"PostSecret Project" Creator to Speak in Milner Library Lecture Series

Frank Warren was a small-business owner who founded and is curator of the PostSecret Project as a community art project.  It is a collection of more than 200,000 highly personal and artfully decorated postcards mailed anonymously from around the world, displaying the soulful secrets we never voice. 

Warren will speak about the project at 7 p.m. April 7 in Braden Auditorium as part of  the spring semester Milner Library Lecture Series.  Admission is free and open to the public.  Warren also will appear at a question-and-answer session at 4 p.m. in Milner Library.  One of Warren's PostSecret books, "PostSecret: Confessions on Life, Death and God," reached No. 1 on The New York Times best-seller list.

The lecture series continues on April 13 with poet and children's author Janice Harrington at 7 p.m. April 13 in the Old Main Room of Bone Student Center.  Her topic will be "The Story Behind the Words," discussing her work including her prize-winning book of poetry, "Even the Hollow My Body Made is Gone."  Harrington currently teaches creative writing at the University of Illinois.

Actor and environmental activist Ed Begley Jr. will speak on "Live Simply So That Others Can Simply Live" at 7 p.m. April 14 in Braden Auditorium.  He also will participate in a question-and-answer session at 3 p.m. in Milner Library. 

The Chronicle of Higher Education reporter Scott Carlson will speak on "Libraries and the Future: A Conversation with Scott Carlson" at 3 p.m. May 4 in the Old Main Room of Bone Student Center.  His talk is the Bryant Jackson Lecture sponsored by Milner Library.