2024-2025 Visiting Writers Series

Sponsored by the Colorado College English Department with the support of the MacLean Visiting Writers Endowment. All events are free and open to the public.

 

 

Block One

Rebecca F. Kuang

September 6, 2024 7:00 PM

Celeste Theatre in Cornerstone Arts Space

Rebecca Kuang

Block Two

Maria Kelson

September 26, 2024 7:00 PM

Gaylord Hall

Maria KelsonBook Cover

 

Maria Kelson has two collections of poetry (as Maria Melendez) with University of Arizona Press, which were finalists for the PEN Center USA Literary Award and the Colorado Book Award. Not the Killing Kind is her debut novel. It received the inaugural Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for Crime Fiction Writers of Color from Sisters in Crime.

A former Santa Fe Arts Institute and Hedgebrook resident, she has given readings and workshops at campuses and literary festivals around the U.S. and served as an American Voices arts envoy in Bogotá, Colombia. Born in Arizona, raised in northern California, she has lived in one southeastern, three midwestern, and five western states. Connect at mariakelson.com.

Block Four

Bobby LeFebre

December 2nd
6 pm
Max Kade Theater in Armstrong Hall

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Tommy Archuleta

December 9th
6 pm
Tim Fuller Event Space, Room 201 (Tutt Library)

flyer for Tommy Archuleta event 

 

 

Brandon Shimoda

December 12th
5:00 pm
This is a virtual reading. Please register here.

Author photo

Brandon Shimoda is the author of several books of poetry and prose, most recently The Afterlife Is Letting Go (City Lights, 2024), which received a Creative Nonfiction grant from the Whiting Foundation; Hydra Medusa (Nightboat Books, 2023); and The Grave on the Wall (City Lights, 2019), which received the PEN Open Book Award. He is the co-editor, with Brynn Saito, of The Gate of Memory: Poems by Descendants of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration, which is forthcoming from Haymarket Books in April. He's an Assistant Professor at CC, where he teaches creative writing, creative research, and the literature of Japanese American incarceration.

Book cover.   
The Afterlife is Letting Go is available
for
 pre-order at City Light Books.

 



Block Five

Rachel Hanson

Feb. 6th 7 pm
Cornerstone Screening Room

 

Block Six

Juan Morales

Feb. 19th 7 pm
Cornerstone Screening Room

 

Soul Vang

March 6th 

Block Seven

Rigoberto González

Date/Time TBA

 


Rogoberto GonzalezRigoberto González is the author of 18 books of poetry and prose. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and United States Artists. Other honors include the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Most recently, he edited the newly released Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology, a landmark anthology that brings together more than 180 poets whose poems bear witness to the beauty and power of this vital and expanding tradition. He is currently a distinguished professor of English and director of the MFA creative writing program at Rutgers University–Newark. 

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