Clowes Lecture Series presented by the Writers' Center of Indiana

Clowes Craft Lecture Series, funding from the Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Fund

Karen Kovacik
"Falling Through Time:
Writing the Self into History"

Tuesday, November 29, 2011
7 p.m.
Indianapolis Art Center
820 E. 67th Street, Indianapolis

Free and open to the public

Karen Kovacik is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Metropolis Burning, and her work has received numerous honors, including the Charity Randall Citation from the International Poetry Forum and a Creative Renewal Fellowship from the Arts Council of Indianapolis. She has received a fellowship in literary translation from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Fulbright Research Grant to Poland, and her translations of contemporary Polish poetry have appeared in many anthologies and journals, including APR, Crazyhorse, and Southern Review. She's professor of English at IUPUI, where she directs the creative writing program. Her poem "Invisible Movements" won the Moving Forward contest and will be installed along the Indianapolis Cultural Trail. In January 2012, she will become Indiana's next Poet Laureate.

The Clowes Craft Lecture Series, “Be a Better Writer,” features accomplished writers and poets, whose inspiring, innovative, and very enjoyable talks about the creative process enhance writers’ and readers’ understanding of how literature is made. Free and open to the public, the series is sponsored by the Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation and has been co-sponsored by a variety of community organizations and institutions, including the Indianapolis Art Center, IMCPL, Butler University Writers’ Studio, and the Carmel Public Library Foundation.

The last Be a Better Writer Lecture featured Margaret McMullan. The 2010 Lectures featured Rebecca Skloot, Mickey Maurer, Doug Wissing and Sena Jeter Naslund. 2009 Lectures were given by David Shumate, Patricia Henley, S.J. Rozan, and Nancy Kriplen. Check back for more information about our next Be a Better Writer Lecture. Members may listen to a podcast of S.J. Rozan’s lecture, “Every Story Is a Mystery.”