University of Indianapolis - 2008-2009 Calendar of Arts & Cultural Events - (Page 27) K e l l o g g W r i t e rs S e r i e s K e l l o g g w r I t e r s s e r I e s Diane Glancy Wednesday, October 1, 7:30 p.m. Diane Glancy is a professor at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., where she teaches Native American Literature and Creative Writing. She holds the Richard Thomas Chair at Kenyon College for the 2008–09 spring semester. In 2005 she published three books, The Dance Partner: Stories of the Late 19thCentury Ghost Dance; In-Between Places; and Rooms, New and Selected Poems. Her newest collection of poems, Asylum in the Grasslands, was published in 2007. She has won numerous awards, including the University of Massachusetts Press Juniper Prize, the Nimrod Journal Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, the Cherokee Medal of Honor, the Thomas Jefferson Teaching/Scholarship Award from Macalester College, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, an Oklahoma Book Award, a Minnesota Book Award, and an American Book Award. She has published several novels including Stone Heart: A Novel of Sacajawea; Designs of the Night Sky; and Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears. Her newest book, The Reason for Crows, is a novel about 17thcentury Mohawk Kateri Tekakwitha. K e v i n Yo u n g Wednesday, October 29, 7:30 p.m. Born in 1970, Kevin Young is widely regarded as one of the leading poets of his generation, one who finds meaning and inspiration in African American music, particularly the blues, and in the bittersweet history of Black America. His newest book, For the Confederate Dead, was published in January 2007. Other collections include Black Maria: Poems Produced and Directed by Kevin Young (2005); Jelly Roll: A Blues (2003); and To Repel Ghosts: Five Sides in B Minor (2001). Young was a 1993 National Poetry Series winner for Most Way Home, a volume of meditations on racism, slavery, poverty, and the meaning of “home” in the collective memory of African Americans. Young’s poetry and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, New York Times Book Review, Paris Review, Kenyon Review, and Callaloo, and he is editor of several literary anthologies. His awards include a Stegner Fellowship in Poetry at Stanford University, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship. He is a professor of poetry at Emory University. Le s l i e H e y wo o d Thursday, April 2, 7:30 p.m. Location TBA Leslie Heywood is professor of English and creative writing at SUNY-Binghamton and the author of many books focused on women, sports, and culture, including the memoir Pretty Good for a Girl and the anthology Third Wave Agenda, coedited with Jennifer Drake, associate professor of English at UIndy. Her most recent works focus on another of her areas of interest: environmental studies, including her 2008 poetry book, Natural Selection: Poems for an Environmentalist Century. Her current project, a nonfiction book called The Wolf in the Albuquerque Hotel Room, integrates empirical research on public attitudes toward wolves, nature, and the theory of wolf-human coevolution with the story of her eleven years with her 89.7 percent timber wolf hybrid, Fester. B ro c k C l a r k e Thursday, February 5, 7:30 p.m. Brock Clarke is the author of two novels, An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England and The Ordinary White Boy, and two short story collections, Carrying the Torch and What We Won’t Do. He is a two-time finalist for the National Magazine Award in Fiction. His fiction and essays have appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, The Believer, One Story, Southern Review, Georgia Review, The New York Times, and New England Review. His works also have been included in the Pushcart Prize and New Stories from the South annual anthologies and on NPR’s Selected Shorts. He is a 2008 NEA Fellow and teaches at the University of Cincinnati. 1 2 3 4 diane Kevin broCK leslie GlanCy younG ClarKe heywood arts.uindy.edu paGe twenty-seven http://arts.uindy.edu
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