phoenix

 

Author events

from the University of Chicago Press

 

July

[jacket image] through July 5, 2009
Jed Fielding
at Chicago Cultural Center, Michigan Avenue Galleries
78 E. Washington St.
Chicago, Illinois
312.744.6630

Jed Fielding, author of Look at me: Photographs from Mexico City, presents an exhibition of the photographs featured in his book.
For more information, please contact Stephanie Hlywak at 773.702.0376.

 

[jacket image] through August 16
Cathy Jean Maloney and others
at the Chicago Tourism Center
72 E. Randolph Street
Chicago, Illinois 60601

See an exhibition focusing on the history, development and wide range of Chicago gardening, with a special focus on Chicago gardens as explored in Cathy Jean Maloney's Chicago Gardens: The Early History. Works by Brad Temkin (Private Places: Photographs of Chicago Gardens, published by Center for American Places and distributed by the University of Chicago Press) and Julia Sniderman Bachrach (The City in a Garden: A Photographic History of Chicago's Parks) will also be on display.
For more information, please contact Ellen Gibson at 773.702.3233.

 

[jacket image] through September 28, 2009
Peggy Macnamara
at the Chicago Botanic Garden, Regenstein Center
1000 Lake Cook Road
Glencoe, IL 60022
(847) 835-5440

Peggy Macnamara, author of Architecture by Birds and Insects: A Natural Art, presents an exhibit at the Chicago Botanic Garden, Regenstein Center: "Finding Nests"
On Display: May 2, 2009 - September 28, 2009.
For more information, please contact Stephanie Hlywak at 773.702.0376.

 

[jacket image] July 7, 2009, 9:30 am
Peter Campion
at New Hampshire College
98 Bridge Street
Henniker, NH
jgens@nec.edu
866.387.6432

Peter Campion, author of The Lions, will speak on Gerard Manley Hopkins and contemporary poetry for New Hampshire College's Post MFA Symposium.
For more information, please contact Lindsay Dawson at 773.702.1964.

 

[jacket image] July 8, 2009, 2:00 pm
Peter Campion
at New Hampshire College
Simon Center
98 Bridge Street
Henniker, NH
jgens@nec.edu
866.387.6432

Peter Campion, author of The Lions, will join poet Donald Hall for a reading and panel discussion of Hall's historic essay "Poetry and Ambition".
For more information, please contact Lindsay Dawson at 773.702.1964.

 

[jacket image] July 16, 2009, 7:30 pm
John Schultz
at Barnes and Noble, Clybourn
Webster Place
1441 West Webster Avenue
Chicago, IL 60614
773.871.3610

John Schultz, author of No One Was Killed: The Democratic National Convention, August 1968, will read and sign books.
For more information, please contact Laura Anderson at 773.702.0890.

 

[jacket image] July 27, 2009, 1:00 pm
Peter Campion
at Ashland University
Ridenour Room
Dauch College of Business
401 College Avenue
Ashland, OH 44805
swells@ashland.edu
419.289.5957

Peter Campion, author of The Lions, will host "Work in Progress" — a craft seminar with fellow poet Sonya Huber.
For more information, please contact Lindsay Dawson at 773.702.1964.

 

[jacket image] July 30, 2009, 7:00 pm
Peter Campion
at Ashland University
Ashland University Auditorium
Hawkins-Conard Student Center
401 College Avenue
Ashland, OH 44805
swells@ashland.edu
419.289.5957

Peter Campion, author of The Lions, will read with Sonya Huber.
For more information, please contact Lindsay Dawson at 773.702.1964.

 

August

[jacket image] through September 28, 2009
Peggy Macnamara
at the Chicago Botanic Garden, Regenstein Center
1000 Lake Cook Road
Glencoe, IL 60022
(847) 835-5440

Peggy Macnamara, author of Architecture by Birds and Insects: A Natural Art, presents an exhibit at the Chicago Botanic Garden, Regenstein Center: "Finding Nests"
On Display: May 2, 2009 - September 28, 2009.
For more information, please contact Stephanie Hlywak at 773.702.0376.

 

[jacket image] through August 16
Cathy Jean Maloney and others
at the Chicago Tourism Center
72 E. Randolph Street
Chicago, Illinois 60601

See an exhibition focusing on the history, development and wide range of Chicago gardening, with a special focus on Chicago gardens as explored in Cathy Jean Maloney's Chicago Gardens: The Early History. Works by Brad Temkin (Private Places: Photographs of Chicago Gardens, published by Center for American Places and distributed by the University of Chicago Press) and Julia Sniderman Bachrach (The City in a Garden: A Photographic History of Chicago's Parks) will also be on display.
For more information, please contact Ellen Gibson at 773.702.3233.

 

[jacket image] August 26, 2009, 7:00 pm
Peter Campion
at the Truro Public Library
North Truro, Massachusetts 02652
swells@ashland.edu
508.487.1125

Peter Campion, author of The Lions, will read.
For more information, please contact Lindsay Dawson at 773.702.1964.

 

September

[jacket image] September 19, 2009, 6:00 pm
Michael Forsberg
at the Joslyn Art Museum
2200 Dodge Street
Omaha, Nebraska 68102-1292
402.342.3300

Michael Forsberg launches his new book Great Plains: America's Lingering Wild.
For more information, please contact Mark Heineke at 773.702.3714.

 

[jacket image] September 26, 2009, 4:30 pm
Lee Alan Dugatkin
at the Idea Festival 2009
Kentucky Center
501 West Main Street
Louisville, Kentucky
1.866.966.4607

Lee Alan Dugatkin, author of Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose: Natural History in Early America, will speak. (Pass Required: $20.00)
For more information, please contact Megan Marz at 773.702.7490.

 

[jacket image] through September 28, 2009
Peggy Macnamara
at the Chicago Botanic Garden, Regenstein Center
1000 Lake Cook Road
Glencoe, IL 60022
(847) 835-5440

Peggy Macnamara, author of Architecture by Birds and Insects: A Natural Art, presents an exhibit at the Chicago Botanic Garden, Regenstein Center: "Finding Nests"
On Display: May 2, 2009 - September 28, 2009.
For more information, please contact Stephanie Hlywak at 773.702.0376.

 

[jacket image] September 23, 2009, 7:30 pm
Matthew Schwartz
at the Princeton Public Library
65 Witherspoon St.
Princeton, NJ 08542
609.924.9529 x225

Matthew Schwartz, author of Blessings for the Hands, will read as part of the U.S. 1 Poets Invite Series.
For more information, please contact Lindsay Dawson at 773.702.1964.

 

October

[jacket image] October 28, 2009, 6:00 pm
Dominic Pacyga
at the Harold Washington Library Center
Cindy Pritzker Auditorium
400 S. State St.
Chicago, Illinois
312.745.0994

Dominic Pacyga, author of Chicago: A Biography, will deliver a lecture on Chicago history tracing the city's storied past from the explorations of Joliet and Marquette in 1673 to the new wave of urban pioneers today.
For more information, please contact Laura Andersen at 773.702.0890.