KEYNOTE SPEAKER!

Thursday, Oct. 9, at 7:30 p.m. - Belle Mehus City Auditorium

2007 National Book Award for Young People's Literature

2007 Western Literature Association Distinguished Achievement Award

2005 Pushcart Prize for poem "Avian Nights," published in Dangerous Astronomy

2001 PEN/Malamud Award from PEN/Faulkner Foundation

1998-2001 World Heavyweight Poetry Champion

1998 Smoke Signals: Sundance Film Festival Audience Award

Free! Public Invited. General Seating. Mr. Alexie will answer questions after his presentation, and he will sign books. Dakota TESL is a group of educators specializing in language arts in K-12 schools in three states; this group also sponsors this evening.

BSC students will have read one of his novels for his visit under the Campus Read Program.