Roosevelt University’s Creative Writing Program to hold Reading Series with acclaimed writers in March and April
Posted: 02/24/2010
Roosevelt University’s Gage Gallery Reading Series will bring award-winning writers from across the country to campus this spring. They will read from their selected works at the Gage Gallery, 18 S. Michigan Avenue, from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. during March and April. The following readings are free and open to the public:
March 1
Adam Levin, an instructor in Roosevelt’s creative writing program, will read from his new fiction. Levin will publish his first novel in fall 2010 and will publish a collection of short stories in 2012. Levin, who has an MFA in creative writing from Syracuse University and an MA in clinical social work from the University of Chicago, has had his work appear in Tin House, McSweeney’s and New England Review.
March 9
Frank Rogaczewski, a poetry instructor in Roosevelt’s creative writing program, will read from his debut collection of prose poems, The Fate of Humanity in Verse, which was published in spring 2009. Rogaczewski’s work has been published in Notre Dame Review, Denver Quarterly, Another Chicago Magazine, Samizdat, BlueSky Review and Oyez Review.
April 14
Sandi Wisenberg, who is the creative non-fiction editor of Another Chicago Magazine and the co-director of Northwestern’s MA/MFA creative writing program, will read from her non-fiction collection. She is the author of The Sweetheart Is In, Holocaust Girls: History, Memory & Other Obsessions and The Adventures of Cancer Bitch. She’s received a Pushcart Prize and has had work published in The New Yorker, Ploughshares and Tikkun.
April 27
Mary Jo Bang, an instructor at Washington State University in St. Louis, will read from her poem collection. Bang is the author of six collections of poems, including Louise in Love, The Eye Like a Strange Balloon and Elegy. Her poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Paris Review and in three volumes of Best American Poetry. She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Bakeless Prize and a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University.
The Gage Gallery Reading Series is sponsored by the Creative Writing Program at Roosevelt University, Oyez Review and the Department of Literature and Languages. For more information, contact Scott Blackwood at sblackwood@roosevelt.edu.
Roosevelt University, a national leader in educating socially conscious citizens, is a private, student-centered university with 7,300 students studying at comprehensive campuses in the Chicago Loop and Northwest suburban Schaumburg and online. Founded on the principles of inclusion and social justice, Roosevelt offers academic programs in arts and sciences, business, performing arts and education.
