Looking for free entertainment?
Enjoy a night in the
Orangery listening to local
and nationally renowned
writers read their work.
The Wordsmiths Poetry
Series brings contemporary
writing to Bucks; the series
makes it a real academic
community.
There are three reading
sessions per semester and
students are highly encouraged
to attend.
“I feel it enriches the college
atmosphere overall.”
Language and Literature
Instructor David Venditto
says
This series has been held
for decades and is sponsored
by the Department of
Language and Literature, in
honor of Stan Heim. There
are small monetary stipends
awarded to the published
writers.
The readings that will be
held for the fall and spring
semesters are:

Thursday, Sept. 30, 8
p.m., Library
Auditorium, Paul
Muldoon
Paul Muldoon wrote
“Moy Sand and Gravel,” a
Pulitzer Prize-winning book
of poetry. Muldoon has also
received the 1994 T.S. Eliot
Prize, the 1997 Irish Times
Poetry Prize, the 2003
Pulitzer Prize, the 2003
Griffin International Prize
for Excellence in Poetry, the
2004 American Ireland
Fund Literary Award, the
2004 Shakespeare Prize, the
2005 Aspen Prize for Poetry,
and the 2006 European
Prize for Poetry. Muldoon is
currently Howard G.B.
Clark ’21 Professor in the
Humanities at Princeton
University. His most recent
work is “Maggot” (2010).

Friday, Oct. 22, 7:30
p.m., Orangery, Michael
Martone
Michael Martone is the
author of “Other
Landscapes” which won the
AWP Award for creative
nonfiction. He has written
many short stories and articles
in prestigious journals.
Martone writes in a distinctive
writing style which
illustrates an awareness of
detail and the writing
process itself. Martone has
won two Fellowships from
the NEA, a grant from the
Ingram Merrill Foundation,
and a Pushcart Prize.
Martone will be reading
with poet Cleveland Wall.

Friday, Dec. 3, 7:30 p.m.,
Orangery, Major
Jackson
Major Jackson, Professor
at the University of
Vermont, is a winner of the
Cave Canem Poetry Prize
and a finalist for the
National Book Critics Circle
Award and for a NAACP
Image Award. Jackson will
read with fellow poet Lois
Marie Harrod, winner of the
Hazel Lipa Chapbook
Competition, and the 2008
Grayson Press Poetry Prize.
Harrod is a member of Cool
Women Poets, and teaches
creative writing at The
College of New Jersey.

Friday, Feb. 19, 12 p.m.,
Tyler 128, Bob Holman
Bob Holman is a predominant
figure in spoken word
poetry in New York City
and throughout the United
States. He has been called a
member of the “Poetry
Pantheon” by the New York
Times, and “this generation’s
Erza Pound” by San
Francisco’s Poetry Flash .
Holman had recently
become involved in the
NEA-supported online
poetry project (World of
Poetry). In 2001, Holman
became the owner of the
Bowery Poetry Club.

Friday, April 15, 7:30
p.m., Orangery,
Kathleen Sheeder
Bonanno
Kathleen Sheeder
Bonanno has received the
Beatrice Hawley Award for
her book of poetry,
“Slamming Open the
Door.” It is a collection of
poems recalling the murder
of her daughter, Leidy
Bonanno, in 2003. This book
was the number nine best
seller for contemporary
poetry in 2009.

Friday, May 6, 7:30 p.m.,
Orangery, Dana Roeser
Dana Roeser is the winner
of the Samuel French Morse
Prize. She was published in
2008 by the University Press
of New England.