Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Spring 2011 RopeWalk Visiting Writers Reading Series announced
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Contact for more information:
Brandi Schwartz Marketing Coordinator Outreach & Engagement 812/464-1854 Todd Boss Thursday, February 17 Kleymeyer Hall, USI's Liberal Arts Center Todd Boss is the author of Yellowrocket, a collection of poetry that was selected as the 2009 Midwest Booksellers Honor Book for Poetry. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, Best American Poetry, and Virginia Quarterly Review, which awarded him the Emily Clark Balch Prize in 2009. His work has also been syndicated on NPR and in Ted Kooser's "American Life in Poetry" column. Boss is the founding editor of Flurry, an online journal of wintry poetry from Wisconsin, Minnesota, and the Dakotas, and is the co-founder of www.motionpoems.com, a poetry film project that turns poems into animated stories. Heather Sellers Thursday, March 3 Carter Hall, USI's University Center Heather Sellers is the author of the memoir You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know, three volumes of poetry, a children's book, and three books on the craft of writing. Her short story collection, Georgia Under Water, won a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers award. She's an NEA fellowship recipient in fiction and professor of English at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. Adrian Matejka Thursday, April 7 Carter Hall, USI's University Center Adrian Matejka is the recipient of the Kinereth Gensler Award for his first collection of poetry, The Devil's Garden. His second collection, Mixology, was a winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series and was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. He is the recipient of two Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards and his work has appeared or is forthcoming in Southern Indiana Review, American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry 2010, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, and Prairie Schooner among other journals and anthologies. Matejka is an assistant professor of English at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, where he was awarded the William and Margaret Going Endowed Professorship and serves as the poetry editor for Sou'wester. Publications by these authors are available for purchase at the USI Bookstore and Barnes and Noble Booksellers. Presented by USI's College of Liberal Arts, the RopeWalk Visiting Writers Reading Series is made possible through the support of RopeWalk Writers Retreat, Southern Indiana Review, USI Society for Arts & Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, Indiana Arts Commission, and USI Student Writers Union. For more information, call Nicole Louise Reid, associate professor of English, at 812/464-1916. |
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