Kiki Petrosino: 2022 Arons Visiting Poet
Monday, November 7, 2022
7:00pm to 9:00pm CST
Diboll Gallery, The Commons, Third Floor
Kiki Petrosino is the author of White Blood: a Lyric of Virginia (2020) and three other poetry books, all from Sarabande. She holds graduate degrees from the University of Chicago and the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop. Her memoir, Bright, is forthcoming from Sarabande in 2022. She directs the Creative Writing Program at the University of Virginia, where she is a Professor of Poetry. Petrosino is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Fellowship in Creative Writing from the National Endowment for the Arts, the UNT Rilke Prize, & the Spalding Prize, among other honors.
Since 1999, the annual Florie Gale Arons Poetry Program has brought a distinguished woman-identified poet to campus for a poetry reading and workshop. The program was established by the daughters of Florie Gale Arons (NC ’50) in 1999 in honor of their mother’s 70th birthday, and family and friends assure that it continues today in her memory.
October 21-23, 2022
Tulane University
We look forward to hosting all Newcomb alumnae for Homecoming 2022. For updates and a full schedule of events, visit https://alumni.tulane.edu/s/1586/Alumni/16/filter.aspx?sid=1586&gid=3&pgid=10701.
2023 Zale-Kimmerling Writer-in-Residence: Min Jin Lee
Monday, March 20, 2023
6:30pm-7:30pm CST
Kendall Cram, Lavin-Bernick Center for University Life, Tulane University
Min Jin Lee is the author of the novel Pachinko (2017), a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, a runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, winner of the Medici Book Club Prize, and a New York Times 10 Best Books of 2017. Lee’s debut novel Free Food for Millionaires (2007) was a Top 10 Books of the Year for The Times of London, NPR’s Fresh Air, USA Today, and a national bestseller. Her writings have appeared in The New Yorker, NPR’s Selected Shorts, One Story, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, Conde Nast Traveler, The Times of London, and Wall Street Journal. In 2019, Lee was inducted in the New York Foundation for the Arts Hall of Fame. She will be a Writer-in-Residence at Amherst College from 2019-2022. She serves as a trustee of PEN America, a director of the Authors Guild and on the National Advisory Board of the Immigration Initiative at Harvard.
Coordinated through the Newcomb Institute, the Zale-Kimmerling Writer-in-Residence program was established by Dana Zale Gerard (NC ‘85), and made possible by an annual gift from the M.B. and Edna Zale Foundation of Dallas, Texas. Since 2006, the Program has been generously supported by Barnes & Noble College Booksellers. In 2010, the program became fully endowed through a gift from Martha McCarty Kimmerling (NC’63), and known as the Zale-Kimmerling Writer-in-Residence program.
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