The Stephen Dunn Visiting Writing Series will continue this fall with a twist — one of the artists is a Greek band featuring lyrics from a Stockton University professor.
Writer and graphic essayist Aubrey Hirsch, who’s the author of “Graphic Rage: Comics on Gender, Justice, and Life as a Woman in America,” will speak at 11:20 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 23. Hirsch will read from her new book and answer questions from the audience.
Her essays and comics have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME Magazine, Vox, and elsewhere. She’s the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in literature and an Individual Artist Award from The Sustainable Arts Foundation.
The second artist in this fall’s series is StarWound, a pop-music and spoken-word trio based in Athens, Greece. Their music fuses EDM and synth rock, and the group has performed in several European music festivals, including Eurosonic (Netherlands), the CLAE Festival (Luxembourg) and Colora (Belgium). The band will perform at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27.
For the Stockton show, StarWound will perform “Interiors,” an original piece that unites music, poetry, dance and spoken word, and delves into the social perception of mental illness. The group’s lyrics are collaborations with poets from the East Coast, including Stockton’s Professor of Creative Writing Cynthia Arrieu-King.
Both shows are free, open to the public and will take place in the Campus Center Theatre.
The Stephen Dunn Visiting Writing Series is named after the late Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and distinguished professor emeritus of Creative Writing at Stockton. It’s sponsored by Murphy Writing, the School of Arts and Humanities, the Noyes Arts Garage and the Literature program.
StarWound is co-sponsored by the Dean C. and Zoe Pappes Interdisciplinary Center for Hellenic Studies at Stockton.
For more information, email murphywriting@stockton.edu.
