Writers on the Bay
Writers on the Bay is the Creative Writing Program's reading series that has brought distinguished writers to our campus. Past writers have included Li-Young Lee, Lee Abbott, Russell Banks, Marianne Boruch, Larry Brown, Robert Olen Butler, Elizabeth Dewberry, George Garrett, Jorie Graham, Tony Hillerman, Maxine Kumin, Dorianne Laux, Dennis Lehane, Elmore Leonard, Walter Moseley, Debra Monroe, Louis Nordan, Gregory Orr, Peggy Payne, Marge Piercy, Robert Pinsky, Bob Shacochis, April Smith, Stephanie Strickland, Gay Talese, Derek Walcott, Ferdie Pacheco, Paul Zimmer, Tom Piazza, Nick Carbo, David Lehman, Tom Franklin, Lolita Hernandez. Our visiting writers give readings, visit creative writing classes, and meet with students.
Fall 2009 Schedule of Readings: All readings are free and open to the public.
M.F.A.
Alumni Reading
Sunday, October
4, 2009, 6 PM at Books and Books
Please join us for a reading by alumni of Florida International
University’s M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing. New books by
alums out this year include: Emma Trelles’s poetry collection
Little Spells; J.J. Colagrande’s novel Headz; and Anjanette
Delgado’s novel The Heartbreak Pill,
which has also been released in Spanish,
La pildora del mal amor.
Faculty members Les Standiford and Dan Wakefield will give memorial
tributes to Barbara Parker and Anthony Gagliano.
Joining these readers will be recent graduates Joan Cochran,
Scott Cunningham, and Diane Mooney.
For directions to
Books and Books, please call 305-442-4408.
Tom Healy and
Robert Olmstead
Thursday,
October 29, 2009
Tom Healy’s debut poetry book,
What the Right Hand Knows,
was published this fall by Four Way Books. His poems and essays have
appeared in BOMB, the
Yale Review, Paris Review, Tin House, Salmagundi and other journals.
He studied at Harvard and Columbia University. He lives in New York City
and Miami.
Robert Olmstead is the author of seven books, the most recent of which
are Far Bright Star and
Coal Black Horse, winner of the Heartland Prize for Fiction and the
Ohioana Award. Olmstead is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and
an NEA grant. He is
currently a professor at Ohio Wesleyan University.
Mike Grunwald
Thursday, December 3, 2009