Two Rivers Reading
Series
and
The Minnesota Writers Program
The English
Department presents
two exciting series:
The Two Rivers
Reading Series on
the Coon Rapids
Campus, and the
Minnesota Writers
Program on the
Cambridge Campus.
Each semester these
series bring
acclaimed and
award-winning local,
regional, and
nationally-known
authors to campus.
Students study these
authors’ stories,
novels, essays,
plays, or poetry in
their English or
Reading courses.
Students then attend
the readings in
person to meet the
author, ask
questions, and have
their books signed.
Readings are video
recorded to enable
online students
access to these
events.
The English Division
is pleased to offer
these events free to
ARCC students,
faculty, staff,
alumni, and the
general public.
We have been
privileged to
welcome the
following writers to
our campus for
readings and
discussions of their
works as part of the
Two Rivers Reading
Series on the Coon
Rapids Campus:
Spring 2012
Monday, February 27,
11-11:50 a.m. and
12-12:50 p.m,
Legacy Room (Coon
Rapids Campus)
Swati
Avasthi
Avasthi will
read from and
discuss her new
novel Split,
a Minnesota Book
Award nominee. One
reviewer stated that
Split is “a
great novel, full of
compelling
characters and a
knock-your-socks-off
plot.” Split
is a New Voices
Pick, a Young Adult
Fiction Winner
(International
Reading Association
Award), and a Best
Fiction for Young
Adults Award Winner
(YALSA).
Wednesday,
April 11, 1-1:50 and
2-2:50 p.m., Legacy
Room (Coon Rapids
Campus)
Jim Moore
Jim Moore will
read from and
discuss his seventh
poetry collection,
Invisible Strings.
The Star Tribune
said about Moore’s
poetry, “With his
simple poems that
celebrate humanity
and articulate pain,
Jim Moore elevates
economy of phrase to
an art.” His
poems have appeared
in numerous
publications and
journals, including
American Poetry
Review, The Nation,
The New Yorker,
and The
Pushcart Prize
Anthology.
Spring 2011
February
2011
Wang Ping, the
award-winning writer
of poetry, fiction,
and essays, returns
to ARCC to read from
her book of short
stories, The
Last Communist
Virgin, a
Minnesota Book
Award-winning story
collection about
modern China and the
contemporary
Chinese-American
experience.
See the video of her
talk here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv16DAHB82Q
A Reading/Discussion
of August Wilson’s
play Ma Rainey’s
Black Bottom with
Penumbra Theater
Wednesday, February
16, from 12-12:50 &
1-1:50 p.m., in the
Legacy Room
Associate Director
Dominic Taylor,
Education Director
Sarah Bellamy, and
cast members from
St. Paul’s Penumbra
Theatre Company will
lead a reading and
discussion of this
famous Wilson play.
ARCC Day
at the Guthrie
Additionally,
students, alumni,
faculty, and staff
are invited to a
performance of
Wilson’s play and a
post-play discussion
on Sunday, February
27, at 1 p.m.
For more information
about purchasing
tickets for this
event, call Michael
Wall at
763-433-1597.
March 2011
Tracy Youngblom and
Richard Broderick
Poetry Reading
ARCC faculty Tracy
Youngblom will read
from her new
collection of poetry
titled Driving to
Heaven. ARCC
faculty Richard
Broderick will read
from his two books
of poetry titled
Woman Lake and Rain
Dance.
Fall 2010
October 6
Wang Ping reads from
her book of short
stories, The
Last Communist
Virgin, a
Minnesota Book
Award-winning story
collection about
modern China and the
contemporary
Chinese-American
experience.
November 2
Patricia Smith reads
from her poetry
collection,
Blood Dazzler,
a 2008 National Book
Award finalist.
Blood Dazzler
chronicles the
human, physical and
emotional toll
exacted by Hurricane
Katrina.
Spring 2010 Fiction on a Stick:
An Anthology of
Minnesota Writers,
edited by Daniel
Slager. Here
are the writers who
presented at this
session:
John Reimringer,
stories
and
upcoming
novel.
Sarah
Stonich,
novels:
These
Granite
Islands
and
The
Ice
Chorus. Diane
Wilson,
essays
and
memoir.
Wednesday, March 3,
2010
Sean
Hill,
poetry:
Blood
Ties
and
Brown
Liquor
