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Upcoming Events
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Apr
9
The Aetna Celebration of Creative Nonfiction6:00pm
The Aetna Celebration of Creative Nonfiction
Thursday, April 9th, 2020
06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Storrs Campus UConn Bookstore
The Aetna Celebration of Creative Nonfiction with Stephen Kuusisto. April 9th at the UConn Bookstore in Storrs Center. 6:00 pm reading. Readings are free and open to the public.
Stephen Kuusisto directs The Burton Blatt Institute’s Interdisciplinary Programs in disability studies at Syracuse University where he holds a University Professorship. He is the author of the memoirs Planet of the Blind (1997), which was a New York Times “Notable Book of the Year,” Eavesdropping: A Memoir of Blindness and Listening (2006), Have Dog, Will Travel: A Poet’s Journey (2018), and of the poetry collections Only Bread, Only Light (2000) and Letters to Borges (2013). A graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and a Fulbright Scholar, he has taught at the University of Iowa, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, and The Ohio State University. His daily blog “Planet of the Blind” is read globally by people interested in disability and contemporary culture.
