Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, an award-winning author and poet, spoke at Ithaca recently.

Her work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker, and she is the recipient of several prestigious literary awards, including the Pushcart Prize in 2003 and the American Book Award in 1996.

Divakaruni came to the United States from India when she was 19, and...

Writers rejoice! New York Times film critic A.O. Scott and Rolling Stone's politics reporter Matt Taibbi both stopped by IC earlier this month to dispense words of wisdom to IC students.

Taibbi was was hosted by the Park Center for Independent Media, and his lecture was aptly titled “Independent Media Amidst Conformist Media.”

Taibbi first...

Three accomplished writers are visiting Ithaca College this fall, continuing the traditions of two guest lecturer programs run by the Park School of Communications and the School of Humanities and Sciences.

This year’s Park Distinguished Visitor is award-winning journalist and author Tom Wolfe. Wolfe has written for the New York Herald-Tribune and New York...

As part of the Distinguished Visiting Writers Series, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa visited Ithaca College to teach a class of writing students and give a reading of his work to the greater Ithaca community. Komunyakaa's poetry reflects his experience as a soldier in the Vietnam War as well as his upbringing in the pre-civil rights South.  ...

As part of this semester’s Distinguished Visiting Writers series, the Writing Department and the School of Humanities and Sciences welcome Pulitzer Prize winners Robert Olen Butler and Yusef Komunyakaa and National Book Award finalist Vivian Gornick. Readings from their work will be held at 7:30 p.m. on February 6, March 25, and April 1, respectively. There...