Poet D. A. Powell. (Photo by Trane DeVore).
Fiction writer Ann Beattie and poet D. A. Powell are set to read from their works as part of the Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series of the Program in Creative Writing at the Lewis Center for the Arts on April 16, starting at 4:30 p.m.
Princeton senior and Program in Creative Writing thesis candidate Cameron White will also read from his fiction thesis project.
Beattie is a short story writer and novelist whose work has been included in four O. Henry Award Collections and in John Updike’s The Best American Short Stories of the Century. She has been honored with the PEN/Malamud Award for achievement in the short story form and the Rea Award for the Short Story.
Her short story collections include Distortions, Secrets and Surprises, The Burning House, Perfect Recall and The New Yorker Stories. Her novels are Chilly Scenes of Winter, Falling in Place, Picturing Will, Another You and The Doctor’s House. Recently she wrote the non-fiction work, Mrs. Nixon.
She is professor emerita of literature and creative writing at the University of Virginia.
D. A. Powell’s most recent book, Useless Landscape, or a Guide for Boys: Poem, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry. He is the author of the trilogy of books Tea, Lunch and Cocktails, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His poetry collection Chronic received the Kingsley Tufts Award and was also nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award.
Powell has received a Paul Engle Fellowship from the James Michener Center, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America.
He currently teaches at the University of San Francisco.
The event is free and open to the public.
It will take place at the Berlind Theatre at the McCarter Theatre Center located at 91 University Place, Princeton.
More information is online at arts.princeton.edu.
