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On Monday, November 12, at 6 p.m., Washington University Libraries' Department of Special Collections re-launched the Modern Literature Reading Series, which celebrates both the authors in the Modern Literature Collection and those poets and writers influenced by them today.
Similar to the first Modern Literature Reading Series, which ran from 2000 to 2005, the new series will hold one event each semester and feature readers from the student body, the faculty, and/or outside writers. Each reader focuses on one author and reads excerpts from that author’s work or manuscripts that speak to the reader in some way. The readers are also invited to present their own work inspired or influenced by the writer in question.
Renowned poet and WUSTL faculty member Carl Phillips headlined the fall 2012 event, held in Special Collections, on Level 1 of Olin Library. Phillips read and discussed the work of Robert Creeley. Two current WUSTL MFA poets, Catherine Chiodo and Philip Williams, also read, with Chiodo focusing on Donald Finkel and Williams on Robert Duncan.
Joel Minor, curator of manuscripts and modern literature for Special Collections, proposed reviving the Reading Series after talking with Writer-in-Residence Jennifer Kronovet, who mentioned participating in the original incarnation of the Reading Series when she was an MFA student here.
“Jennifer sparked the idea,” Minor says, “and then later graciously agreed to help me get it off the ground again. I am excited by this opportunity to partner with the MFA Writing Program on a regular basis and to help connect generations of poets and writers to audiences through manuscripts.”
Inaugurated in 1964, the Modern Literature Collection at Washington University Libraries was created as an archive of the work of contemporary English and American writers who were considered critically underappreciated and whose reputations might grow further in the years to come. Today, the Collection’s list has grown to more than 175 authors, presses, and journals, with more than 125 of these represented by manuscript materials.
A reception followed the reading. For more information, contact Special Collections at 314-935-5495 or visit library.wustl.edu/units/spec/.
wul_eh_modern_literature_reading_series_fall_2012_1
Photo credit: Washington University Libraries
On Monday, November 12, at 6 p.m., Washington University Libraries' Department of Special Collections re-launched the Modern Literature Reading Series, which celebrates both the authors in the Modern Literature Collection and those poets and writers influenced by them today.
Similar to the first Modern Literature Reading Series, which ran from 2000 to 2005, the new series will hold one event each semester and feature readers from the student body, the faculty, and/or outside writers. Each reader focuses on one author and reads excerpts from that author’s work or manuscripts that speak to the reader in some way. The readers are also invited to present their own work inspired or influenced by the writer in question.
Renowned poet and WUSTL faculty member Carl Phillips headlined the fall 2012 event, held in Special Collections, on Level 1 of Olin Library. Phillips read and discussed the work of Robert Creeley. Two current WUSTL MFA poets, Catherine Chiodo and Philip Williams, also read, with Chiodo focusing on Donald Finkel and Williams on Robert Duncan.
Joel Minor, curator of manuscripts and modern literature for Special Collections, proposed reviving the Reading Series after talking with Writer-in-Residence Jennifer Kronovet, who mentioned participating in the original incarnation of the Reading Series when she was an MFA student here.
“Jennifer sparked the idea,” Minor says, “and then later graciously agreed to help me get it off the ground again. I am excited by this opportunity to partner with the MFA Writing Program on a regular basis and to help connect generations of poets and writers to audiences through manuscripts.”
Inaugurated in 1964, the Modern Literature Collection at Washington University Libraries was created as an archive of the work of contemporary English and American writers who were considered critically underappreciated and whose reputations might grow further in the years to come. Today, the Collection’s list has grown to more than 175 authors, presses, and journals, with more than 125 of these represented by manuscript materials.
A reception followed the reading. For more information, contact Special Collections at 314-935-5495 or visit library.wustl.edu/units/spec/.