Jane Addams Hull-House Museum -

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum presents:

New Books and Expansive Visions
with Marvin Bell

please note: due to a scheduling conflict, Li-Young Lee will not join us for this event.

Wednesday, May 7
6-8pm
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
Residents' Dining Hall
800 South Halsted

Reading and Party Celebrating

Mars Being Red, by Marvin Bell, Iowa's first Poet Laureate

Marvin Bell has been called "an insider who thinks like an outsider," and his writing has been called "ambitious without pretension." He was for many years the Flannery O'Connor Professor of Letters at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and now teaches for the low-residency MFA program based at Pacific University in Oregon. Mr. Bell served two terms as the state of Iowa's first Poet Laureate. He has served also on the faculties of Goddard College and the Universities of Hawaii, Washington, Wichita State, and Portland State. His list of former students reads like a Who's Who of American Poetry. He has collaborated with composers, musicians and dancers and is famous and infamous as the creator of what are known as the "Dead Man" poems and the "Dead Man Resurrected" poems. The most recent of his nineteen collections of poetry and essays are Iris of Creation, The Book of the Dead Man, Ardor, Nightworks: Poems 1962-2000, Rampant, and his latest collection, Mars Being Red (2007). Mr. Bell has received awards from the Academy of American Poets, the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Poetry Review, and has held Guggenheim and NEA Fellowships as well as Senior Fulbright Appointments to Yugoslavia and Australia. Mr. Bell, and his wife, Dorothy, divide their year between Iowa City and Port Townsend, Washington.