Jorie Graham is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including Place, Sea Change, Never, Swarm, and The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994, which won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.4 pm.
An Engineer's Alphabet by Henry Petroski is the Aleksander S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering at Duke University and the author of many books, including, most recently, To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure. He will read and talk about his work. 4 pm.
Success Through Failure by 
The Essential Engineer by 
The Evolution of Useful Things by 
Alice Invents a Little Game and Alice Always Wins by 
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn has worked as a ship’s captain, an electrician, and as a case-worker with homeless adults. He is a poet, playwright, and has published three memoirs. His most recent book, The Reenactments, chronicles his experience during the making of Being Flynn, a film based on his acclaimed 2004 memoir and starring Robert De Niro. 4 pm.
The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands by 
The Reenactments by 
