An alphabetical list of author bios is available here.
Event Calendar
1993-1994
November 14, 1993 Don Moore, readings of Dickens and Tolstoy
November 30, 1993 Andrei Codrescu, reads “Why Are There No Clocks In Baton Rouge?”
January 28, 1994 Rick Blackwood, Elsie Michie, Pat McGee, Reggie Young, and Jack May, discussion of The Crying Game
February 10, 1994 Black History Month readings
February 20, 1994 Panthea Broughton, a talk on Faulkner and painting in New York
and Paris
March 13, 1994 Jerry Kennedy, a talk on American authors in Paris during the “Crazy Years”
April 10, 1994 Peggy Prenshaw, a talk honoring Eudora Welty’s 85th birthday
1994-1995
September 21, 1994 Andrei Codrescu, special showing of Road Scholar
David Madden, reading/enactment from Sharpshooter
December 9, 1994 Valerie Martin, latest novel is The Great Divorce and recent film
adaptation
of Mary Reilly
February 12, 1995 Emily Toth, a talk on Kate Chopin
March 12, 1995 Don Moore, readings from Shakespeare
April 21, 1995 Enid Shomer, winner of The Southern Review prize for short
fiction for Imaginary Men
April 30, 1995 Doris Betts, readings from Souls Raised from the Dead and Heading West
1995-1996
September 21, 1995 Richard Ford, reading from Independence Day
October 10, 1995 Moira Crone, reading from Dream State
October 30, 1995 Maria Van Daalen, Dutch Fellow in Poetry to the US, reads from her poetry
Stephen Stern
November 30, 1995 W.D. Snodgrass and Kathleen Snodgrass
a dramatic visual presentation of new poetry
February 16, 1996 Frederick Turner, address to Graduate Student Conference “The Bond: Shakespeare’s Economics”
March 3, 1996 Dan Fogel, discussion of taped interview with Leon Edell, the definitive
biographer of Henry James
March 24, 1996 Ava Haymon reads her poetry along with Dave Smith, reading
from Fate’s Kite:
Poems 1991-1995
April 24, 1996 Elizabeth Dewberry, readings from fiction, upcoming
performance of
new play Flesh and Blood
1996-1997
September 22, 1996 Ann Beattie, reading from Picturing Will
October 6, 1996 Anna Nardo, a talk on Milton’s domestic life
Michelle Gellrich, readings of poetry and prose
November 24, 1996 Kate Daniels, readings from poetry
January 19, 1996 James Wilcox, readings from fiction
February 2, 1996 John R. May and Rick Blackwood, panel discussion of the film Dead Man Walking
March 16, 1996 Panthea Reid, a talk on the art of writing biography
April 23, 1996 Paula Gover, winner of The Southern Review prize for short fiction
for White Boys and River Girls
1997-1998
September 14, 1997 Jill McCorkle, reading from new novel Carolina Moon
October 12, 1997 Robin Roberts, multimedia presentation on popular culture
December 1, 1997 Paul Muldoon, poetry reading
February 1, 1998 James Olney, lecture from Memory, Narrative and Life Writing
March 8, 1998 Lisel Mueller, reading from Alive Together: New and Selected Poems
April 22, 1998 Andrea Barrett, fiction reading
April 30, 1998 Philip Weinstein, lecture “Toni Morrison and William Faulkner”
1998-1999
September 13, 1998 Gloria Naylor, reading from The Men of Brewster Place
October 25, 1998 Tim Gautreaux, fiction reading
November 22, 1998 Ellen Douglas, fiction reading
January 31, 1999 Rodger Kamenetz, poetry reading
February 28, 1999 Brenda Marie Osbey, reading from All Saints: New and Selected Poems
March 21, 1999 Mary Leader, reading from Red Signature
April 11, 1999 Andrei Codrescu, reading from Messiah
April 25, 1999 Elizabeth Gilbert, winner of The Southern Review prize for short fiction for Pilgrims
1999-2000
September 19, 1999 Barry Hannah, fiction reading
October 17, 1999 Richard Bausch, reading from Someone to Watch Over Me
November 21, 1999 Emily Toth, reading from Ms. Mentor’s Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia
Sharon Weltman, from Ruskin’s Mythic Queen: Gender Subversion in Victorian Culture
January 23, 2000 Connie Porter, reading from Imani All Mine
February 13, 2000 John Wood, poetry reading
March 19, 2000 Mark Poirier, reading from Naked Pueblo
April 16, 2000 Samantha Lan Chang, winner of The Southern Review prize for short fiction for Hunger
2000-2001
September 24, 2000 Lee Smith, fiction reading and Hal Crowther, reading from essay
in The Oxford American Magazine
October 15, 2000 David Kirby and Barbara Hamby, poetry readings
November 5, 2000 James Gordon Bennett, reading from novel in progress His Sister’s Keeper
February 4, 2001 Tillie Olsen, reading of “I Stand Here Ironing”
March 11, 2001 Jim Catano and Rick Moreland, readings from scholarly work
April 29, 2001 Michael Griffith, reading from Spikes
2001-2002
October 21, 2001 Yusef Komunyakaa, poetry reading
November 11, 2001 Ross Spears, presentation of original film Tell About the South
February 17, 2002 William J. Cooper, discussion of biography writing
April 28, 2002 Stephen Dobyns, winner of The Southern Review prize for
short fiction
for Eating Naked
2002-2003
September 22, 2001 Josephine Humphreys, reading from Nowhere Else on Earth
November 3, 2001 William Jay Smith, readings from The Girl in Glass and a personal
letter from Eudora Welty
February 16, 2003 Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop, poetry reading
April 27, 2003 John Fulton, winner of The Southern Review prize for short fiction for Retribution
2003-2004
September 28, 2004 Charles Richard and Beth Courtney, presentation of LPB film
documentary Louisiana: An Illustrated History
October 26, 2003 John Ed Bradley, reading from Restoration: A Novel
November 14, 2003 Ernest Hemingway Foundation, conference “New Discoveries
and Directions
in Hemingway Studies”
January 25, 2004 Andrei Codrescu, reading from it was today: new poems
February 29, 2004 Billy Collins, poetry reading
April 18, 2004 Ernest Hill, reading from Cry Me a River
2004-2005
September 26, 2004 Bret Lott, reading from A Song I Knew By Heart
October 24, 2004 Ava Leavell Haymon, reading from The Strict Economy of Fire
Laura Mullen, poetry reading
January 30, 2005 Wayne Parent, reading from Inside the Carnival: Unmasking Louisiana Politics
February 27, 2005 Laurie Lynn Drummond, from Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You
Olympia Vernon, reading from Eden
April 17, 2005 John Murray, winner of The Southern Review prize for short fiction
for A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies
2005-2006
October 16, 2005 Solimar Otero, reading from “No soy la escritora de esta novella/I am not the author of
this novel: Listening to ritual
in Cuban fiction” – with original footage of Old Havana
November 13, 2005 Cleopatra Mathis, reading from White Sea
February 19, 2006 James Lee Burke, reading from “Jesus Out to Sea”
April 23, 2006 Bret Anthony Johnston, winner of The Southern Review prize for
short fiction
for Corpus Christ
2007-2008
October 7, 2007 |
Chancelier Skidmore
Joseph Lease
David Shapiro |
November 11, 2007 |
Laura Mullen
Rodger Kamenetz |
February 17, 2008 |
Mari Kornhauser |
March 9, 2008 |
Bhanu Kapil
Myriam Chancy |
April 13, 2008 |
Allan Gurganus |
