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September 30 |
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2:00
- 3:30 pm
Mills Godwin 102
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Writing
Women's Voices
In celebration
of the 25th anniversary of the Women's Studies program at Old Dominion
University, Debra Bruce, a highly regarded poet, and Lenore
Hart, whose recent first novel is a Barnes and Noble "Discover"
title, read about the struggles and successes of women in our time.
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8:00
- 9:30 pm
Diehn Fine and Performing Arts Center, Chandler Recital Hall
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The
Round Square: Readings in a Fluid Box
The Old Dominion University Creative Writing Faculty
Writers on
stage (Luisa Igloria, Michael Pearson, Janet Peery,
Sheri Reynolds, Tim Seibles, and Brian Silberman)
read and perform their own works. An evening rich in surprises.
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Tuesday,
October 1 |
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12:30
- 2:00 pm
Webb Center South Wing
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Poem
as Community, Community as Poem
Universes - Gamel Abdel Chasten,
Lemon, Flaco Navaja, Steven Sapp, Mildred Ruiz
A high-energy
rendering of poetry, hip-hop, jazz, and blues by a New York group of performers
who grew out of a community center in the Bronx. Disturbing stories about
their lives and the world they live in are told in a variety of forms.
Co-sponsored by Multicultural Student Services, Office of Student Activities
and Leadership, Student Services, and Verizon
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8:00
- 9:30 pm
Diehn Fine and Performing Arts Center, Chandler Recital Hall
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Readings
Across the Color Lines
Two African-American
writers reach deep into their personal experiences for often stark, and
always moving, events. In a severely restricting world, breakthrough is
the goal. One writer, Wanda Coleman, is an award-winning poet and
the other, Gregory H. Williams, is president of the City College
of New York.
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Wednesday,
October 2 |
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11:00
am - 12:30 pm
Mills Godwin 102
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Creative
Nonfiction: The Prismatic Genre
Including personal
essays, memoirs, historical narratives, and literary journalism, creative
nonfiction is, perhaps, the most diverse of literary genres. David
Fenza, Philip Gerard, and Valerie Miner, all seasoned,
award-winning writers, read from their own work and discuss the renaissance
in nonfiction and the changes and challenges confronting writers of nonfiction.
Co-sponsored by the Associated Writing Programs
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2:00
- 3:30 pm
Mills Godwin 102
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An
Association of Readers
Three writers,
who are members of the Board of Directors of the Associated Writing Programs,
bring to our Festival what they bring to the Board - individuality, diversity,
and accomplishment. Allison Joseph, Pablo Medina, and Mark
Winegardner read from their own works.
Co-sponsored by the Associated Writing Programs
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8:00
- 9:30 pm
Diehn Fine and Performing Arts Center, Chandler Recital Hall
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An
Evening of Translation and Performance
W.D. Snodgrass and Friends
A Pulitzer
Prize-winning poet gathers a group of dancers, musicians, translators,
and singers to interpret works from around the world. Joining W. D.
Snodgrass, who also won the Harold Morton Landon Award for Translation,
are Steve Kelley, Frederick Lubich, Marilyn Marloff,
Agnes Mobley-Wynne, Peter Schulman, Lee Teply, and
others. Together, they weave a matrix of forms and languages into a colorful
cloth.
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Thursday,
October 3 |
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11:00
am - 12:30 pm
Mills Godwin 102
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Re-Reading
the Literary Festival
The Directors' Event
Each director
brings a vision to the ODU Literary Festival, and for 25 years that vision
has changed about every two years. Four of those former directors, Evelina
Galang, William B. Patrick, Peggy Shumaker, and Wayne
Ude, show us, once again, their vision-making powers - this time through
a reading of their own works.
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2:00
- 3:30 pm
Mills Godwin 102
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Forging
the Individual Mind: A Reading by Mark Doty
Poet, memoirist,
and teacher, Mark Doty persistently seeks the richness of individual
complexity. Recently, he has said he wants to see the self among the many:
"I, for one, am hungry to read poems of American life now, in all
its messy complications, with its terrors and uncertainties and possible
grounds for hope." He will read new work as well as poems from his
prize-winning collections.
Co-sponsored by the Associated Writing Programs Benefits Reading Series
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8:00
- 9:30 pm
Webb Center
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The
President's Lecture Series
Susan Sontag
Novelist, short
story writer, playwright, essayist, screenwriter, film and stage director
Susan Sontag brings her considerable knowledge and understanding
of many art forms to bear on the idea of the relationships between the
arts.
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Friday,
October 4 |
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11:00
am - 12:30 pm
Mills Godwin 102
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Given
that the Painter is a Poet, the Poet a Painter ...
Poetry and
painting have long been viewed as sister arts. "The poet is like
a painter," said Plato. Horace coined the phrase ut pictura poesis
("as a painting, so a poem"). Three contemporary artists, Mark
Doty and W.D. Snodgrass (poets) and Donald Roller Wilson
(painter) address the relationship of poetry and painting through
their own experience. Linda McGreevy is the moderator.
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2:00
- 3:30 pm
Mills Godwin 102
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Port
Folio Weekly presents
Reinventing Nature: A Panel
From the days of Emerson and Thoreau to the present, nature writing has
fascinated readers. The experience of being in forests, mountains, caves,
swamps, or anywhere in nature evokes strong emotions, energizes the imagination,
and requires expression. Award-winning writers - Barbara Hurd, Robert
Richardson, and Marjorie Sandor - join moderator Tom Robotham
on a journey into the craft and substance of nature writing.
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8:00
- 9:30 pm
Diehn Fine and Performing Arts Center, Chandler Recital Hall
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Virginia
Deep in the Bones
Four of Virginia's
(and the nation's) most honored poets gather for an unprecedented reading.
With roots and long histories in Virginia, R.H.W. Dillard, George
Garrett, Henry Taylor, and Ellen Bryant Voigt host a
clambake (a poembake) in our own back yard.
Co-sponsored by New Virginia Review Inc. and Blackbird: an online journal
of literature and the arts
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Saturday,
October 5 |
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5:00
- 7:00 pm
Reception with the artist at University Gallery, 350 W. 21st Street,
Norfolk. The Gallery will be open at 12:00 pm
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God
Is Near
Donald Roller
Wilson was born in Houston, Texas, on November 23, 1938, 10:55 a.m.
His mother, a descendant of German-Dutch Jews who prospered during the
Oklahoma land rush, had run off and married his father, an Episcopalian
wildcatter who had been laying pipe in the Oklahoma plains. Roller's paintings
are in the collections of Jack Nicholson and Elizabeth Taylor, as well
as the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, Smithsonian Institution, and
many others.
Co-sponsored by the Old Dominion University Gallery
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8:00
- 9:30 pm
Diehn Fine and Performing Arts Center, Chandler Recital Hall
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A
Final Celebration: A Reading by Stephen Dunn
Last year, 2001, Stephen Dunn won the Pulitzer Prize for his collection
of poems, Different Hours. This was one of many awards and prizes he has
won over the past 30 years. Often called honest, wise, and an exceptionally
gifted craftsman, Dunn is also an editor, essayist, and teacher. Of further
note, he was a key player on the 1962 Hofstra University basketball team,
generally regarded as the greatest team in the school's history.
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