31st Annual
DISCOVERY EVENING
RICHARD HOFFMAN introduces writer ANTHONY D'ARIES
PETER COVINO introduces poet RYAN FLAHERTY
KATE SNODGRASS introduces playwright MASHA OBOLENSKY
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.The Amphitheatre
Lesley University, Cambridge
University Hall, 1815 Massachusetts Avenue
(Parking available in lot behind University Hall)
Richard Hoffman's celebrated memoir Half the House was awarded the Boston Athenaeum Readers' Prize in 1996. He is the author of two collections of poems, Without Paradise, and Gold Star Road,
winner of the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize and The New England
Poetry Club's Sheila Motton Award for best book of poetry published in
the previous two years. His new collection of short fiction, Interference and Other Stories,
was published in 2009. Twice named a Massachusetts Cultural Council
Fellow in fiction, he is currently one of The Boston Foundation's
Brother Thomas Fellows. He is a Writer-in-Residence in the Department
of Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College, and the Chair
of PEN New England.
Prize-winning poet, translator, and essayist Peter Covino
is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the
University of Rhode Island. He won the 2007 PEN America/Osterweil
Award for emerging poets and is the author of Cut Off the Ears of Winter, and the chapbook Straight Boyfriend, winner of the Frank O'Hara Poetry Prize. Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Cimarron Review, Colorado Review, Gulf Coast, The Yale Review, and Quarterly West, among others. A founding editor of Barrow Street, he is currently editing Essays on Italian American Literature and Culture for Bordighera Press.
Kate Snodgrass
is the Artistic Director of both the Elliot Norton Award-winning Boston
Theater Marathon and Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott's Boston Playwrights'
Theatre. She is the author of the Actors' Theatre of Louisville's
Heideman Award-winning play Haiku, and she has won two "Best New Play" IRNE Awards (Observatory, 1999, and The Glider,
2004, also nominated for the American Theatre Critics Association's
Steinberg Award). Acknowledged by StageSource in 2001 as a "Theatre
Hero," Kate is a former National Chair of Playwriting at the Kennedy
Center American College Theater Festival and a Playwriting Fellow with
the Huntington Theatre Company. She is a member of the A.E.A,
A.F.T.R.A., and The Dramatists' Guild, and has taught at numerous
universities in the area.
Reception to follow...
PEN
(Poets/Playwrights,
Essayists/Editors, Novelists) New England is an organization of published authors, aspiring writers, and all who
love the written word. Our mission is to advance the cause of literature in New England
and defend free expression everywhere. PEN New England is a branch of PEN American Center, and part of International
PEN, the
oldest international literary organization and also the oldest human rights organization in the world.
PEN New England
Lesley University
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pen-ne@lesley.edu
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