Here's a suggested itinerary for Thursday, Feb. 17:
4:30: Attend poetry reading sponsored by Felix: A Series of New Writing and featuring CYNTHIA MARIE HOFFMAN and UW-Platteville Professor Kara Kandito.
After reading: go someplace nearby for quick dinner.
7:00: Hurry back to 6191 Helen C. White Hall for the first of our Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellows Readings. Thursday's reading features poet LAUREL BASTIAN and fiction writer STERLING HOLYWHITEMOUNTAIN.
Here are the details on the readings. If you need restaurant advice, let me know.
FELIX: A Series of New Writing
4:30 p.m.
Room 126, Memorial Library
Cynthia Marie Hoffman was winner of the 2010 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry for her collection Sightseer (Persea Books). She was the 2004–2005 Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing.
Kara Candito is the author of Taste of Cherry (University of Nebraska Press). Candito is currently an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Wisconsin–PlattevilleTHE WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR CREATIVE WRITING
FIRST FELLOWSHIP READING OF 2011
7pm
Room 6191 Helen C. White Hall
600 N. Park St.
Laurel Bastian is the 2010-2011 Halls Emerging Artist Fellow. She founded, coordinates, and teaches with the Writers in Prisons Project, produces and hosts the Crosshatxh Poetry series, and has work seasoning print and online journals (see links at laurelbastian.org). She is this year's recipient of the Elizabeth Curry Prize in Poetry and two Pushcart nominations.
Sterling HolyWhiteMountain is our 2010-2011 James C. McCreight Fiction Fellow. He received his MFA from The Iowa Writers Workshop.
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