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Power of Language:
U.S. Poet Laureate shares poetry, anecdotes

U.S. Poet Laureate Phillip Levine read for members of the Greenville community on April 25 at Greenville Museum of Art. Levine was visiting the area as part of East Carolina University's Contemporary Writers Series.

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Harvard Professor Stephen Burt speaks, studies at ECU

Stephen Burt is Professor of English at Harvard. His books include The Art of the Sonnet, with David Mikics (2010); Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry (2009); Parallel Play, a book of poems (2006); and Randall Jarrell and His Age (2002). His writings on poets and poetry appear regularly in the Nation, the London Review of Books, Boston Review, and other journals in Britain and America. His next book of poems, Belmont, will appear from Graywolf Press in 2013.
Interview with Stephen Burt by John Hoppenthaler

The Thomas Harriot Lecture:
Bland Simpson
“Temperate Air, Requisite Care”—from Thomas Harriot’s “Conclusion” in A Briefe & True Report on the New Found Land of Virginia (1588)
February 2, 7:00 PM, Wright Auditorium

Contemporary Writers Series Visiting Writer
Colum McCann, winner of the 2009 National Book Award for Let the Great World Spin will be visiting campus November 9 and 10.

The Art of Fiction, November 9, 8:00 p.m., Bate 1031
Public Reading, November 10, 7:30 p.m., Greenville Museum of Art

The CWS is sponsored by the ECU Division of Research and Graduate Studies and the Department of English.

PREMIER LECTURE: Sir Salman Rushdie on campus

The North Carolina Literary Review 2011 special feature section focuses on environmental writing in North Carolina and features essays by award-winning writers.

Liza Wieland: My Life in Books

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