2025-2026 Visiting Writers Series
Sponsored by the Colorado College English Department with the support of the MacLean Visiting Writers Endowment. All events are free and open to the public.
Block One
Paisley Rekdal
September 10, 2025 6:00 PM
Packard Performance Hall
| Paisley Rekdal is the author of four books of nonfiction and seven collections of poetry. Her newest works of nonfiction include a book-length essay, The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam and Appropriate: A Provocation. A pedagogy book has just been published: Real Toads: Imaginary Gardens: On Reading and Writing Poetry Forensically (W.W. Norton, 2024). Her work has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Residency, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, among others. Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous journals including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, American Poetry Review, the Best American Poetry series (2012, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019), and on National Public Radio. She is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah, where she teaches in the Creative Writing Program and directs the American West Center. She is also the creator and editor of West: A Translation, as well as the community web projects Mapping Literary Utah and Mapping Salt Lake City. Between 2017-2022, she served as Utah's Poet Laureate, receiving a 2019 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship. She currently serves as poetry editor for High Country News, and as co-chair of PEN America's Utah Chapter. |
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Jessy Randall
September 16, 2025 3:30-4:30
Tim Fuller Event Space in Tutt Library
Block Two
Wayne Miller and Rick Barot
October 1, 2025 7:00 PM
South Hall Commons
Block Three
Charlie Jane Anders
October 21, 2025 5pm
Cornerstone Screening Room
Lee Ann Roripaugh
October 30, 2025, 6pm
South Hall Commons
Block Four
Satsuki Ina (virtual vws)
November 20th, 5 pm
Link to Register: https://coloradocollege.zoom.us/meeting/register/IsYRepaFQASKwFeWuBt4Bw#/registration
Genevieve Love
December 3, 2025
South Hall Commons
ire'ne lara silva
December 10th, 2025 6 pm
Max Kade Theater
Block Five
Block Six
Cathy Linh Che
February 17, 2026
5:00 PM
Cornerstone Screening Room
John Weldon
February 26, 2026
5:00 PM
South Hall Commons
Block Seven
Cindy Ok
March 24th, 2026
1:00 PM
Gaylord Hall
Arthur Sze
March 26th, 2026
7:00 PM
Celeste Theater, Cornerstone
Join us on Thursday, March 26 for an evening with Arthur Sze, the 25th Poet Laureate of the United States and the first Asian American to hold the office. The reading begins at 7:00 p.m. in Celeste Theater, followed by a book signing and reception with coffee and dessert in Cornerstone Main Space. Books will be available for purchase.
Arthur Sze is a poet, translator, and editor. His collection Sight Lines won the 2019 National Book Award for Poetry, and The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems received the National Book Foundation’s Science + Literature Award. His most recent work is Into the Hush, his twelfth book of poetry.
This event is free and open to the public. Please register here.
David Mason
April 7th, 2026
5:00 PM
Cornerstone Screening Room
Block Eight
Mai Der Vang
May 7, 2026
5:00 PM
Cornerstone Screening Room
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