Upcoming Events
February 7, 2019
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February 7: Tolle Lege Reception
Join McQuade Library in celebrating the creative and scholarly work published by Merrimack faculty in the previous year. The reception will take place in the Writers House at 4 pm.
Snow date February 14 at 4 pm.
March 26, 2019
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March 26: Alan Shapiro
Alan Shapiro is the author of a dozen books, and 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, 2019
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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 23, 2019
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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.