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Writers Speak Wednesdays is back.
On September 24, Vijay Seshadri—who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for his book of poems, “3 Sections”—will kick off the free fall series at 7 p.m. on the Stony Brook Southampton campus in the Radio Lounge on the second floor of Chancellors Hall.
Born in Bangalore, India, Mr. Seshadri moved to Columbus, Ohio, at the age of 5, where his father taught chemistry at Ohio State University. Educated at Oberlin College and Columbia University, the writer—whose book of poems “The Long Meadow” won the James Laughlin Award—has taught in the creative writing department at Sarah Lawrence College since 1998, and now lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, the Times Book Review, The Yale Review and many anthologies, including “Under 35: The New Generation of American Poets.”
Later this year, the series will also include Nahid Rachlin and Elena Gorokhova on October 8; Alissa Nutting on October 22; Julia Fierro on October 29; Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya on November 5; and Brian Morton, interviewed by former New Yorker fiction editor Daniel Menaker, on November 12. On December 3, the evening will be devoted to readings by students enrolled in the MFA in Creative Writing and Literature Program.
All readings begin at 7 p.m. For more information, call 632-5030 or visit stonybrook.edu/mfa.
Michelle Trauring on Sep 16, 2014