Jeffrey Bean and Darrin Doyle
GVSU Writers Series: Jeffrey Bean and Darrin Doyle
When
Monday, February 15, 2010
7:00 PM
Where
GVSU University Club, DeVos Center, 401 W. Fulton, Pew Grand Rapids Campus
Category
Literary Arts
Description
Jeffrey Bean is an assistant professor of English at Central Michigan University. He received a bachelor's degree of music from Oberlin College and an M.F.A. from the University of Alabama. From 2006-2008 he held the Axton Fellowship in Poetry at the University of Louisville. His poems have appeared in the journals Slate.com, Quarterly West, Redivider, Laurel Review, New Orleans Review, Cimmaron Review, Sycamore Review, and Willow Springs, among others. His first collection, Diminished Fifth, was published by David Robert Books in September 2009. See more at this site.
Darrin Doyle is author of Revenge of the Teacher¿s Pet and The Girl Who Ate Kalamazoo. He graduated from Western Michigan University with an MFA (1999), and received a doctorate from the University of Cincinnati in comparative literature (2006). Doyle currently teaches at Central Michigan University, where he is an assistant professor. He has had short stories published in Puerto del Sol, The Long Story, Cottonwood, Night Train, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Laurel Review, H_NGM_N, Harpur Palate, and other journals. Visit his blog at this site.
The readings are open to the public with free admission. For more information, contact Austin Bunn in the Department of Writing at (616) 331-3601, or bunna@gvsu.edu.