To visit the Gifford Auditorium—in HB Crouse Hall on SU’s Campus—take the Connective Corridor bus routes 443 or 543 to University Avenue.

The spring 2010 lineup for Syracuse University’s Raymond Carver Reading Series features poet Alan Shapiro on April 21, 2010 at 3:45 p.m. in the Gifford Auditorium, HB Crouse Hall on Syracuse University’s campus.

Presented by the MFA program in creative writing in SU’s College of Arts and Sciences, the series brings six fiction writers and six poets to campus to read their works and to interact with students. Each event begins with a Q&A session at 3:45 p.m. and is followed by an author reading and book signing at 5:30 p.m.

“Each year, we host a dozen major writers and poets who engage students and the campus community,” says Christopher Kennedy G’88, director of the creative writing program. “This kind of interaction is indicative of the personalized instruction in the creative writing program. It also speaks to our goal of becoming the premier residential liberal arts college in the nation.”

Shapiro is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has published 10 books of poetry, including “Old War” (Houghton Mifflin, 2008). He has been the winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award and a Los Angeles Times Book Award, and he has been a finalist in poetry and nonfiction for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Shapiro is a faculty member of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His latest work is a translation of the Euripides classic The Trojan Women (Oxford University Press, 2009).

For more information about the Raymond Carver Reading Series, call (315) 443-2174.