[Yale-readings] Central Connecticut State's Reading Schedule, Fall 2004

[Nancy Kuhl]

>All Events are Free and Open to the Public
>and on the Central Connecticut State University campus
>1615 Stanley St., New Britain, CT 06050
>
>FALL 2004
>
>Thursday, October 14th - 7:00 pm - Marcus White Living Room
>Ingrid Wendt and Ralph Salisbury
>Ingrid Wendt is the author of four books of poems, two anthologies, a 
>book-length teaching guide, numerous articles and reviews, and more than 
>200 individual poems in such magazines and anthologies as Poetry, Poetry 
>Northwest, Antioch Review, Northwest Review, Ms., and No More Masks! An 
>Anthology of 20th Century American Women Poets. She has taught literature 
>and poetry writing for more than 30 years at all educational levels, 
>including the MFA program of Antioch University Los Angeles; at 
>teacher-training institutes throughout the United States and in Germany; 
>and in hundreds of public school classrooms, grades K-12, in Oregon, 
>Washington, Utah, Illinois, Iowa, and overseas. Among her many honors are 
>the Oregon Book Award, the 2003 Yellowglen Award from Word Press, the 
>Carolyn Kizer Award, several Pushcart nominations, and the D.H. Lawrence 
>Award.
>
>Ralph Salisbury, Professor Emeritus of the University of Oregon, is the 
>author of two books of short fiction and seven books of poetry, the most 
>recent of which, Rainbows of Stone (University of Arizona Press), was 
>chosen by Maxine Kumin as a finalist in the Oregon Book Awards. Other 
>poetry titles include A White Rainbow, Poems of a Cherokee Heritage; Going 
>to the Water; Spirit Beast Chant; Pointing at the Rainbow; Ghost 
>Grapefruit and Other Poems; and Poesie Da Un Retaggio Cherokee (Multimedia 
>Edizioni, Salerno, Italy). His short fiction titles include One Indian and 
>Two Chiefs (Navajo C. College Press) and The Last Rattlesnake Throw 
>(University of Oklahoma Press). He has received many awards, among them a 
>Rockefeller Foundation Creative Writing Residency at the Villa Serbelloni 
>in Bellagio, Italy; the Chapelbrook Award; the Northwest Poetry Award; two 
>Fulbright professorships, to Germany and Norway; and an Amparts (USIS) 
>lectureship in India. Born of a Cherokee story-teller, singer father and a 
>story-telling Irish American mother, Ralph Salisbury grew up hunting and 
>trapping, for meat and pelts, and working on a family farm, which had no 
>electricity or running water but was reachable by a dirt road. When he 
>visited his father's mother, the only road was a footpath along a creek. 
>Through World War Two service, he earned six years of university 
>education, and has worked at writing, editing, translating and teaching 
>writing and literature from 1950 to the present.
>
>Wednesday, October 20th - 7:30 pm - Marcus White Living Room
>Dr. Terri Witek
>Among Terri Witek's publications are Fools and Crows (Orchises Press, 
>2003), a chapbook, Courting Couples (Winner of the 2000 Center for Book 
>Arts Letterpress contest), and Robert Lowell and Life Studies: Revising 
>the Self (University of Missouri Press, 1993). She has published poems in 
>Poetry, The Antioch Review, The New Republic, The Threepenny Review, and 
>many other journals.She teaches English at Stetson University, where she 
>directs the Sullivan Creative Writing Program.
>
>Thursday, October 28th - 7:00 pm - Founder's Hall in Davidson
>Kurt Brown
>Kurt Brown was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up on Long Island and 
>in Connecticut where he attended the University of Connecticut. He spent 
>many years in Aspen, Colorado, where he founded the Aspen Writers' 
>Conference and edited a literary magazine, Aspen Anthology. His poems have 
>appeared in Southern Poetry Review, Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares, 
>Harvard Review, Crazyhorse, and many other periodicals. He is the editor 
>of Drive, They Said: Poems about Americans and Their Cars, and Verse & 
>Universe: Poems about Science and Mathematics, as well as a collection of 
>essays about science and mathematics, The Measured Word. With his wife, 
>poet Laure-Anne Bosselaar, he edited Night Out: Poems about Hotels, 
>Motels, Restaurants and Bars. He is also the editor of three collections 
>of lectures given at writers' conferences across America: The True 
>Subject, Writing It Down for James, and Facing the Lion. His two previous 
>collections, More Things in Heaven and Earth (2002) and Return of the 
>Prodigals (1999) were published by Four Way Books. He lives with his wife 
>in New York City.
>
>
>Monday, November 8th - 7:00 pm - Founders Hall in Davidson
>Connecticut Poetry Circuit presents Mark Jarman
>Mark Jarman was born June 5, 1952, in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. He earned 
>a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1974 and an 
>M.F.A. from the University of Iowa in 1976. He is the author of numerous 
>collections of poetry: To the Green Man (Consortium, 2004); Unholy Sonnets 
>(2000); Questions for Ecclesiastes, which won the 1998 Lenore Marshall 
>Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle 
>Award; The Black Riviera (1990), which won the 1991 Poets' Prize; Far and 
>Away (1985); The Rote Walker (1981); and North Sea (1978). In 1992 he 
>published Iris, a book-length poem.His poetry and essays have been 
>published widely in such periodicals and journals as American Poetry 
>Review, Gettysburg Review, The Hudson Review, The New Yorker, Poetry, and 
>Southern Review. During the 1980s he and Robert McDowell founded, edited, 
>and published the controversial magazine The Reaper, selections from which 
>have been published in book form as The Reaper Essays (1996). A collection 
>of Jarman's own essays, The Secret of Poetry, was published in 2000. He is 
>also co-editor of Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism (with David 
>Mason; 1996). His awards include a Joseph Henry Jackson Award and 
>fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon 
>Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is a professor of English at Vanderbilt 
>University in Nashville, Tennessee, where he lives with his wife, the 
>soprano Amy Jarman, and their daughters, Claire and Zoë.
>
>Contact Ravi Shankar <shankarr at ccsu.edu> with questions/comments.
>
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>Ravi Shankar
>Poet-in-Residence
>Assistant Professor
>CCSU - English Dept.
>860-832-2766
>shankarr at ccsu.edu

Nancy Kuhl
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