MSUM literary programs collaborate to host guest authors
The Soc Glasrud Lecture Series, along with MSUM’s literary press and the McGrath Visiting Writers Series, host three authors in events on and off campus on Monday, April 13.
Debra Marquart, James Sallis and Richard Hoffman all have work recently published by MSUM’s New Rivers Press. The writers gather at 4 p.m. in the Library Porch in MSUM’s library for a writers talk. A reading featuring all the authors takes place at 8 p.m. in Comstock Memorial Union, Room 101. A reception with music by Cat Sank Trio follows at Usher’s in Moorhead. All events are free and open to the public.
Marquart has published several books of poetry and stories through New Rivers Press, including her most recent poetry collection, Small Buried Things. Her memoir, The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere, received the Elle Lettres Award from Elle Magazine and the 2007 PEN USA Creative Nonfiction Award. She also received a Pushcart Prize and is the current Director of the MFA program in Creative Writing and Environment at Iowa State University.
A 20th anniversary edition of Hoffman’s memoir, Half the House, was recently published by New Rivers Press with a new introduction by Louise DeSalvo. New Rivers Press also published his prose collection, Interference and Other Stories. Hoffman is the Senior Writer in Residence at Emerson College.
New Rivers Press recently published Sallis’s latest collection of poetry, Black Night’s Gonna Catch Me Here: New and Selected Poems. Sallis has authored 15 novels and several collections of essays and stories, including a biography of Chester Himes. An extensive traveler, Sallis currently resides in Phoenix, Arizona.
For more information about these events, contact Suzzanne Kelley at (218) 477-5870 or
kelleysu@mnstate.edu.