By RILEY SPELLMAN On March 26th, Viebranz visiting Professor of Creative Writing, Mark Slouka, read at SLU, from his fiction and nonfiction. His work is insightful and personal, and his prose is stunning and fluid. Slouka’s literature and responses last Thursday suggest that he is a family man, and also intrigued by moments of confusion [...]
By RILEY SPELLMAN On March 22nd, poet Joanie Mackowski had the audience in stitches and in awe. Mackowski is working on her third collection of poems after publishing her first two, View From a Temporary Window and The Zoo. It’s also Mackowski’s chance, she discussed, to write about herself and her experiences in her poetry [...]
By RILEY SPELLMAN On February 2nd, author Jaimy Gordon broke quickly from the gate and reined the crowd in with her excellent reading from her novel, Lord of Misrule (2010). The story, an interesting take on the behind-the-scenes details of horse training and of the entire racing industry, made all in attendance feel like they [...]
By RILEY SPELLMAN On the night of December 1st, Kevin Young honored those in attendance at this month’s Writers Series with readings of his humorous, sometimes dark poetry. The night was filled with awed silence, contemplative moments, and much laughter. Young is an English and Creative Writing professor and library curator at Emory University in [...]
