{"id":18784,"date":"2018-03-12T10:47:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T14:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/news\/article.php?ArticleID=18784"},"modified":"2018-11-29T10:14:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T15:14:19","slug":"18784_english-professors-featured-at-2018-montclair-literary-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/2018\/03\/12\/18784_english-professors-featured-at-2018-montclair-literary-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"English Professors Featured at 2018 Montclair Literary Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 15-18, the <a href=\"http:\/\/succeed2gether.org\/\">Montclair Literary Festival<\/a> begins, featuring English faculty at events both on campus and in town. Aside from the workshops, the events below are all free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FRIDAY, MARCH 16 <\/strong><strong>MICHAEL ROBBINS<\/strong><strong> in conversation with <\/strong><strong>WARREN ZANES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>3.30-4.30pm Equipment for Living: On Poetry and Pop Music <\/strong>How can art help us make sense\u2014or nonsense\u2014of the world? Poet and MSU faculty member <strong>Michael Robbins<\/strong> has a refreshing, insightful take on how poetry and popular music can serve as essential tools for living. He talks with local musician and Tom Petty biographer <strong>Warren Zanes <\/strong>about his new book of &#8220;brilliant, illuminating criticism.&#8221; School of Communications and Media, Montclair State University.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SUNDAY, MARCH 18 <\/strong><strong>FLASH FICTION WORKSHOP<\/strong><strong> with <\/strong><strong>DAVID GALEF<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>10.00\u201311.00am<\/em><\/strong><strong> Flash Fiction Workshop with David Galef<\/strong><br \/>\nFlash fiction stories, narratives under 1000 words are everywhere these days, from zines to cell phones. But what works in such a small space? <strong>David Galef<\/strong>, the creative writing program director of Montclair State University and author of a dozen books, including <em>Brevity: A Flash Fiction Handbook,<\/em> leads you through the possibilities in a flash presentation and workshop to get you started. <strong><em>Tickets $25<\/em> <\/strong>Succeed2gether, 11 Pine Street, Montclair, 07042.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DR. LUCY McDIARMID<\/strong> speaking on <strong>Irish Women&#8217;s Writing<\/strong> at the Montclair First Congregational Church, 40 S. Fullerton Ave., Montclair, NJ 07042. March 17, 11:00am-12pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>DR. LAURA NICOSIA<\/strong> speaking on the<strong> Current State of Public Education<\/strong> at the Montclair Public Library, 50 S. Fullerton Ave., Montclair, NJ 07042. March 17, 11:00am-12pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>DR. PATRICIA MATTHEW <\/strong>speaking on <strong>Women, Sex, Power, and the #MeToo Movement <\/strong>at the Montclair Public Library, 50 S. Fullerton Ave., Montclair, NJ 07042. March 17, 2:45pm-3:45pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>DR. LAURA NICOSIA<\/strong> and <strong>DR. JIM NICOSIA<\/strong> speaking on <strong>New Directions in the Young Adult SF\/Fantasy Novel<\/strong> at the Montclair First Congregational Church, 40 S. Fullerton Ave., Montclair, NJ 07042. March 17, 2:45pm-3:45pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 16, 17, 18 &#8211; Various Locations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":118784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-57_english-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207295,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18784\/revisions\/207295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}