Reading Summary for the 2010-2011 year:
October 20, 2010 POEMS FROM THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT JORIE GRAHAM has, for thirty years, “engaged the whole human contraption — intellectual, global, domestic, apocalyptic — rather than the narrow emotional slice of it most often reserved for poems...Like Rilke or Yeats, she imagines the hermetic poet as a public figure, someone who addresses the most urgent philosophical and political issues of the time” (James Longenbach). Her books include Sea Change (Ecco, 2008), Swarm (2000), and The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994, which won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. ELIZABETH LORDE-ROLLINS is a physician, poet, and daughter of Audre Lorde (1934-1992), the author of nine collections of poetry, including Cables to Rage (1970). Her first poems were published in Langston Hughes’s New Negro Poets USA (1962), and her Collected Poems were published in 1997. She wrote “as a Black woman, a mother, a daughter, a Lesbian, a feminist, a visionary; poems of elemental wildness and healing, nightmare and lucidity” (Adrienne Rich). HONOR MOORE, editor of the Library of America's Poems from the Women’s Movement anthology, has written three collections of poems, including Red Shoes (2005) and Memoir (1988). Her other editorial projects include The New Women’s Theater (1977). She is also the author of the biography The White Blackbird and the memoir The Bishop’s Daughter. “The streak of white daubed inside each poem is like a secret ticket to lightness and shining” (Fanny Howe). EILEEN MYLES has published more than twenty books in poetry and other genres, including The Irony of the Leash (1978), Sorry, Tree (2007), and Inferno, a poet’s novel forthcoming in the fall of 2010. She writes as someone “with an uncanny knack for making people feel uncomfortable and awake . . . chanting softly and beautifully the harsh if humorous realities that combine to make whatever life a poet can piece together today” (John Ashbery). ANNE WALDMAN is the author of more than forty books of poetry, including On the Wing (1968) and Manatee/Humanity (2009) and is an active member of the Outrider experimental poetry movement. “I’d like here to declare an enlightened poetics,” she has written, “an androgynous poetics, a poetics defined by your primal energy not by a heterosexist world that must measure every word, act against itself.” She has been connected to the Beat movement and the second generation of the New York School. She and Allen Ginsberg founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado. YVETTE CHRISTIANSE Poet and fiction writer Yvette Christiansë was born in South Africa under apartheid and immigrated with her parents to Australia at age 18. Her work has been published internationally, and her poetry collection, Castaway, was a finalist for the 2001 PEN International Poetry Prize. Her acclaimed first novel, Unconfessed, is based on the life of a slave woman in the Cape Colony and was a finalist for the 2007 Hemingway/PEN International Prize for First Fiction. Christiansë received her PhD from the University of Sydney and teaches in the English department at Fordham University. Sponsored by the Barnard Africana Studies Program. ELLEN MCLAUGHLIN’s plays include: Infinity’s House, Iphigenia and Other Daughters, Tongue of a Bird, Trojan Women, Helen, The Persians, Penelope and Ajax in Iraq. Regional and international venues include: The Guthrie Theater, Actors’ Theater of Louisville, Almeida Theater, London, and The Mark Taper Forum, L.A. Off Broadway: National Actors’ Theater, CSC, New York Theater Workshop and The Public Theater. Awards include: The Writer’s Award, Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest and The Susan Blackburn Prize. She has taught playwrighting at Barnard since 1995. She is also an actor. MEG WOLITZER is a novelist whose first book, Sleepwalking, was published the year after she graduated from Brown University. Since then, her books have included The Wife; The Position; and The Ten-Year Nap, among others. Her new novel, The Uncoupling, will be published by Riverhead in the spring of 2011. Wolitzer, whose fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize, has taught in the MFA program at Columbia University's School of the Arts, as well as at the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop, Boston University, and Skidmore College. TANYA BARFIELD. SHIRA NAYMAN. FRANCES RICHARD is the author of See Through (Four Way Books, 2003) and the chapbooks Anarch (Woodland Editions, 2008) and Shaved Code (Portable Press, 2008); she is co-author, with Jeffrey Kastner and Sina Najafi, of Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark’s “Fake Estates” (Cabinet Books, 2005) and is at work on a longer study of Gordon Matta-Clark’s language-use. She writes frequently about contemporary art, teaches at Barnard College and the Rhode Island School of Design, and lives in Brooklyn. page last updated 7/7/10 |
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