All readings will take place at 4:30 p.m. in the James M. Stewart '32 Theater at the Lewis Center for the Arts, 185 Nassau Street (unless otherwise noted) and are free and open to the public.

Fall Semester, 2009

Thursday, September 24, 2009
Simon Armitage, poet, playwright and fiction writer
Tony Hoagland, poet

Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Maxine Kumin, poet and fiction writer
Joyce Carol Oates, poet, playwright and fiction writer

Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Robert Stone, fiction writer
C.K. Williams, poet and translator

Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Student Readings

Spring Semester, 2010

Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Russell Banks, fiction and nonfiction writer
Chase Twichell, poet

March - Date TBD
Jeffrey Eugenides, fiction writer
Mona Simpson, fiction writer and essayist

Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Student Readings

Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Chang-rae Lee, fiction writer
W.S. Merwin, poet and translator

Tuesday, May 4 and Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Senior Thesis Readings

Past Readers and Guest Speakers

Paul Auster, Russell Banks, Richard Bausch, Anne Beattie, Lucie Brock-Broido, Peter Carey, Lan Samantha Chang, Susan Choi, Jennifer Clarvoe, David Czuchlewski, Peter Ho Davies, Don DeLillo, Junot Diaz, Anthony Doerr, Stephen Dunn, Jennifer Egan, Dave Eggers, Deborah Eisenberg, Jonathan Safran Foer, Nell Freudenbeger, Linda Gregerson, Jeffrey Harrison, Anthony Hecht, Oscar Hijuelos, Edward Hirsch, Alan Hollinghurst, Garrett Hongo, Richard Howard, Gabe Hudson, Rachel Kadish, Mary Karr, Etgar Keret, Sheila Kohler, Jhumpa Lahiri, Phillip Lopate, Sarah Manguso, J. D. McClatchy, James McMichael, Claire Messud, Rick Moody, Honor Moore, Haruki Murakami, Sigrid Nunez, Sharon Olds, Jodi Picoult, Wyatt Prunty, Salman Rushdie, Kay Ryan, George Saunders, Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Akhil Sharma, Dave Smith, Natasha Trethewey, Chase Twichell, Theodore Weiss, Marlys West, John Edgar Wideman, Charles Wright.