford received her bachelor’s degree and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1981. She went on to earn an A.M. and then a Ph.D. in English from the University of Illinois in 1985 and 1988, respectively. Dr. Bridgford’s works have appeared in more than three hundred publications, including The Georgia Review, The Quarterly, The Iowa Review, The Hollins Critic and The Formalist.  Bridgford will read from her latest book, In the Extreme: Sonnets about World Records.

David Wojahn was educated at the University of Minnesota and the University of Arizona. His first collection of poetry, Icehouse Lights, was chosen by Richard Hugo as a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, and published in 1982. The collection was also the winner of the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Book Award. His second collection, Glassworks, was awarded the Society of Midland Authors’ Award for best volume of poetry to be published during that year.  His most recent collection, Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems, was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the O. B. Hardison Award from the Folger Shakespeare Library. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Illinois and Indiana Councils for the Arts, and in 1987-88 was the Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholar. He has taught at a number of institutions, among them Indiana University, the University of Chicago, the University of Houston, the University of Alabama, and the University of New Orleans. Wojahn is a professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, and is also a member of the program faculty of the MFA in Writing Program of Vermont College.

For more information about the free event, please contact Tracy Quigley at (860) 297-2568 or by email at Tracy.Quigley@trincoll.edu.

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