Throughout the summer, Great Books Summer Program welcomes special guests, authors and educators to campus to join our discussion. This series is a major feature of the program and brings fascinating and sometimes well-known visitors to engage with our young people.

2008 Guest Speakers include:

D.A. Powell D. A. Powell is the author of Tea, Lunch and Cocktails. The latter was a finalist for the Lambda and the National Book Critics' Circle Awards. Powell's honors have included fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the James Michener Foundation, a Pushcart Prize, the Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America and an Academy of American Poets Prize. In reviewing Cocktails, the New York Times said of Powell "No accessible poet of his generation is half as original, and no poet as original is this accessible." Powell's most recent book is Chronic (Graywolf, 2009). Additionally, a volume of selected poems is being published in Germany through Lux Books. D. A. Powell's work appears in numerous anthologies, including Norton's Hybrid Forms, Legitimate Dangers: Poets of the New Century and Best American Poetry 1998. His recent poems appear in Kenyon Review, Quarterly West, Poetry, New England Review and Virginia Quarterly Review. A former Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Poetry at Harvard University, Powell now teaches full-time in the English Department at University of San Francisco. Photo credit: Trane Devore

Click here to see a selection of our 2007 and 2008 guest speakers.

Click here to see a selection of our 2006 guest speakers.