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A reading by... Paul Muldoon and Jericho Brown

October 1, 2009, 6:00 in the McLendon Lounge

Paul Muldoon was born in 1951 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, and educated in Armagh and at the Queen's University of Belfast. From 1973 to 1986 he worked in Belfast as a radio and television producer for the British Broadcasting Corporation. Since 1987 he has lived in the United States, where he is now Howard G. B. Clark '21 Professor at Princeton University and Chair of the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts. In 2007 he was appointed Poetry Editor of The New Yorker. Between 1999 and 2004 he was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford, where he is an honorary Fellow of Hertford College. Paul Muldoon's main collections of poetry are New Weather (1973), Mules (1977), Why Brownlee Left (1980), Quoof (1983), Meeting The British (1987), Madoc: A Mystery (1990), The Annals of Chile (1994), Hay (1998), Poems 1968-1998 (2001) and Moy Sand and Gravel (2002), for which he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize. His tenth collection, Horse Latitudes, appeared in the fall of 2006.

Jericho Brown worked as the speechwriter for the Mayor of New Orleans before receiving his PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston.    He also holds an MFA from the University of New Orleans and a BA from Dillard University.  The recipient of a Bunting Fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University and two travel fellowships to the Krakow Poetry Seminar in Poland, he has served as poetry editor at Gulf Coast and assistant poetry editor at Callaloo.His poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, jubilat, New England Review, Oxford American, and several other journals and anthologies.  Brown teaches creative writing as an Assistant Professor of English at the University of San Diego.  New Issues Poetry & Prose published his first book PLEASE .

The reading will include a Q & A with the authors, followed by a book-signing and light refreshments.


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The WRITERS @ DREW Reading Series will host a reading to celebrate the prize-winners and the Honorable Mention authors in The Space, at 4pm on Tuesday, April 28th. 

All are invited.

========================================================Kimiko Hahn and Kevin McIlvoy

Tuesday, April 7th, 6 pm

McLendon Hall Lounge

Kimiko Hahn is the author of seven collections of poetry, including The Unbearable Heart, Mosquito and Ant, and The Narrow Road to the Interior. Her honors include the American Book Award, the PEN/Voelcker Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund.  She teaches in the English Department at Queens College/CUNY.

Kevin McIlvoy is the author of four novels: A Waltz, Little Peg, Hyssop, and The Fifth Station, as well as the story collection The Complete History of New Mexico. He is editor-in-chief of the magazine Puerto del Sol, and lives in Las Cruces, New Mexico.  He teaches at New Mexico State University and in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.

The reading will include a Q & A with the authors, followed by a book-signing and light refreshments.

Sponsored by the English Department

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Anne Marie Macari & Patrick Phillips

Monday, January 12th, 7:30 PM, Mead Hall, Founder’s Room, FREE


Anne Marie Macari’s third book is She Heads Into The Wilderness (Autumn House Press, 2008). Her book Ivory Cradle won the APR/Honickman first book prize in 2000. She has won the James Dickey Prize from Five Points magazine. Macari directs and teaches in the Drew Low-Residency MFA Program in Poetry.


Patrick Phillips is the winner of the 2005 Kate Tufts Discovery Award for his first book Chattahoochee. He is a Fulbright Scholar and translator, and received a Discovery Award from The Nation Prize from the Unterberg Poetry Center. His new book is Boy (University of Georgia Press, 2008). He is an assistant professor of English at Drew University.

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Yusef Komunyakaa & Brian Turner

Soldier-Poets: from Vietnam to Iraq

Thursday, October 30th, 6:00 pm

LC—28 (Library Building)

Yusef Komunyakaa received the Bronze Star for his military service in Vietnam, where he was a correspondent for the Southern Cross newspaper.  He is one of the most celebrated poets in America, and author of twelve books of poems, including the newly-released Warhorses, Thieves of Paradise, and Neon Vernacular, for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.  Komunyakaa is currently Professor and Distinguished Senior poet at New York University.
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Brian Turner served as a U. S. Army infantry team leader in Iraq for one year, beginning in November 2003, with the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division.  Prior to that, he was deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1999-2000. He is the author of Here, Bullet, a book of poems about his time in Iraq, which received the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award, and was a New York Times "Editor's Choice" Selection.  He teaches English at Fresno City College.
Sponsored by the English Department and Offices of the President, Provost and Dean,  Center for Holocaust/Genocide Studies, Hillel and Pan-African Studies.
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The reading will include a Q & A with the authors, followed by book-signing and light refreshments in the Library Lobby

 

A Reading by Elizabeth Nunez & Ted Genoways
Winning Novelist and Acclaimed Poet

Thursday, September 11th 2008, 6 pm

Location: Wendel Hall
Sponsored By: Sponsored by the English, Pan-African and Theatre Departments
Cost: Free

Elizabeth Nunez was born and raised in Trinidad and is now Distinguished Professor of English at City University, New York. She is the award-winning author of six novels, including Prospero’s Daughter, an Editor’s Choice of the New York Times Book Review, and Bruised Hibiscus, winner of the American Book Award.

Ted Genoways is author of the poetry collections Anna, Washing and Bullroarer, winner of the Samuel French Morse Prize. He is also the editor of numerous books, including The Selected Poems of Miguel Hernandez and The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman: The Correspondence., Vol. VII. He works at the University of Virginia as editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review.

 

The reading will include a Q & A with the authors, followed by a book-signing and light refreshments.

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2008-2009

Kwame Dawes

April 1st, 4 pm

ARTS 106

 

Kwame Dawes was born in Ghana, and spent most of his childhood in Jamaica. As a poet, he is profoundly influenced by the rhythms and textures of that lush place, citing in a recent interview his "spiritual, intellectual, and emotional engagement with reggae music." His book Bob Marley: Lyrical Genius remains the most authoritative study of the lyrics of Bob Marley. Dawes is also the author of twelve collections of poetry and a recently-published novel, She’s Gone.  He is director of the Calabash International Literary Festival, held in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica, and Distinguished Poet-in-Residence at the University of South Carolina.

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Gerald Stern & Andre Dubus III

February 19th, 6 pm

Founders Room, Mead Hall

 

Gerald Stern is the author of numerous books of poetry, most recently Everything is Burning. Among his many honors are the Lamont Prize, the National Book Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, three NEA awards, a fellowship from the Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Ruth Lilly Prize.  He lives in New Jersey and continues to write both poetry and prose.

 

Andre Dubus III worked as a bounty hunter, private investigator, carpenter, bartender, actor, and teacher, before finding his calling as a writer.  The Cage Keeper and Other Stories was published in 1989, followed in 1993 by his first novel, Bluesman.  House of Sand and Fog was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1999.  He teaches at Tufts University, and at Emerson College’s MFA in Writing program.

 

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The Tempest
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Dan Lapenta (CLA Faculty)
February 27-March 1 2008 at the F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre
Synopsis
An exiled duke turned magus sets in motion and then struggles to maintain a plan that will regain his dukedom and secure his daughter's future in the face of on-going conspiracies and his own impulse simply for revenge, finally to achieve a bittersweet victory by gaining his objectives but also, in effect, losing his daughter and trusted spirit to their new lives apart from him.

Little Shop of Horrors
by Howard Ashman & Alan Menken
Directed by Liz Reiss (CLA '08)
April 9-12, 2008 at the F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre
Synopsis
Little Shop of Horrors, written by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, is a musical about the unexpected turn of events that occurs when Seymour, a clerk in the flower store, raises a strange little plant named Audrey II.

Speakers & events of interest to English Majors -- Fall 2003

  • A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas 
    • A New Jersey Shakespeare Festival Presentation
    • December 2-28, 2003  --The Main Stage at the F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre 
  • Harold Pinter's "The Dumb Waiter," directed by Elizabeth Green (CLA '05) and Jason Roger's "Apples," directed by Leigh Morlock (CLA '04).
    • The Theatre Arts Department and Drew University Dramatic Society (DUDS) 2003-2004 production season.
      • November 5-8, 2003. 8:00 p.m. Dorothy Young Center for the Arts, Black Box Theatre.
        • Admission:  $6.00 on Wed., Fri. & Sat., $5.00 on Thur., 
          or see up to 15 productions for $25.00 Subscription
        • For tickets call (973) 408-3030 from 5:00-7:00pm Tuesday-Saturday of the performance week.
        • Read more on the website
           
  • Writers Reading at Drew Series: Poetry by Betsy Barbato; fiction by Adam Cheney; poetry by Janet Gibbs; and drama by Tim Dugan.  Come hear and support some of Drew's own finest writers!
    • Sponsored by the Caspersen School of Graduate Studies Arts & Letters Program
      • Wednesday, November 5, 2003 7:00 p.m..  Wendel Room, Mead Hall
      • Free and open to all--Light refreshments will be served
  • Communications Career Night: Hear Drew Alumni talk about their careers in radio, television, publishing, advertising, and journalism. Learn how they got their jobs, why they love those jobs, and how you can imagine and achieve your career goals as well.
    • Sponsored by the English Department, the Career Center, and the Office of Alumni Affairs.
      • Wednesday, October 29, 2003 7:30 p.m..  UC 107
      • Free and open to all--Light refreshments will be served


Othello by William Shakespeare 

    • A New Jersey Shakespeare Festival Presentation
    • October 28-November 23, 2003  --The Main Stage at the F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre 
  • William Saroyan's "Hello Out There," directed by Amanda Michales (CLA '05) and Tim Sawicki's "Amphibians," directed by Jessica Leto (CLA '05)
    • The Theatre Arts Department and Drew University Dramatic Society (DUDS) 2003-2004 production season.
      • October 15-19, 2003. 8:00 p.m. F.M.Kirby Shakespeare Theatre.
        • Admission:  $6.00 on Wed., Fri. & Sat., $5.00 on Thur., 
          or see up to 15 productions for $25.00 Subscription
        • For tickets call (973) 408-3030 from 5:00-7:00pm Tuesday-Saturday of the performance week.
        • Read more on the website
  • Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot," directed by Rosemary McLaughlin.
    • The Theatre Arts Department and Drew University Dramatic Society (DUDS) 2003-2004 production season.
      • October 8-11, 2003. 8:00 p.m. Dorothy Young Center for the Arts, Black Box Theatre.
        • Admission:  $6.00 on Wed., Fri. & Sat., $5.00 on Thur., 
          or see up to 15 productions for $25.00 Subscription
        • For tickets call (973) 408-3030 from 5:00-7:00pm Tuesday-Saturday of the performance week.
        • Read more on the website
  • Richard Falk: will give the keynote address for the conference: "An American Empire? Globalization, War,and Religion." Emeritus Professor of International Law at Princeton University, Falk has contributed frequently to The Nation (especially since 9/11) and is the author of books on globalization, terrorism, and religion. (Please note that Edward Said, who was originally scheduled to give this address, is unable to attend for health reasons.)
    • Sponsored by the Theological School, with the co-sponsorship of The Caspersen School of Graduate Studies of Drew University, The College of Liberal Arts of Drew University, The Hispanic Institute of Theology of Drew University, and The Center for Process Studies, Claremont, California
       
      • Thursday, September 25, 2003. 8 p.m.  UC 107
      •  Free to Drew Faculty, Staff, and Students--but you MUST register for this event. See the website below for more details; Non-Drew Students $5-$20; General Public $15-$50; (prices vary based on lectures attended) View registration information.
  • Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
    • A New Jersey Shakespeare Festival Presentation
    • September 2-28, 2003  --The Main Stage at the F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre 

Watch this space for a list of English Dept. sponsored events and events of interest to students of English @ Drew.   See also the Drew Student Activities Calendar.

  • "Untitled" A Poetry Reading by the students in Drew's Spring 2003 Poetry Workshops, followed by an open mike. 
    • A reading sponsored by the English Department, organized by Loren Kleinman
      • Wednesday, April 30, 20037:30-10:45 p.m. in the Space
      • admission is free, light refreshments will be served. 

  • Writers Reading at Drew Series: Fiction by Huey Alcaro; poetry and fiction by Greg Ryan.  Come hear and support some of Drew's own finest writers!
    • Sponsored by the Caspersen School of Graduate Studies Arts & Letters Program
      • Wednesday, April 16, 2003 7:00 p.m..  Wendel Room, Mead Hall
      • Free and open to all--Light refreshments will be served
  • Olga Sedakova: The leading woman poet in Russia, will read and discuss her work at the Annual Dobro Slovo Society Meeting.
    • Sponsored by the Russian Department and the Dobro Slovo Society
  • Geraldine Smith-Wright, "The Harlem Renaissance Revisited." Prof. Smith-Wright teaches in the English Department of Drew University and gives this talk as part of Hum 14; "Self and Society in the Modern Age."
    • Sponsored by the Humanities Program
      • Monday, April 14, 2003 1:15-2:10.  Arts 106
      • Free and open to all
  • Tim Russert. The moderator of NBC's Meet the Press, Russert has made the longest running program in the history of television the most-watched Sunday morning interview program in America.

 

  • Barbara Hochman, "Visual Power in Uncle Tom's Cabin 1850-1890: Illustrations in History." Prof. Hochman teaches literature at Ben Gurion University in Israel.  She has published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature including her most recent book, Getting at the Author: Reimagining Books and Reading in the age of American realism (U. Massachusetts Press)
    • Sponsored by the graduate program in Modern History and Literature 
      • Friday, March 28, 2003.  5:00 p.m. -- LC 28 
      • Free and open to all
  • Sandi Wisenberg.  Author of the book of essays, Holocaust Girls: History, Memory and Other Obsessions, and the short story collection The Sweetheart Is In will read from and discuss her work.
    • Sponsored by the English Department, Womyns Concerns, and Hillel 
  • John J. Murphy.  Internationally acclaimed Willa Cather scholar will be speaking about Cather and her work, with special reference to some of the new Cather materials in the Drew library. 
    • Sponsored by the English Department and the Friends of the Library
  • Gloria H. Dickinson, Ph.D.  Will speak on "New Jersey's Womanist Heritage." Dr. Dickinson is president of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History and Chair of African American Studies at the College of New Jersey.  
    • In Celebration of Ten years of African and African American Studies at Drew and African American History Month.
      • Tuesday, February 4, 2003. 5:00-7:00 p.m. -- Founder's Room, Mead Hall
      • Free and open to all.  Refreshments will be served at 5:00 p.m.
         
  • Claire Shipman.  The senior national correspondent for ABC News' Good Morning America, Claire Shipman previously served as White House correspondent for NBC News and was posted in CNN bureaus around the world.

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  • "Red Right Hand" Public Reading by the students in the 2002 Fiction Workshop 
    • A reading sponsored by the English Department, organized by Christina Baker Kline
      • Wednesday, December 4, 2002 7:00 p.m. in the Space
      • admission is free, light refreshments will be served. 
  • Art Buchwald.  ThePulitzer Prize-winning journalist and humorist whose columns are carried in more than 500 newspapers.  Art Buchwald is also the author of 30 books, including his latest, We'll Laugh Again.


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  • "Writers Reading at Drew" Public Reading--Betsy Barbato, poet, and Huey Alcaro,fiction writer, will read from their work.
    • A reading sponsored by the Arts and Letters Program
      • Tuesday, November 7, 2002, 7:00pm, Wendell Room, Mead Hall
      • admission is free, light refreshments will be served. 

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  • .Aparajita Nanda, Jadavpur University, Calcutta.

"Life on the Hyphen: A Re-Appraisal of Immigrant Experience in Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies"Dr. Nanda is Associate Professor of English at Jadavpur University in Calcutta, India.  She earned her A.M. and Ph.D. in English literature, with a specialty in Tudor Drama and Poetry, from Jadavpur University.  She has published widely on classical English literature, and on Asian-American literature. 

    • Sponsored by The English Dept., and the Religion Dept.
      • Monday, October 7, 2002, 7:00 p.m. Wendel Rm,  Mead Hall
      • admission is free. 
      • A copy of Jhumpa Lahiri's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Interpreter of Maladies, is on reserve in the Drew library under Prentiss. 


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  • MACHOMER, Written and performed by Rick Miller


A one-man performance of Shakespeare'sMacbethfeaturing more than 50 voices from TV's favorite dysfunctional family,The Simpsons. Homer Simpson stars as Macbeth, Marge Simson plays Lady Macbeth and Mr. Burns plays King Duncan.  Most of the script remains in Shakespeare's words, but is embellished with pop culture references. 


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  • Manthia Diawara,NYU,


will introduce his film,"Bamako Sigi Kan," and lead a discussion after the screening.  "Bamako Sigi Kan" is a  documentary on the clash between globalization and traditional African values.  Producer/director Dr. Manthia Diawara, is Director of NYU's Institute of Afro-American Affairs and Director of the African Studies Program.

    • Sponsored by Muticultural Awareness Week. (& Coordinated by Prof. Levi) 
      • Tuesday, October 1, 2002,  7:00 p.m.  LC 28
      • admission is free. 

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  • Ursula Pawel, author of My Child Is Back!  will speak and answer questions as part of the "Conversation with Witnesses Series." Ursula Pawel was born in Germany to a Jewish father and Christian mother.  She is a survivor of  Terezín, Auschwitz, and the Merzdorf Slave Labor Camp.
  • Multicultiral Awareness Week
    • September 29-October 4 --See the website for more details
  • Ngugi Wa Thiongo, author of Decolonising the Mind:The Politics of Language in African Literature;Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams: Towards a Critical Theory of the Arts and the State in Africa; and many other works of theory and fiction, will speak on "The role of Literature in Development and Social Justice:  A Focus on the African Situation"
  • That Medieval Thing's 16th Annual Medieval Festival
  • Betty Shamieh, Palestinian-American Poet & Playwright, will perform her poetry about

  the Palestinian experience as well as excerpts from her critically acclaimed and sold out
 show Chocolate in Heat - Growing Up Arab in America.

    • Sponsored by The English Department, The Humanities Program, Middle Eastern Studies, The Office of Student Life, & The Women's Studies Program
    • Monday, April 22, 2002. 7:00 pm.The Space
  • "Writers Reading at Drew" Public Poetry Reading--Beth Geisel, poet and fiction writer, and Lynne Judd, dramatist, will read from their work
    • A reading sponsored by the Students of the Arts and Letters Program
    • Wednesday, April 10, 2002, 7:00pm, Thompson Commons, S.W. Bowne Hall
      • admission is free. 
  • Gayle Danley, Slam Poet and International Slam Champion!
  • Dave Barry, Pulitzer Prize-winning humor columnist for the Miami Herald and the author of several best-selling books, will lecture and read from his work, 
    • part of the Drew Forum Series
    • Monday, April 8, 2002,8:00 p.m.,The Simon Forum & Athletic Center
      • $2 admission charge for Drew faculty, students, & staff (with ID)
  • Women's Studies Student Colloquium, 
    • Sponsored by the Women's Studies Program
    • Thursday, April 4, 2002, 4:15 - 6:30 p.m. Founders & Wendel Rooms, Mead Hall
      • admission is free. 


 

  • Elizabeth Alexander,  author of The Venus Hottentot, The Body of Life, and Antebellum Dream Book,  will read from her poetry. 
  • Jane Marcus, Distinguished Professor of English, The City College of New York         "Can Women (Blacks, Gays ??) Write the War Story?" 
    • Sponsored by the English Department and the Women's Studies Program
    • Tuesday, March 19, 2002, 7:00 p.m., Wendel Room, Mead Hall
  • Bonnie Friedman, will read from her new memoir The Thief of Happiness: The Story of an Extraordinary Psychotherapy and talk about ways to make an individual's own story matter to a reader.
  • The Fantasticks by Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones, 
    • A New Jersey Shakespeare Festival Presentation
    • December 4 - 30, 2001  --The Main Stage at the F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre 


 

  • William Norris (CLA '94), reading from Snapshots
    • Part of the Traphagen Lecture Series 
    • Thursday, November 8, 2001, 7:30 p.m. Wendell Room, Mead Hall


 

  • The Crucibleby Arthur Miller, October 23-November 18


 

  • Public Reading--the students from ENGL 107/Fiction Writing Worshop 
    • A reading of their short stories on a Fall theme
    • And, this semester's WORDS IN THE WORLD gathering
      • Monday, 29 October 2001, 7:00-9:00 p.m., TOE (The Other End)
        • admission is free
        • refreshments will be served

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  • Johanna Reiss, a Dutch Hidden Child, author of the award winning children's book The Upstairs Room, will speak and answer questions.
    • Part of the Conversations With Witnesses Series, Sponsored by The: Center for Holocaust/Genocide Study       
      • .October 22, 2001, 4:00-5:30 p.m, University Commons, Room 104
        • Admission is free

                       Contact(s): Joyce Ames, 973/408-3600, ctrholst@drew.edu

                          Her book will be available for purchase.

Web site: http://www.depts.drew.edu/chs

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  • "The Triumph of 'Blairism': The British General Election of June 2001"--Peter Rose
    • London Semester Faculty Member
    • Sponsored by the London Semester Advisory Group
      • Wednesday, October 10, 2001, 7 p.m., Wendell Room, Mead Hall
        • admission is free
        • refreshments will be served

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  • Multicultiral Awareness Week
      • October 1-5 --See the website for more details

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  • Anne Fadiman, author of The Spirit Catches you and You Fall Down, 


will talk about her work and the process of writing the 2001-2002 common reading

      • Wednesday, October 1, 2001, at 7:00 p.m., Baldwin Gym 
        • admission is free

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  • Tartuffe by Molière

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  • The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare, 
    • A New Jersey Shakespeare Festival Presentation
    • August 7-September 2, 2001 --The Main Stage, F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre 

See the website for more details

  • "Bash: Latterday Plays"  by Neil Labute  (writer and director of "In The Company of Men" and "Your Friends and Neighbors") 
    • featuring Ben Bartolone, Lauren Daghini, Brad Wrenn, and Alison Young 
    • directed by Michael Osinski 
      • December 7 & 8, 2000, 10:00pm  Commons Studio 
        • admission is free.  Seating is limited. For reservations, call 973.408.5107 
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  • Public Reading--the students from ENGL 107/Fiction Writing Worshop 
    • A reading of their short stories on the topic "Girl in a Black Raincoat"
      • Thursday, 7 December 2000, 7:00-9:00pm, Thompson Commons
        • admission is free
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  • "'What He Did for the Race': Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance"


 Dr. Emily Bernard, Assistant Professor of African-American Studies, Smith College

    • Sponsored by The History Department, English Department, Kuumba, Umoja House, and African-America/African Studies 
      • Thursday, December 7, 7:30 in LC 28


Professor Bernard's first book, Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten will be published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., February 2001. She received her BA and PhD from Yale University and has received numerous national awards, including a Ford Foundation Fellowship, an National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and a W.E.B. DuBois Fellowship from Harvard University.

        • admission is free

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  • The Blue Bird, by Maurice Maeterlinck.Directed by Bonnie J. Monte
    • A New Jersey Shakespeare Festival Presentation
      • November 28- December 17, 2000 --The Main Stage at the F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre 


See the websitefor more details

  • Medieval Revels
    • Sponsored by That Medieval Thing
      • November 12, 2000 Time: 7:00-10:00p.m in S.W. Bowne, Great Hall 
        •  Admission Fee: $15, $10 for children 10 and under


  Contact Person: Alex Waegel, 973/408-4012, medfest@drew.edu

  • Conference-- Uses and Abuses of Language in Holocaust /Genocide:  Facing a Challenge Still With Us Today
    • Sponsored by the Center for Holocaust Studies
      • November 8 --See the websitefor more details
  • Public Poetry Reading--The Two Bobs (Bob Ready and Bob Carnivale)
    • A reading sponsored by the Students of the Arts and Letters Program
      • Thompson Commons, 7pm
        • admission is free

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  • Othello, by William Shakespeare, Directed by James Glossman 
    • A New Jersey Shakespeare Festival Presentation
      • October 24- November 19, 2000 --The Main Stage at the F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre 
  • Public  Reading--Essays and poetry by members of the Art & Letters Program
    • A reading sponsored by the Students of the Arts and Letters Program
      • Thursday October 3, 7pm. Thompson Commons.

admission is free
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  • Antony and Cleopatra, by William Shakespeare, Directed by Bonnie J. Monte
    • A New Jersey Shakespeare Festival Presentation
      • September 5- 30, 2000--The Main Stage, F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre 

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  • ..Multicultiral Awareness Week
      • September 25-29 --See the website for more details

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  • The Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival
      • Thursday, September 21--Sunday, September 24, 2000 
        • For more infomration, see theDodge
          •  Poetry Festival website

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Readings by: Maryann Anderson, Scott Belsky, Julien Drennan, William Ehrlich, Wendy Mass, Estelle Riddick, Greg Ryan, William Siedler, and Helena Swanicke.

admission is free

 


Speakers and events of particular interest to English Majors--Spring 2000

Graduate Program in Book History lecture, hosted by the Friends of the Drew University Library.

Modern History & Literature Colloquium
For more information, contact MHL Area Co-convener Matthew Beland (ext. 8546).

Professor of English and Assocuiate Director for the Center for Intercultural Studies at  Beijing Scond Institute of Foreign Languages
The Arlo Ayers Brown Lecture Series, Sponsored by the Casperson School of Graduate Studies

Sponsored by the Humanities Program and the German Department

Part of African American Heritage Month at Drew

Speakers and events of particular interest to English Majors--Fall 1999


English translation)


White Mother


Actor Fred Morsell will recreate Frederick Douglass' last great speech, "The Lesson of
the Hour."


A lecture by Elizabeth Dwyer of Rutgers University

And don't forget the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival at Drew's  Kirby Theatre: 

 

Watch this space for a list of English Dept. events each semester.  See also the Drew Calendar.

 


Recent speakers of particular interest to English Majors included:

Conferences

The department also organized transportation to the Dodge Poetry Festival and a number of field trips.

 

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