The Program in Creative Writing presents The ProgramThe Program in Creative in Creative WritingWriting presents presents The Program in Creative Writing presents Althea Ward Clark W'21 althea xmobd Ward Clark w ’21 Althea Ward Clark W’21 AltheaTE READINGWard Clark W’21 SERIES zB2013-2014 Readingreading seriesSeries 2013-2014 2014-15 QAXOPMTFIOWSGBLURENvunj c Didden svld RossZIOUSQIrs wednesday,Wednesday, September September 25 24 wednesday,Wednesday, March February 12 11 HannaHodder Pylväinen Fellows: (fiction) EvieDana Shockley Levin [poetry (poetry)] WSVBJM Dyer EAQ Blanco wfa &Katy Roger Didden Reeves [poetry (poetry)] &Claire Meg Wolitzer Vaye Watkins (fiction) [fiction ] Adam Ross [fiction] Kincaid CV Ferry PQCOPxnpv wednesday, October 15 wednesday,Wednesday, April March 16 11 BenWednesday, Lerner (fiction/poetry) October 16 AkhilD.A. SharmaPowell [ poetry(fiction)] EWSDRFGTUJIKNMBRAEBstzl &Richard Steven BlancoMillhauser [poetry (fiction)] &Ann A. E. Beattie Stallings [fiction (poetry)] Geoff Dyer [fiction] uDSWACX GF Cole tk wednesday, November 19 wednesday,Wednesday, April April 30 15 Duhamel Wednesday, November 13 2014-2015 Aleksandar Hemon (fiction) RachelStudent Kushner Readings (fiction) Levin AX Watkins DFCQWTyoi &David Dean Ferry Young [poetry (poetry)] &[ ChancellorJohn Yau (poetry)Green Rotunda Jamaica Kincaid [fiction] 5:15 p.m.]

wednesday, April 29 fCIOPL Powell tQSeiBeattie wednesday,Wednesday, December December 11 10 Monday, May 5 Reading Series Student Readings Student Readings Student Reading Thesis Readings in Poetry, SUILGBVNOICUYOPRTWIjpkba (Chancellor Greens Rotunda) (Chancellor Green Rotunda) [Chancellor Green Rotunda Screenwriting, and Translation 5:15 p.m.] MOnday,[Palmer House May] 4 Wednesday,Tuesday, October February 1221 ThesisWednesday, Readings May in 7 Poetry, tuesday, october 21, 2014 Screenwriting, and Translation Wednesday, September 25, 2013 DeniseKevin Young Duhamel delivers [poetry the] Thesis Readings in Fiction Theodore H. Holmes ’51 (Chancellor Green Rotunda) Tejuand BerniceCole [fiction Holmes] Lecture [Palmer House] HowReading to Write by Hoddera Hoax Fellows: Poem (James M. Stewart ‘32 Theater) wednesday, May 6 Thesis Readings in Fiction Katy Didden [poetry] all readings take place at 4:30 (Chancellorp.m. at the GreenBerlind Rotunda) Theatre, Poet Kevin Young delivers McCarter Theatre Center unless noted otherwise theAdam Theodore Ross [fiction H. Holmes] ’51 all readings take place at 4:30 p.m. at the Berlind Theatre, and Bernice Holmes Lecture McCarter ReadingsTheatre Center are free unless and open noted to theotherwise public. readings are free and open to the public. Berlind Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center for more about the program in creative writing visit James M. Stewart ’32 theater arts.princeton.eduFor more about the Program in Creative Writing visit princeton.edu/arts 185 Nassau Street kevin young of Blackness won the Graywolf the poems Young selected for that Nonfiction Prize, was aNew York volume are represented in the Best Times Notable Book for 2012, a of the Best American Poetry, edited finalist for the National Book Critics by Robert Pinsky, which includes Circle Award for criticism, and Young’s own poem, “Black Cat winner of the PEN Open Award. It Blues.” has been reviewed widely, including in the daily New York Times and Young has an A.B. in English and the Sunday New York Times Book American Literature from Harvard Review, which also named it an University and an M.F.A. in Creative Editors’ Choice. Writing from Brown University. He has been the recipient of numerous Young’s volume The Collected awards and fellowships, including Poems of Lucille Clifton (edited a Stegner Fellowship in Poetry at with Michael S. Glaser) won a Stanford University, a Guggenheim Hurston-Wright Legacy Award in Foundation Fellowship, a NEA poetry. Publishers Weekly wrote, Fellowship, and a MacDowell Colony “The Collected Poems of Lucille Fellowship. Clifton 1965-2010 may be the most important book of poetry to appear He is currently Atticus Haygood in years,” and named it one of the Professor of Creative Writing and best books of the year. English and Curator of Literary Collections and the Raymond Young’s writing has been featured Danowski Poetry Library at Emory

photo by Melanie Dunea by photo frequently on National Public University in Atlanta. Radio and in The New Yorker, The Kevin Young is the author of Award and Jelly Roll: A Blues New York Times Book Review, eight books of poetry, most was a finalist for the National Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, recently Book of Hours, which Book Award and the Los Angeles Callaloo, and other journals and The annual Holmes lecture is named was featured on NPR’s “Fresh Times Book Prize and winner of anthologies, including Scribner’s for Mr. Theodore H. Holmes, a Class Air,” and editor of eight others. the Paterson Poetry Prize. Best American Poetry series every of 1951 biology major and graduate His previous book Ardency: A year since 2008—with the exception of Princeton who became a poet, and Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels His nonfiction bookThe Grey of Best American Poetry 2011, which his sister Bernice. won a 2012 American Book Album: On the Blackness Young himself edited. A number of