| Sinan Antoon Wednesday, March 28 7 pm - 9 pm Visual Arts Gallery Dearlove Hall |
Sinan Antoon, an Iraqi exile, co-produced and co-directed the documentary, About Baghdad. He is a journalist and poet; his book of poetry – Mawshur Muballal bil-Huroob (A Prism: Wet with Wars) – and a novel – I’jam (Diacritics) – were published in Arabic and will soon be released in English. |
| Diana Abu-Jaber Friday, March 30 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Visual Arts Gallery Dearlove Hall |
Diana Abu-Jaber’s first novel, Arabian Jazz, considered by many to be the first mainstream Arab-American novel, won the 1994 Oregon Book Award. Her rich and lyrical novel Crescent won the PEN Center Award for Literary Fiction and the American Book Award. Her latest book is a culinary memoir entitled The Language of Baklava (Pantheon 2005). |
| Dunya Makhail Monday, April 02 12:30 - 2:00 pm Visual Arts Gallery Dearlove Hall |
Dunya Mikhail has published four collections of poetry and one multi-genre book in Arabic. Her first book in English – The War Works Hard (New Directions 2005) – was selected for a 2004 PEN Translation Fund Award and picked by the New York Public Library as one of 25 Books to Remember for 2005. In 2001, she was awarded the U.N. Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing. |
| Bruce Guernsey Monday, April 16 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Visual Arts Gallery Dearlove Hall |
Bruce Guernsey has published three books of poetry. His latest collection of work, The Lost Brigade (Water Press and Media 2004), is “a powerful indictment of the war and how we bear its scars forever,” writes Chris Hedges. Guernsey is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Eastern Illinois University where he taught creative writing and American Literature for twenty-five years. He was recently named editor of the Spoon River Poetry Review. |
| Denise Duhamel Wednesday, April 25 12:30pm - 2:00 pm Miller Auditorium Dearlove Hall |
Denise Duhamel's work includes Two and Two, her most recent collection; Kinky (Orchard Press); Star Spangled Banner (southern Illinois University Press); Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press); and Mille et un sentiments, a limited edition book. A recipent of an NEA Fellowship, she teaches creative writing at Florida International University at Miami. |