August 18, 2003
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Writers’ Series is an annual offering of the Program in Creative Writing. Through the series, writers are invited to the UAB campus to read from their work. All readings are held at 7 p.m. at the Spencer Honors House, 1190 10th Ave. S. Admission is free to the public. The UAB Writers’ Series is co-sponsored by the UAB Department of English, the UAB Honors Program, the Birmingham Consortium for Higher Education Visiting Writers Series, the UAB Student Government Association, the Alabama State Council on the Arts and the Friends of the Writing Program. For more information, call the UAB Department of English at 934-4250.
Wednesday, September 17:
Novelist Brad Watson, 7 p.m., will read from his work at the Spencer Honors House, 1190 10th Ave. S. For more information, call the UAB Department of English at 934-4250. Watson is the 2003-2004 writer-in-residence in the UAB Department of English. His novel “The Heaven of Mercury” was a National Book Award finalist, and his collection of short stories, “Last Days of the Dog-Men,” won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Watson is a former director of creative writing at Harvard University.
Wednesday, October 22:
Poet Jonah Winter, 7 p.m. will read from his work at the Spencer Honors House, 1190 10th Ave. S. For more information, call the UAB Department of English at 934-4250. Winter is a Pushcart Prize-winning poet, children’s book author and illustrator. His poetry has been published in magazines such as The Antioch Review, Chicago Review, Field, Mudfish, New York Quarterly, Ploughshares and The Threepenny Review.
Wednesday, November 5:
Poet Marilyn Nelson, 7 p.m., will read from her work at the Spencer Honors House, 1190 10th Ave. S. For more information, call the UAB Department of English at 934-4250. Nelson was named as the Poet Laureate of the State of Connecticut in 2002. Her books include “For the Body,” “Mama’s Promises” and “The Homeplace,” which was a finalist for the 1991 National Book Award and winner of the 1992 Annisfield-Wolf Award. Her other books include “Magnificat,” “Carver: A Life in Poems” and “The Fields of Praise: New and Selected Poems,” which was a finalist for the 1997 National Book Award.