Students Will Read Original Poems and Stories May 6

‘New Writers Reading’ features work from three creative writing courses

Students from three creative writing classes will read their original poems or stories at 8 p.m. Thursday, May 6 in the back room of Gilbert’s Café.  The students are from creative writing sections taught by Lee Upton, professor of English and writer-in-residence, and Alix Ohlin, assistant professor of English, and Upton’s advanced writing course. An open reading will follow.

The students in the creative writing sections include: Lina Batarags ’12 (Upper Saddle River, N.J.), Jack Beckert ’11 (Warren, N.J.), Justin Bortnick ’13 (Gladwyne, Pa.), Eleanor Clowe ’12 (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.), Kyle deCant ’10 (Orange, Conn.), Carly Ennis ’12 (South Salem, N.Y.), Bailyn Fragner ’13 (Manhattan Beach, Calif.), Eric Friedman ’10 (Manchester, N.J.), Rebecca Hembarsky ’10 (Edinburgh, U.K.), John Knox ’13 (Greenwich, Conn.), Keara McCarthy ’10 (Montclair, N.J.), Taaha Mohamedali ’11 (Woodside, N.Y.), Catherine Munyua ’10 (Thika, Kenya), Amanda Pisetzner ’10 (Puyallup, Wash.), Austin Quinn ’11 (Langhorne, Pa.), Miriam Rosenhaus ’12 (Morristown, N.J.), Margi Schierberl ’10 (West Hartford, Conn.), Lauren Scott ’12 (Somerset, Mass.), Carolyn Spalding ’12 (Wyndmoor, Pa.), Michele Tallarita ’12 (Whitehall, Pa.), Alexandra Von Arx ’13 (Little Silver, N.J.), Julia Welby ’12 (White Plains, N.Y.), and Taylor Worthington ’11 (New Vernon, N.J.).

Students in advanced creative writing are Rachel Abramovitz ’10 (New York, N.Y.), Brienne Bowen ’10 (Sandy Hook, Conn.), Crystal Burey ’10 (Saint Albans, N.Y.), Rethna Eddy ’12 (Philadelphia, Pa.), Courtney Feairheller ’12 (Pottstown, Pa.), Bryan Fox ’10 (Bronx, N.Y.), Mildred Gonzalez ’11 (New York, N.Y.), Rebecca Heslin ’12 (Hellertown, Pa.), Amanda Jones ’11 (Middleton, Wis.), Nathaniel Kelley ’12 (Woodland Park, Colo.), Colin McCullough ’11 (Wood Ridge, N.J.), Ian Potts ’10 (Medfield, Mass.), and Sean Ryon ’12 (Kennett Square, Pa.).