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The 2008-2009

Visiting Writers Series

Marvin Bell

7:30 p.m.— Thursday, October 30

Klinger-Neal Theatre at Morningside College

MARVIN BELL’S poetry has been described as “ambitious without pretension.” The most recent of his 17 books are three poetry collections, Mars Being Red, Rampant, and Nightworks: Poems 1962-2000. A long-time faculty member at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he leads an annual Urban Teachers Workshop for the inner-city program “America SCORES”; collaborates with composers, musicians, filmmakers, and dancers; and teaches for two low-residency MFA programs. From 2000 to 2004, Mr. Bell was Iowa’s first poet laureate. He has received awards from the Academy of American Poets, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the American Poetry Review, and he has held Guggenheim and NEA Fellowships, as well as Senior Fulbright Appointments to Yugoslavia and Australia. Mr. Bell has taught at Goddard College and the universities of Hawaii, Washington, and Wichita State. He lives in Iowa City and Port Townsend, Washington.

Mary Helen Stefaniak

 7:30 p.m.— Monday, November 17

UPS Auditorium in Lincoln Center at Morningside College

MARY HELEN STEFANIAK, a native of Milwaukee, is a writer of fiction and essays. Her work has appeared in many publications, including The Iowa Review, EPOCH, Short Story, The Yale Review, AGNI, and The Antioch Review, and in several anthologies, including New Stories from the South: The Year's Best 2000 & 2006 (Algonquin Books), In the Middle of the Middle West: An Anthology of Creative Non-Fiction (Indiana University Press, 2003), and A Different Plain (University of Nebraska Press, 2004). She has also served as a commentator on Iowa Public Radio, a columnist for The Iowa Source, and a contributing editor of The Iowa Review.

Her collection of short fiction, Self Storage and Other Stories (New Rivers Press), received the Wisconsin Library Association's 1998 Banta Award for Literary Excellence, and her novella, "The Turk and My Mother" (EPOCH, Fall 2000) was shortlisted for the O. Henry Prize. 

Celebrating the literary and visual arts at Morningside College

The Visiting Writers Series is sponsored by The Kiosk, the literary magazine of Morningside College. 

For more information contact Stephen Coyne at Morningside College (712) 274-5267.