MFA Residency Public Lecture and Reading Schedule -Saturday, July 7th

Here is the schedule for tomorrow, Saturday, July 7th

All lectures will be in Gladfelter, Canon Lounge, unless indicated otherwise.
For more information, call the MFA Office at Warren Wilson College: (828) 771-3715.
The schedule is subject to change. Please check www.friendsofwriters.org for updates.

Saturday, July 7 CHRISTOPHER CASTELLANI: Inventing the Real
9:30 AM
Though it seems like a recent phenomenon, the genre of “alt-history”—in which writers fictionalize the lives of
real people and/or depict alternate versions of actual events—has roots centuries-deep. This lecture will offer a
brief survey of the history of alt-history, but its primary goal is to explore the imaginative space the genre offers
contemporary fiction writers and poets in this so-called “post-truth” era.

Saturday, July 7 SANDRA LIM: Creating and Marking Presence
10:45 AM
This lecture will consider a few of the ways that striking interior landscapes and the effects of presence are
conjured and expressed in poems and in works of fiction. We will also consult some visual artworks that may
help us to talk about things like subjectivity, presence, and ardor in texts. Artists discussed may include Rainer
Maria Rilke, George Oppen, John Ashbery, Sigrid Nunez, Rachel Cusk, Jasper Johns, and Robert
Rauschenberg.

READINGS by FACULTY

Saturday, July 7 ~ 8:00 PM
Michael Parker, Daisy Fried, Robin Romm, Maurice Manning, Peter Turchi, Alan Shapiro