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The Trinity College English Department and Poetry Center present
the Fall Reading Series 2005:
Arturo Arias, Monday, September 26
Reese Room, Smith House, 4:15 p.m.
His visit will coincide with the 30th anniversary celebration of
Curbstone Press in Willimantic, CT.
Marianne Boruch, Thursday, October 13
Faculty Club, Hamlin Hall, 5 p.m.
Jim Shepard, Monday, October 24
Reese Room, Smith House, 4:15 p.m.
Allison Joseph, Connecticut Circuit Poet, Tuesday, November 8
Faculty Club, Hamlin Hall, 5 p.m. |
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Background: |
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Arturo Arias is director of Latin American studies at the
University of Redlands and is also the president of the Latin
American Studies Association. Co-writer of the screenplay for
the film El Norte (1984), his most recent novel in
English is titled After the Bombs (Curbstone Press,
1990). Author of five novels in Spanish, he is the winner of
Casa de las Americas Award and the Anna Seghers Scholarship for
two of them. In 1998 he published two books of criticism, one on
Guatemalan 20th-century fiction and another one on contemporary
Central American fiction. He recently finished a novel in
Spanish, Sopa de Caracol (Alfaguara, 2002).
Marianne Boruch, professor of English and director of Purdue’s Master
of Fine Arts Creative Writing Program in the College of Liberal
Arts, writes about “ordinary moments in ordinary life.” She has
written two books of essays on poetry, In the Blue Pharmacy:
Essays on Poetry and Other Transformations and Poetry’s
Old Air, and five collections of poems—Poems New &
Selected (2004), A Stick that Breaks and Breaks
(1997), Moss Burning (1995), Descendant (1989),
and View from the Gazebo (1985). She has received a
Guggenheim fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts
fellowships, and two Pushcart Prizes for poems that appeared in
journals. Her poems and essays have been published in such
places as The New Yorker, The Nation,
Iowa Review, and have been anthologized in The Best
American Poetry 1997.
Jim Shepard is the author of six novels, including most
recently Project X (Knopf, 2004), and two story
collections, including most recently Love and Hydrogen
(Vintage, 2004). His short fiction has appeared in such places
as Harper’s, McSweeney’s, The Paris Review,
The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, The New Yorker,
and Playboy, and he is a film columnist for the magazine
The Believer. He teaches at Williams College and in the
Warren Wilson MFA program.
Allison Joseph, the 2005 Connecticut Circuit Poet, was born
in London, England, in 1967, to parents of Caribbean heritage. A
graduate of Kenyon College and Indiana University, she currently
teaches at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, where she
serves as editor and poetry editor for Crab Orchard Review
and director of the Young Writers Workshop, a summer
conference for high school writers. Her first book of poems,
What Keeps Us Here, published in 1992, won the Ampersand
Press Women Poets Series Prize and the John C. Zacharis First
Book Prize from Ploughshares and Emerson College. Her
awards include an Individual Artist’s Fellowship in Poetry from
the Illinois Arts Council, fellowships from the Bread Loaf and
Sewanee Writers Conferences, and a literary award from the
Illinois Arts Council. Her fourth book, Imitation of Life,
was published in 2003 (Carnegie-Mellon University Press).
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