VWS Presents: Patricia Smith
JRVWS is pleased to announce our last visiting writer of the Fall season, poet Patricia Smith, on Thursday, November 14. Patricia Smith is an artist recognized as a force in the fields of poetry, play-...
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The Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series is pleased to announce our first reading of the Spring 2014 season: authors Ismet Prcic and Benjamin Busch, January 30th. Ismet Prcic (ISS-met PER-sick) was born...
View ArticleOne Week from Today: VWS Features Poets Brenda Hillman & Rowan Ricardo Phillips
The Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series is pleased to announce our March 6th reading with poets Brenda Hillman and Rowan Ricardo Phillips. Brenda Hillman was born in Tucson, Arizona, in 1951. She was...
View ArticleVWS Presents: Amy Bloom
The Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series is pleased to announce our last reading of the season – April 17th with fiction writer Amy Bloom. Amy Bloom is the author of two novels, three collections of short...
View ArticleVWS Presents: Katherine Bode-Lang & Laura Donnelly
The Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series Presents The Ninth Annual Tom Andrews Memorial Reading on September 18th with Katherine Bode-Lang & Laura Donnelly Katherine Bode-Lang Katherine Bode-Lang...
View ArticleVWS Presents: Robert Mankoff, Cartoon Editor of The New Yorker
The Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series is pleased to present Robert Mankoff at our reading on October 23rd Robert Mankoff Robert Mankoff is the cartoon editor of The New Yorker. More than eight hundred...
View ArticleThis spring in the Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series
Orlando Ricardo Menes Thursday, January 22nd Q & A at 3:30pm at Fried-Hemenway Auditorium. Reading at 7:00pm at Winants Auditorium. Orlando Ricardo Menes was born in Lima, Peru and immigrated to...
View ArticlePresenting Orlando Ricardo Menes
This Thursday, we will have the pleasure of welcoming award-winning poet Orlando Ricardo Menes to the Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series. Menes will perform a reading at 7:00pm in Winants Auditorium,...
View ArticleIntroducing E.J. Levy and Joe Wilkins
Our second reading of the spring semester quickly approaches! On Thursday, March 5th, we will have the privilege of welcoming E.J. Levy and Joe Wilkins to the Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series. Want to...
View ArticleIntroducing Marvin Bell, our final visiting writer for the 2014-2015 season!
Thursday, April 16th Q&A: 3:30 PM, Fried Hemenway Auditorium, Martha Miller Center Reading: 7:00 PM, Winants Auditorium, Graves Hall Marin Bell has written over twenty-three books and remains well...
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