End of Semester Reading

Let us take a moment to reflect on the talented voices we’ve heard during the various events this semester, hosted by the Roosevelt Reading Series:

Amelia Gray, with her brilliant oddness.

Billy Lombardo, realist extraordinaire.

China Miéville, who taught us the metaphorical magic of cephalopods.

Kathleen Rooney, her poetry an exploration into mustached milieus.

The graduate reading, where we said goodbye to five graduating MFAers.

And lastly, upcoming this Friday, the End of Semester reading, which will be a perfect opportunity to celebrate a hard-fought semester, and hear some great writing.

The Roosevelt Reading Series is proud to announce its last reading of the semester, featuring no fewer than eight current MFA candidates. The featured readers will be sharing the newest of the new, the freshest of the fresh, served up at the always-hip Book Cellar!

The reading will be held at the Book Cellar, Friday, December 7, starting at 7pm and likely ending around 8. Free and open to the public, invite your friends!

Feel free to email Interim Director of the MFA Program Peggy Shinner at pshinner@roosevelt.edu with any questions. Hope to see you all there!

The Roosevelt End of Semeter Reading is TOMORROW

Yep,  ol' Poochie isn't lying to you- another Roosevelt MFA semester is rapidly coming to a close.  While this news understandably provokes a base amount of melancholy because some members of the RU community are moving on, and there will be a few months where this blog won't regularly dispense hastily- photoshopped basset hound pictures, don't despair! Tomorrow night at 7 PM, the Book Cellar will play host to the Roosevelt MFA End of Semester Reading.

Come hear the earth-shattering fiction, hail-provoking non-fiction, and volcano-erupting poetry that Roosevelt students have been writing recently. A great way to cap off a storied semester.
 

You said it, Poochie.  You said it.

See you there, friend!

End of Semester Reading Tomorrow

We're 20 times cuter than this guy. And waaay more eloquent.  

 

Alas and Alack, another Roosevelt semester bites the dust. But before us MFAers part ways (for a few weeks) into the tundra that is wintertime Chicago, we shall do what we were meant to do-  read.  

The Roosevelt MFA End Of Semester Reading is tomorrow night, Saturday the 10^th of December, at 7 PM at the Book Cellar in Lincoln Square.  See you there.  

Save The Date!

The Heart is for the love of Roosevelt's MFA Program and for Writing!

We know, we know, it's hard to believe that the semester is almost over, but it is, and in a little more then a month, it'll be time for the End of the Semester Reading! What! So read and save the date very carefully:

December 10th, Saturday, at 7:00pm at the Book Cellar. 

Expect an email in the coming weeks requesting readers! But until then, save that date so you can make it and enjoy your classmate's poems and stories!

Kathleen "The Rooney" Rooney!

 

Christine "The Rooney" Sneed! Just go with it!

And on that note - remember that poetry and non-fiction professor Kathleen Rooney and fiction professor Cristine Sneed are having their joint reading on Monday, November 28th (Doors open at 4:30, reading starts at 5:00)! And that very Thursday, there's the second Grad Reading, December 1st (Doors open at 5:00, reading starts at 5:30)! All at the wonderful Gage Gallery! Fill that calender up with hearts! Or something of equal value that will help you remember!