Mark Doty was named the 2008 winner of the National Book Award for Poetry for his collection Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems (HarperCollins). Doty's work appeared in the premiere issue of Ninth Letter, vol. 1 no. 1.
Fellow 9L author Patricia Smith was among the finalists for the award for her book Blood Dazzler (Coffee House Press). Smith is a contributor to the music poetry feature included in the most recent issue of 9L, vol. 5 no. 2.
Sunday, March 08, 2009
Friday, February 27, 2009
The Live Nude Girl in the Devil's Territory Book Tour
Kathleen Rooney and Kyle Minor will read from their new books as The Live Nude Girl in the Devil's Territory Book Tour arrives in Champaign on Monday, March 2, 2009, 4:30pm, at the Illini Union Bookstore. Jodee Stanley, 9L's editor, is the featured guest reader on this tour stop.
Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press and the author of Reading with Oprah, Something Really Wonderful (with Elisa Gabert), That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness (also with Gabbert), Oneiromance (an epithalamion), and her latest, a memoir, Live Nude Girl.
Kyle Minor is the author of In the Devil's Territory, a collection of short fiction, and co-editor of The Other Chekhov, an anthology of Anton Chekhov's lesser known stories. Other recent work appears in Best American Mystery Stories 2008, The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, and Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers.
Jodee Stanley is the editor of UIUC’s own Ninth Letter, and has previously worked for other literary journals including Ploughshares and New England Review. Her short fiction and book reviews have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, 580 Split, North Atlantic Review, Cincinnati Review, Book/Mark Quarterly, and other journals.
This event is free and open to the public. Hope to see you there!
Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press and the author of Reading with Oprah, Something Really Wonderful (with Elisa Gabert), That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness (also with Gabbert), Oneiromance (an epithalamion), and her latest, a memoir, Live Nude Girl.
Kyle Minor is the author of In the Devil's Territory, a collection of short fiction, and co-editor of The Other Chekhov, an anthology of Anton Chekhov's lesser known stories. Other recent work appears in Best American Mystery Stories 2008, The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, and Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers.
Jodee Stanley is the editor of UIUC’s own Ninth Letter, and has previously worked for other literary journals including Ploughshares and New England Review. Her short fiction and book reviews have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, 580 Split, North Atlantic Review, Cincinnati Review, Book/Mark Quarterly, and other journals.
This event is free and open to the public. Hope to see you there!
Thursday, February 26, 2009
The VOICE Reading Series in Champaign
The first VOICE reading of the semester is on Friday, Feb. 27 at 3:30pm at the Krannert Museum of Art – Contemporary Gallery.
Join us to hear University of Illinois MFA candidates read their work.
Featured readers: Aaron Burch, Lindsey Drager and Sean Karns
Hosted by Matt Minicucci
This event is free and open to the public.
Join us to hear University of Illinois MFA candidates read their work.
Featured readers: Aaron Burch, Lindsey Drager and Sean Karns
Hosted by Matt Minicucci
This event is free and open to the public.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Janet Burroway Reading
Janet Burroway will read on Tuesday, February 24 at 4:30pm at the Illini Union Bookstore as part of The Carr Reading Series. This event is free and open to the public.
Janet Burroway is the author of eight novels, plays, poetry, essays, texts for dance, and children’s books. Her latest novel, Bridge of Sand appears in March from Houghton Mifflin. Her Writing Fiction : A Guide to Narrative Craft, is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and her multi-genre Imaginative Writing is in preparation for a third edition. She is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor Emerita of the Florida State University.
Janet Burroway is the author of eight novels, plays, poetry, essays, texts for dance, and children’s books. Her latest novel, Bridge of Sand appears in March from Houghton Mifflin. Her Writing Fiction : A Guide to Narrative Craft, is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and her multi-genre Imaginative Writing is in preparation for a third edition. She is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor Emerita of the Florida State University.
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