Gwen Frostic Reading Series: Mark Turcotte

Join the College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of English for the annual Gwen Frostic Reading Series. On Friday, October 16, we will feature poet Mark Turcotte.

Craft Talk

11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Dunbar Hall 2408

Reading and Q&A

5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Brown Hall 1025

About Mark Turcotte

Recently named as 6th Illinois Poet Laureate, writer and WMU alum Mark Turcotte (Turtle Mountain Band Ojibwe) spent his earliest years on North Dakota's Turtle Mountain Chippewa Reservation and in the migrant camps of the western United States.

Turcotte's work has appeared in many national and international literary journals and anthologies, including the new and first ever Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry. His poem, "Dear New Blood," was recently featured on the poetry podcast Poetry Unbound. Turcotte was the recipient of a 2001-2002 Lannan Foundation Literary Award, and his work was included in the NEA/Poetry Foundation project Poetry Out Loud. 

Since 2009, he has been a senior lecturer and distinguished-writer-in-residence in the English Department at DePaul University, Chicago.