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MFA Alumnae and poets Kara Candito, Jehanne Dubrow, and Taije Silverman (all alumnae read from their work.
7:00PM, Ulrich Recital Hall, Tawes Hall
Please join us for a reception before the reading at 6:15PM at the Jiménez-Porter Writers' House, ground floor, Dorchester Hall. Free and open to the public.
Featuring the MFA Graduate Students at University of Maryland
Please join us for the *last Mock Turtle* of the semester on *Friday,
November 20th* at *6:30PM*.
The following writers will be presenting their work:
*Poetry:*
Kim Calder
Jennifer Dempsey
Shenandoah Sowash
*Fiction:*
David Green
Mary Lynn Reed
Shanna Yetman
Friday, November 20th
6:30PM TO 9:00PM
The Wonderland Ballroom
1101 Kenyon St. NW
Washington, DC 20009
Directions:
>From Green Line's Columbia Heights Metro Station, walk 2 blocks east on
Irving St., turn left on 11th and walk one block north to Kenyon. The
Wonderland Ballroom is located on the northwest corner of 11th and Kenyon,
and the reading is held in the upstairs bar area. Free off-street parking is
available within 1 block, at the Tubman Elementary School parking lot half a
block west down Kenyon St.
Mock Turtle Readings will resume in the spring semester, with information
about dates to follow.
We look forward to seeing you there!
David Rivard will read to Michael Collier's English 243: Introduction to Poetry class at noon on Wednesday, November 11, in Room 0226 of H.J. Patterson Hall.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Rivard is the author of four books of poetry: Sugartown (Graywolf, 2006), Bewitched Playground (Graywolf, 2000), Wise Poison (Graywolf, 1996), the winner of the James Laughlin Prize from the Academy of American Poets in 1996 and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and Torque (Pitt, 1988), winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. His poems and essays appear in American Poetry Review, AGNI, TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, and other magazines. Among his awards are fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Arts Foundation, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, as well as two Pushcart Prizes. A former poetry editor at Harvard Review, he teaches at the University of New Hampshire MFA in Writing Program.