Center Reading Series
RagTag Reading Series
Graduate Student Reading Series

Center Reading Series

Featured Readers: Jason Bredle & Simone Muench
Thursday |February 14, 2008 | 8:00 p.m. | Cherry Street Artisan
free and open to the public

Reviews of Jason Bredle's first book, Standing in Line for the Beast (New Issues, 2007) "dazzlingly sharp and funny," with "wonderfully awful moments of levity." His second book, Pain Fantasy, is now out from Red Morning Press.

Simone Muench's work has been praised for its "enormous grief and enormous optimism and joy," and its "depth of identification with mastery." Her four books of poetry are Lampblack & Ash (Sarabande, 2007), the chapbook Notebook.Knife.Mentholatum (Diagram/NMP), The Air Lost in Breathing (Helicon Nine), and Love's Apostrophes (Sheila Na-Gig).

Graduate student readers: Marc McKee and Katy Didden

Cherry Street Artisan | 111 South 9th St | Columbia, MO | Web

Ragtag Reading Series

free and open to the public

Co-sponsored by the Ragtag Cinema and MU's Center for the Literary Arts, this reading series pairs graduate students and faculty members from the Creative Writing Program with writers from around the state for readings on select Tuesdays, September through November and February through April. Held in Ragtag Cinemacafe in the heart of the historic downtown district, these readings allow our students to reach a diverse audience outside the university in a warm and intimate environment.

Ragtag Reading Series | 23 North 10th Street | Columbia, MO 65201 | Web

Graduate Reading Series

Robert Foreman and Allyson Miller
Friday | October 26, 2007 | 4:00 p.m. | A.P. Green Chapel, Memorial Union
free and open to the public

With monthly readings in Tate Hall during the Fall and Winter semesters, this series serves to bookend the progress of the Creative Writing graduate students. The Fall series consists of readings by the incoming M.A. and Ph.D. students in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction; the Winter series is devoted to farewell readings by writers who will soon be graduating from the program.