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Creative Writing Reading Series
Graduate Student Readings
In the community
MFA in Creative Writing
Showing all events beginning Sunday, August 19, 2018.
Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., On-campus, De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge
Kevin Young is the Director for the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, newly named a National Historic Landmark, and Poetry Editor of the New Yorker.
Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., On-campus, De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge
Wednesday, October 10, 2018 - 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., On-campus, Saint Mary's College Museum of Art
Using a short selection from Matthew Zapruder’s book Why Poetry, two distinguished Saint Mary’s poets share strategies for unpacking poems in Seminar.
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 - 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., On-campus, Saint Mary's College Museum of Art
One of the most politically charged acts a people can do is read and write for themselves.
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 - 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., On-campus, De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge
Wednesday, November 7, 2018 - 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., On-campus, De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge
The Art of Spinning Tales
Wednesday, November 7, 2018 - 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., On-campus, De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge
Samina Ali is an award-winning author, activist and cultural commentator.
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 - 7:45 p.m. to 9 p.m., On-campus, De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge
Curated and hosted by a committee of graduate students, the Graduate Student Reading Series showcases the dynamic and welcoming arts community here at Saint Mary's College.
All readings are free and open to the public.
Wednesday, November 28, 2018 - 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., East Bay
Open House for prospective students.
Wednesday, November 28, 2018 - 7:45 p.m. to 9 p.m., On-campus, De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge
Curated and hosted by a committee of graduate students, the Graduate Student Reading Series showcases the dynamic and welcoming arts community here at Saint Mary's College.
All readings are free and open to the public.
Wednesday, February 27, 2019 - 7:45 p.m. to 9 p.m., On-campus, De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge
Curated and hosted by a committee of graduate students, the Graduate Student Reading Series showcases the dynamic and welcoming arts community here at Saint Mary's College.
Wednesday, March 20, 2019 - 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., On-campus, De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge
Navigating Point of View: Moving in Closer on 3rd-Person Close
Wednesday, March 20, 2019 - 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., On-campus, De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge
Born in New York City, Christine Hyung-Oak Lee is the author of the memoir Tell Me Everything You Don’t Remember and a forthcoming novel also from Ecco / Harper Collins.
Saturday, March 30, 2019 6 p.m., 925 SW Washington St, Portland, OR 97205
Join SMC MFA faculty and alumni at Literary Arts for flash readings with our friends at Omnidawn and McSweeney's.
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 - 7:45 p.m. to 9 p.m., On-campus, De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge
Curated and hosted by a committee of graduate students, the Graduate Student Reading Series showcases the dynamic and welcoming arts community here at Saint Mary's College.
Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., On-campus, De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge
Lori Ostlund’s first book, a story collection entitled The Bigness of the World, won the Flannery O’Connor Award, the California Book Award for First Fiction, and the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award.
Wednesday, April 24, 2019 - 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., On-campus, De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge
Building Worlds
Wednesday, April 24, 2019 - 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., On-campus, De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge
Jane Gregory is from Tucson and lives in Oakland. She is the author of YEAH NO (The Song Cave, 2018) and MY ENEMIES (The Song Cave, 2013), as well as several chapbooks.
Wednesday, May 8, 2019 - 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., On-campus, De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge
Thinking Otherwise and its Occasions: Grief, Form, and the Telepathic Promise of Poetry
Wednesday, May 8, 2019 - 7:45 p.m. to 9 p.m., On-campus, Saint Mary's College Museum of Art
Curated and hosted by a committee of graduate students, the Graduate Student Reading Series showcases the dynamic and welcoming arts community here at Saint Mary's College.
All readings are free and open to the public.
Wednesday, May 15, 2019 - 7:45 p.m. to 9 p.m., On-campus, De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge
Curated and hosted by a committee of graduate students, the Graduate Student Reading Series showcases the dynamic and welcoming arts community here at Saint Mary's College.
All readings are free and open to the public.