UGA/CWP

The Creative Writing Program at the University of Georgia

Readings

Every academic year sees a battery of readings in the department. Between the local VOX Reading Series (curated by graduate students in the CWP), the Lanier Series (spearheaded by Jed Rasula), the bi-annual Verse Festival (organized by Andrew Zawacki), and other events sponsored by the English Department, The Georgia Review, and the Georgia Poetry Circuit, a host of poets, fiction writers, and theorists visits campus each season. Recent and / or upcoming visitors include Adrienne Rich, Lydia Davis, Fredric Jameson, Susie Ibarra and Roberto Rodriguez, Heather McHugh, Vic Chesnutt, Peter Gizzi, Elizabeth Willis, Forrest Gander, Tao Lin, Mary Jo Bang, Tomaz Salamun, Nathaniel Mackey, Robert Wrigley, Alice Notley, Robert Adamson, Lisa Samuels, Albert Goldbarth, Binyavanga Wainaina, Lorraine Lopez, Christine Hume, Cathy Park Hong, Eleni Sikelianos, Natasha Tretheway, Major Jackson, and Timothy Donnelly. Their participation has ranged from public readings and performances to specialized seminars involving students and faculty.

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Upcoming Events and Readings:

11/4/2009 Reading and Q&A with Author Judson Mitcham
Judith Cofer's graduate writing seminar invites you to a reading and Q & A by poet and novelist Judson Mitcham. Coffee and refreshments will be available. Everyone is welcome. Location: Park Hall, Room 261 Day: Wednesday, November 4 Time: 10 a.m. Judson Mitcham's work has appeared in many literary journals, including Georgia Review, Poetry, and Harper's. He has published three collections of poems: Somewhere in Ecclesiastes, which won the Devins Award, This April Day, and A Little Salvation: Poems Old and New. His novels, The Sweet Everlasting and Sabbath Creek, were both awarded the Townsend Prize for Fiction. Mitcham has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Georgia Council for the Arts. He taught psychology at Fort Valley State University for many years, and he currently teaches creative writing at Mercer University.

VOX Reading Series:

11/10/2009 VOX Poetry Reading: Please join us for a book launch party at CINE (www.athenscine.com) celebrating the release of Sabrina Orah Mark's TSIM TSUM & John Dermot Woods's THE COMPLETE COLLECTION OF PEOPLE, PLACES, & THINGS on Friday, November 6th @ 7PM.

We are honored to have the amazing Blake Butler open for us. SABRINA ORAH MARK is the author of The Babies (Saturnalia Books, 2004) and Tsim Tsum (Saturnalia Books, 2009). Woodland Editions published her chapbook Walter B.'s Extraordinary Cousin Arrives for a Visit & Other Tales. She has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Glenn Schaeffer Foundation, and The National Endowment for the Arts. Her writing has appeared in many journals and in the anthologies, Legitimate Dangers and The Best American Poetry 2007. She teaches at the University of Georgia. John Dermot Woods is the author of the novel The Complete Collection of people, places & things (BlazeVOX, 2009). He writes stories and draws comics in Brooklyn, NY. He edits the arts quarterly Action,Yes and organizes the online reading series Apostrophe Cast. He is a professor in the English Department at Nassau Community College in Garden City, NY.

Blake Butler is the author of EVER (Calamari Press) and Scorch Atlas (Featherproof Books). His other writing has appeared in The Believer, Unsaid, Fence, etc. He lives in Atlanta, edits HTMLGiant, and blogs at gillesdeleuzecommittedsuicideandsowilldrphil.com.