All Events at 8:00 pm, SUNY College at Brockport New York Room, Cooper Hall (unless otherwise noted).
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Free Admission, Reception & Book Signing
September 6
James Whorton, Jr.
Author of the novels,
Approximately Heaven and Frankland.
The English Department is pleased to welcome our new faculty member in creative writing.
September 20
Yusef Komunyakaa
The Writers Voice @ SUNY’s Metro Center, 7:30 pm
Winner of an NEA Fellowship, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Pulitzer Prize and the Kingsley Tufts Award. Author of a dozen poetry collections, including Taboo, Talking Dirty to the Gods, and Pleasure Dome. The Writers Voice is funded by M&T Bank.
October 11
Lydia Davis
Recipient of NEA and Guggenheim Fellowships, a Macarthur “Genius” award, and a Chevalier Award in Arts and Letters from the French government, among other distinctions. Author of the novel, The End of the Story, and the story collections Almost No Memory and Samuel Johnson is Indignant.
October 25
Rebecca Solnit
Writer, historian, art critic, and activist, Solnit is author of numerous books, including As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art; Wanderlust: A History of Walking; and River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West, for which she won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
November 8
Michael Waters & William Heyen
Michael Waters, a Brockport alum, has published six collections of poetry, including Parthenopi: New and Selected Poems and Green Ash, Red Maple, Black Gum. His newest, Darling Vulgar is forthcoming from BOA Editions. He has won awards from the NEA and the Maryland State Arts Council.
William Heyen, Brockport alum and Professor of English, Emeritus, has published numerous collections of poetry and prose, including Depth of Field, Long Island Light, Lord Dragonfly, and Erika: Poems of the Holocaust. Shoah Train was
nominated for the National Book Award in 2004. His honors include fellowships from the NEA, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Eunice Tietjens Memorial Prize from Poetry magazine, and the Witter Bynner Prize from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. His most recent book is The Confessions of Doc Williams.
For further information
Writers Forum
350 New Campus Drive
Brockport, NY 14420
Phone: (585) 395-5713
Email: James Whorton/Anne Panning