Minnesota State University, Mankato’s Good Thunder Reading Series wraps up its fall programming when it hosts alumni poets Edward Micus, Connie Colwell Miller and Christina Olson in a day-long residency Thursday, Nov. 19.
The guest poets will meet with individual writers and be interviewed on KMSU-FM in the morning. At 3 p.m. they will lead a discussion on the craft of writing in Ostrander Auditorium of Centennial Student Union. At 7:30 p.m. they will read from their published work in CSU Room 253. All events are free and open to students, faculty, staff and the public.
Micus’ prose and poetry have appeared in “The North American Review,” “Poetry,” “The New York Quarterly” and other publications. He has published a book of stories, “Landing Zones,” and a book of poems, “The Infirmary,” and received an Emerging Voices Award from The Loft, as well as a Loft McKnight Award in poetry.
Miller is a writer, editor, college advisor and instructor of English. Her collection of poems “Bodywearers” was published in 2008 by Sol Books. She lives in Mankato with her husband and two children.
Olson’s first book of poems, “Before I Came Home Naked,” is soon to be out from Spire Press. Her new work also appears in “Brevity,” “The Best Creative Nonfiction Volume 3,” “Sou’wester” and “Black Warrior Review.” She is a visiting assistant professor of writing at Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Mich.
An interview with the writers, part of the “Authors in Transit” series on public-radio station KMSU 89.7 FM, will air on Thursday, Nov. 19, at 1 p.m., and on Friday, Nov. 20, at 11 a.m.
This year’s Good Thunder Reading Series is funded by the Department of English, the College of Arts & Humanities, the Office of Institutional Diversity, the Nadine B. Andreas Endowment, the Eddice B. Barber Visiting Writer Endowment, the Robert C. Wright Endowment, and individual donors. It is made possible in part by a grant from the Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council from a Minnesota State Legislature appropriation. It also is made possible by a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, through a legislative appropriation and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Library Services and the Barnes & Noble Bookstore offer additional assistance.
Those who want more information about the series may call Richard Robbins at the Department of English, (507) 389-1354, or see go to www.english2.mnsu.edu/gt/.
Minnesota State Mankato, a comprehensive, doctoral university with 14,950 students and two satellite sites, is part of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system, which comprises 32 institutions across the state.
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