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MICHAEL PATERNITI: THE ART OF THE TALE
TUESDAY, JAN. 26, 7 P.M., GAYLORD HALL
National Magazine Award-winning journalist and author of “Driving Mr. Albert” and “The Telling
Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World’s Greatest Piece of Cheese,” reads and
discusses his most recent work, the essay collection “Love and Other Ways of Dying,” which was
long-listed for the 2015 National Book Award in Nonfiction.
Sponsored by the Journalist in Residence Lecture Series.
GREIL MARCUS
THURSDAY, JAN. 28, 7 P.M., GAYLORD HALL
Legendary music critic and author of “Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock ‘n’ Roll Music” and
Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century” discusses his newest work, “Three Songs,
Three Singers, Three Nations.”
Funded by the NEH Professorship.
PETER BRESLOW: “DID WE ROLL ON THAT?”:
MISADVENTURES OF A NPR PRODUCER
MONDAY, FEB. 1, 7 P.M., GAYLORD HALL.
National Public Radio senior producer who has been around the planet more than once for NPR —
from Mt. Everest to Mogadishu, from Baltimore to Benghazi — plays excerpts from some of his
favorite stories, explains what in the world a producer does anyway, and talks about how the weekly
production of “Weekend Edition” comes together.
Sponsored by the Journalist in Residence Lecture Series.
SPONSORED BY THE COLORADO COLLEGE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE MACLEAN VISITING WRITERS ENDOWMENT
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CLAUDIA RANKINE
MONDAY, FEB. 15, 7 P.M., CELESTE THEATRE
National Book Award finalist and winner of National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, author of
“Citizen: An American Lyric,” “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely,” and the play “Provenance of Beauty: A South
Bronx Travelogue.”
Funded by the Edith Kinney Gaylord Fund.
JANICE GOULD
MONDAY, FEB. 22, 7 P.M., GAYLORD HALL
Koyoonk’auwi poet and winner of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Astraea
Foundation for Lesbian Writers, Gould is the author of “Beneath My Heart,” “Alphabet,” “Earthquake
Weather” (1996), and “Doubters and Dreamers”(2011). Gould is the current Pikes Peak poet laureate.
NINO RICCI
THURSDAY, FEB. 25, 7 P.M., GAYLORD HALL
Two-time winner of the Governor-General’s Award and author of “Testament” and “Lives of the
Saints,” Ricci reads from his newest novel, “Sleep.”
Funded by The Albert H. Daehler Endowed Fund for English.
DAVID MASON: POETRY AND WILDERNESS
WEDNESDAY, MAR. 2, 7 P.M., GAYLORD HALL
The former Colorado poet laureate and current CC faculty member reads work by himand others
about the wild. Mason’s books include “Ludlow,” “Sea Salt,” and “Davey McGravy.”
Co-sponsored by the Pikes Peak Sierra Club.
IAN WILLIAMS
TUESDAY, MAR. 22, 7 P.M., GAYLORD HALL
Author of “Personals,” shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, and “Not Anyone’s Anything,” winner of
the Danuta Gleed Literary Award for the best first collection of short fiction in Canada. Williams was
named one of10 Canadian writers to watch by CBC.
Funded by the NEH Professorship.
JOHN VAILLANT
WEDNESDAY, MAR. 23, 7 P.M., GAYLORD HALL
Governor-General Award-winning author of “The Golden Spruce” and “The Tiger” reads from his
newest work, “The Jaguar’s Children.”
Sponsored by the Journalist in Residence Lecture Series.
RAZA ALI HASAN
THURSDAY, MAR. 24, 7 P.M., GATES COMMON ROOM
Pakistani-American poet and author of “Grieving Shias”and “67 Mogul Miniatures”reads from his
third poetry collection, “Sorrows of the Warrior Class.”
Funded by the NEH Professorship.
JUAN MORALES
TUESDAY, MAR. 29, 7 P.M., GAYLORD HALL
Author of “Friday and the Year That Followed,” winner of the 2005 Rhea Seymour and Gorsline
Poetry Prize, CantoMundo Fellow, and the editor/publisher of Pilgrimage magazine, reads from his
new work, “The Siren World.”
Funded by the NEH Professorship.
PETER BEHRENS
THURSDAY, MAR. 31, 7 P.M., GAYLORD HALL
Governor-General Award winner and author of “The Law of Dreams” and “The O’Briens” reads from
his new novel, “Carry Me.”
Funded by The Albert H. Daehler Endowed Fund for English.
WARREN ZANES
TUESDAY, APR. 5, 7 P.M., GAYLORD HALL
Former member of the Del Fuegos and vice president at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, currently
the executive director of Steven Van Zandt’s Rock and Roll Forever Foundation. Zanes reads and
discusses his newest work, “Petty: A Biography.”
Funded by the NEH Professorship.
ROSS GRESHAM AND ANN PERRAMOND
MONDAY, APR. 11, 7 P.M., BEMIS GREAT HALL
Gresham, author of the forthcoming mystery novel “White Shark,” reads with Colorado Springs’ own
Ann Perramond, a.k.a. Ann Myers, author of the culinary cozy mystery “Bread of the Dead” and the
forthcoming “Cinco de Mayhem.
BYRON F. ASPAAS, JENNIFER FOERSTER, PAIGE
BUFFINGTON, AND JAMES THOMAS STEVENS
MONDAY, APR. 25, 7 P.M., GAYLORD HALL
Colorado Springs author Byron F. Aspaas, Diné, reads with former Stegner Fellow Jennifer Foerster,
Muscogee Nation, author of “Leaving Tulsa,” a finalist for the 2014 Open Book Awards; Paige
Buffington, Diné, a three-time recipient of the Truman Capote Fellowship; and James Thomas
Stevens, Akwesasne Mohawk Nation, author of seven books of poetry, including “Combing the
Snakes from His Hair,” which won a Whiting Writer’s Award, and “A Bridge Dead in the Water,” a
finalist for the National Poetry Series.
Funded by the N.E.H. Professorship.
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