Festival 2006
Every year, the Archive Literary Festival brings nationally acclaimed authors to Duke University and hosts local writers and faculty members for public readings. With past speakers including Bernard Malamud, Richard Eberhart, James Wright, W.D. Snodgrass, Toni Morrison, John Updike, Elizabeth Bishop, Joseph Heller, and Eudora Welty, the Festival has succeeded in bringing a myriad of talents to the University. More recently, such acclaimed poets, novelists, and essayists as Michael Ondaatje, Sharon Olds, Joyce Carol Oates, Ron Hansen, W.S. Merwin, Don DeLillo, Michael Cunningham, Margaret Atwood, and Alice Walker have read excerpts from their work for Duke students and members of the community. As its history suggests, the Archive Literary Festival is Duke?s premier forum for the celebration of all types of literature.
That esteemed tradition continues this year, with readings and classroom visits from poet Mark Doty and fiction writer Ann Beattie, and a reading from Duke's own Joe Ashby Porter.
Our Mission Statement
The Archive Literary Festival is designed to foster and encourage appreciation and discussion of literature in its many forms and functions. The Festival serves as a forum for discussion and appreciation of different modalities of literary expression amongst Duke students and faculty and the local community.
Sponsors
We're very grateful for the support of this year's many sponsors:
- The Duke LGBT Center
- The Baldwin Scholars Program
- The John Spencer Bassett Fund
- The Rudolph William Rosati Fund
- The University & Cultural Fund
- Duke University Libraries
- The Gothic Bookshop
- Campus Council
- The DSG Student Organization Finance Committee