Author & Poet Nate Marshall Visits DePauw Feb. 7

December 25, 2017

Nate Marshall, an award-winning author and poet, will come to the campus of DePauw University on Wednesday, February 7, 2018. He'll present a reading as a guest of the James and Marilou Kelly Writers Series. The public is invited to the 7:30 p.m. program in the auditorium of DePauw's Richard E. Peeler Art Center, which is presented free of admission charge.

Marshall, who hails from the South Side of Chicago, is the author of Wild Hundreds and an editor of The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop. Wild Hundreds. He has been honored with the Black Caucus of the American Library Association’s award for Poetry Book of the Year and the Great Lakes College Association’s New Writer Award. His last rap album, Grown, came out in 2015 with his group Daily Lyrical Product.

Marshall earned a B.A. at Vanderbilt University and an M.F.A. at the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers' Program. He has received fellowships from Cave Canem, The Poetry Foundation, and the University of Michigan and is the director of National Programs for Louder Than A Bomb Youth Poetry Festival.