Carthage welcomes poet David Trinidad to campus Tuesday, Oct. 11, as part of the English Department's 2011-12 Visiting Writers Series. Mr. Trinidad will read from his new book, Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems, at 7 p.m. in the Niemann Media Theatre of Hedberg Library.

David Trinidad is a member of the Core Poetry Faculty at Columbi 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).

Mr. 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, Mr. 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."