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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, wednesday, april 15, 2015 Screenwriting, and Translation Wednesday, September 25, 2013 DeniseKevin Young Duhamel delivers [poetry the] Thesis Readings in Fiction Reading by: Theodore H. Holmes ’51 (Chancellor Green Rotunda) Tejuand BerniceCole [fiction Holmes] Lecture [Palmer House] Reading by Hodder Fellows: (James M. Stewart ‘32 Theater) wednesday, May 6 Thesis Readings in Fiction KatyRachel Didden Kushner [poetry (fiction)] all readings take place at 4:30 (Chancellorp.m. at the GreenBerlind Rotunda) Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center unless noted otherwise JohnAdam YauRoss (poetry) [fiction] all readings take place at 4:30 p.m. at the Berlind Theatre, 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 the Berlind Theatre arts.princeton.eduFor more about the Program in Creative Writing visit princeton.edu/arts McCarter Theatre Center Rachel kushner john yau Introduced by Sheila Kohler Introduced by Michael Dickman Photo by Lucy Raven Photo by Dorothy Alexander mind of weary-souled visionaries Poet, art critic, and curator like Robert Stone and Joan Didion.” JOHN YAU has published over Kushner’s debut novel, Telex From 50 books of poetry, fiction, and art Cuba (2008), was a finalist for the criticism. His many collections 2008 National Book Award and the of poetry include Corpse and Dayton Literary Peace Prize, winner Mirror (1983), Edificio Sayonara of the California Book Award, and (1992), Forbidden Entries (1996), a New York Times bestseller and Borrowed Love Poems (2002), Notable Book. Kirkus Reviews called Ing Grish (2005), Paradiso the novel, “Soundly researched and Diaspora (2006), Exhibits (2010), gorgeously written…An imaginative and Further Adventures in work that brings Cuban-American Monochrome (2012). Yau’s work history to life.” frequently explores, and exploits, the boundaries between poetry At the age of 16 Kushner enrolled and prose, and his collections of Yau has received many honors and RACHEL KUSHNER’s novels and at the University of California, stories and prose poetry include awards for his work including a essays explore contemporary art, Berkeley, where she majored in Hawaiian Cowboys (1994), My New York Foundation for the Arts culture, revolutionary politics, political economics. She earned her Symptoms (1998), and Forbidden Award, the Jerome Shestack Award, modernism, and feminism. She M.F.A. at Columbia University. She Entries (1996). and the Lavan Award from the has twice been a finalist for the is a recipient of a 2013 Guggenheim Academy of American Poets. He National Book Award, the only Fellowship. Born in Lynn, Massachusetts has received fellowships from the writer ever to be nominated for a in 1950 to Chinese emigrants, National Endowment for the Arts, Kushner’s fiction and essays have Yau attended Bard College and the Ingram-Merrill Foundation, and National Book Award in Fiction for appeared in The New Yorker, both a first and second novel. earned an M.F.A. from Brooklyn the Guggenheim Foundation, and in Harper’s, The New York Times, College in 1978. His first book 2002 was named a Chevalier in the She is the author of The The Believer, Artforum, Bookforum, of poetry, Crossing Canal Street, Order of Arts and Letters by France. Flamethrowers (2013), which was Fence, Bomb, Grand Street, and The was published in 1976. Since then, Yau has served as the arts editor of a finalist for the 2013 National Paris Review, among other places. he has received acclaim for his the Brooklyn Rail. He teaches at the Book Award, the 2014 Folio Prize, She lives in Los Angeles. poetry’s attentiveness to visual Mason Gross School of the Arts at and the James Tait Black Prize; culture and linguistic surface. A Rutgers University and lives in New longlisted for the 2014 Baileys contributor for Contemporary York City. Women’s Prize for Fiction; and a Kushner will be introduced by Sheila Poets wrote: “Yau’s poems [are] New York Times Top Ten Novel of Kohler, author of ten novels and often as much a product of his winner of two O’Henry Prizes and a Yau will be introduced by poet 2013. The New York Times review Lecturer in Creative Writing at the visual sense of the world, as Michael Dickman, the author of Flies, of The Flamethrowers noted, “her Lewis Center. his awareness of his double winner of the 2011 James Laughlin prose has a poise and wariness and heritage from both Oriental and Award, and a Lecturer in Creative moral graininess that puts you in Occidental cultures.” Writing at the Lewis Center.