Creative writing major Aidan Ryan ’14 is the author of an interview included in Conversations with George Saunders, just published by the University of Mississippi Press.
Other contributors include Zadie Smith, Ben Marcus, and Deborah Treisman. Ryan is Senior Vice President for Crisis and Risk at the Edelman firm, and founder and publisher of Foundlings Press.
Submitted by: Mick Cochrane, Professor of English and Creative Writing
The second in a series of inaugural events leading up to the installation of President Steve Stoute takes place tomorrow, Thursday, October 20.
Rev. Greg Boyle, founder of Homeboy Industries, the largest gang-intervention, rehabilitation and re-entry program in the world, and the author of three bestselling books, will visit Canisius as part of the Contemporary Writers Series.
Boyle will speak twice in the Montante Cultural Center. At 4:00 p.m., he will address Canisius College students, faculty and staff, and at 7:00 p.m., he will speak again at an event that is open to the public. There are no tickets or reservations for either event; seating is first-come, first-served, with doors opening a half-hour before the event. Books will be for sale in the evening from Talking Leaves.
The 7:00 p.m. event will be live streamed. To request the link, Email series coordinator Mick Cochrane (cochrane@canisius.edu).
To add the 7:00 p.m. event to your digital calendar, click here.
Click here to view the full list of inaugural events that are planned.
Submitted by: Mick Cochrane, professor, English
Michael Longley in Montante Cultural Center, 2018
Irish poet Michael Longley, who gave the 16th Annual Hassett Reading at Canisius College in 2018, has been awarded the €250,000 (£216,000) Feltrinelli International Prize for Poetry, awarded every five years by the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome.
Longley will accept the prize at a ceremony on November 11, 2022. Previous winners include W H Auden, Eugenio Montale and John Ashbery. You can read more by clicking here.
Submitted by: Mick Cochrane, professor, English
