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Poet A. Van Jordan<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Thurs., September 24, 6:30pm, Muskie Archives<\/strong><\/h4>\n

A. Van Jordan is the author of four collections of poetry:\u00a0Rise<\/em>, which won the PEN\/Oakland Josephine Miles Award (Tia Chucha Press, 2001);\u00a0Quantum Lyrics<\/em>, (2007);\u00a0M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A<\/em>\u00a0(2005), which was listed as one the Best Books of 2005 by The London Times; and\u00a0The Cineaste<\/em>, (2013), W.W. Norton & Co. Jordan has been awarded a Whiting Writers Award, an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and a Pushcart Prize. He is also the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, and a United States Artists Fellowship. Jordan has taught at a number of academic institutions including the University of North Carolina Greensboro, The University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; he currently serves as the Henry Rutgers Presidential Professor at Rutgers University-Newark.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Elizabeth<\/a><\/strong>Non-Fiction Writer<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Elizabeth\u00a0Rush Mueller<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Wed. Oct.14, 4:15pm,\u00a0<\/strong>Muskie Archives<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Elizabeth\u00a0Rush Mueller is\u00a0an Andrew Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Humanities for the Department of English at Bates College. She is the author of many books including the recently released\u00a0Still Lifes from a Vanishing City: essays and photographs of Yangon<\/em>\u00a0(Global Directions \/Things Asian Press 2015).\u00a0She\u00a0has crossed borders with Bangladeshi cattle smugglers, built homes with Lima\u2019s squatters, and participated in the underground performance art scene in Hanoi, Vietnam. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in\u00a0Granta, Orion, The New Republic, Le Monde Diplomatique, Al Jazeera, Witness, Frieze, Nowhere, Asian Geographic, The Dark Mountain Project<\/em>\u00a0and others. She was recently awarded the Metcalf Institute Climate Change Adaptation Fellowship and is\u00a0currently at work on a book about how five North American communities are responding to sea rise.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Poet Linda Gregerson<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Thurs., Nov. 5, 6:30pm, Muskie Archives<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Chancellor of the American Academy of Poets, Linda Gregerson is the author of seven collections of poetry, including\u00a0New and Selected Poems<\/em>\u00a0(2015);\u00a0The Selvage\u00a0<\/em>(2012);\u00a0The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep<\/em>, which was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Prize and The Poets Prize;\u00a0Magnetic North<\/em>, which was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award; and\u00a0Waterborne<\/em>, which won the 2003 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.<\/em>\u00a0Gregerson\u2019s poems have appeared in\u00a0The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Granta, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review,<\/em>\u00a0Best American Poetry<\/em>, and many other journals and anthologies.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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