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| 2002 - 2003 Featured Writers |
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| Linda Pastan |
Oct. 3, 2002 (Lacks Center);
Lunch talk: Oct. 4 (Loutit Room) |
| Peter Carey |
Oct. 17, 2002;
Lunch talk: Oct. 17 (Wege Ballroom) |
| Sydney Lea |
March 4, 2003;
Lunch talk (Wege Ballroom) |
| Eric Pankey |
April 3, 2003;
Lunch talk: April 4 (Loutit Room) |
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| Note: All lectures are at 7:30 p.m. in the Wege Ballroom unless otherwise noted.
All lunch talks are at 12:30 p.m. |
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| Linda Pastan -
Oct. 3, 2002 |
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Works by Linda Pastan:
The Last Uncle (2002);
Carnival Evening: New and Selected Poems, 1968-1998;
Heroes in Disguise: Poems (1991);
Death of a Parent (1985)
Links:
Poets.org
biography |
| Linda Pastan, poet
laureate of Maryland from 1991 through 1994, has
received fellowships from the National Endowment
for the Arts and from the Maryland Arts Council.
She has won the Dylan Thomas Award, the Di Castagnola
Award, The Bess Hokin Prize of Poetry magazine,
the Virginia Faulkner Award from Prairie Schooner,
and a Pushcart Prize. "A Fraction of Darkness" won the Maurice English Award; "PM/AM: New
and Selected Poems" was a nominee for the
National Book Award; and " The Imperfect Paradise" was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Pastan lives in Potomac, Maryland. (Source: Poems.com) |
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| Peter Carey -
Oct. 17, 2002 |
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Works by Peter Carey:
Jack Maggs (1999);
Oscar and Lucinda (1997);
Illywhacker (1996);
The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith (1996) |
| Peter Carey was born in Australia in 1943,
and lives in New York City with his wife, Alison
Summers, and their two sons. The author of six
previous novels and a collection of stories, he
won the Booker Prize for Oscar and Lucinda; his
other honors include the Commonwealth Prize and
the Miles Franklin Award. (Source: Random House) |
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| Sydney Lea - March 4, 2003 |
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Works by Sydney Lea:
Pursuit of a Wound (2000);
A Place in Mind (1997);
To the Bone: New and Selected Poems (1996)
Links:
Friendship |
| Sydney Lea, founder and for 13 years editor
of New England Review, is author of six collections
of poetry, the latest of which, To the Bone: New
and Selected Poems, won the 1997-98 Poets' Prize.
His other collections include Searching the Drowned
Man, The Floating Candles, No Sign, Prayer for
the Little City, and The Blainville Testament.
Recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim,
Rockefeller and Fulbright Foundations, he has
taught at Dartmouth, Yale, Middlebury, and Wesleyan.
He is author of a novel, A Place in Mind, and
a collection of memoiristic essays, Hunting the
Whole Way Home.
He lives in Newbury, Vermont, with his wife and
five children. His seventh verse collection, Pursuit
of a Wound, was published in 2000.
(Source: AOL) |
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| Eric Pankey -
April 3, 2003 |
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Works by Eric Pankey:
Cenotaph (2001);
The Late Romances: Poems (1999);
Heartwood: Poems (1998)
Links:
Interview
with Eric Pankey
Two
poems
Brief
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| Eric Pankey was educated at the University
of Missouri and the University of Iowa. His first
book of poems, "For the New Year," received
the Academy of American Poets' Walt Whitman Award
in 1984. His second book, "Heartwood,"
was published in 1988 and his third, "Apocrypha,"
in 1991. He has received grants from the Ingram
Merrill Foundation and the National Endowment
for the Arts. He lives in Fairfax, Virginia, where
he teaches at George Mason University. (Source: Random House) |
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