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Cate Marvin Poetry Reading

Robinson Room, Miller Library, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Cate Marvin’s first book, World’s Tallest Disaster, was chosen by Robert Pinksy for the 2000 Kathryn A. Morton Prize and published by Sarabande Books in 2001. In 2002 she received the Kate Tufts Discovery Prize. She co-edited with poet Michael Dumanis the anthology Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande Books, 2006). Her second book of […]

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Fiction Reading by Kirstin Valdez Quade

Robinson Room, Miller Library, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Kirstin Valdez Quade is the author of Night at the Fiestas, which received the John Leonard Prize from the National Book Critics Circle, the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a 5 Under 35 award from the National Book Foundation. It was a New York Times […]

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Poetry and Human Rights

Robinson Room, Miller Library, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

A poetry reading celebrating the intersection between the personal and the political in English and Spanish. Guatemala’s Regina José Galindo and Colby’s own Adrian Blevins will read from recent work. Regina José Galindo is a performance artist and poet from Guatemala. She is the author of two books of poems including Trentacuentos (2008) and most recently […]

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Reading Poetry: In the Beginning is the Relation

Robinson Room, Miller Library, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Edward Hirsch, a MacArthur Fellow, has published nine books of poems, most recently Gabriel: A Poem (2014), a book-length elegy, and The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems (2010), which brings together 35 years of work. He has also published five prose books, among them A Poet’s Glossary (2014), a complete compendium, and How to Read […]

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Poetry Reading: Diane Seuss

Robinson Room, Miller Library, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Pushcart Prize-winner Diane Seuss’s most recent collection is Four-Legged Girl from Graywolf Press. Her second book, Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open (2010), won the Juniper Prize, and she had a poem in The Best American Poetry 2014. Her poetry and brief prose have appeared in literary magazines including Poetry, The Iowa Review, Brevity, Black […]

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Book Reading with J.C. Hallman

Robinson Room, Miller Library, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

In this Ed Kenney Memorial Reading, author J.C. Hallman will read from his work. The author of B & Me (2015), Wm & H’ry (2013), In Utopia (2010), and other novels, Hallman’s work has appeared in a number of anthologies, including the Pushcart Prize XXXIV. He received a 2009 McKnight Artist Fellowship for his fiction, and a 2013 […]

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Poetry Reading by Erika Meitner

Robinson Room, Miller Library, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Erika Meitner is the author of four books of poems, including Ideal Cities (HarperCollins, 2010), which was a 2009 National Poetry series winner. Meitner’s poems have been anthologized widely, and have appeared in Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, Indiana Review, The New Republic, and Tin House. Meitner is an associate professor of English at Virginia Tech, where she teaches in the MFA (Master of Fine […]

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What Makes Russian Culture Russian?

Robinson Room, Miller Library, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Suzanne Massie will speak about Russian cultural markers in the folk tale, folk art, and ballet. Best known for her  influential book Land of the Firebird (1980), she was invited by President Ronald Reagan to be an informal advisor on Soviet relations and became a personal liaison between Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in the late […]

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Fiction Reading with Jo Ann Beard

Robinson Room, Miller Library, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Jo Ann Beard, the Kristina Stahl Writer-in-Residence, reads from her novel In Zanesville. Her work has appeared in magazines, literary journals, and anthologies, including the New Yorker, Tin House, and Best American Essays. She is the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim fellowship in nonfiction, grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and a Whiting Award.

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Visiting Writers Series: Fiction Reading with Laura van den Berg

Robinson Room, Miller Library, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Laura van den Berg is the author of the story collections What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, a Barnes & Noble "Discover Great New Writers" selection and a finalist for the Frank O'Connor International Award, and The Isle of Youth, which received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the […]

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