Dallas Morning News- Arts Blog
Posted: March 5, 2015
On a frosty late-winter morning, it’s good to be able to focus on the harbingers of spring. Southern Methodist University’s Litfest may be just such a harbinger.
The annual festival, which has an excellent record of bringing in rising literary stars, takes place March 19-21.
The poetry-heavy lineup this year includes Alan Shapiro, Elizabeth T. Gray Jr., R. Flowers Rivera and Jeffrey Renard Allen plus novelist Joe Milazzo (Crepuscule W/ Nellie), short story author/essayist Liam Callanan (Listen) and Peter Turchi, author of A Muse and A Maze: Writing as Puzzle, Mystery, and Magic.
“The goal of Litfest is to bring the best of new and emerging writers to the SMU campus and the Dallas community,” SMU’s creative writing director David Haynes told me in an email. “I’m particularly excited this year that, first, we’re expanding our offerings to include writers of creative nonfiction and also that this year our guests include so many writers who are working on multiple genres. It’s a genuinely versatile group of writers. And a quite diverse one, too.” READ MORE