January 26: Prose Reading featuring Carl Hancock Rux

On Tuesday, January 26, the Creative Writing program will feature Carl Hancock Rux at the Spring Semester Prose Reading. The event will take place at 7 p.m. in Lincoln Center's 12th Floor Lounge.

Carl Hancock Rux is an award-winning poet, playwright, novelist, essayist and recording artist. He is the former head of the MFA Writing for Performance Program at the California Institute of the Arts (2006-09) and has taught or been in residence at the University of California–San Diego, Stanford University, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Hollins University, the University of Iowa and Brown University.

Rux is also the author of the novel, Asphalt, the OBIE Award winning play, Talk, and the Village Voice Literary prize-winning collection of poetry, Pagan Operetta.