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Juan Martinez enthralls in latest Visiting Writers event
On Thursday, Sept. 29, Visiting Assistant Professor of English Juan Martinez graced Kimball Auditorium with an intimate reading of his two new short stories. Martinez, whose work has been published in...
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On certain Thursday nights, students and community members gather to fall under the storyteller’s spell. The Visiting Writers Reading Series was created to bring writers and poets to the college. These...
View ArticleTerrance Hayes spellbinds audience in Visiting Writers reading
Distinguished poet Terrance Hayes was the latest writer to visit campus as part of the Visiting Writers Reading Series, delivering a lively and profound reading of some of his latest work on Thursday,...
View ArticleAward-winning writer Camille Dungy visits campus
On Thursday, Feb. 7, acclaimed author Camille T. Dungy will be visiting Kimball Auditorium in the fourth installment of this year’s Visiting Writers Series. “It is a tremendous event that the campus...
View ArticleAcclaimed writer George Saunders visits campus
Whitman’s Visiting Writers Reading Series welcomes its seventh and final speaker for the year to campus on Thursday, April 26. New York Times bestselling author and columnist George Saunders will share...
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Brenda Shaughnessy Lights Up Kimball Theatre
On Thursday, Oct. 25, Whitman’s Visiting Writers Reading Series welcomed poet and Rutgers University professor Brenda Shaughnessy to Kimball Theatre to a small but lively audience. Shaughnessy lit up...
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Visiting Writer Matt Bondurant Offers Advice, Sheds Light on Hollywood
On Thursday, Nov. 8, the Whitman Visiting Writers Reading Series continued with a visit from novelist Matt Bondurant, who read from his latest novel, “The Night Swimmer.” Photos by Becca Mellema....
View ArticleCreative Voices of Whitman
It is no secret that the Whitman community is one full of passionate people. As a prospective student, I decided to come to Whitman for that reason. Whitties are all really interested in something and...
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Roberta Davidson to Step Down as Whitman English Faculty Member
Photo by Halley McCormick Professor of English Roberta Davidson will bring her 26-year career at Whitman to an end at the end of this year in order to move to southern California to write fiction. This...
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Visiting Writers, Lasting Lessons
Alex Dimitrov reading at the Visiting Writers Series event at the end of September. Photo by Ione Fullerton. When Katrina Roberts arrived at Whitman College 15 years ago, there was no such thing as the...
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