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| 2003 - 2004 Featured Writers |
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| Kurtis Lamkin |
Sept. 10, 2003;
Lunch talk: Loutit Room |
| Leslie Ullman |
Oct. 30, 2003;
Lunch talk: Loutit Room |
| Michael Ondaatje |
April 13, 2004 (Performing Arts Center) |
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| Note: All lectures are at 7:30 p.m. and in the Wege Ballroom unless otherwise noted.
All lunch talks are at 12:30 p.m. |
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| Kurtis Lamkin -
Sept. 10, 2003 |
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Works by Kurtis Lamkin:
"Queen of Carolina" CD;
"El Shabazz" CD |
| Kurtis Lamkin is a poet from Philadelphia who
plays the Kora, a beautiful twenty-one string
West African harp/lute. He has performed his poems
internationally, most recently at the Gullah Festival
in South Carolina, The Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry
Festival in Waterloo, New Jersey, the Guggenheim
Museum in New York City, the New Jersey Performing
Arts Center, Lewis & Clark College in Portland,
Oregon, and at the Skagit River Poetry Festival
and Bumbershoot Festival in Washington State. |
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| Leslie Ullman -
Oct. 30, 2003 |
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Works by Leslie Ullman:
Natural Histories;
Dreams by No One's Daughter;
Slow Walk Through Sand
Links:
Ullman's
Homepage
San Miguel Poetry Week |
| Leslie Ullman was born in Chicago and received
her BA from Skidmore College in 1969 and her MFA
from University of Iowa in 1974. She has been
awarded two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships,
and her poems have appeared in magazines such
as Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The New Yorker, Puerto Del Sol,
and Blue Mesa Review, as well as numerous
anthologies. Her poetry reviews have appeared
in Kenyon Review and Poetry Magazine.
She directed UTEP's Creative Writing Program during
the inception and first serveral years of its
Bilingual MFA, and teaches workshops in poetry,
creative non-fiction, fiction and beginning creative
writing, and literature courses in contemporary
American poetry. She is on the faculty of the
Vermont College MFA Program. Leslie lives on ranchland
in Southern New Mexico. (Source: UTEP) |
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| Michael Ondaatje -
April 13, 2004 |
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Works by Michael Ondaatje:
Anil's Ghost;
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid;
Coming Through Slaughter;
The Conversations: Walter Murch & the Art
of Editing Film;
English Patient;
Handwriting; In the Skin of the Lion;
Running in the Family;
There's a Trick With a Knife I'm Learning To Do
Note: This is a ticketed presentation;
ticket order will be taken at a later date.
Special Thanks to: Deborah Meijer, the Rimbaud Fund of the Grand Rapids Community Foundation |
| Sri-Lanka native Michael Ondaatje is a literary
phenomenon: a best-selling writer, one whose work
is a stunning fusion of jazz rhythms, film montage
technique, and profoundly beautiful language.
Although he is best known as a novelist, Ondaatje's
work also encompasses memoir, poetry, and film,
and reveals a passion for defying conventional
form. In his landmark novel, The English Patient - later
made into the Academy Award-winning film - he explores
the history of people history does not explore,
intersecting four diverse lives at the end of
World War II. Ondaatje is himself an interesting
intersection of cultures. Born in the former Ceylon
of Dutch/Indian ancestry, he was raised in London,
and is now a Canadian citizen. Having won
the British Commonwealth's highest honor - the
Booker Prize (1992) - Ondaatje has taken his
rightful place as a contemporary literary treasure.
(Source: Steven Barclay Agency) |
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