Thursday, March 8, 2012

Joan Maloof

Part of the VOICES Reading Series

8:15pm in DPC

Joan Maloof is the author of Among the Ancients: Adventures in the Eastern Old-Growth Forests (Ruka Press, 2011) and Teaching the Trees: Lessons from the Forest (University of Georgia Press, 2005). She has published chapters in two other books, and papers in numerous journal such as Ecology, American Journal of Botany, International Journal of Environmental Studies, and the International Journal of Literature and the Environment. She earned a BS in Plant Science from the University of Delaware; an MS in Environmental Science from the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; and a PhD in Ecology from the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Maloof is a professor emeritus from Salisbury University where she taught biology and environmental studies. She currently spends her time writing and giving talks to support the Old-Growth Forest Network – a nonprofit organization she founded to ensure that future generations will have ancient forests to enjoy.

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Hannah Tinti

Part of the VOICES Reading Series

8:15pm in DPC

Hannah Tinti grew up in Salem, Massachusetts. Her short story collection, Animal Crackers, has sold in sixteen countries and was a runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway award. Her best-selling novel, The Good Thief, is published by The Dial Press and Headline. The Good Thief is a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, recipient of the American Library Association's Alex Award, winner of the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize and winner of the Quality Paperback Book Club's New Voices Award. Hannah is also co-founder and editor-in-chief of One Story magazine, and received the 2009 PEN/Nora Magid award for excellence in editing. Recently, she joined the Public Radio program, Selected Shorts, as their Literary Commentator.

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America

Book signing with author Garrett Epps

8:15pm in the Glendenning Annex

Garrett Epps (born in 1950 in Richmond, Virginia) is an American legal scholar, novelist, and journalist. He is Professor of Law at the University of Baltimore; previously he was the Orlando J. and Marian H. Hollis Professor of Law at the University of Oregon. 

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Imaging Slaves as Loyal Confederates: A Dangerous and Enduring Fantasy

Lecture by Peter S. Carmichael

8:00pm in St. Mary's Hall

Peter Charmichael is the Director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College. He has made appearances on CSPAN and the History Channel and was also one of the expert consultants on PBS's "American Experience" program on Robert E. Lee.

Charmichael's book, The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War and Reunion will be available for purchase at the lecture.

Thursday, September 29, 2011

A reading by poet Naomi Shihab Nye

8:15pm in DPC

Poet Naomi Shihab Nye, who draws on her Palestinian-American heritage and travel experiences, is an award-winning author and editor of more than 25 volumes.  Her books of poetry include a National Book Award finalist and the 2008 Arab American Book Award in the Children's/Young Adult category. Refreshments will be served after the public event, part of the college's VOICES Reading Series, which is supported in part by the Maryland Humanities Council.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Laila Halaby

Part of the VOICES Reading Series

8:15pm in DPC

Laila Halaby is the author of two novels, West of the Jordan and Once in a Promised Land, as well as a forthcoming collection of poetry from Syracuse University Press, "my name on his tongue." She was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship for study of folklore in Jordan, as well as a PEN/Beyond Margins Award.  She lives in Tucson, Arizona with her family.

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Amiri Baraka

Part of the VOICES Reading Series

8:15pm in DPC

Amiri Baraka published his first volume of poetry, Preface to a Twenty-Volume Suicide Note, in 1961. His Blues People: Negro Music in White America (1963) is still regarded as the seminal work on Afro-American music and culture. His reputation as a playwright was established with the production of Dutchman in 1964. The controversial play subsequently won an Obie Award for Best Off-Broadway Play and was made into a film.  He has written numerous collections of poetry, including Somebody Blew Up America & Other Poems, essays, and jazz operas.  He also founded the New Arkestra, a big band working to produce a living archive of his music-related productions. His numerous literary honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Rockefeller Foundation Award for Drama, the Langston Hughes Award from The City College of New York, and a lifetime achievement award from the Before Columbus Foundation. He was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1995. In 2002 he was named Poet Laureate of New Jersey and Newark Public Schools. His most recent book, Digging: The Afro American Soul of American Classical Music, was selected as a winner of the 31st annual American Book Awards for 2010. 

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Writer's Harvest

"Books that Cook" students and other foodies

8:15pm in DPC

Students from Jennifer Cognard-Black's Books that Cook summer class and past BTC students and SMCM professors will read their foodie fictions and recipe recollections, as well as cook food that holds personal meaning. Books that Cook focuses on the nature of food writing and food and recipes as cultural experiences.

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Kathleen Hughes

Part of the VOICES Reading Series

8:15pm in DPC

Kathleen Hughes is a graduate of Yale University and the Iowa Writer's Workshop.  She published her first novel, Dear Mrs. Lindbergh, with WW Norton in 2003.  Her work has been recognized by MTV, the New England and Rhode Island Press Associations, the Sewanee Writer's Conference, and the Indiana Authors' Award.  She currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and is working on a second novel, and essays related to her experiences as a student nurse practitioner.

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Zach Savich

Part of the VOICES Reading Series

8:15pm in DPC

Zach Savich is the author of the poetry collections Full Catastrophe Living (2009), Annulments (2010), The Man Who Lost His Head (2011), and The Firestorm (2011), as well as a book of creative nonfiction on art and the imagination, Events Film Cannot Withstand (2011). He has won the Iowa Poetry Prize, the Colorado Prize for Poetry, the Omnidawn Chapbook Competition, and the Cleveland State University Poetry Center's Open Competition. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Savich serves as book review editor with The Kenyon Review. He teaches at Shippensburg University.

Jose "Cacayo" Ballesteros

Part of the VOICES Reading Series

8:15pm in DPC

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Jeffery Coleman

Part of the VOICES Reading Series

8:15pm in DPC

Jeffrey Lamar Coleman is an Associate Professor of English at St. Mary's College of Maryland. His teaching interests include contemporary multicultural American literature, literature and music of social protest, literary and cinematic representations of 9/11, and creative writing.  He is also the author of Spirits Distilled, a collection of poetry published by Red Hen Press, and editor of Words of Protest, Words of Freedom: Poetry of the American Civil Rights Movement and Era (Duke University Press, Feb. 2012). His poetry and essays have appeared in several publications, including Blue Mesa Review, Black Bear Review, Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz and Literature, Rattle: Poetry for the 21st Century, and Critical Essays on Alice Walker. With support from the Maryland Humanities Council, he is a frequent guest lecturer throughout the state and country on the history and poetry of the American Civil Rights Movement.