From the Director, Shara McCallum

July 2011

I am delighted to announce the poets and writers who will join us for the 2011-12 Stadler Center Writers Series. In October we will host Tony Hoagland for a reading and Q&A session as the Sandra & Gary Sojka Visiting Poet. Early in the spring semester Mark Doty will be with us for two weeks as Poet-in-Residence, during which time he will read from his poetry, discuss his work as a writer, and offer a master class for qualified undergraduate poets. Hoagland and Doty are among the most renowned American poets of our time. Their presence on campus will do much to enrich our community's literary and cultural life. Other poets reading in this year's series are Darcie Dennigan, Khaled Mattawa, Julia Kasdorf, Todd Davis, Adrian Castro, and Bucknell alumna Stacey Waite, who will present the Drew Darrow Memorial Reading. On the prose side of things, we will host readings by new faculty member Claire Watkins and novelist Yiyun Li. We welcome Jamaal May as the Stadler Fellow and Smith Henderson as the Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing; they will share a reading in late fall. In December, local radio personality Fiona Powell will present her annual holiday storytelling event for children. The series will conclude in April with our Annual Student Reading, in which some of Bucknell's most accomplished undergraduate writers read from their works.

In the 2011-12 academic year, the Stadler Center will accept applications for the 2012 Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets, featuring visiting poets Rick Barot and Brigit Pegeen Kelly; the 2012 Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing, which will be awarded to a poet; and the 2012-13 Stadler Fellowship. For more information on these and our other programs and events, please see our website: bucknell.edu/stadlercenter.

With All Best Wishes,

Shara McCallum
Director
Stadler Center for Poetry
Bucknell University