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2000 - 2001 Featured Writers |
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| Gary Gildner -
Sept. 26, 2000 |
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Works by Gary Gildner:
Blue Like the Heavens: New & Selected Poems (1984);
The Second Bridge (1987);
A Week in South Dakota (1987);
The Warsaw Sparks (1990);
The Bunker in the Parsely Fields (1997) |
Gary
Gildner lives and writes on a ranch in Idaho's Clearwater
Mountains. He has published 17 books, including "The
Bunker in the Parsely Fields," which received
the 1996 Iowa Poetry Prize. He has also received the
National Magazine Award for Fiction, a Pushcart Prize,
the Robert Frost Fellowship, and the William Carlos
Williams and Theodore Roethke poetry prizes.
Gildner
has been writer-in-residence at Reed College, Davidson
College and Michigan State University, and has been
a Senior Fulbright Lecturer to Poland and Czechoslovakia.
He has given readings of his work at the Library of
Congress, the Academy of American Poets, YM-YWHA (New
York), Manhattan Theatre Club and at some 300 colleges
and schools in the U.S. and abroad. |
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| Deborah Miranda -
Nov. 6, 2000 |
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Works by Deborah Miranda:
Indian Cartography (1998)
Links to Works by Deborah Miranda:
Stories I Tell My Daughter
I Am Not a Witness |
On
my father's side, I am a member of the Esselen
Nation, a California tribe From my mother I receive
French, English and Jewish legacies. When my parents
separated, I moved with my mother from California
to Washington State. I grew up in an old trailer
on several wooded acres in Kent, isolated from
other kids and from my tribe. Immediately after
high school I took a radically different path
that included marriage to Daniel Harris Miller,
relocation to Massachusetts, and a B.S. from Wheelock
College in Boston. In 1986 my husband and I returned
to the Seattle area. In 1991, I finally began
to write poetry again. During this time, I re-connected
with my Esselen Nation family. I'm currently a
graduate student at the University of Washington
in Seattle, focusing on Native/Indigenous Literatures.
Amelia Haller's Wright Park Poetry Workshop in
Tacoma, the women of MUSE, an artists' group for
mothers, Northwest Renaissance Poets & Performers,
and the Flight of the Mind Summer Writing Workshop
for Women in Oregon have been major sources of
support and education for me. The friendship and
generosity of other Native poets is a huge contribution
to my "informal education." |
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| Nancy Eimers & William Olsen -
Feb. 15, 2001 |
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Works by Nancy Eimers:
No Moon (1997);
Destroying Angel (1991) |
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Works by William Olsen:
Vision of a Storm Cloud (1996);
Hand of God and a Few Bright Flowers (1990) |
Nancy
Eimers is the author of two books of poetry, "No
Moon," winner of the Verna Emery Poetry Prize,
and "Destroying Angel." She has been the
recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts
creative writing fellowships and a 1998 Whiting
Writers Award. She teaches creative writing at
Western Michigan University and Vermont College.
William
Olsen's newest collection of poetry, "Trouble
Lights," will be published by TriQuarterly
Books. He is the author of two previous volumes, "Vision of a Storm Cloud" and "The Hand
of God and a Few Bright Flowers." He received
a 1996 National Endowment for the arts fellowship
and teaches at Western Michigan University and
Vermont College |
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| Joy
Harjo -
March 22, 2001 |
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Works by Joy Harjo:
A Map to the Next World: Poems (2000);
Woman Who Fell from the Sky: Poems (1996);
Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native American Women's Writings of North America (1998) |
Born
in Tulsa, Oklahoma and an enrolled member of the
Muskogee Tribe, Joy Harjo came to New Mexico to
attend the Institute of American Indian Arts where
she studied painting and theatre, not music and
poetry, though she did write a few lyrics for
an Indian acid rock band. Joy attended the University
of New Mexico where she received her B.A. in 1976,
followed by an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa.
She has also taken part in a non-degree program
in Filmmaking from the Anthropology Film Center.
She
began writing poetry when the national Indian
political climate demanded singers and speakers,
and was taken by the intensity and beauty possible
in the craft. Her most recent book of poetry is
the best-selling "The Woman Who Fell From the
Sky." It wasn't until she was in Denver that
she took up the saxophone because she wanted to
learn how to sing and had in mind a band that
would combine the poetry with a music there were
no words yet to define, a music involving elements
of tribal musics, jazz and rock. She eventually
returned to New Mexico where she began the first
stirrings of what was to be Joy Harjo and Poetic
Justice. She has made recordings, done screen-writing,
given readings all over the world and is now performing
with Poetic Justice. |
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