{"id":1058,"date":"2017-08-30T16:06:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T20:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/english\/?page_id=1058"},"modified":"2026-07-14T11:34:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T15:34:00","slug":"lal-fall-2017","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/english\/past-events\/literary-arts-live\/lal-fall-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"LAL Fall 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday, September 28th
\n<\/strong>7:30pm, Muskie Archives 201<\/strong>
\nA reading and conversation with poet
\nGibson Fay-LeBlanc<\/em>
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\"Gibson<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Fay-LeBlanc’s poems have appeared\u00a0in Guernica, Pleiades, Tin House\u00a0and elsewhere, and his first poetry collection,\u00a0Death of a Ventriloquist\u00a0(University of North Texas Press)\u00a0won the Vassar Miller Prize.\u00a0His articles and reviews have appeared in the\u00a0Boston Review,\u00a0Publishers Weekly, and\u00a0Time Out New York.\u00a0Fay-LeBlanc is the program director for Hewnoaks Artist Colony and is Portland, Maine’s poet laureate.\u00a0He lives in\u00a0Portland. This event is free and accessible to all. Followed by a book sale and signing. Contact Robert Farnsworth at rfarnswo@bates.edu or 207-753-6963.<\/p>\n

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Thursday, October 26th<\/strong>
\nPettengill G52, 6:30pm<\/strong>
\nA reading and conversation with fiction writer<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>Jason Ockert<\/strong>
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\n\"Jason<\/a><\/h4>\n

Ockert is the author of the novel Wasp Box (Panhandler Books) and two story collections,Neighbors of Nothing (Dzanc Books) and Rabbit Punches (Low-Fidelity Press). Winner of the Dzanc Short Story Collection Contest, the Atlantic Monthly Fiction Contest, and the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award, Ockert’s short fiction has appeared in Best American Mystery Stories, New Stories from the South, Oxford American, One Story, McSweeney’s, and several other publications. He teaches creative writing at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina.\u00a0This event is free and accessible to all. Followed by a book sale and signing. Contact Jessica Anthony at janthony@bates.edu or 207-753-6963.<\/p>\n

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Thursday, November 30th
\n<\/b>Muskie Archives 201,\u00a07:30pm
\n<\/b>A reading and conversation with poet<\/b>
\n<\/b>Nate Marshall<\/b><\/p>\n

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\"Nate<\/a><\/b>Chicago poet Nate Marshall has published three collections of poetry: Wild Hundreds (University of Pittsburgh Press), winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, Blood Percussion (Button Poetry), and the e-book 1989: A Number (Haymarket Books) with Kevin Coval. He is a coeditor of The BreakBeat Poets: New American\u00a0 Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop and a founding member of the poetry collective Dark Noise. A Cave Canem fellow, his work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, Indiana Review, The New Republic and elsewhere. Marshall recently was awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. He is currently teaching at Northwestern University.\u00a0This event is free and accessible to all. Followed by a book sale and signing. Contact Ther\u00ed Pickens\u00a0at tpickens@bates.edu or 207-753-6963.<\/p>\n

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