Sponsored by the Rutgers–Camden master of fine arts (MFA) program, the readings, which are free and open to the public, will take place at 7 p.m. in the Stedman Gallery, located in the Fine Arts Building on Third Street, between Cooper Street and the Benjamin Franklin Bridge on the Rutgers–Camden Campus. A Q&A session and reception will follow each reading.
For more information, call (856) 225-6021; for directions to Rutgers–Camden, visit camden.rutgers.edu. Learn more about the Rutgers–Camden MFA program at mfa.camden.rutgers.edu.
Wednesday, Feb. 17
Poets Nathalie Handal and Juan Sebastian Agudelo will read.
Handal is the author of the poetry collections The NeverField and The Lives of Rain, which was short-listed for the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. Her forthcoming book, Love and Strange Horses, will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press.
Agudelo’s poetry collection To The Bone is a 2008 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize winner. The author of the artist collaboration book On Collecting, Agudelo has taught at Temple, Drexel, and the University of the Arts.
Wednesday, March 10
Novelists Alexander Chee and David Shields will read.
A 2003 Whitling Writer’s Award-winner and a 2004 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Chee is the author of the novel, Edinburgh, a Publisher’s Weekly Best Book of the Year. Chee now teaches at Amherst College and will publish his second book, The Queen of the Night, with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Shields is the author of nine books, including most recently, The Thing About Life is That One Day You’ll Be Dead, a New York Times bestseller. Other books include Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season, a finalist for the National book Critics Circle Award, Remote: Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity, winner of the PEN/Revson Award, and Dead Languages: A Novel, winner of the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award.
Wednesday, April 7
Author Paul Beatty will read.
Beatty is the author of The White Boy Shuffle, Tuff, and Slumberland, and editor of an anthology of African American humor titled Hokum. His two poetry collections are Big Bank Take Little Bank and Joker, Joker, Deuce.
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Media Contact: Cathy K. Donovan
(856) 225-6627
E-mail: catkarm@camden.rutgers.edu