| SPRING READING SERIES OFFERS BAXTER, NELSON, RICH The Creative Writing Program Reading Series will continue on solid footing through the spring semester. Director of Creative Writing Karl Kirchwey has organized another dazzling series of award-winning writers, culminating in an appearance by the celebrated grande dame of feminist poetry, Adrienne Rich. All events in the series are free and open to the public. A brief overview:
Charles Baxter, Thursday, Feb. 17, 7:30 p.m., Thomas Great Hall
Described by the Chicago Tribune as "one of our most gifted writers," novelist Charles Baxter is the author of novels including The Feast of Love, for which he was a National Book Award finalist, and Saul and Patsy. He also has written three collections of poetry, a collection of essays on fiction and four story collections, including Harmony of the World, Believers and Through the Safety Net.
Baxter, who holds the Edelstein-Keller Professorship of Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota, edited the Best New American Voices 2001 and The Business of Memory in 1999 and co-edited Bringing the Devil to His Knees: The Craft of Fiction and the Writing Life.
Baxter's reading is sponsored by the Whitehill-Linn Fund.
Antonya Nelson, Tuesday, March 22, 7:30 p.m., Thomas Great Hall
A recipient of the prestigious Rea Award for Short Fiction in 2003, Antonya Nelson is the author of four short-story collections (The Expendables, In the Land of Men, Family Terrorists and Female Trouble) and has written three novels, Living to Tell, Talking in Bed and Nobody's Girl.
The Expendables won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction in 1990, and Talking in Bed received the 1996 Heartland Award in fiction.
Her work also has appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire and Harpers, as well as in anthologies such as Prize Stories, the O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories. She shares the Cullen Foundation chair in creative writing at the University of Houston with her husband, novelist Robert Boswell.
Nelson's reading is sponsored by the Lucy Martin Donnelly Women Writers Series Fund.
Adrienne Rich, Thursday, April 21, 7:30 p.m., Thomas Great Hall
Considered to be among the most influential and eloquent of poets and theorists to address sexuality, race, language and power, Adrienne Rich won the prestigious Yale Younger Poets Prize in 1951 for her first book, A Change of World. Since then she has written more than 15 volumes of poetry, including Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems 1991-95, Midnight Salvage, Fox and The School Among the Ruins.
Rich's poetry has been honored with the first Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Brandeis Creative Arts Medal, the William Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement and the National Poetry Association Award for Distinguished Service to the Art of Poetry. In 1974 her work Diving into the Wreck was presented a National Book Award, which she accepted jointly with Alice Walker and Audre Lorde.
Rich's reading is made possible through a major grant from the Heinz Family Philanthropies. Other sponsors include the Marianne Moore Fund for the Study of Poetry, the Lucy Martin Donnelly Women Writers Series Fund and the 1902 Fund.
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