Visiting Writer Series

2012-2013 Calendar

Sponsored by the Colorado College English Department with the Support of the Maclean Visiting Writers Endowment.  All Events Free and Open to the Public. For more information call (719) 389-6853.

Legendary Canadian novelist, poet, and environmental activist, Atwood is author of The Edible Woman, Alias Grace, The Handmaid’s Tale and, most recently, The Year of the Flood, which is the All Pikes Peak Reads book selection for 2012.  Sponsored by the Demarest Lloyd Lecture Fund for the Humanities and the Pikes Peak Library District.

Randall’s first collection of poems, A Day in Boyland, was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award; her newest collection, Injecting Dreams into Cows, contains poems about robots, Velcro, and Ms. Pac-Man.  Newly arrived at CC, Goodwin is an NEA award-winning playwright, HBO Def Poet, and author of an essay collection, These Are the Breaks.

Literary journeyman and connoisseur of all things automotive, Behrens is the Governor General’s Award-winning author of Night Driving, The Law of Dreams and, most recently, the celebrated historical novel The O’Briens.

This year’s MacLean Distinguished Professor and winner of the prestigious Juniper Prize for Poetry for her book Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open, Seuss is known for her sensual and irreverent poetry.

ZOMBIE night at Colorado College.  McHugh, award-winning author of China Mountain Zhang, Mothers and Other Monsters, and the widely acclaimed After The Apocalypse, and National Book Award winner Walter, author of The Zero, The Financial Lives of the Poets and, most recently, Beautiful Ruins, team up for for a night of literature and discussion about the undead. Costumes encouraged. Sponsored by the Office of Residential Life and the Office of the Dean of Students.

Widely anthologized poet and author of ten volumes of poetry, most recently Lemon Peeled The Moment Before: New & Selected Poems: 1967-2008, Mitchell is the winner of the Akron Poetry Prize, among other honors.

International Education Week at Colorado College brings acclaimed novelist Rawi Hage, author of Carnival, Cockroach, and DeNiro’s Game, which won the 2008 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and Madeleine Thien, short story writer and novelist, author of Certainty, Simple Recipes and the bracing, unforgettable novel Dogs at the Perimeter. in.  Sponsored by the Cultural Attractions Fund of Colorado College, the Office of Minority and International Students, and the Office of International Programs.

Buckle your seatbelt for thrills and chills as CC welcomes Pyper, Canada’s premiere suspense novelist and author of Lost Girls, The Killing Circle, and The Guardians. Sponsored by a Mellon Foundation Artist-in-Residence grant.

Two Poets of the Western Slope. Art Goodtimes, Poet Laureate of the Western Slope and author of As If the World Really Mattered and Embracing the Earth, and Wendy Videlock, author of Nevertheless.

Winner of the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Award, Myles has written many renowned volumes of poetry and fiction, including Inferno, Chelsea Girls, and Cool for You. Sponsored by the Demarest Lloyd Lecture Fund for the Humanities.

Recipient of a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship for Poetry, Moore is a virtuoso poet whose work, informed by an interest in Buddhism, is humane, funny and moving.  His most recent book is Invisible Strings; his New and Selected Poems is forthcoming.

Two Governor General’s Award-winning poets, Crozier and Lane are both also renowned for their work in other genres.  Crozier’s lyrical memoir Small Beneath the Sky chronicles a childhood on the Canadian prairie.  Lane’s What the Stones Remember:  A Life Rediscovered is a moving memoir about emergence from addiction. Together, this husband and wife team have edited and co-authored a number of volumes, including Breathing Fire 2:  Canada’s New Poets.