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About Chatham Academics Admissions Student Life Campus Services Athletics News & Events Chatham College for Women College for Graduate Studies College for Professional & Continuing Studies Chatham University :: Majors & Programs :: Writing, Literary & Cultural Studies Division :: Creative Writing Creative Writing   Admission Requirements   Curriculum   Faculty & Staff   News & Events   Field Seminars   FAQs   Alumni   Contact Information   Inquire   Apply NOW!   Fellowships   Photo Galleries MELANIE BROWN LECTURER   - About the Browns   - Past Lecturers SPECIAL EVENT Bridges to Other Worlds - The Presenters - Schedule of Events Related Information   Creative Writing (BFA)   Low Residency (MFA)   The Fourth River   RCI   Links of Interest   MFA Newsletter   Student Outcomes   Student Publications   Program Council   PA One Book Creative Writing Events 09/22/2009 - 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Poets, Ed Ochester and Jan Beatty Reading ED OCHESTER'S most recent books are UNRECONSTRUCTED: POEMS SELECTED AND NEW (Autumn House Press, 2007), THE REPUBLIC OF LIES (chapbook, Adastra Press, 2007), THE LAND OF COCKAIGNE (Story Line Press, 2001), and AMERICAN POETRY NOW (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007), an anthology of contemporary American poetry. He edits the Pitt Poetry Series and is general editor of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize for short fiction (both University of Pittsburgh Press). From 1978 to 1998 he was director of the writing program at the University of Pittsburgh, and was twice elected president of Associated Writing Programs. He has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, won the $15,000 ³Artist of the Year² award of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, and in 2006 won AWP¹s George Garrett Award for service to literature. He co-edits the poetry magazine 5 AM and is a core faculty member of the Bennington College MFA program. JAN BEATTY'S new book, Red Sugar, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in Spring, 2008. Other books include Boneshaker (2002, U. of Pgh. Press) and Mad River, winner of the 1994 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. Ravenous , her limited edition chapbook, won the 1995 State Street Prize. Beatty’s poetry has appeared in Quarterly West, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, and Court Green, and in anthologies published by Oxford University Press, University of Illinois Press, and University of Iowa Press. Awards include the $15,000 Creative Achievement Award in Literature from the Heinz Foundation, the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, and two fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. For the past thirteen years, she has hosted and produced Prosody, a public radio show on NPR-affiliate WYEP-FM featuring the work of national writers. Beatty directs the creative writing program at Carlow University, where she runs the Madwomen in the Attic writing workshops and teaches in the MFA program. Registration and Directions Fee : Free Location : Welker Room No directions available Event Contact Information Sheryl St. Germain 412-365-1190 sstgermain@chatham.edu 11/19/2009 - 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Jimmy Santiago Baca Reading Born in New Mexico of Chicano and Apache descent, Jimmy Santiago Baca was raised first by his grandmother and was later sent to an orphanage. A runaway at age thirteen, it was after Baca was sentenced to five years in a maximum security prison at the age of twenty-one that he began to turn his life around: there he learned to read and write and found his passion for poetry. Like many Southwestern writers, Baca identifies with the land around him and the myths that are part of his culture. He is the winner of the Pushcart Prize, the American Book Award, the National Poetry Award, the International Hispanic Heritage Award, and, for his memoir A Place To Stand, the prestigious International Award. Baca had two books released March 2004: The Importance of a Piece of Paper (Grove/Atlantic) and Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande(New Directions). Other books include: A Place to Stand, Healing Earthquakes, C-Train & Thirteen Mexicans, Black Mesa Poems, Martin & Meditations on the South Valley, and Immigrants in Our Own Land. His poems reveal an honest, passionate voice and powerful imagery full of the dark jewels of the American Southwest landscape (llanos, mesas, and chiles) and the chaotic urban landscape (nightclubs, rusty motors, and bricks) woven into a rich lyricism sprinkled with Spanish. It is this style and careful attention to language that won him an American Book Award in poetry from the Before Columbus Foundation in 1988 for Martin and Meditations on the South Valley. Movie scripts and productions include Bound by Honor (Blood In, Blood Out), Hollywood Pictures/Disney, and The Lone Wolf —The Story of Pancho Gonzalez, HBO Productions. Registration and Directions Fee : Free Location : Mellon Board Room No directions available Event Contact Information Sheryl St. Germain 412-365-1190 sstgermain@chatham.edu Past Events 01/23/2007 Marcia Bonta, Naturalist and Writer Presentation 01/26/2007 MFA Program Alumni & Student Readings 02/05/2007 Reading by Paolo Corso, Fiction Writer 02/22/2007 Huang Xiang Poetry Readings 02/23/2007 MFA Program Faculty Readings 03/14/2007 Reading by William J. Cobb, Fiction Writer 03/27/2007 Craft Lecture by Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Memoirist & All-Campus Author 03/27/2007 Reading by Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Memoirist & All-Campus Author 04/09/2007 MFA Publishing Class Book Launch 04/16/2007 MFA Program's Fiction Student Readings 04/18/2007 MFA Students Final Readings in Celebration of Graduation 06/22/2007 Lauren Alleyne, Poetry Reading 06/29/2007 Most Wanted Fine Arts Second Anniversary Show 07/27/2007 Most Wanted Fine Arts Presents: Bands, Artists and Writers 08/17/2007 Summer Graduation MFA Readings and Reception 08/27/2007 New MFA Graduate Student Orientation and Reception 09/06/2007 International Writers Read from their Work 09/21/2007 Claudia Emerson, Poetry Reading 10/01/2007 Ander Monson, Author 10/25/2007 Fourth River Release Party 10/30/2007 Jenny Erpenbeck (German) and Susan Bernofsky (Translator) 11/06/2007 Nancy Pagh, Poetry Reading 12/07/2007 Vijay Nair Reading 01/11/2008 Aubrey Hirsch, Michael Simms, Christy Diulus Reading 01/23/2008 Film Screening of Roddy Doyle's "The Commitments" 01/28/2008 Conversation and Question and Answer Session with Roddy Doyle 01/29/2008 Andrew Wingfield, Fiction Reading 02/04/2008 Marc Harshman, Children's Book Author and Poet 02/11/2008 MFA Fiction Candidate Tyrone Jaeger Reading and Presentation 02/12/2008 MFA Fiction Candidate Jessica Weintraub Reading and Presentation 02/13/2008 MFA Fiction Candidate Randall Silvis Reading and Presentation 02/15/2008 Book launch for Sheryl St. Germain's Let it Be a Dark Roux: New and Selected Poems 02/20/2008 David Blair Reading 02/22/2008 Heather McNaugher featured at Pot Luck Readers Series 03/17/2008 Kathy Ayres, Karen Williams, Sally Alexander, Bob Alexander, A Celebration of Children's Writing 03/18/2008 Joel Tarr Lecture and Power Point Presentation on Nine Mile Run - Co-Sponsored by The Rachel Carson Institute 03/27/2008 Teake Zuidema Lecture and Slide Show 03/27/2008 Jenni Ferrari-Adler, Fiction Writer and Editor 04/01/2008 Melanie Brown Lecturer Reading, Debra Marquart 04/18/2008 Chatham MFA in Creative Writing Independent Publishing Class Chapbook Launch 08/29/2008 Peter Oresick and Heather McNaugher Read from Their New Books 10/04/2008 Bridges to Other Worlds: an International Literary Festival 10/31/2008 Spooktacular!! 11/22/2008 Fourth River Release Party 01/13/2009 Lori Wilson Seminar and Reading 02/04/2009 Reading and Discussion with Glaydah Namukasa 02/04/2009 Lori Jakiela Reading 02/10/2009 Ann Pancake Fiction Reading - Melanie Brown Lecturer 02/24/2009 Book Launch of When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women, edited by Andrea Hollander Budy, published by Autumn House Press 03/18/2009 Conversation with Writer Alicia Ostriker 03/27/2009 Jim Tolan Poetry Reading 04/08/2009 Mark Your Calendar - Creative Writing Club Exploratory Meeting 04/10/2009 Mark Your Calendar - Creative Writing Club Exploratory Meeting on Monday! 04/13/2009 Calling ALL Aspiring Writers 04/21/2009 Independent Publishing Book Launch 06/22/2009 Rick Campbell Reading PROGRAM NEWS 05/06 MFA Graduate Students Final Reading 07/31 MFA Graduates Final Reading 07/31 Peter Oresick's Book Launch 07/07 Photos from 2008 Ecuador MFA Field Seminar 04/24 Bridges to Other Worlds: an International Literary Festival 03/20 Randall Silvis' New Book 02/19 Jen McClung's Essay 02/13 Sheryl St. Germain's Let It Be a Dark Roux Book Launch 02/13 Heather McNaugher Reads at Pot Luck Readers Series 01/27 New Student Fellowships for 2008-2009 01/10 Heather McNaugher's New Book 11/27 MFA Low Residency Program to Launch Fall 2008 11/01 Poets and Writers Magazine features Chatham MFA Program 09/27 MFA Program and Faculty Activity for Spring and Summer 2007 08/09 Chatham MFA program named one of five innovative MFA programs     Chatham University Creative Writing Lindsay House • Woodland Road • Pittsburgh, PA 15232