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August 24, 2017 to September 4, 2017

Join CLA at the Minnesota State Fair

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Visit us if you’re heading to the Great Minnesota Get-together. College of Liberal Arts departments and researchers will be in the U of M Central Crossroads building and the Driven to...

September 14, 2017

Lesley Nneka Arimah Reading

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Arimah is the author of the 2017 story collection What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky. She is a winner of a 2017 O. Henry Prize for short story. In fall 2017, she is teaching...

September 26, 2017

Alan Shapiro Reading

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Shapiro is the author of over 13 poetry volumes, including Life Pig (2016), Reel to Reel, a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize, and Night of the Republic (2012). He has also published two...

October 6, 2017

Lydia Davis Reading

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Davis is the author of numerous volumes of essays and short stories, including the collections Can’t and Won’t: Stories (2014) and The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis (2009). She was a...

October 25, 2017

Edwidge Danticat: "The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story"

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Danticat is the author of several novels, children’s books, and memoirs, including Brother I’m Dying, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award...

November 2, 2017

Yiyun Li Reading

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Yiyun Li is the author of the collection A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, which won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and the PEN/Hemingway Award. She's also published two...

November 9, 2017

Afaa Michael Weaver & Marcus Wicker Reading

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Afaa Michael Weaver (photo) is the author most recently of the poetry collection Spirit Boxing (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017), His volume City of Eternal Spring won the 2015 Phillis...

November 14, 2017

Mary Ruefle Reading

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Ruefle is the author of the compendium of lectures Madness, Rack, and Honey, (2012), her genre crossing volume My Private Property (2016), and several collections of poetry, most recently...

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Join CLA at the Minnesota State Fair

Lesley Nneka Arimah Reading

Alan Shapiro Reading

Lydia Davis Reading

Edwidge Danticat: "The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story"

Yiyun Li Reading

Afaa Michael Weaver & Marcus Wicker Reading

Mary Ruefle Reading

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