The River Readings at Augustana
The River Readings at Augustana brings literary artists to campus each year from around the country. These writers of poetry, fiction, and literary nonfiction meet with students in class or other venues to discuss their work and careers, and present a free reading open to the public.
Readings are at 7 p.m. on Thursdays in Wallenberg Hall inside Denkmann Hall, 3520 7th Ave., Rock Island. A reception and book-signing is held after the reading.
Reading Readings 2012-2013
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Dan Rosenberg and Eduardo Corral, Sept. 4 (video)Rosenberg is the author of The Crushing Organ (Dream Horse Press, 2012), which won the 2011 American Poetry Journal Book Prize, and a chapbook, A Thread of Hands (Tilt Press, 2010). His poems, translations, and reviews have appeared in Pleiades, Conduit, American Letters & Commentary, and elsewhere. After graduating from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2007, he was a teaching fellow at Augustana College from August 2007 to May 2010. He is currently working towards his PhD at the University of Georgia, and is the co-editor of Transom. Corral recently published his first book of poetry, Slow Lightning (Yale University Press, 2012). In 2008, he was a creative-writing fellow at Colgate University and spent the fall semester at Bucknell University. Corral was once an artist-in-residence at Yaddo in Sarasota Springs, N.Y., and at the beginning of 2011 he did another residency at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire. In 2005, he won the Discovery/the Nation award, and in 2011 he won the Whiting Award. Corral became the first Latino poet to receive the coveted Yale Younger Poets Prize in 2011. |
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Carl Phillips, Sept. 20 (video)Poet Carl Phillips, professor of English and African and Afro-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems 1986-2006 and Riding Westward (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). His collection The Rest of Love won the Theodore Roethke Memorial Foundation Poetry Prize and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Male Poetry. His book Pastoral (Graywolf Press) won the 2001 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, and in 2002 he received the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for The Tether. In 2006, he was named the recipient of the Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets. |
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Peter Geye, Nov. 29 (video)Fiction writer Peter Geye's first book "Safe from the Sea," won Indie Lit Award and Northeast Minnesota Book Award. Geye was born and grew up in Minneapolis, where he currently lives. He received his BA from the University of Minnesota and his MFA from the University of New Orleans. At Western Michigan University, he received his PhD, edited Third Coast, and taught creative writing. In the fall of 2010, he published Safe from the Sea (Unbridled Books). Unbridled Books plans to release Geye's second book, The Lighthouse Road, in October. |
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Donald Ray Pollock, April 25, 2013Fiction writer Donald Ray Pollock, author of Knockemstiff and The Devil All the Time, found writing late in life. He spent 32 years employed in a paper mill before enrolling in Ohio State University's MFA program at age 50. After graduating in 2009, Anchor Books published Pollock's first book, Knockemstiff, which won the 2009 PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Third Coast, Chiron Review, Boulevard, Washington Square, and the Berkeley Fiction Review, to name a few. His second book, The Devil All the Time (Doubleday, 2011) has been listed by Publisher's Weekly as one of the top 10 books of the year. |
The River Readings series is sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs, the Institute for Leadership and Service, the Thomas Tredway Library and the English Department at Augustana College. For more information, contact Dr. Kelly Daniels, (309) 794-7603. Videos of the River Readings are archived on the Speakers page.
