JOIN THE CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY ENGLISH DEPARTMENT’S CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM FOR March 19 and March 20, 2007 Join us when we open our classroom doors to the public for two exciting days with distinguished writers Erin Belieu, David Jauss, and Michael Catherwood, as they visit the Creighton English Department’s Creative Writing Program to join our classes, read from their works, and answer questions about the writing life. All the events below (except student conferences, as noted) are open to the public and free, thanks to the generosity of Creighton’s College of Arts and Sciences. Please drop by our "hospitality room" to chat with other participants, or just hang out between events! Monday, March 19 9:00-4:30 Hospitality room open, Union Pacific Room, Reinart Library 1:30-2:20 Erin Belieu in "Honors Research in Poetry," Humanities Center 212. 2:30-3:20 Michael Catherwood in “Poetic Forms,” Humanities Center 314 4:00-5:00 Creighton students read from their work, Union Pacific Room, Reinert Library. 7:00-9:00 Author David Jauss reads from his work and answers questions. Reception to follow. Union Pacific Room, Reinert Library. Tuesday, March 20 9:00-4:00 Hospitality room open, UP Room, Reinert Library 9:30-11:30 Student conferences with visiting writers. Open to CU students only. Students must sign up and submit mss. in advance. Union Pacific Room, Reinert Library. 12:00-1:00 Brown-bag reading. Susan Aizenberg, Brent Spencer, and Mary Helen Stefaniak read from their work and answer questions. Union Pacific Room, Reinert Library. 2:30-3:30 David Jauss in "Graduate Creative Writing Workshop," Hitchcock Communication Arts Building, Room 305. 4:00-5:00 NEW VOICES Reading. Come hear the work of CU students. Student readers to be announced. Union Pacific Room, Reinert Library. 7:00-9:00. Poets Erin Belieu and Michael Catherwood read from their work and answer questions. Reception to follow. Union Pacific Room, Reinert Library.

Michael Catherwood Michael Catherwood is a Nebraskan and a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Arkansas — Fayetteville, where he taught for four years. He's been published in the AGNI, Black Warrior Review, Borderlands, CQ, The Georgetown Review, Hawai'i Review, Kansas Quarterly, Mankato Poetry Review, Midwest Quarterly, Pittsburgh Quarterly, Kimera, Nebraska English Journal, Nebraska Review, Plainsongs (for which he serves as an essayist), and elsewhere. He is the author of the collection Dare (The Backwaters Press, 2006). He graduated from the University of Nebraska — Omaha with a BFA, working full-time as a truck driver for fourteen years, attending school at night until he received his degree. He has won an Intro Award in Poetry from AWP and the Holt Prize in Poetry. In 1994 he was one of fourteen national finalists for the Ruth Lily Collegiate Fellowship. He has also won the Lily Peter Fellowship from the University of Arkansas and was a finalist for the Pig Iron Press Poetry Book Award. He teaches English at Creighton University.

David Jauss David Jauss is the author of two collections of short stories, Black Maps and Crimes of Passion, and two books of poems, You Are Not Here/i> and Improvising Rivers. He has also edited two anthologies, The Best of Crazyhorse: Thirty Years of Poetry and Fiction and, with Philip Dacey, Strong Measures: Contemporary American Poetry in Traditional Forms. His fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in numerous magazines, including Arts & Letters, The California Quarterly, The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, The Missouri Review, The Nation, New England Review, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, and The Writer's Chronicle. His work has also been translated into Indonesian, Farsi, and Braille and read over Voice of America radio. Campus Map