VenueFrick Fine Arts Auditorium 

Date03/21/2013 

Time8:30 PM - 10:00 PM  

Event TypeReading 

GenrePoetry 

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Cost $0.00
 

Description and Reader Names: The PCWS brings notable writers to Pitt’s main campus every year. Thanks to funding from the office of the Dean of Arts & Sciences, the series is free and open to the public and features contemporary writers with extraordinary talent in fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Writers who have come in the past include George Saunders, Maxine Hong Kingston, Gay Talese, Richard Ford, John Edgar Wideman, John McPhee, Dan Chaon, Lucille Clifton, Anne Carson, Mark Doty, and Michael Ondaatje, among others.

The series is free and open to the public because the connection between the public—and the University of Pittsburgh and the writers and teachers within it—is fundamental. Though the PCWS events take place on Pitt’s campus, many members of the greater Pittsburgh community attend the readings and the audiences routinely number 200-250.

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Is this an open mic event? No 

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Address 1Schenley Drive 

Address 2Oakland 

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CityPittsburgh 

StatePA 

Zip15260 

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AuthorUniversity of Pittsburgh Writing Program  

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Facebookhttp://www.facebook.com/PittWriters 

Twitterhttps://twitter.com/pittwriters 

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