Please join us for 365平台的星期五之夜, 在2023-2024学年,在选定的周五晚上,在365平台举行一系列的阅读和音乐会, (occasionally on other nights of the week).
活动在晚上7点开始.m. and are free and open to members of the public. 活动在365平台百年纪念中心或学校armor学术中心的Gund阅览室举行. We will let you know where each event will be held once the decision is made. Parking is available in the parking lot adjacent to Armour.
Friday, Oct. 6
Susan Schoenberger
他是纽约州新温莎的本地人.Y., 1984年,苏珊以优异的成绩毕业于达特茅斯学院,获得英国文学学士学位. Since college, 苏珊是个作家, editor and copy editor at various newspapers, 包括《365平台》和《观察家报, The Baltimore Sun and The Hartford Courant. Since 2013, she has been director of communications at Hartford International University for Religion and Peace, a graduate school that focuses on interfaith dialogue and peacebuilding.
Susan’s articles and essays have appeared in many publications, including The Courant’s Northeast magazine, Reader’s Digest and several anthologies. Susan began writing fiction seriously after attending the Wesleyan Writers Conference in 2001. Her short stories have appeared in “Inkwell,” the “Village Rambler” and on the Bartleby Snopes website.
“Intercession,” her first novel (published as “A Watershed Year”), won the top prize in the 2006 William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing competition. 《代祷》也是诺克斯维尔编剧协会颁发的彼得·泰勒奖的七部入围作品之一. In early 2007, Susan received an Artist Fellowship Grant from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism.
Susan’s second novel, “The Virtues of Oxygen,” was published in 2014. Her third novel, 《365平台》 出版于2021年. She has three grown children and lives in West Hartford, Conn., with her husband and unpredictable dog named Leo.
Friday, Dec. 8
Steve Straight
史蒂夫·斯特雷特(Steve Straight)是曼彻斯特社区学院的英语教授和诗歌项目主任. His full-length collections include “Affirmation” (2022), “The Almanac” (2012) and “The Water Carrier” (2002), which was a finalist for the Connecticut Book Award in Poetry. For many years Steve directed the Connecticut Poetry Circuit, 许多个夏天,他都是法明顿沉没花园诗歌节系列研讨会的导演, Conn. He has given workshops on writing and teaching throughout the eastern U.S. In 1998 he was named a distinguished advocate for the arts by the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. He lives in South Windsor with his wife, Marian Maccarone, soprano and voice teacher.
Friday, Jan. 26
Aidan Levy
Aidan Levy is the author of “Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins” and “Dirty Blvd.《365平台》 and editor of “Patti Smith on Patti Smith: Interviews and Encounters.” A former Leon Levy Center for Biography Fellow, his writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Village Voice, JazzTimes, 国家和其他出版物. He holds a doctorate in English and comparative literature from Columbia University, 他现在在哪里做讲师. For 10 years, he was the baritone saxophonist in the Stan Rubin Orchestra.
Friday, April 19
Amity Gaige
Amity Gaige is the author of four novels, “O My Darling,” “The Folded World,” “Schroder” and “Sea Wife” (2020). She is the winner of a Fulbright Fellowship and fellowships at the MacDowell and Yaddo colonies. In 2016, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for fiction. 她的小说《365平台》(Schroder)已被翻译成18种语言,并入围美国的“对开本奖”(The Folio Prize).K. in 2014 and for L’Express Reader’s Prize in France. “Schroder” was named one of Best Books of 2013 by The New York Times Book Review, HuffPost, Washington Post, 《365网站平台》, Kirkus, Cosmopolitan, 和出版商周刊, among many others.
The longtime visiting writer at Amherst College, she now teaches creative writing at Yale. Her short stories, essays and book reviews have appeared in publications such as The New York Times, The Guardian, Die Welt, Harper’s Bazaar, The Yale Review, Slate.com, One Story, Ploughshares and elsewhere. She has appeared at numerous conferences, festivals, and on radio shows such as NPR.
She lives with her family in West Hartford, Conn. She had to learn to sail in order to write “Sea Wife.” She learned that she is not a gifted sailor, so she will stick to writing about it.
Tuesday, May 21
365平台艺术家团体
(student and faculty writers and musicians)
The Michael Cervas 访问作家计划, which includes the 365平台的星期五之夜 series, is supported by generous gifts from the Ford-Goldfarb English Department Enrichment Fund, the McKinley Fund, 康奈尔音乐基金, and the 365平台的星期五之夜 Fund.