Colgate has a longtime love of the written word. Nationally honored faculty members teach creative writing and acclaimed writers are brought to campus as guest lecturers. Each summer the university hosts the Colgate Writers' Conference, which brings together aspiring writers and accomplished professionals.
This podcast series -- Colgate Conversations: Writers and their craft -- is a new way to share the passion for writing that is such an important part of the Colgate tradition. Host Matt Leone speaks with authors, including Colgate alumni, about their writing styles and processes.
You can listen to each episode by simply clicking on a link below, downloading the file to your computer to listen to later, or by subscribing to the series.
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Tim Suermondt, poet, author of two chapbooks
Poetry has appeared in many journals, including Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Barrow Street, and The Georgia Review, as well as online journals.
(Episode 4: Tim Suermondt)
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Justin Cronin, author of widely praised Mary and O'Neil
Novel-in-stories won the 2002 PEN/Hemingway Award and the Stephen Crane Prize, both for best debut fiction of the year.
(Episode 3: Justin Cronin)
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Kim Edwards '81, author of The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
Alumna's novel about child with Down syndrome was a literary phenomenon and surprise summer reading hit.
(Episode 2: Kim Edwards '81)
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Peter Balakian, Colgate professor, poet, and best-selling author
Balakian, author of The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response, answers questions about his life as a poet and as a voice in the political and cultural life of the United States and of Armenia.
(Episode 1: Poet Peter Balakian)
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