Events

March 23: Bianca Stone

Bianca Stone is a poet and visual artist whose books include The Mobius Strip Club of Grief and Someone Else’s Wedding Vows. Join us for a reading, Q&A, and refreshments.

Note: this reading will be preceded by a special 2 pm workshop for Merrimack students with Bianca, exploring what words and images can do together. To register, contact Danielle Jones at jonespruettd@merrimack.edu 

For more information about Bianca Stone, see http://www.poetrycomics.org/

March 26: Alan Shapiro

Alan Shapiro, the author of a dozen books, will read from his most recent one, Against Translation.
His awards include the Kingsley Tufts Award, the Los Angeles Book Prize, and a Lila Wallace–Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award. He teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

April 2: Bob Hicok

Bob Hicok is the author of ten books of poetry, including his most recent, Hold. His awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and The Guggenheim Foundation. He is a professor of creative writing at Virginia Tech.

April 11: Cynthia Huntington

Cynthia Huntington is the author of the memoir, The Salt House: A Summer on the Dunes of Cape Cod, as well as five poetry collections of poems, including her most recent, Terra Nova. She teaches at Dartmouth. 4 pm.

April 23: Christian Wiman

Christian Wiman is Professor of the Practice of Religion and Literature in the Yale Divinity School. He is the author, editor, or translator of ten books, including Hammer is the Prayer: Selected Poems (FSG, 2016), My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer (FSG, 2013), and Stolen Air: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam (HarperCollins/Ecco, 2012).

The Writer-in-Residence program is made possible through generous support from the Andrea ’79 and Ken Robertson Writers House Innovation Fund.