Visiting Writers Series Presents Charles Simic
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic will be the final speaker in Butler University's 2008-2009 Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers Series. He will speak at 7:30 p.m. April 21 in the Krannert Room of Clowes Memorial Hall.
The event is free and open to the public. No tickets are required.
For more information, call (317) 940-9861.
Simic, who served as the
Simic has been prolific not just as a poet but as an editor, translator, and reviewer, and he has received numerous awards, including Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts and MacArthur fellowships, and, in 2007, the Wallace Stevens Award. He lives in
http://www.poets.org/csimi/
These writers have already appeared:
Frank Bidart, Sept. 16
Frank Bidart serves as this year’s first writer-in-residence at Butler, staying for several days to read and meet with students. Bidart, born in Bakersfield, California, is one of our most acclaimed poets, whose honors include the Wallace Stevens Award and the 2007 Bollingen Prize for Poetry.
His books include In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-90, Desire, Music Like Dirt, Star Dust and the recent Watching the Spring Festival. He is also the co-editor of the Collected Poems of Robert Lowell, a poet who, along with Elizabeth Bishop, was an early teacher and important influence. Bidart lives in Cambridge, Mass., and has taught at Wellesley College since 1972.
http://www.tcboyle.com/
Sherman Alexie, Sept. 29
Sherman Alexie is the author of 17 books of fiction, poetry and screenplays, including The Business of Fancydancing. A Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, Alexie grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, Wash., where his decision to attend a high school off the reservation has informed much of his work, particularly his young-adult novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which won the National Book Award in 2007.
Alexie's work and life provide a bridge between Native American culture and the larger American culture that contains it. And yet cultural labels don't even begin to express the scope of his delightful talent.
Thomas Lux, Oct. 8
Thomas Lux has been publishing books of his poetry since The Land Sighted in 1970. His most recent volume, God Particles: Poems, is his eleventh.
Lux has taught at Emerson College, Sarah Lawrence College and the universities of Iowa, Michigan and California at Irvine. He has been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award in Poetry and has received three National Endowment for the Arts grants and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
He currently holds the Margaret T. and Henry C. Bourne Jr. Chair in Poetry at Georgia Tech.
Lan Samantha Chang
7:30 p.m. Oct. 30
Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall
Lan Samantha Chang is the author of two works of fiction, Hunger (1998) and Inheritance (2004). She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship for her work and is currently the director of the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop, a job that she is qualified for not only because of her standing in the literary community but also because of her master’s degree in public administration from Harvard University.
Honor Moore
7:30 p.m. Nov. 10
Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall
Honor Moore is the author of five books of poetry and nonfiction that have earned her a Guggenheim award and an NEA grant. Her most recent memoir, The Bishop's Daughter, chronicles her relationship with her father, who was for two decades the Episcopal Bishop of New York. Moore is also – welcome home! – a graduate of Shortridge High School in Indianapolis.
Her collections of poems include Red Shoes (2005), Darling (2001) and Memoir (1988), and she is the author of a biography, The White Blackbird, A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter (1996), which was a New York Times Notable Book.
Chris Forhan
6 p.m. Dec. 3
Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall
The only writer among this year’s Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers who is not truly visiting, Chris Forhan is in his second year as an assistant professor of English at Butler University. Born and raised in Seattle, Forhan is the author of the poetry collections The Actual Moon, The Actual Stars, which won the Morse Poetry Prize and a Washington State Book Award, and Forgive Us Our Happiness, which won the Bakeless Prize.
He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and his poems appear in this year’s editions of the Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies.
April Bernard
7:30 p.m. Feb. 3
Johnson Room, Robertson Hall
April Bernard, visiting Butler in February as a writer-in-residence, is the author of four collections of poetry: Blackbird Bye Bye, which won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets; Psalms; Swan Electric; and, due out this spring, In a Stolen Boat.
She is also an accomplished writer of prose, having published a novel, Pirate Jenny, and essays and reviews in numerous magazines, including The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, The Nation and Vanity Fair. She teaches at Bennington College and in the Bennington MFA Writing Seminars.
http://www.nortonpoets.com/bernarda.htm
Mark Kurlansky
7:30 p.m. Feb. 16
Krannert Room, Clowes Memorial Hall
The author of 14 books of nonfiction and fiction, Mark Kurlansky is not only world-renowned for his expert investigations of seemingly odd topics – like cod or salt or the year 1968 – but is also a 1970 graduate of Butler University.
His 1997 book Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World, an international bestseller that was translated into more than 15 languages, helped define (and perhaps even invent) a journalistic form by investigating a small piece of culture to reveal a new understanding of the entire culture. Cod received the James Beard Award for Excellence in Food Writing and the Glenfiddich 1999 Food and Drink Award for Best Book, and it was chosen by the New York Public Library as one of the Best Books of 1997.
Kurlansky worked as a professional chef and pastry maker in New York and New England and currently writes a regular column about food history for Food & Wine magazine. He recently transformed 25 years’ experience reporting on international affairs and covering the Caribbean into a collection of short stories and a novella titled The White Man in the Tree.
http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000037093,00.html
Elizabeth Alexander
7:30 p.m. Feb. 26
Reilly Room of Atherton Union
Elizabeth Alexander is the author of four collections of poetry: The Venus Hottentot; Body of Life; Antebellum Dream Book; and American Sublime, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has also published a collection of critical essays, The Black Interior, and has won numerous prizes, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation.
Born in New York City and raised in Washington, D.C., Alexander is currently professor of African-American studies at Yale University.
http://www.elizabethalexander.net/home.html
Jane Hamilton
7:30 p.m. March 24
Krannert Room, Clowes Memorial Hall
The novelist Jane Hamilton has been honored by institutions as diverse as the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, the Wisconsin Library Association and Oprah's Book Club. This cornucopia of accolades speaks for the power of her five best-selling books: The Book of Ruth (1988); A Map of the World (1994); The Short History of a Prince (1998); Disobedience (2000); and When Madeline Was Young (2006).
All of her books are set, at least in part, in Wisconsin, where she lives and writes in an orchard farmhouse.
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/janehamilton/
T.C. Boyle
7:30 p.m. April 1
Krannert Room
T. Coraghessan Boyle is the author of 19 books of fiction, including, most recently, The Women. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Boyle has also earned a Ph.D. in 19th century British literature. Among the many awards he has received for his work are the Guggenheim, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the National Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Prose Excellence.
Boyle has been a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California since 1978.
Dana Roeser
7:30 p.m. April 6
Krannert Room
Dana Roeser's first book of poems, Beautiful Motion, was the winner of the Samuel French Morse Prize. In 2005, she won the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for Beautiful Motion, and the 2005-2006 Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Washington Fellowship. Her poems have appeared in the Iowa Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Antioch Review, Southern Review, Northwest Review, Pool and Shade, as well as on Poetry Daily. She lives in West Lafayette, Indiana, with her husband and two daughters. She is a visiting professor at Butler this semester.
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