Direct Loans Akron OH

Times: Thu. 06:30 p.m. - 08:00 p.m.
Email: Cleveland-events@ohioevenfinder.com
Phone: 330-376-9185

Address:
One S. High St
Akron, OH

Description:
Thursday, November 5, 2009, 6:30 - 8 pm Join Akron Art Museum staff for a discussion of Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton. From Murakami's studio to the Basel Art Fair, this book gives readers a glimpse into the art world during an economic boom, when contemporary art was considered "a mass entertainment, a luxury good, a job description and for some, a kind of alternative religion." This program is free, but requires registration. Please call 330.376.9186 x230 to register.

Times: Tue. 07:00 p.m. - 09:00 p.m.
Email: Other-events@ohioevenfinder.com
Phone: 419-289-5957

Address:
Schar College of Education Building
Ashland, OH

Description:
Lynne Sharon Schwartz, author of 21 books, will give a talk on truth in writing. Individuals interested in the Ashland University MFA program are invited to a dinner and open house with Lynne beginning at 5 p.m., by reservation only. Please contact Sarah Wells, swells@ashland.edu, or call 419-289-5957 by October 20 to place your reservation for dinner. The evening talk begins at 7 p.m. Lynne Sharon Schwartz's most recent book is the memoir, Not Now, Voyager. Among her 21 books are the novels The Writing on the Wall; In the Family Way, Disturbances in the Field; Leaving Brooklyn (nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award) and Rough Strife (nominated for a National Book Award).. She is also the author of three story collections; the poetry collection, In Solitary; the memoir, Ruined by Reading, and the editor of The Emergence of Memory: Conversations with W.G. Sebald, a collection of essays and interviews. Her work has been reprinted in The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, The Best American Essays, and many other anthologies, and her reviews have appeared in leading magazines and newspapers. Ms. Schwartz has translated several books from Italian, including A Place to Live: Selected Essays of Natalia Ginzburg, and Smoke Over Birkenau, by Liana Millu. She has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Foundation for the Arts. She has taught writing and literature at colleges and universities in the US and abroad, and is a faculty member at the Bennington College Writing Seminars.

Times: 8:00-8:00pm
Email: Other-events@ohioevenfinder.com
Phone: 419-289-5957

Address:
Schar College of Education Building
Ashland, OH

Description:
C. K. Williams is the author of ten books of poetry, the most recent of which is Collected Poems (2006). The Singing won the National Book Award for 2003, and previous book, Repair, was awarded the 2000 Pulitzer Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. His collection Flesh and Blood received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Williams has also published a memoir, Misgivings: My Mother, My Father, Myself, in 2000, and has published translations of Sophocles' Women of Trachis, Euripides' Bacchae, and poems of Francis Ponge, among others. A book of essays, Poetry and Consciousness, appeared in 1998. Recently he was awarded the Twentieth Annual Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, an honor given to an American poet in recognition of extraordinary accomplishement. Among his honors are awards in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the PEN/Voelcker Career Achievement Award, and fellowships from the Lila Wallace Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment of the Arts. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2003, and teaches in the Writing Program at Princeton University.

Times: 8:00-8:00pm
Email: Other-events@ohioevenfinder.com
Phone: 419-289-5957

Address:
Schar College of Education Building
Ashland, OH

Description:
C. K. Williams is the author of ten books of poetry, the most recent of which is Collected Poems (2006). The Singing won the National Book Award for 2003, and previous book, Repair, was awarded the 2000 Pulitzer Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. His collection Flesh and Blood received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Williams has also published a memoir, Misgivings: My Mother, My Father, Myself, in 2000, and has published translations of Sophocles' Women of Trachis, Euripides' Bacchae, and poems of Francis Ponge, among others. A book of essays, Poetry and Consciousness, appeared in 1998. Recently he was awarded the Twentieth Annual Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, an honor given to an American poet in recognition of extraordinary accomplishement. Among his honors are awards in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the PEN/Voelcker Career Achievement Award, and fellowships from the Lila Wallace Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment of the Arts. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2003, and teaches in the Writing Program at Princeton University.

Times: 8:00-8:00pm
Email: Other-events@ohioevenfinder.com
Phone: 419-289-5957

Address:
Schar College of Education Building
Ashland, OH

Description:
Enid Shomer is the author of four books of poetry and two of fiction, most recently Tourist Season: Stories (Random House), which received the 2008 State of Florida Gold Medal in Fiction and was also selected for Barnes & Noble's "Discover Great Writers" program. Imaginary Men won the Iowa Prize and the LSU/Southern Review Prize. Her poems and stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic, Poetry, Best American Poetry, Best New Stories from the South, etc. and in more than 60 anthologies and textbooks. The recipient of multiple grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Florida Arts Council, Shomer has taught as a visiting writer at the University of Arkansas, Florida State University and The Ohio State University. Since 2002, she has been Editor of the University of Arkansas Press Poetry Series. Two books-Imaginary Men and Stars at Noon: Poems from the Life of Jacqueline Cochran-were the subject of feature interviews on NPR's "All Things Considered" and "Morning Edition." Steven Harvey, creative nonfiction, is the author of Bound for Shady Grove (University of Georgia Press, 2000), a collection of personal essays about his experiences learning to sing and play the traditional music of the Appalachian mountains where he lives. The University of Georgia Press published the book in June 2000. He is also the author of two other collections of personal essays, A Geometry of Lilies (University of South Carolina Press) and Lost in Translation (University of Georgia Press), and the editor of In a Dark Wood: Personal Essays by Men on Middle Age (University of Georgia Press). Harvey is Dean of the Humanities and Professor of English at Young Harris College. He received his Ph.D. in literature from the University of Virginia. He has published pieces in many magazines such as Harper's, DoubleTake, The Georgia Review, The Fourth Genre, River Teeth and Creative Nonfiction, and has been anthologized in In Short, Life Studies, The Fourth Genre, Writing True: The Art and Craft of Creative Nonfiction and other collections. He is a former Governor's appointee to the board of the Georgia Humanities Council and a book reviewer for the Atlanta Journal and Constitution newspaper.