{"id":4228,"date":"2017-10-20T08:59:48","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T14:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/?p=4228"},"modified":"2017-10-20T09:52:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T15:52:58","slug":"visiting-writers-series-97-lance-olsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/visiting-writers-series-97-lance-olsen\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Writers Series in Block 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Visiting Writers Series <\/strong>sponsored by the Colorado College English Department with the support of the MacLean Visiting Writers Endowment offers many great opportunities to learn from and and engage with a variety of writers throughout the year. \u00a0All events free and open to the public.\u00a0For more information, call (719) 389-6853. Look for the most up to date schedule events HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

Block 3<\/strong><\/h1>\n

October 26 – 7 p.m., Gaylord Hall –\u00a0<\/strong>Indigenous Reading Series <\/strong>(Layli Long Soldier, Byron F. Aspaas, and Jennifer Elise Foerster)<\/p>\n

Layli Long Soldier<\/strong>\u00a0has received a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, a National Artist Fellowship from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, and a Whiting Award for her debut book of poetry, \u201cWhereas.\u201d \u201cSteeped in Native American history and current politics, Long Soldier\u2019s poetry is a melodious battle cry, an argument,\u00a0and a prayer for our nation\u2019s future.\u201d \u2014 Morgan Parker<\/p>\n

Byron F. Aspaas<\/strong>\u00a0is Din\u00e9 and has earned his MFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts. His work has appeared in\u00a0Red Ink<\/em>,\u00a0Yellow Medicine Review<\/em>,\u00a0As\/Us: A Space for Women of the World<\/em>,\u00a0Denver Quarterly<\/em>, and\u00a0The Rumpus<\/em>. He is Red Running into the Water; born for the Bitter Water People. \u201cAspaas’s words bubble out of the land as though it were never disturbed and, in writing about place and experience using lyric rhythms and flowing constructions, he shows that we have no experience that isn’t made by the land that made us.\u201d\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Elissa Washuta<\/p>\n

Jennifer Elise Foerster,\u00a0<\/strong>whose first book of poems is titled \u201cLeaving Tulsa,\u201d was awarded a 2017 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship and a Lannan Foundation Writing Residency. A member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, Foerster graduated from the Institute of American Indian Arts and held a Stegner Fellowship in Poetry at Stanford University. \u201cIn these sharp, visceral poems, [Foerster] journeys through the American landscape and maps what has burned and vanished and yet persists. This is a book of endings and beginnings, of immediate memory and urgent, lyrical insight.”\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Arthur Sze<\/p>\n

November 9 – 7 p.m., McHugh Commons –\u00a0<\/strong>A Celebration of Colorado Poet Belle Turnbull <\/strong><\/p>\n

A new book in the\u00a0Unsung Masters Series\u00a0<\/em>(Pleiades Press) reintroduces the work of Colorado writer Belle Turnbull, who published poems in\u00a0The New York Times,<\/em>\u00a0The Saturday Review of Literature<\/em>,\u00a0Poetry\u00a0<\/em>magazine, and other publications. Writers including David Rothman, Uche Ogbuje, and David Mason will present and discuss Turnbull’s work.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo discover Belle Turnbull is to discover Colorado from the inside out. Here we have a deeply original poet braving the elements, choosing a life of wilderness and hardship, giving voice to the invisible streams, rugged peaks, and high country characters of the early 20th century.\u201d \u2014 Wendy Videlock<\/p>\n

Block 4<\/strong><\/h1>\n

November\u00a030 – 7 p.m., McHugh Commons –\u00a0<\/strong>Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer and Ramona Ausubel <\/strong><\/p>\n

Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0works of fiction include \u201cAll the Broken Things,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u201c<\/em>\u00a0Perfecting,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u201cThe Nettle Spinner,\u201d and \u201cWay Up.\u201d She received the Sidney Prize for Fiction and a Danuta Gleed Award, and her work has been shortlisted for Canada Reads, the Toronto Book Award, the ReLit Prize, and the Amazon.ca First Novel Award.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy illuminating one tiny corner of the world, Kuitenbrouwer opens an almost infinite space to think about responsibility, the meaning of family and the connectedness of things. \u2014\u00a0The National Post<\/em><\/p>\n

Ramona Ausubel\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cSons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty\u201d was a San Francisco Chronicle and NPR best book of the year. She is also the author of \u201cNo One is Here Except All of Us,\u201d winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Fiction, and \u201cA Guide to Being Born,\u201d a\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0Notable Book.<\/p>\n

\u201cRamona Ausubel\u2019s sparkling second novel, \u2018Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty,\u2019 is packed with wisdoms. . . [this] glorious work will surely confirm her as a vibrant, memorable voice in contemporary American letters.\u201d \u2014\u00a0The San Francisco Chronicle<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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