Visiting Writers Series - Fall 2012
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.
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Eugene Gloria
reading
(tentatively)
Wednesday
September 12th |
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Eugene Gloria
Distinguished Faculty Poet
reading from his new book My Favorite Warlord, his third collection of work published by Penguin.
Tentatively Wednesday, September 12th
Antonya Nelson
Mary Rogers Field Distinguished University Professorship for Creative Writing
Craft talk
Tentatively Thursday afternoon September 27th
John Jakes (Not Part of the Kelly Writers Series)
Distinguished Alumni Author
as part of the 175th Anniversary Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
Wednesday, October 24th at 8 PM
Robert Boswell
Fiction Writer and author of eleven books, including
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards, a story collection with Graywolf Press, published in April 2009
Thursday, November 1 at 7:30
as part of Arts Fest 2012: Art and the Other
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MATTHEW DICKMAN
reading
Wednesday
November 14, 2012
7:30 PM
Thompson Recital Hall |
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Matthew Dickman was born in Portland, Oregon. His first book, All-American Poem, was the winner of the 2008 APR/Honickman First Book Prize selected by the poet Tony Hoagland. Dickman is the poetry editor of Tin House and has published in journals including The New Yorker, Ploughshares, and McSweeney's. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the Michener Center for Writers, The Vermont Studio Center and The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. 50 American Plays, a collaborative book of poem-plays written with his brother, the poet, Michael Dickman, comes out in May 2012 from Copper Canyon Press and Matthew Dickman's second poetry collection, Mayakovsky's Revolver, will be released by W.W. Norton & Co. in October 2012.
Antonya Nelson
Fiction Writer and Mary Rogers Field Distinguished University Professorship for Creative Writing
Wednesday, November 28th at 7:30
Previous Participants in the James and Marilou Kelly Writers Series
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
