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The Rufus & Louise Reiberg Reading Series

The Department of English in the School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI Announces
The Rufus & Louise Reiberg Reading Series for Spring 2012

Founded in 1997 in honor of former IUPUI English Department chair Rufus Reiberg and his wife Louise, the series annually brings national and regional writers to the IUPUI campus to present their work. Past visiting writers have included Jane Smiley, Helen Prejean, Maxine Hong Kingston, Patricia Hampl, Richard Jones, Edward Hirsch, and Martin Espada.

 

Upcoming Readings:

   
 Buzz Spector

February 15, 2012 Artist and Essayist Buzz Spector
Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.
Herron School of Art and Design, Basile Auditorium

Franklin “Buzz” Spector is dean of the College and Graduate School of Art in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. An internationally recognized artist, Spector works in a wide range of media including sculpture, photography, printmaking, book arts, and installation. His work makes frequent use of the book, both as subject and as object, and concerns the relationships among public history, individual memory and perception.

This event is co-sponsored by the Herron School of Art and Design and the IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute.

 

March 8, 2012 International Women’s Day
IUPUI University Library, Lilly Auditorium 6:30 p.m., Opening reception; 7 p.m.

Join community writers, artists and activists to celebrate women’s creativity around the world!

 Patricia Henley

March 22, 2012 Fiction Writer Patricia Henley
Thursday, 7:30 p.m.
University Library Lilly Auditorium

Patricia Henley’s latest story collection, Other Heartbreaks, was published in 2011 by Engine Books. Her first novel, Hummingbird House, was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1999 and the New Yorker Fiction Prize in 2000. Her second novel, In the River Sweet, was published by Pantheon in 2002 and released in paperback in 2004. Her publications also include three collections of stories, Friday Night at Silver Star, The Secret of Cartwheels, and Worship of the Common Heart. She has taught in the MFA program at Purdue since 1987.

 The Legends

April 19, 2012 Etheridge Knight Festival Evening with the Legends
8:00 p.m. Reading featuring distinguished poets Amiri Baraka, Mari Evans, Haki Madhubuti, and Sonia Sanchez
Indiana Landmarks Center, 1201 N. Central Avenue

This special reading brings together four outstanding poets of the Black Arts Movement — a historic first for Indianapolis. For tickets to the VIP reception call (317) 524-6951 or email EK@EKFestival.org.

This event is co-sponsored by the Olaniyan Scholars Program, the IUPUI Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, the Multicultural Support Center and the Etheridge Knight Festival for the Arts.

 

All readings are free and open to the public. IUPUI’s University Library is located at 755 W. Michigan St. The Campus Center is located at 420 University Boulevard. Visitor parking is available in the North Street Garage, 819 W. North St. and the Vermont Street Garage, 1004 W. Vermont Street. For parking information on the IUPUI campus, visit https://www.parking.iupui.edu/visitors.do. For more information about the series, contact Mitchell Douglas at mildougl@indiana.edu or (317) 278-0421.

The Rufus & Louise Reiberg Series is made possible by the generous support of the Reiberg Family; the Etheridge Knight Festival of the Arts; the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the Office of Multicultural Outreach; the Office of Academic Affairs; University College; University Library; the Women’s Studies Program; and the Rebecca Pitts Fund.