Monday, April 24, 2006

7:30 pm

Alley Theatre, 615 Texas Avenue

$5 donation, free for students and senior citizens

The award-winning UH Creative Writing Program faculty launched the Inprint Brown Reading Series in 1980. In honor of the Series' 25th anniversary, the current UH Creative Writing Program faculty will give short readings. They include:

Robert Boswell, fiction writer—Century's Son, Mystery Ride

Chitra Divakaruni, fiction writer and poet—The Vine of Desire, The Mistress of Spices

Mark Doty, poet and memoirist—School of the Arts, Firebird

Nick Flynn, poet and memoirist—Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, Blind Huber

Kimiko Hahn, poet—The Artist's Daughter, Mosquito and Ant

Tony Hoagland, poet—What Narcissism Means to Me, Donkey Gospel

Ruben Martinez, creative nonfiction—The New Americans, Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail

Antonya Nelson, fiction writer—Female Trouble, Living to Tell

Robert Phillips, poet and fiction writer—News About People You Know, Spinach Days

Claudia Rankine, poet—Don't Let Me Be Lonely, Plot

Daniel Stern, fiction writer—A Little Street Music, Twice Told Tales