Jess Walter is the author of eight books, including the #1 New York Times bestseller Beautiful Ruins. He was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award and won the 2005 Edgar Allan Poe Award. His short fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories, Harper’s, Esquire, McSweeney's and many other publications.
Join us for an evening of Pennsylvania poets, next Thursday, 3/26, 7:30 pm, Foster Auditorium. Featuring PSU MFA and former faculty member Sheila Squillante, along with Tameka Cage Conley, Paul Siegell, and Mary Szybist (via video).
Student Writers: Mark your calendars for our next WRITE NIGHT at Webster's: Friday, 3/27, 3-5 pm Join a community of student writers for our next night (ok, afternoon) designed to invigorate your writing life -- burst into spontaneous writing, share your writing with friendly ears, get constructive feedback, discuss publishing opportunities, and more. The third in our series … Continue reading WRITE NIGHT at Webster’s
Hugh Martin, poet and Emerging Writer Lecturer at Gettysburg College, spent six years in the National Guard and was deployed to Iraq in 2004. His publications include the chapbook So How Was the War? (2010) and a full-length collection titled The Stick Soldiers (2013) in addition to poems in numerous journals.
Liberal Arts Research Professor of English and Women's Studies at Penn State, Robin Becker has received fellowships in poetry from the Bunting Institute at Harvard, The Massachusetts Cultural Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2014, The Pitt Poetry Series published her seventh collection, Tiger Heron. Becker writes a column on the national … Continue reading Geffrey Davis/Robin Becker Reading
A full day of community workshops and readings by recent Penn State MFA graduates: Sarah Blake, Katie Bode-Lang, Rachel Mennies, and William Woolfit, followed by a gala open reading. For more information on each poet and a schedule of the day's events, visit the First Book Fest page on this website.
The Mary Rolling Reading Series presents ELIZABETH BENEDICT Best-selling Author and National Book Award Finalist Elizabeth Benedict is the author of five novels and editor of several anthologies, including the upcoming anthology, Me, My Hair, and I: Twenty-Seven Women Untangle an Obsession, which will be published in late September. She has written for the New … Continue reading Elizabeth Benedict Reading
Steven Sherrill is associate professor of English and integrative arts, Penn State Altoona, and author of Joy, PA: A Novel. Surround yourself in visual and verbal imagery at the museum during The Art of Poetry. Poets and storytellers from the Penn State community read their latest work in a feast for the eyes and ears.
Stuart Kestenbaum is the author of four collections of poems: Pilgrimage (Coyote Love Press), House of Thanksgiving (Deerbrook Editions), Prayers and Run-on Sentences (Deerbrook Editions), and Only Now (Deerbrook Editions). He has also written The View from Here (Brynmorgen Press), a book of brief essays on craft and community. Kestenbaum has written and spoken widely … Continue reading Poet Stuart Kestenbaum, longtime director of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
Mariko Tamaki to accept the 2015 Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize for This One Summer. Mariko and her cousin, artist Jillian Tamaki, also won a Printz Honor (for outstanding young adult literature) and a Caldecott Honor (for exceptional picture book art) for this book. A book sale and signing will follow.