Stephen Dunn Reading Series: Marina Budhos
Galloway, N.J. – Award-winning author Marina Budhos will read excerpts from two of her works as a part of the fall term’s Stephen Dunn Reading Series on Tuesday, Nov. 12, in the Multicultural Center.
Budhos will begin the day at 10:30 a.m. reading an excerpt from her newest novel, “We Are All That We Have” (Wendy Lamb Books, 2022), which centers on the story of a teenager navigating her senior year after her mother is taken by the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement despite their asylum case.
Following that reading, Budhos will meet with Associate Professor Adalaine Holton’s class, LITT 3319 Slavery and the Cultural Imagination, and read from “Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Spice, Magic, Slavery, Freedom and Science” (Clarion Books, 2010), a nonfiction anthology about the worldwide sugar trade that Budhos co-wrote with her husband, Marc Aronson.
Both talks are open and free for the public and will be simulcasted via Zoom.
About Marina Budhos
Budhos has received an NEA Literature Fellowship, a Rona Jaffe Award for Women Writers, three Fellowships from the New Jersey Council on the Arts and has been a Fulbright Scholar to India. A graduate of Cornell and Brown universities, she is a professor emerita in English at William Paterson University and frequently gives talks throughout the country and abroad.
About The Stephen Dunn Reading Series
Named after the late Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and distinguished professor emeritus of Creative Writing, the series is sponsored by: Murphy Writing of Stockton University; the William T. Daly School of General Studies; The Literature program in the School of Arts & Humanities; and Board of Trustee member Madeleine Deininger, '80.
2024
- Emily Van Duyne –Author and faculty member
- Emily August & Emily Van Duyne (faculty) and Liz Myers & Moheeba Khan (alumnae)
2023
- Marciela Guerrero – Poet, writer, teacher and International Visiting Writer in Residence for Fall 2023
- Jordan Calhoun – Author, editor-in-chief of Lifehacker
- Jane Wong– Author, artist and poet
- Dolen Perkins-Valdez– New York Times bestselling author
- Nathan Long & Nancy Reddy (LITT faculty) and Michelle Servellon & Jenna Geisinger (alumnae)
2022
- Joshua Cohen– Pulitzer Prize in Fiction winner
Stockton Remembers Stephen Dunn
November 4, 2021
Galloway, N.J. - Much like what Stephen Dunn looked for in poetry, the tribute to his life and work on Wednesday evening was filled with lightness, variety and grace. Tears were shed, but even more laughs were shared as friends, former students and colleagues remembered the man they knew and admired.
“He loved Stockton, and he loved South Jersey,” said Peter Murphy, founder of Murphy Writing of Stockton University. “He wrote many of his best poems about the landscapes and the people who he lived among.”
Dunn, a distinguished professor of creative writing at Stockton, authored 21 books of poetry and two books of prose. In 2001, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his book “Different Hours.” He joined Stockton in 1974 and taught at the university for more than 40 years. He started the Visiting Writer Series at Stockton, which brought some of the greatest writers of the 20th and 21st centuries, including Robert Bly and Lucille Clifton, to the university throughout the years. Dunn passed away in June on his 82nd birthday.
Reported by Eliza Hunt
