Visiting Writers Series
Carthage hosts acclaimed writers from across the country in our Visiting Writers Series. The series has welcomed dozens of nationally-renowned fiction writers and poets, including Danielle Evans, Joshua Beckman, Renee Gladman, David Trinidad, Julie Patton, Eileen Myles, Kate Greenstreet, Duriel Harris, Lisa Fishman, Bojan Louis, Jenny Gropp, Laura Solomon, Sidik Fofana, José Felipe Alvergue, and Lewis Freedman.
The Visiting Writers Series is sponsored by the English Department, the Division of Arts and Humanities, and Arts at Carthage. For more information, please contact Prof. Chuck Stebelton at cstebelton@carthage.edu.
Spring 2026
Tuesday, March 17: Richard Meier
6 p.m. Niemann Media Theater
Richard Meier has published six books of poetry, including most recently “A Companion” (Wave Books, 2025), sister volume to “A Duration” (Wave Books, 2023). Previous publications are “February March April April” (Oxeye Press, 2017), “In the Pure Block of the Whole Imaginary” (Omnidawn, 2012), “Shelley Gave Jane a Guitar” (Wave Books, 2006), and “Terrain Vague,” selected by Tomaž Å alamun for the Verse Prize and published by Verse Press in 2001. He is writer-in-residence at ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½.
Tuesday, April 21: Ae Hee Lee and Alex Niemi
6 p.m. Niemann Media Theater
Alex Niemi is a writer and translator. Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology. She is the author of the poetry chapbook “Elephant” (dancing girl press), and her latest translation is “The Endless Week” by Laura Vazquez (Dorothy Project).
