Guest Speaker: Richard Terrill

    Richard Terrill is the author of a collection of poems, Coming Late to Rachmaninoff, winner of the Minnesota Book Award, and two books of creative nonfiction, Fakebook: Improvisations on a Journey Back to Jazz and Saturday Night in Baoding: A China Memoir, winner of the Associated Writing Programs Award for nonfiction. He has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Wisconsin and Minnesota State Arts Boards, the Jerome Foundation, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. He has taught as a Fulbright professor in China, Korea, and Poland, and currently teaches creative nonfiction and poetry writing in the MFA program at Minnesota State University, Mankato. He works as a jazz saxophone player with the Larry McDonough Quartet.

Guest Speaker: Karl Elder

    Karl Elder’s ninth collection of verse, Gilgamesh at the Bellagio, recently won publication in The National Poetry Review Award Book Series.  Among his honors are a Pushcart Prize; two appearances in The Best American Poetry; and the Chad Walsh, Lorine Niedecker, and Lucien Stryk Awards.  Mr. Elder is the Jacob and Lucile Fessler Professor of Creative Writing and Poet in Residence at Lakeland College.

Guest Speaker: Marilyn Taylor

    Marilyn Taylor, Poet Laureate of Wisconsin for 2009 and 2010, is the author of six collections of poetry.  Her work has also appeared in The American Scholar, Poetry, The Formalist, First Things, Measure, and many other journals and anthologies.  She is currently a Contributing Editor for The Writer magazine, where her columns on craft appear bi-monthly.  Marilyn teaches regularly for the Honors College at UWM, Redbird Studios in Milwaukee, Lawrence University's Bjorklunden Seminar Center in Baileys Harbor, and Allwriters Studio in Waukesha.  Marilyn was the Poet Laureate of Milwaukee in 2004 and ‘05.