Program Details

Cornelius Eady, The War Against the Obvious

Instructor: TBA
Class Meetings: June 3-4, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Author Appearance: June 5, 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Poet, librettist, co-founder of Cave Canem, and author of numerous books, Cornelius Eady is the recipient of numerous honors, including, most recently, the Strousse Award from Prairie Schooner, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award, and individual fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Please read The War Against the Obvious before the start of this literary salon.

Eileen Myles, Afterglow: A Dog Memoir 

Instructor: TBA
Class Meetings: June 3-4, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Author Appearance: June 6, 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Poet, writer, and author of more than 20 books, Eileen Myles has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Lambda Literary, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and other organizations.

Please read Afterglow before the start of this salon.

Dawn Raffel, The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies

Instructor: Andrew Zornoza
Class Meetings: June 10-11, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Author Appearance: June 13, 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Author of short stories, a novel, a memoir, and a biography,Dawn Raffel was a fiction editor for many years. She helped launch O, The Oprah Magazine, where she served as executive articles editor for seven years, and subsequently held senior-level at-large positions at More magazine and Reader's Digest. She has taught in the MFA program at Columbia University, at the Center for Fiction, and at Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg, Russia; in Montreal; and in Vilnius, Lithuania. She is also a certified yoga instructor and teaches embodied writing.

Please read The Strange Case of Dr. Couney before the start of this salon.

Chelsea Minnis, Baby, I Don't Care

Instructor: Ben Fama
Class Meetings: June 10-11, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Author Appearance: June 12, 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Chelsea Minnis is a poet and the author of several books, most recently Baby, I Don’t Care. Her collection Zirconia (2001) won the Alberta Prize. “Minnis frequently tackles the world of poetry and its conventions as her subjects, reclaiming unfashionable gestures such as the frequent use of ellipses, exclamation marks, and cantilevered similes” (PoetryFoundation.org).

Please read Baby, I Don't Care before the start of this salon.

Mary Gaitskill, Somebody with a Little Hammer: Essays

Instructor: Sharon Mesmer
Class Meetings: June 17-18, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Author Appearance: June 19, 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Novelist, essayist, short story writer, and author of many books, Mary Gaitskill is the recipient of honors including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002 and a PEN/Faulkner Award nomination for Because They Wanted To in 1998. Veronica (2005) was a National Book Award nominee and a National Book Critics Circle finalist for that year. 

Please read Somebody with a Little Hammer before the start of this salon.

Garth Greenwell, What Belongs to You

Instructor: TBA
Class Meetings: June 17-18, 6:00-8:00p.m.
Author Appearance: June 20, 6:00-8:00p.m.

Garth Greenwell is a poet, fiction writer, literary critic, educator, and the author of What Belongs to You. His first novella, Mitko, won the Miami University Press Novella Prize and was a finalist for the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award and the Lambda Literary Award.

Please read What Belongs to You before the start of this salon.