The Department of Writing and the School of Humanities and Sciences are pleased to present Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stephen Dunn and award-winning essayist Barbara Hurd as part of this semester's Distinguished Visiting Writers Series. Stephen Dunn will read from his work at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 7, in Emerson Suite A, while Barbara Hurd will read at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 9, in Klingentein Lounge. Readings are free and open to the public.
Stephen Dunn [pictured at right] is the author of 14 collections of poetry, including Different Hours, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001. Loosestrife was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in 1996, and Local Time was selected for the National Poetry Series in 1986. His many awards include an Academy Award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Barbara Hurd has published five books of poetry and creative nonfiction, including Walking the Wrack Line: On Tidal Shifts and What Remains (2008); Entering the Stone: On Caves and Feeling through the Dark (2003), which was named a Library Journal Best Natural History Book of the Year; and Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2001. Her essays have appeared in numerous journals and were included in The Best American Essays anthologies in 1999 and 2001.
For more information, visit the DVW Series webpage (below) or contact Professor Jack Wang at 607-274-3493 or wang@ithaca.edu.
Distinguished Visiting Writers Series
