Ackerman Visiting Writer: Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto with Gabriella Fee, Dora Malech, and Danila Cannamela

ZOOM EVENT LINK Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto was born in Sicily in 1994. Interlinea Edizioni published her first book of poems, Dolore Minimo, in 2018. This debut is the first collection of Italian poetry to address trans identity. The book won prizes that include the 2019 Viareggio Opera Prima. In 2020, BUR Rizzoli published Vivinetto’s second book of poems, Dove […]

President’s Reading Series, Literature of Social Import: Tobias Wolff

Mudd Hall 26

Tobias Wolff’s books include the memoirs This Boy’s Life and In Pharaoh’s Army: Memories of the Lost War;  the short novel The Barracks Thief; the novel Old School, and four collections of short stories, In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, Back in the World, The Night in Question, and, most recently, Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories. He has also edited several anthologies, among them Best American Short […]

Writing Seminars Presents: Willard Spiegelman and Mary Jo Salter on Amy Clampitt

Tudor and Stuart Room, Gilman 388

This event will focus on Willard Spiegelman's recent biography on the life and poetry of Amy Clampitt, "Nothing Stays Put." Willard Spiegelman is the Hughes Professor of English, Emeritus, at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where he taught from 1971 until 2017, and where he was the editor-in-chief of the Southwest Review (1984-2016). He will speak mThe […]