Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series Launches 2014-15 Season Sept. 25
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PITTSBURGH—Celebrating its 15th anniversary at the University of Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series will open its 2014-15 season with a poetry reading by Squirrel Hill native Lucie Brock-Broido at 8:30 p.m. Sept. 25 in the Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, 650 Schenley Dr., Oakland.
“The Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series is thrilled to bring seven nationally acclaimed journalists, poets, and writers to share their personal perspectives on art and literature with the city of Pittsburgh,” said Lynn Emanuel, series director and a professor of English in Pitt’s Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences. “The 2014-15 season is composed of a diverse collection of innovative minds whose life experiences, artistic philosophies, and unique approaches towards the craft of writing will make each session of the series a special occasion.”
Brock-Broido is the director of poetry in the School of the Arts at Columbia University, where she was the recipient of the 2013 Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching. She is the author of four acclaimed books of poetry. Her most notable works include her most recent book, Stay, Illusion (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013), which was a finalist for both the National Book Award in Poetry and the National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as Trouble in Mind (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), which won the 2005 Massachusetts Book Award. Brock-Broido also has been honored with the Witter Bynner Prize for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize from The American Poetry Review, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
All readings in the 2014-15 Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series season are free and open to the public and will be held at 8:30 p.m. in the Frick Fine Arts Auditorium. A complete series schedule, with brief speaker bios, follows:
NoViolet Bulawayo, fiction, is Pitt’s 2014 Fred R. Brown Literary Award winner. She is the author of the critically acclaimed novel We Need New Names (Reagan Arthur Books, 2013). The Fred R. Brown Literary Award recognizes the accomplishments of fiction writers in the early stages of their literary careers. The award is named for Pitt alumni Fred R. (A&S ’71) and Melanie Brown (CGS ’86, BUS ’90G, ’93G), longtime supporters of the Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series.
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