Events at Butler
4/8- MFA Graduate Readings
ECCW, 7:00 PM
Join the MFA community to celebrate the success of our graduating class as the 2016 Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing class presents a thesis reading. Appetizers will be served. The April 7th reading will feature Elisabeth Giffen (fiction), Laura Kendall (creative nonfiction), Thaddeus Harmon (poetry), Rachel Sahaidachny (poetry), and Lisa (Sims) Washington (fiction).
4/7- 4/17 Butler ArtsFest
Various locations and times
Time. We measure it in minutes, in beats, and in breaths. It marks where we’ve been, tells us where we are, and charts where we’re going. It bridges our past, present, and future. We spend it, and we waste it. It can be suspended in a dream or even warped in a memory. But what exactly is it? Join us on the exploration at Butler ArtsFest 2016: Time and Timeless, featuring 40+ events in 11 days! View a calendar of events, shows, concerts, lectures, and more.
4/12- BJ Hollars Talk and Q & A
JH 306, 5:15 PM
Award-winning American author BJ Hollars will be giving his talk, “Editing an Anthology: From Pitch through Publication” followed by a Q & A. BJ Hollars was editor of Pressgang’s first title, Monsters: a Collection of Literary Sightings. Hollars will also be speaking later that night at the Thirsty Scholar at 7:00.
4/15 – Poetry Luncheon
ECCW, 12:30 PM
Don’t miss your last chance to attend PLH this semester! RSVP by email to Mindy at least 24 hours in advance, lunch is free and you will receive a selection of poems so no book purchase is necessary. If you haven’t been to a poetry lunch hour yet, here’s what a regular participant says, “Poetry lunch hour has been a wonderful opportunity to read and discuss contemporary poets in a relaxed yet academically curious environment. It’s a combination of three of my favorite things: poetry, food, and good company.” This session will feature discussion of three poets(!): Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Danez Smith, and Heather Christle, in advance of their visit to Butler for the Divedapper Poetry Festival in May.
4/15- MFA Graduate Readings
ECCW, 7:00 PM
The 2016 Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing class will present a thesis reading. Join the MFA community to celebrate the success of our graduating class. Appetizers will be served. The second graduate reading will celebrate the work of Dave Marsh (fiction), Ashley Petry (creative nonfiction), and Lisa Renze-Rhodes (creative nonfiction).
4/30- Publication Panel and Graduation Party
ECCW, 1:30 PM
The day starts out with morning meetings 1:1 with pub panelists and our graduating students, followed by a lunch for grads and panelists. The panel itself is open to the entire MFA community and will start at 1:30pm. After an hour’s break to reset the space, the day will finish off with our graduation party 3:30-6:30pm including catered appetizers and a beer & wine bar. Alumni are welcome to join us for the panel and grad party.
Events in Indy
Diane Seuss’s most recent poetry collection, Four-Legged Girl, was published in 2015 by Graywolf Press. Her fourth collection, Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2018. She has published widely in literary magazines including Poetry, The Iowa Review, New England Review and The New Yorker.
The award-winning poet will read from his most recent book of poems, The Big Smoke which received the 2014 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award, the 2014 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.
Celebrated children’s and young adult author Jacqueline Woodson, winner of the National Book Award and Newbery Honor Medal, will present the 39th annual Marian McFadden Memorial Lecture.
4/30- Night of Vonnegut
Indiana History Center, 6:00 PM
The seventh annual Night of Vonnegut—the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library’s signature event—will feature New York Times bestselling author and Dear Sugar podcast co-host, Steve Almond. Broadcast journalist and political reporter Jim Shella will host the event and author Dan Wakefield will present the Kurt Vonnegut Writing Award and the Jane Cox Vonnegut Writing Award to two Shortridge High School students.
Big congratulations to Butler Master in Fine Arts in Creative Writing students Dave Marsh and Andrea Boucher.
Andrea Boucher, MFA creative nonfiction candidate, continues to have amazing publishing success, this time at The Rumpus. Andrea heard from the editor the day after she submitted her essay and was thrilled they snatched it up so quickly. The editor wrote, “[Your essay] has a perspective our readers will find compelling.” Andrea said, “Getting published by The Rumpus was one of my personal goals. The Rumpus is Roxanne Gay and Cheryl Strayed.” The Rumpus is home to Strayed’s “Dear Sugar” column and Gay is the Essays Editor Emeritus and had one of the original columns. Andrea’s humorous and brutally honest essay, “Not an Alcoholic” will appear in the next few months. Until then, here’s a little teaser: