Community Events 2011-2012

Writers at Work

The Writers at Work series facilitates informal conversation between writers and interested members of the campus community. Bring questions and a brown bag lunch; beverages and cookies will be provided.

Writers-at-Work events for 2011-2012 will be announced soon.

10th Annual Drew Darrow Memorial Reading

Stacey Waite

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

5 PM

Bucknell Hall

This poetry reading is open to the public and is sponsored by the Drew Darrow Memorial Fund, the Stadler Center for Poetry, and the Writing Center. A reception and book signing will follow the reading.

The Drew Darrow Memorial Reading Series honors the memory of Andrew Darrow, a 1986 Bucknell graduate. A student employee of Bucknell's Writing Center, Darrow later worked as an actor in New York City. He died in 1997.

Past Speakers

Writers at Work

Guests in recent years have included Yi-Fu Tuan, Don Mullan, Lesléa Newman, Joe Gauhghan and friends, Brian Teare, Betsy Wheeler, and Bucknell faculty members F. Elaine Williams, Paula Closson Buck, Virginia Zimmerman, Eduardo Corral, Porochista Khakpour, Rebecca Black, Alf Siewers, Gary Steiner, and Karline McLain.

Drew Darrow Memorial Reading

The first Drew Darrow Memorial Reading, held in February, 2002, featured poet Ruth Ellen Kocher, an alumna of the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets now on the faculty of the University of Missouri in St. Louis.

Darrow readers in successive years have included poet and former Writing Center staff member Laurie Kutchins (2003), and "former Younger Poets" Jeff Hardin (2004), Mary Szybist (2005), Ilya Kaminsky (2006-2007) Kyle Dargan (2007-2008), Oni Buchanan (2008-2009), Rebecca Black (2009), and Susan B. A. Somers-Willett (2010).