FOOTHILLS WRITERS SERIES, SPRING 2012
The Foothills Writers Series presents international, national, regional, and local writers reading their own works. For over 36 years, this series has been a fine slate of writers to the Peninsula to pique your interest and keep you reading and writing so please join us. Readings are free and open to the public. Held in the Maier Performance Hall from 12:35 to 1:25 pm unless otherwise noted.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2012
Writer-In-Residence, Reading Oxygen, 12:30:00 PM, Maier Performance Hall
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Award-winning Seattle novelist and physician Carol Cassella is coming to the Olympic Peninsula April 17-19 as Peninsula College’s 12th writer-in-residence.
Cassella graduated from Duke University with a degree in English Literature. After working in publishing for several years, Cassella decided to pursue her fascination with the ways humans behave and misbehave by studying medicine. She initially intended to become a psychiatrist, but when she found she couldn’t separate the body and the soul, she veered into internal medicine and then, six years later, into anesthesiology. She is board certified in both medical specialties.
Her first novel, Oxygen, is the story of an anesthesiologist tangled in the aftermath of an operating room catastrophe and has become a national bestseller. Published in 2008, Oxygen was chosen as an Indie Best Pick for July of that year and was also selected as one of the best first novels of the year by The Library Journal. It was released as a trade paperback in June 2009.
Casella’s second novel, Healer, takes a hard look at a faulty health-care system. Published in 2010, it also became an Indie Best Pick, selected for September of the same year.
Prior to writing fiction, Cassella wrote about global public health issues in the developing world for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 2012
Gary Copeland Lilley , 12:30:00 PM, Maier Performance Hall
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Celebrate National Poetry Month with Foothills Writers Series and Port Townsend poet Gary Copeland Lilley. His time aboard a nuclear submarine in the Navy serves as subject for his most recent book of poems, Alpha Zulu. One reviewer says, “Lilley’s power comes partly from his sound: syncopated, densely compacted, defiantly resigned.”
He has also authored The Reprehensibles, and Black Poem. His stories and poems have been published in many journals and anthologies, including ,Willow Springs Journal, The African American Review, Drum Voice, The New Orleans Review, Eighty-eight, Gargoyle, Cabin Fever, and Beyond the Frontier.
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THURSDAY, MAY 17, 2012
Tess Gallagher , 12:30:00 PM, Little Theater (J-16)
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“There may be no American poet more overdue for an anthology than Tess Gallagher,” declares Seattle Times book critic Charles R. Cross. Studium Generale and Foothills Writers Series are proud to welcome Tess Gallagher, our own world renowned poet and local Port Angelean, to the stage to introduce her new anthology Midnight Lantern. It contains poems from Instruction to the Double which won the Elliston Book Award for best book of poetry from a small press and Moon Crossing Bridge. Two dozen new works complete the anthology. Cross calls it “worthy and deeply moving [,] firmly rooted in the Northwest.”
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 06, 2012
Tidepools Art and Literary Magazine , 12:30:00 PM, Maier Performance Hall
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| Tidepools Literary Magazine’s 48th Issue Release Party—Join the student co-editors of Peninsula College’s own campus and community literature, art, and music magazine for the release of the 2012 issue. The artists, musicians, and writers featured are invited to share their work with the audience and celebrate the official release of this year’s magazine as it rolls into their hands “hot off the presses”.
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This program has vigorously observed principles of equal opportunities, not
discriminating on the basis of color, national origin, sex, or handicap. If you
or someone you know might be interested in reading, please contact the
co-directors. We encourage unestablished writers—of prose as well as of
poetry—to apply.
We do not censor our readers in any way, and audience members may be offended by a
reader’s language. Nevertheless, we feel this freedom of expression is
necessary.