Denison University series to highlight the best in fiction, poetry, journalism
Denison University's Beck Series presents the spring 2023 schedule for the reading series of Denison University, highlighting the best in fiction, poetry and journalism. The events are free and open to the public. For more information contact Margot Singer at 740-587-5741 or visit denison.edu/series/beck.
Monday, Feb. 27, at 4:30 p.m., poet Tomás Q. Morín presents a reading in the Denison Museum, located at 240 W. Broadway. Morín is the author most recently of the poetry collection Machete and the memoir Let Me Count the Ways. He is co-editor, with Mari L’Esperance, of Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine and is translator of The Heights of Macchu Picchu by Pablo Neruda. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, Poetry, Slate, and Boston Review. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. He teaches at Rice University and Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Monday, March 27, at 8 p.m., GLCA Prize winners for nonfiction, Melissa Valentine, and for fiction, Michael X. Wang, present a reading in the Boardroom of Barney-Davis Hall, located at 200 W. Loop. Valentine is an award-winning writer from Oakland, California, whose work explores themes of race, trauma, and healing. Her debut memoir, "The Names of All the Flowers," was the winner of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize, the 2021 winner of CLMP's Firecracker Award in Nonfiction, and the 2022 GLCA New Writers Award. Her work has appeared in New York Magazine, Guernica, Jezebel, Apogee, and other literary journals. She has been an artist fellow of the New York Foundation for the Arts in Nonfiction Literature. In 2020 she was visiting professor at University of California at Santa Cruz. She is currently an Executive Editor at Callisto Media and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Wang was born in Fenyang, a coal-mining city in China's mountainous Shanxi Province. He immigrated to the United States when he was six and holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Literature from Florida State University and a Master of Fine Arts in Fiction from Purdue. His story collection, "Further News of Defeat," won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize and the 2022 Great Lakes Colleges Association's New Writer Award. It was also a finalist for the CLMP Firecracker Award. His debut novel, "Lost in the Long March," came out Nov. 1 from The Overlook Press. He is currently at work on two novel projects.
Wednesday, April 12, 8 p.m., novelist Jordy Rosenberg presents a reading in the Auditorium of Higley Hall, located at 100 Ridge Road. Rosenberg is the author of the novel "Confessions of the Fox" and the forthcoming hybrid work "The Day Unravels What the Night Has Woven," as well as a scholarly monograph about 18th-century religious enthusiasts. "Confessions of the Fox" was a New York Times Editors Choice selection, shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, a Lambda Literary Award, a Publishing Triangle Award, the UK Historical Writers Association Debut Crown Award, and longlisted for The Dublin Literary Award. Rosenberg is a professor in the Department of English and Associated Master of Fine Arts Faculty in the Program for Poets and Writers at The University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
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