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CANCELED | 2020 Spring Literary Festival Is March 18-20

Note: This event has been canceled. The Ohio University Creative Writing program presents five visiting writers for the 35th annual Spring Literary Festival, March 18-20. Authors include Lauren Groff, Melissa Febos, Ada Limon, Anthony Marra, and Ira Sukrungruang. All readings and lectures are free and open to the public. The […]

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March 1, 2020 at 7:45 pmEvents

CANCELED | Lit Fest | Lauren Groff Gives Reading, Lecture, March 19, 20

Lauren Groff

Note: This event has been canceled. “We Need to Keep Around Us People Who Think and Speak”: Lauren Groff’s Thundering Florida By Chase Campbell Though the pages of Lauren Groff’s collection Florida are scored with the natural hazards indigenous to the Sunshine State, that “Eden of dangerous things,” these aren’t […]

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March 1, 2020 at 7:30 pmEvents

Lit Fest: Quiet Triumph–The Unmatchable Poetry and Prose of Laura Kasischke | April 3-5

Lit Fest: Quiet Triumph–The Unmatchable Poetry and Prose of Laura Kasischke | April 3-5

Learn more about Laura Kasischke’s work and Lit Fest events. By Madison Foltz The Poetry Foundation describes Laura Kasischke’s poetry as “noted for its intelligent, honest portrayal of domestic and familial life, its explosively accurate imagery and dense soundscapes, and its idiosyncratic use of narrative.” No poem of hers encapsulates […]

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April 1, 2019 at 11:30 pmEvents

Spring Literary Festival | Kiese Laymon, April 3-5

Kiese Laymon

Ohio University’s Spring Literary Festival is April 3 to 5. One of this year’s featured authors is Kiese Laymon, a black southern writer, born and raised in Jackson, Miss. Laymon attended Millsaps College and Jackson State University before graduating from Oberlin College. He earned an MFA in Fiction from Indiana […]

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April 1, 2019 at 11:00 pmEvents

Spring Literary Festival | Mark Doty, April 3-5

Mark Doty

Ohio University’s Spring Literary Festival is April 3 to 5. One of this year’s featured authors is Mark Doty, who is the author of several collections of poetry, most recently Deep Lane (W. W. Norton, 2015); A Swarm, A Flock, A Host: A Compendium of Creatures (Prestel, 2013); Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems (HarperCollins, […]

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April 1, 2019 at 11:00 pmEvents

Spring Literary Festival | Laura Kasischke, April 3-5

Laura Kasischke

Ohio University’s Spring Literary Festival is April 3 to 5. One of this year’s featured authors is poet and novelist Laura Kasischke, who was born in Grand Rapids, Mich., and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Michigan. Her books of poetry include Wild Brides (1992), Fire and Flower (1998), Dance and Disappear (2002), Gardening […]

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April 1, 2019 at 11:00 pmEvents

Spring Literary Festival | Claire Vaye Watkins, April 3-5

Claire Vaye Watkins (Photo credit: Heike Steinweg)

Ohio University’s Spring Literary Festival will take place April 3 through April 5. One of this year’s featured authors is Claire Vaye Watkins was born in Bishop, California in 1984. She was raised in the Mojave Desert, in Tecopa, California and Pahrump, Nevada. A graduate of the University of Nevada […]

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April 1, 2019 at 11:00 pmEvents