Xavier University Department of English
Ryan Writers Series

 

Upcoming Reading: Keith Tuma & Mark Scroggins
Thursday, October 25, 7:30 PM
McDonald Library, Room 130

Keith Tuma's most recent books are On Leave: A Book of Anecdotes (Salt, 2011), All Our Futile Grief: A Vicarious Vacation in London (Juice Press, 2010, with photographs by Billy Simms), and The Paris Hilton (Critical Documents, 2009). He is Professor of English and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Science at Miami University, where he directs the Miami University Press. Photo Credit: Diane Tuma

Mark Scroggins was educated at Virginia Tech and Cornell University, and lives in south Florida, where he teaches and directs the graduate program in English at Florida Atlantic University. His books of poetry are Anarchy (Spuyten Duyvil, 2003), Torture Garden: Naked City Pastorelles (Cultural Society, 2011), and Red Arcadia (Shearsman Books, 2012). His The Poem of a Life: A Biography of Louis Zukofsky (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007) was widely reviewed. He writes regularly on contemporary poetry for Parnassus: Poetry in Review and Chicago Review, and has published critical essays in a wide range of journals and collections.

 

For further information, contact Dr. Norman Finkelstein, 513-745-2041, finkel@xavier.edu