Visiting Writers Series - Spring 2013
Origin of the Kelly Writers Series: The James and Marilou Kelly Writers Series was established in 1998 with gifts from Marilou Morrell Kelly, Class of 1955. Marilou Kelly owned a marvelous bookstore in St. Charles, Illinois, for a number of years. An avid reader and lover of books, she frequently persuaded authors to give readings in the St. Charles community and became friends with a number of them. James J. Kelly, who passed away January 8, 1994, was an executive with Goldman Sachs in Chicago, former chair of the DePauw University Board of Trustees, and former chair of the Sesquicentennial Campaign. Generous gifts from Professor Emeritus of English J. David Field provide additional support to the James and Marilou Kelly Writers Series.
Highlights
Danielle Cadena Deulen
Poet and essayist, reading Wednesday, February 27, 7:30 PM, Peeler Auditorium
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Danielle Cadena Deulenreading |
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Danielle Cadena Deulen is a poet and essayist. Her first collection of poems, Lovely Asunder, won the Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize and will be published by the University of Arkansas Press in 2011. Her first collection of essays, The Riots, recently won the AWP Prize in Creative Nonfiction and will be published by the University of Georgia Press. Formerly, she was a Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her MFA in creative writing from George Mason University and currently lives in Salt Lake City, where she is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Utah. -- from The Missouri Review
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George Saundersreading |
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George Saunders new short story collection, Tenth of December, will be published in January 2013. He is the author of three other story collections: Pastoralia, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, and In Persuasion Nation as well as the novella-length illustrated fable, The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil, the children's book, The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip, and a book of essays, The Braindead Megaphone. His work appears regularly in The New Yorker, GQ, and Harpers Magazine, and has appeared in the O’Henry, Best American Short Story, Best Non-Required Reading, and Best American Travel Writing anthologies.The Boston Globe lauds Saunders’ ability to “construct a story of absurdist satire, then locate within it a moment of searing humanity." In 2006, he was awarded both a MacArthur Fellowship, for "bring[ing] to contemporary American fiction a sense of humor, pathos, and literary style all his own," and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University.
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Shane Bookreading |
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Shane Book's poetry appears in journals in the US, UK, and Canada and in many anthologies, most recently Gathering Ground (University of Michigan Press). He was educated at the University of Western Ontario, the University of Victoria, New York University, the Iowa Writers' Workshop and Stanford where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry. The recipient of scholarships to Cave Canem, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and Breadloaf, his awards include a New York Times Fellowship in Poetry, the Malahat Review Long Poem Prize, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and a National Magazine Award. --from the Prairie Schooner
Wednesday, April 24, ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CREATIVE WRITING FACULTY -- 7:30 p.m. -- Peeler Auditorium
Previous Participants in the James and Marilou Kelly Writers Series
Fall 2012
Poet Eugene Gloria
Fiction Writer Antonya Nelson
Fiction Writer Robert Boswell
Poet Matthew Dickman
Spring 2012
Indiana State Poet Laureate: Karen Kovacik
Poet: Joseph Heithaus
Author: Danielle Evans
Nonfiction Writer: Ian Frazier
Fall 2011
Poet and Teacher: Major Jackson
Playwright: Itamar Moses
Fiction Writer: Antonya Nelson
Spring 2011
Author: Ian Frazier
Nonfiction Writer: Diana Joseph
Poet: Gjertrud Schnackenberg
Author: Jennifer Egan
Fall 2010
Fiction Writer: Nic Pizzolatto
Writer: Matt Dellinger
Poet: Sharon Olds
Spring 2010
Writer: Aleksandar Hemon
Poet: Aracelis Girmay
Author: Nick Reding
Poet: Crystal Williams
Fall 2009
Memoirist: Honor Moore
Poet: Khaled Mattawa
Fiction Writer: Ron Carlson
Nonfiction Writer: Scott Raab
Spring 2009
Fiction Writer: Charles D'Ambrosio
Poet: Kimiko Hahn
Nonfiction Writer: Ander Monson
Fiction and Creative Nonfiction Writer: Greg Schwipps
Fall 2008
Nonfiction Writer: Rich Cohen
Writer: Michael Martone
Poet: Lynne Thompson
Fiction Writer: Dagoberto Gilb
Spring 2008
Author: Susan Neville
Novelist: Samrat Upadhyay
Poet: Jay Hopler
Poet: Metta Sama
Fall 2007
Poet: Maurice Manning
Author: Kent Haruf
Author & Poet: Barbara Ras
Poet: Sterling Plumpp
Fiction Writer: Tony D'Souza
Spring 2007
Fiction Writer: Brock Clarke
Playwright: Arthur Kopit
Poet: Kay Ryan
Fiction Writer and Novelist: Sara Pritchard
Creative Nonfiction Writer: J. D. Scrimgeour
Poet: Anele Rubin
Fall 2006
Poet: Eugene Gloria
Essayist: Scott Russell Sanders
Writer: Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
Fiction Writer: David Harris Ebenback
Poet: Martin Espada
Spring 2006
Memoirist: Nick Flynn
Poet: Talvikki Ansel
Fiction Writer: Charles Baxter
Poet: Rigoberto González
Playwright: Suzan-Lori Parks
Poet: Dana Roeser
Fall 2005
Fiction Writer: Beth Lordan
Poet: Li-Young Lee
Shakespeare Scholar: David Bevington
Fiction Writer: Scot Nadelson
Spring 2005
Fiction Writer: Pam Houston
Fiction Writer: Cathy Day
Author: Stuart Dybek
Author: Phillip Lopate
Poet: Terrance Hayes
Poet: Mary Szybist
Fall 2004
Novelist: Douglas Bauer
Poet: Maurice Manning
Science Fiction Writer: Kim Stanley Robinson
Performance Poet: Jessica Care Moore
Prose Writer: Patricia Sarrifian Ward
Spring 2004
Biographer Writer: Jonathan Coleman
Critic: Susan Gubar
Poet: Tracie Morris
Poet: Vince Gotera
Fiction Writer: Pam Houston
Poet: Beth Ann Fennelly
Fall 2003
Fiction & Creative Non-Fiction Writer: Tom Chiarella
Fiction Writer: Dan Chaon
Poet: Kevin Young
Poet: Naomi Shihab Nye
Fiction Writer: Kellie Wells
Spring 2003
Poets: Robert Wrigley & Brently Johnson
Fiction Writer: Brady Udall
Poets: Mông-Lan & Patti White
Poet & Critic: Peter Balakian
Author: Beth Hawkins
Fall 2002
Poet: Amiri Baraka
Speaker: Kristina Bross
Memoirist: Lili Wright
Fiction Writer: Erin McGraw
Literary Critic: Bill Little
Screenwriters: Mark & Virginia Spragg
Prose Writer: Elizabeth Rosner
Spring 2002
Poet: Robin Behn
Fiction Writer: Susan Minot
Poet: Tenaya Darlington
Author: Bobbie Ann Mason
Fall 2001
Poet: Maurice Manning
Writer: Elizabeth Stuckey-French
Writer: Dr. Lee Clark Mitchell
Poet: Garrett Hongo
Fiction Writer: Michael Zadoorian
Spring 2001
Author & Editor: Houston A. Baker, Jr
Poet: Dana Levin
Literary Critic: Pamela Caughie
Fiction Writer: Geoff Schmidt
Fiction Writer: Barbara Bean
Literary Critic: Joy Castro
Fall 2000
Poet: Billy Collins
Poet: Kevin Stein
Essayist: David Sedaris
Spring 2000
Poet: Robin Metz
Fall 1999
Poet: Marianne Boruch
Fiction Writer: Patricia Henley
Spring 1999
Fiction Writer: Kent Haruf
Fiction Writer: Jesse Lee Kerchavel
Fiction Writer: Alyce Miller