The Reading Series
Department of English / Cornell University
Fall 2012 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series
- 9/20 Claudia Emerson
- 10/18 Don Share
- 10/25 Seamus Heaney
- 11/1 Jonathan Franzen
- 11/8 Beverly, McCrae, & Rutman
ALL EVENTS ARE FREE and open to the public.
Go to the Writers at Cornell blog to listen to J.Robert Lennon’s interviews with our visiting writers: www.writersatcornell.com
September 20th Reading
- Claudia Emerson
- When: Thursday 4:30 pm
- Location: Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall
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- Claudia Emerson, Poet
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Claudia Emerson received the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her book Late Wife: Poems. She is the author of several other poetry books, including her newest collection, Secure the Shadow, published in 2012. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Southern Review, Shenandoah, TriQuarterly, New England Review, and other journals.Emerson is the recipient of fellowships from the Library of Congress, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts. She served as the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2008 to 2010. She is currently professor of English and Arrington Distinguished Chair in Poetry at Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
October 18th Reading
- Don Share
- When: Thursday 4:30 pm
- Location: Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall
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- Don Share, Poet & Editor
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Don Share is Senior Editor of Poetry magazine. He has also been poetry editor of Harvard Review and Partisan Review. From 2000 to 2007, he served as curator of poetry at Harvard University. His own poetry collections include Union, Squandermania, Seneca in English, and, most recently, Wishbone. He has also edited the work of British poet Basil Bunting. Share’s translations of the poems of Miguel Hernández, collected in I Have Lots of Heart, were awarded the Times Literary Supplement Translation Prize. He co-hosts the monthly Poetry magazine podcast and co-edited The Open Door: One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of Poetry Magazine, available this fall.
October 25th Eamon McEneaney Memorial Reading
- Seamus Heaney
- When: Thursday 4:30 pm
- Location: Schwartz Auditorium, 201 Rockefeller Hall
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- Seamus Heaney, Poet
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Seamus Heaney ranks among the greatest poets of the twentieth century, and has been called “the most important Irish writer since Yeats.” A native of Northern Ireland, Heaney published his first major collection, Death of a Naturalist, in 1966. He went on to publish over 15 poetry collections, including Door Into the Dark, The Haw Lantern, The Spirit Level, Electric Light, and Human Chain. He has also published numerous chapbooks and prose works, and nearly a dozen translations, most notably Beowulf (2000).Between 1989 and 1994 Heaney was Professor of Poetry at Oxford. From 1996 to 2006, he held the post of Ralph Waldo Emerson Writer-in-Residence at Harvard University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1995.
This event is made possible in part by the generosity of Eamon McEneaney’s Cornell teammates, family, and friends. Eamon McEneaney ’77, one of Cornell’s most talented and best-loved athletes, was a dedicated husband and father, loyal friend, prolific writer and poet, and an American hero. When the World Trade Center was bombed on February 26, 1993, McEneaney led sixty coworkers to safety from the 105th floor. He died on September 11, 2001, in the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
November 1st Reading
- Jonathan Franzen
- When: Thursday 7:30 pm
- Location: Sage Chapel, Cornell Campus
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- Jonathan Franzen, Nonfiction and Fiction Writer
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Jonathan Franzen’s first novel, The Twenty-seventh City, earned him the Whiting Writers Award. He won the National Book Award in fiction for The Corrections, which became an international bestseller. His most recent novel is Freedom, winner of the 2011 John Gardner Prize for fiction and the Heartland Prize.Franzen was named to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2012. He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker. His newest book, Further Away, is a collection of essays.
FREE admission. Ticket is required. Tickets to this event will be available at the Willard Straight box office starting on October 1st at 9am.
November 8th Shop Talk
- Carl Beverly, Fiona McCrae, Jim Rutman
- When: Thursday 4:30 pm
- Location: Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall
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- Carl Beverly, Executive Producer, CBS
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Beverly started his career at Sony Pictures Entertainment and Columbia Tri-Star’s (CTTV) drama development department where he was part of the team that developed “Dawson’s Creek.” He now runs Timberman/Beverly Productions with his producing partner, Sarah Timberman. He is an executive producer of the award-winning cable series “Justified,” and the CBS series “Unforgettable, ” which will resume production in January 2013.
- Fiona McCrae, Director & Publisher, Graywolf Press
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Fiona McCrae has been publisher of Graywolf Press since 1994, following four years at Faber and Faber USA in Boston, where she was a director and executive editor. From 1982 until her move to Boston in 1991, she was at Faber and Faber, Ltd., in London. She currently serves on the board of Books for Africa and is an advisor for Open Letter Press.
- Jim Rutman, Literary Agent, Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc.
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Jim Rutman represents a diverse spectrum of journalists, historians, critics, and novelists including Eleanor Henderson, whose 2011 debut Ten Thousand Saints was one of the New York Times “10 Best Books of 2011.” Rutman is drawn to work by morally and formally challenging writers who seek to compel, confound, and provoke the imagination. He has been with SLL since 1998.
» For further information on the Fall 2012 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series, contact creativewriting@cornell.edu or call (607) 255-7847.