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37th Annual Squaw Valley Community of Writers hosts internationally renowned poets |
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Written by Staff reports
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Thursday, 20 July 2006 |
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The 37th Annual Squaw Valley Community of Writers will convene again this summer with workshops in poetry, fiction, nonfiction and screenwriting. The internationally renowned Poetry Workshop, directed by former U.S. Poet Laureate, Robert Hass, will meet for a week beginning July 22, 2006. Poetry participants will write new poems and meet each day in workshops and discussions on craft.
On Thursday, July 27, at 8:15 pm in Olympic Village Lodge the Squaw Valley Community of Writers will be presenting the five staff poets of this year’s workshops for an extraordinary evening of poetry readings. Robert Hass, Harryette Mullen, Sharon Olds, C.D. Wright and Dean Young will read from their published and unpublished work, including poems written in Squaw Valley just days before! There is a suggested donation of $12/$5 student. To reserve your seat contact Brett Hall Jones, Executive Director, at
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or by phone at (530) 581-5200.
Also, there are a variety of events and workshops presented by the Community of Writers in conjunction with the Writers Workshops in Fiction and NonFiction that are open to the public. Many of the events, (readings, panels, discussions of the craft and the business of writing) are free of charge. To request a “Public Events Schedule” call 530-581-5200 or visit the Squaw Valley Community of Writers website to download one at www.squawvalleywriters.org/reading_events.htm.
POET BIOGRAPHIES
ROBERT HASS is a poet, translator and essayist. His books of poetry include Sun Under Wood: New Poems, Human Wishes, Praise, and Field Guide. He has also co-translated several volumes of poetry with Czeslaw Milosz, most recently A Second Space; and is author or editor of several other collections of essays and translations, including The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa, and Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry. His new book of poems, as yet untitled, will be published by Ecco and, for HeyDay Books, he recently co-edited, with Jessica Fisher, The Addison Street Anthology: Berkeley’s Poetry Walk. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997 and is currently a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. He was the guest editor of the 2001 edition of Best American Poetry. Awarded a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, and the National Book Critics Circle Award twice, he is a professor of English at UC Berkeley.
SHARON OLDS’s books include Blood, Tin, Straw; The Wellspring; The Father; The Gold Cell; and The Dead and the Living. Her 2002 collection, The Unswept Room, chosen as the Lamont Poetry Selection by The Academy of American Poets, received the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her most recent collection, Strike Sparks, was published in 2004 by Knopf. She teaches in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University, and for twenty years has helped run a writing workshop at the Goldwater Memorial Hospital, a 900-bed state hospital for the severely physically challenged. From 1998-2000 she was New York State Poet Laureate and was named the 2003 James Merrill Fellow of The Academy of American Poets.
HARRYETTE MULLEN received her PhD in Literature from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1990. She is the author of several books of poetry including Trimmings, S*PeRm**K*T, Muse & Drudge, and Sleeping with the Dictionary. The latter was nominated for a National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Recyclopedia is forthcoming in 2006 from Graywolf Press. She is a recipient of an artist grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation. She teaches at UCLA.
C.D. WRIGHT has published eleven collections of poetry and prose. Wright’s most recent book is Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil. In December of 2003 she published One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana, a collaboration with photographer Deborah Luster. It was awarded the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize for a work in progress from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Her selected and new poems, Steal Away, was published in 2002. Other titles include Tremble, the book-length poems Deepstep Come Shining, and Just Whistle. String Light won the 1992 Poetry Center Book Award given by San Francisco State University. Wright has composed and published two state literary maps, one for Arkansas, her native state, and one for Rhode Island, her adopted state. Honors include fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bunting Institute, the Guggenheim, Wallace, and Lannan Foundations. She is a 2004 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, and is newly elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. For over twenty years she co-edited Lost Roads Publishers, an independent literary press. Wright is on the faculty of Brown University.
DEAN YOUNG is the author of six books of poems including his most recent, Elegy on Toy Piano, published by Pittsburgh University Press in 2005. He is also the author of Skid, First Course in Turbulence; Strike Anywhere, which won the first Colorado Poetry Prize; Design With X; Beloved Infidel, which will soon be republished by Hollyridge Press. A new book, embryoyo, will be published by Believer Books in 2006. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, he has received two National Endowment for the Arts grants and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is on the permanent faculty at the Iowa Writers Workshop and also teaches in the Warren Wilson low-residency MFA program.
Squaw Valley is located five miles north of Lake Tahoe along the Truckee River on Highway 89. Summer activities at the year-round resort include swimming, ice-skating, hiking, golf, horseback riding, wall climbing, tennis, dining, shopping, an adventure ropes course, a VIII Winter Olympic Games Museum and more. For more information on Squaw Valley please call 530-583-6985, or visit www.squaw.com.
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