Karen Russell reading this Thursday!

Please join us for our last reading of the semester: Karen Russell, author of St Lucy's Home For Girls Raised By Wolves, at 4:30, December 4th, in the Library Auditorium at TCNJ.

Writing Communities blogs: Can you keep up?

This semester several students are blogging independently about TCNJ's Writing Communities class and their own explorations in the literary world. In these blogs you'll find clips of poetry readings, hilarious observations, comments from poets on their own work, and more. Check it out.

Stolen Vermeer Reflections (Ashley Gallagher)
WC Reading Journal (Gabrielle Reed)
TCNJ Writing Communities (Josephine Cusumano)
Singerlit (Allison Singer)
Give Me Pinkstone And A Pen (Rachel Pinkstone)

Stay tuned as more blogs come online throughout the semester.

Dodge Poetry Festival: Don't Miss It!

"Historic Waterloo Village in Stanhope, New Jersey will be re-opened especially for the audiences of up to 20,000 expected for the 12th biennial Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, which will run from Thursday, September 25 through Sunday, September 28, 2008.

Join poets Chris Abani, Coleman Barks, Coral Bracho, Billy Collins, Lucille Clifton, Mark Doty, Martín Espada, Joy Harjo, Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Edward Hirsch, Jane Hirshfield, Ted Kooser, Maxine Kumin, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sharon Olds, Linda Pastan, Charles Simic, C.D. Wright, Franz Wright and dozens of other accomplished poets, musicians and storytellers for four days of poetry and music beside the Musconetcong River and among Waterloo Village’s lawns, trees, and landmark historic buildings."

Princeton Reading Series this fall

Princeton has a terrific line-up of writers appearing this semester. For more information, and directions, go here.

	09/24	Breyten Breytenbach and Uzodinma Iweala
	10/15	Brigit Pegeen Kelly and Marie Howe
	10/22	Elizabeth Alexander and Terrance Hayes
	11/05	Nathan Englander and Jim Shepard
	11/19	Christian Barter, Tarell Alvin McCraney and Whitney Terrell
	12/03	Lydia Davis and Francine Prose (7:30 pm)

TCNJ Visiting Writers Series, Fall 2008

All events are held in the Library Auditorium, in the basement of TCNJ's beautiful new library, at 4:30 PM, with a reception and booksigning afterwards.

Tuesday, September 30th:
Tracy K. Smith, poet, author of Duende and The Body's Question

Thursday, October 23rd:
Joshua Beckman, poet, author of Shake and Your Time Has Come

Thursday, December 4th:
Karen Russell, author of St Lucy's Home For Girls Raised By Wolves

Welcome back!

Lit@TCNJ is back again for another school year. We have wonderful events on campus already planned and in the works, a new and energized Ink leadership, and many great events happening in the area. Stay tuned.

Shakespeare 70 Presents "The Constant Wife"

W. Somerset Maugham's "The Constant Wife" will be performed at TCNJ next week. Come out and support this unusual and fascinating production:

Performance dates: February 14, 15, 16, 21, 22 & 23 at 8 pm, February 24 at 2 pm

Don Evans Black Box Theater

for cast, ticket info, go to Shakespeare 70 website: http://www.shakespeare70.org/index.html

More events this spring

This spring is jam-packed with great events in our area. Get out your calendars and make your plans early!

2/9-2/15: Tibetan monks from Namgyal Monastery (the Dalai Lama's official monastery in North America) will build a sand mandala in the main floor of the TCNJ library. Viewing hours are from approximately 9:30-12 and 1:30-5.

3/25: Edwidge Danticat, novelist and memoirist, will deliver the Toni Morrison lecture at Princeton, 8 PM, Richardson Auditorium

3/26: Chinua Achebe, author of Things Fall Apart and many other books, in conversation with K. Anthony Appiah, 6 PM, Nassau Presbyterian Church (in Princeton)

4/3: Gerald Stern, one of America's most distinguished poets, Master Class in Poetry, Library Auditorium, TCNJ, at 4:30 PM

Princeton events this spring

Princeton's got a great schedule this season. Some highlights:

2/20: George Saunders and Natasha Trethewey

3/13: Amy Hempel and Jennifer Egan (both former TCNJ readers!)

03/26: Claire Messud and Edward Hirsch

04/09: Gary Shteyngart and Rick Moody

All on Wednesdays, 4:30 PM, in the James Stewart Theater at 185 Nassau Street (rear entrance).