6-7pm
FIT Words invites you to attend our fall 2009 guest speaker events
Roddy Lumsden
Author of Mischief Night - New & Selected Poems and Third Wish Wasted
Tuesday, November 3
1-2pm
Poetry reading, Q&A, and writing activity
Patricia Horvath
Featured in Shenandoah, Cream City Review, Puerto del Sol and Iron Horse Literary Review, and author of All the Difference
Monday, November 16
Sharon Dolin
Author of four books of poetry including Burn and Dodge and Realm of the Possible
Thursday, December 3
1-2 pm
Poetry reading, Q&A, and writing activity
All events will be held in the Writing Studio, room C612
ALL STUDENTS AND FACULTY ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND!
Monday, October 26, 2009
Fall Guest Speakers
Author bios
FIT Words - Guest Speakers - Fall 2009
Roddy Lumsden
Roddy Lumsden has published five books of poetry, most recently Mischief Night - New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe, 2004) and Third Wish Wasted (Bloodaxe, 2009). Originally from Scotland, he lives in London where he is a Core Tutor for the Poetry School. He has done editing work on several prize-winning poetry collections and for the up-and-coming small press tall-lighthouse, for whom he edits the Pilot series of chapbooks by Britain and Ireland's best younger poets. Identity Parade, his major anthology of recent UK / Irish poetry is due in 2010. An Eric Gregory Award winner and former Vice Chair of the Poetry Society of Great Britain, he has been shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and several other awards and prizes and was awarded an International Fellowship at the Banff Center in Ontario in 2001.
Patricia Horvath
Patti Horvath’s essays and short fiction have appeared in numerous literary magazines, among them Shenandoah, Cream City Review, Puerto del Sol and Iron Horse Literary Review. She is the recipient of a 2007 Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature from the New York Foundation for the Arts for her memoir, All the Difference, which explores issues of disability and self-identity. Since 2001 she has served as a fiction editor at The Massachusetts Review. She lives in New York City and teaches creative writing at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY.
Sharon Dolin
Sharon Dolin’s fourth book, Burn and Dodge (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008) won the AWP Donald Hall Prize in Poetry. Her other books include and Realm of the Possible (Four Way Books, 2004), Serious Pink (Marsh Hawk Press, 2003), and Heart Work (Sheep Meadow Press, 1995). She is Writer-in-Residence at Eugene Lang College, The New School. She also teaches at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y and directs The Center for Book Arts Annual Letterpress Poetry Chapbook Competition. Her website may be found at: http://www.sharondolin.com.
Roddy Lumsden
Roddy Lumsden has published five books of poetry, most recently Mischief Night - New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe, 2004) and Third Wish Wasted (Bloodaxe, 2009). Originally from Scotland, he lives in London where he is a Core Tutor for the Poetry School. He has done editing work on several prize-winning poetry collections and for the up-and-coming small press tall-lighthouse, for whom he edits the Pilot series of chapbooks by Britain and Ireland's best younger poets. Identity Parade, his major anthology of recent UK / Irish poetry is due in 2010. An Eric Gregory Award winner and former Vice Chair of the Poetry Society of Great Britain, he has been shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and several other awards and prizes and was awarded an International Fellowship at the Banff Center in Ontario in 2001.
Patricia Horvath
Patti Horvath’s essays and short fiction have appeared in numerous literary magazines, among them Shenandoah, Cream City Review, Puerto del Sol and Iron Horse Literary Review. She is the recipient of a 2007 Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature from the New York Foundation for the Arts for her memoir, All the Difference, which explores issues of disability and self-identity. Since 2001 she has served as a fiction editor at The Massachusetts Review. She lives in New York City and teaches creative writing at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY.
Sharon Dolin
Sharon Dolin’s fourth book, Burn and Dodge (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008) won the AWP Donald Hall Prize in Poetry. Her other books include and Realm of the Possible (Four Way Books, 2004), Serious Pink (Marsh Hawk Press, 2003), and Heart Work (Sheep Meadow Press, 1995). She is Writer-in-Residence at Eugene Lang College, The New School. She also teaches at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y and directs The Center for Book Arts Annual Letterpress Poetry Chapbook Competition. Her website may be found at: http://www.sharondolin.com.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Heirloom Recipe Contest
Two $100 prizes
-most creative written presentation
-most creative visual presentation
Two prizes of $100 each will be awarded to the written project and visual project that best incorporate a family recipe as inspiration to explore themes of family, tradition, culture, and heritage.
Please email submission to Tattfoo Tan at info@tattfoo.com
Entries will be accepted until October 31, 2009.
All entries will be posted to FIT's Heirloom Recipe blog:
The two contest winners will be announced in November
Sponsored by the Diversity Committee Grant
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