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The Graduate English Department is hosting a Thesis and Field Examination Workshop on Tuesday, November 29th at 7:30 in SAC 300.  Lots of information about the thesis and field examination process will be provided, followed by a question and answer session. Pizza and drinks will be served. Please RSVP to Dr. Hicks by Wednesday, November 23rd at 5:00 p.m.

This Friday afternoon, November 11th , at 4:00 in Vasey Theater , well-known Irish poet Eamon Grennan is staging a dramatic recital by two actors of a verse play he has written called “Hunger.” The play has had great reception where it has played, and it runs less than an hour. Please consider kicking off your weekend with this major cultural event!

The 2012 Villanova Literary Festival lineup has been finalized, and we are in for a great round of readings this spring. All of the readings will be at 7:00 p.m. in the Connelly Center. February 2: Poet C.D. Wright Her poetry includes One with Others (volume; 2011 Lenore Marshall Prize); Rising, Falling, Hovering (volume; Griffin Poetry Prize); One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana (volume; 2003); and Deepstep Come Shining (book-length; 1998). Her honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and the Bunting Institute. February 21: Poet and Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair Juan Felipe Herrera The son of migrant farm workers, he attended UCLA, Stanford, and the University of Iowa. His work includes Half of the World in Light (2008 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry; 2009 PEN/Beyond Margins Award) and 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can’t Cross the Border (2008 PEN West award). Among his honors are two National End