Author: Liam Otten

HackerAward-winning poet Marilyn Hacker will read from her work at 7 p.m. Friday, March 18, at Washington University’s Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. The author of 11 books of poetry and essays, Hacker is a cancer survivor and prominent lesbian activist as well as an influential literary editor and a gifted translator. Much of her work details her own struggles with breast cancer and the loss of friends to AIDS. The talk sponsored by The Center for the Humanities and The Writing Program, both in Arts & Sciences, in conjunction with the Kemper Art Museum’s Inside Out Loud: Women’s Health in Contemporary Art.

Seth Carlin, David Halen and Michael Haber will take the stage at 8 p.m. March 18 in the Whitaker Hall auditorium.

CarlinWashington University’s Eliot Trio will highlight late piano trios by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johannes Brahms at 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 15, in the auditorium of Uncas A. Whitaker Hall for Biomedical Engineering. The Eliot Trio consists of Seth Carlin, professor of music and director of the piano program in Washington University’s Department of Music in Arts & Sciences; David Halen, concertmaster for the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra; and guest cellist Michael Haber, professor of music at the University of Akron.

The American College Dance Festival Association event will feature student and faculty dancers from 20 universities across nine states.

His Cocktails, a harrowing yet disturbingly witty collection of works, is a finalist for this year’s National Book Critics’ Circle Award in poetry.

File PhotoHundreds of college dancers from across the Midwest will visit Washington University March 3-6 as part of the American College Dance Festival Association’s (ACDFA) 2005 Central Region Festival. One of 10 regional ACDFA events, the Central Region Festival brings together approximately 300 student and 50 faculty dancers representing 20 colleges and universities from nine states, along with nationally renowned choreographers David Dorfman, Donald McKayle and Trinette Singleton, who will serve as adjudicators.

Written and composed by alum Eric Dienstfrey, the special, one-night-only performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 18.

Benjamin Allen, a music major in Arts & Sciences, will present a senior honors recital on at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 25, at Grace United Methodist Church. The concert, which is free and open to the public, reflects three distinct areas that Allen has pursued at Washington University: composition, conducting and trombone.

Photo by Shawn G. HenryPowellPoet D.A. Powell, a finalist for this year’s National Book Critics’ Circle Award in poetry, will read from his work at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 3, as part of Washington University’s Writing Program Spring Reading Series.

The City as Subject: Urban Books, on view in Olin Library Special Collections through Feb. 21, features 56 artists books whose subject is the city. Sixteen of the books were created by students as part of the interdisciplinary course “Urban Books: Imag(in)ing St. Louis,” which Lima and Harper co-taught last fall thanks to a grant from the Sam Fox Arts Center.