English

Visiting Writers Series

2011-2012 Schedule

The English Department brings several professional writers to campus each year to give readings, meet with students, and offer advice on writing and publishing.


October 11

David Trinidad
7 p.m. Niemann Media Theater

David Trinidad will be reading from his new book, Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems. He is a member of the Core Poetry Faculty at Columbia College Chicago and a Columbia College Distinguished Scholar, 2011-2013. His most recent books are Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems (2011), The Late Show (2007), and By Myself (with D.A. Powell, 2009), all published by Turtle Point Press. His other books include Phoebe 2002: An Essay in Verse (Turtle Point, 2003), Plasticville (Turtle Point, 2000, finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize of the Academy of American Poets), Answer Song (High Risk/Serpent’s Tail, 1994), Hand Over Heart: Poems 1981-1988 (Amethyst Press, 1991), and Pavane (Sherwood Press, 1981). Trindad is editor of A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos (Nightboat Books, 2011). In addition, he has edited Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry (with Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton), Holding Our Own: The Selected Poems of Ann Stanford (with Maxine Scates), and Powerless, the selected poems of Tim Dlugos. Originally from Los Angeles, Trinidad has been called "a master of the postmodern pop-culture sublime." His work is also associated with the innovative formalism of the New York School. Alice Notley has written, "There is an unwavering light in all of Trinidad's work that turns individual words into objects, new facts." About The Late Show, the New York Times Book Review wrote that Trinidad's "most impressive gift is an ability to dignify the dross of American life, to honor both the shrink-wrapped sentiment of the cultural artifacts he writes about and his own much more complicated emotional response to them."


November 8

Andrea Rexilius
7 p.m. Niemann Media Theater

Andrea Rexilius completed her Ph.D. in literature and writing at the University of Denver. For four years she was an editor for the Denver Quarterly. She is currently the co-editor of Marcel. Her first book, To Be Human Is To Be A Conversation, was published in April 2011 by Rescue Press, and her second book, Half of What They Carried Flew Away, will be published in Fall 2011 by Letter Machine Editions.

Kim Likier
7 p.m. Niemann Media Theater

A note from Kim Likier, graduating senior: "Perhaps someday in the future you, reader of this flyer, will be holding In Your Branches: A Reading on Crime. It was written by Kim Likier, the typer of this mini-bio. Her stories are never about cats. She has published poetry and short stories in small literary magazines and has ambitions of publishing a novel and owning at least four more cats. These two ambitions do not necessarily have to coincide. Her stories are always about cats."

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