UAB Writers' Series: Adam Vines
Thursday, April 4, 2013
7:00 p.m., Hulsey Recital Hall
Adam Vines is an assistant professor of English at UAB, where he is editor of Birmingham Poetry Review. His collection of poems is The Coal Life (U of Arkansas P, 2012), and recent poems have appeared in Poetry, Post Road, Redivider, Tampa Review, and Hunger Mountain. This year, the Alabama State Council on the Arts awarded him an Individual Artist Fellowship.
UAB BookTalk: Julie Dash, Daughters of the Dust
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
6 p.m., Henley Room, Mervyn Sterne Library
Prof. Nichole Lariscy will lead a discussion of Julie Dash's novel, Daughters of the Dust
UAB BookTalk: Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
6 p.m., Henley Room, Mervyn Sterne Library
Prof. Kieran Quinlan will lead a discussion of Thomas Merton's autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain
UAB Writers' Series: Antonya Nelson
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
7:00 p.m., Hulsey Recital Hall
Antonya Nelson is the author of four novels, including Bound (Bloomsbury, 2010) and six short story collections, including Nothing Right (Bloomsbury, 2009). Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, Harper’s, Redbook and many other magazines, as well as in anthologies such as Prize Stories: the O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories. She is the recipient of a USA Artists Award in 2009, the 2003 Rea Award for Short Fiction, as well as NEA and Guggenheim Fellowships, and teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA Program, as well as in the University of Houston’s Creative Writing Program. She lives in Telluride, Colorado, Las Cruces, New Mexico, and Houston, Texas.
UAB Writers' Series: Memorial Honoring Jake Adam York
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
7:00 p.m., Hulsey Recital hall
Readings by Jim Murphy, Adam Vines, Shelly Cato, Julie Steward, Taylor Burgess, Charles C. Hart, Dr. Jeffrey R. Bibbee, Jeanie Thompson, and Linda York
Jake Adam York is the author of three books of poems—Murder Ballads (2005), winner of the Elixir Prize in Poetry; A Murmuration of Starlings (2008), co-winner of the Crab Orchard Open Competition and winner of the Colorado Book Award; and Persons Unknown (2010), published by Southern Illinois University Press as an editor’s selection in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry.
His work has appeared in numerous literary journals including The Southern Review, Kenyon Review, Pleiades, New South, Ninth Letter, Shenandoah, The Northwest Review, and Poetry Daily.
An associate professor at the University of Colorado Denver, York co-edited Copper Nickel. In 2009, York was the University of Mississippi’s Summer Poet in Residence, and in 2011, he was the Richard Thomas Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College. He was a 2011-2012 Visiting Faculty Fellow at the James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference at Emory University.
Originally from Alabama, York was educated at Auburn and Cornell. He is also the author of a work of literary criticism, The Architecture of Address: The Monument and Public Speech in American Poetry, published by Routledge in 2005.
Sponsored by Birmingham Area Consortium of Higher Education (BACHE) and UAB Writers' Series
UAB Writers' Series: Richard Ford
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
7:00 p.m., Alumni Auditorium in Hill University Center
Richard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1944. He has published seven novels and four collections of stories, including The Sportswriter, Independence Day, A Multitude of Sins and, most recently, Canada. Independence Day was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the first time the same book had won both prizes. Richard Ford teaches in the University of Mississippi’s Creative Writing Program.
Alumni Lecture: Robert G. O'Meally
Alumni Lecture Series
Dr. Robert O’Meally will present “We Are All a Collage: Romare Bearden, Toni Morrison, Duke Ellington”
7 pm, Tuesday, February 19, 2013 • Hulsey Recital Hall
Sponsored by John S. Jemison Visiting Professorship in the Humanities
This talk takes seriously the modernist assertion that we are all collages--as human communities and as individuals. Looking closely at several of Bearden's paintings, as well as works by Morrison and Ellington--we will consider modern ways of making art as part of an ongoing project of "getting ourselves together": of stitching and re-stitching the ties that bind. Southerners and northerners; cityfolk and countryfolk; women and men; black, white, brown, and beige; adults and children: What does modern art tell us about how we are pieced together?
Robert G. O’Meally is the Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he has served on the faculty for twenty-two years. A scholar whose work encompasses literature, music, and visual art, Dr. O’Meally is the founder of Columbia’s Center for Jazz Studies, and Co-Curator of Exhibitions at Jazz at Lincoln Center. He is the author of The Craft of Ralph Ellison, Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday, The Jazz Singers, and Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey—the catalogue essay for an exhibition of the artist’s collages based on Homer. He was the principal writer of Seeing Jazz, the catalogue for the Smithsonian’s exhibit on jazz, painting, and literature. His edited volumes include The Jazz Cadence of American Culture, Living With Music: Ralph Ellison’s Essays on Jazz, The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, and the Barnes and Noble editions of Mark Twain, Herman Melville, and Frederick Douglass. For his co-production of a Smithsonian record set called The Jazz Singers, he was nominated for a Grammy Award. He also wrote the script for the PBS documentary Lady Day, and for the documentary accompanying the Smithsonian exhibit, Duke Ellington: Beyond Category. His articles on music, literature, and art have appeared in The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. His writing has won Ralph Gleason and ASCAP-Deems Awards. His new project is curating a major exhibition in Paris on "Black Americans in the City of Light." O’Meally is a rank-amateur saxophonist who plays, according to his sons, “only for his own amazement.”
UAB BookTalk: Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
6 p.m., Henley Room, Mervyn Sterne Library
Prof. Cassandra Ellis will lead a discussion of Jesmyn Ward's National Book Award Winner, Salvage the Bones: a Novel.
The Alabama Project
Exhibition, January 7-31, UAB Visual Arts Gallery
Sponsored by
UAB College of Arts and Sciences
UAB Department of English
UAB Department of Art and Art History
UAB BookTalk: Ann Patchett, State of Wonder
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
6 p.m., Henley Room, Mervyn Sterne Library
Prof. Miriam Bellis will lead a discussion of Ann Patchett's novel State of Wonder.