December 1st, 2009

• The Scaffold in the Marketplace: Johnson, Hawthorne and the Romance of Authorship

  3:30pm Helen Deutsch, Professor of English at UCLA, will be discussing Samuel Johnson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and each author’s relation to (and anxieties about) the literary marketplace.

January 28th, 2010

• A Drama and Writing Workshop with Eddie Stiven Day 1 of 3

  3:00pm - 6:00pm

  Eddie Stiven hails originally from Ayrshire, Scotland, and it is the language of South Ayrshire-Lowland Scots-which he melds with Scotland’s cultural heritage of balladry, myth and legend, to create his unique and atmospheric stage plays.  He also writes in English, and for the other media of radio, television and film.  He is a frequent tutor on cultural programs and he is an occasional actor, and hosts Lewis & Clark’s Study Abroad Program in the Scottish Highlands.

January 29th, 2010

• A Drama and Writing Workshop with Eddie Stiven Day 2 of 3

  3:00pm - 6:00pm Day two of a three day workshop with Eddie Stiven.

January 30th, 2010

• A Drama and Writing Workshop with Eddie Stiven Day 3 of 3

  9:00am - 12:00pm Eddie Stiven will conclude a three day drama and writing workshop.

February 4th, 2010

• “The Gift and the Commons: Creativity and the Public Good”

  4:00pm Lewis Hyde is a poet, essayist, translator, and cultural critic with a particular interest in the public life of the imagination.  He is the author of The Gift (1983) and Trickster Makes This World (1998).

March 1st, 2010

• A Reading by Susan Kirschner

  7:00pm Susan Kirschner is a Senior Lecturer in the Humanities at Lewis & Clark College, where she teaches creative non-fiction.  She has written essays on Virginia Woolf, Alice Walker, and pedagogy, and her current project in a memoir about her family’s life in pre-WWII Austria, and their flight on the eve of war.

March 15th, 2010

• A Colloquium with Shaye Areheart, Editor, Random House

  7:00pm Shaye Areheart is an editor at Random House.  She directs her own imprint, Shaye Areheart Books, which publishes a range of fiction, both literary and commercial.  Her list of authors includes: Chris Bohjalian, Alice Hoffman, Pauls Toutonghi, Lisa Unger, Gillian Flynn, Mary McGarry Morris, Katharine Weber, Allison Winn Scotch, Alicia Erian, and Keith Donohue.  She lives in New York City.

March 31st, 2010

• A Reading by Pete Rock

  7:00pm Pete Rock is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.  He is the author  of The Unsettling, The Bewildered, The Ambidextrist, This is the Place, and Carnival Wolves.  He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.

April 1st, 2010

• Poetry Readings by Matthew Dickman and Carl Adamshick

  7:00pm Matthew Dickman’s first collection of poetry, All American Poem (Copper Canyon Press, 2008), received the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Award.  Carl Adamshick has published poems in Beloit Poetry Journal, American Literary Review, Rhino and Mid-American Review.