Thursday, Oct. 5 | 4:30-5:30 p.m. | Library Porch The first Tom McGrath Visiting Writers Series reading of the semester will take place this Thursday, Oct. 5, at 4:30 p.m. in the Library Porch. MSUM’s own Yahya Frederickson will read from his recent poetry collection, In a Homeland Not Far: New and Selected Poems. All McGrath events are free and […]
Monday, April 24 – Tuesday, April 25 The Tom McGrath Visiting Writers Series, in cooperation with the Marcil Center for Innovative Journalism, presents Laurie Hertzel, Senior Editor/Books at the Minneapolis Star Tribune and author of “News to Me: Adventures of an Accidental Journalist,” winner of the 2011 Reader’s Choice Award at the Minnesota Book Awards.
The Tom McGrath Writers Series convenes today at 4:30 p.m. in CMU101. Two New Rivers Press authors, professors Bradford Tice and David Haynes, will read from their newest publications, discuss how their books came to be, and field questions from the audience. Dr. Tice teaches literature and writing at Nebraska Wesleyan University. He was New Rivers Press’ Many Voices Project […]
Wednesday, Oct. 30 at 4:30 p.m. in the CMU Ballroom. Sarah Fox & John Colburn are poets from the Twin Cities. Sarah’s first two books, Because Why and The First Flag, are published by Coffee House Press. John is the editor and co-publisher at Spout Press, and the author of Invisible Daughter and Psychedelic Norway (Coffee House Press), as well […]
Alan DeNiro Tuesday, Sept. 24 4:30 p.m. Comstock Memorial Union 101 The McGrath Visiting Writers Series kicks off with Alan DeNiro, author of the short story collection Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead, and the novel Total Oblivion, More or Less. DeNiro, a writer of speculative fiction, has also published an interactive “game novella” online, entitled We are the Firewall. His […]