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| 2004 - 2005 Featured Writers |
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| Bill Heyen -
Sept. 30, 2004 |
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Latest Works by Bill Heyen:
Annuli, Timberline Press (Fulton, Mo.), 2001;
(Editor) September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond, Etruscan Press (Silver Spring, Md.), 2002;
Shoah Train: Poems, Etruscan Press (Silver Spring, Md.), 2003;
The Rope: Poems, Mammoth Books (DuBois, Pa.), 2003;
The Hummingbird Corporation: Stories, Mammoth Books (DuBois, Pa.), 2003;
Home: Autobiographies, Etc., Mammoth Books (DuBois, Pa.), 2004. |
| William Heyen, a well respected American poet,
was born in 1940 in Brooklyn, New York. He is
a former Fulbright lecturer at Hannover University
in Germany and has won many awards for his poetry;
his latest being the Fairchild Award and Small
Press Book Award, for both in1997, for Crazy Horse
in Stillness: Poems. His poetry has appeared in
more than a hundred periodicals, including The
New Yorker, Harper's, TriQuarterly, Poetry, and American Poetry Review.
His writings cover many different historical contents
from the Holocaust with "The Swastika Poems,"
to America's Native American with his poems
about Custer and Crazy Horse, to poems of September
11, 2001 terrorist act against America. Mr. Heyen
has been Professor of English and Poet in Residence
at the State University of New York College at
Brockport. |
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| Lee Gutkind -
Oct. 27, 2004 |
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Works by Lee Gutkind:
Many Sleepless Nights: The World of Organ Transplantation, Norton (New York, NY), 1988;
One Children's Place: A Profile of Pediatric Medicine, Grove Weidenfeld (New York, NY), 1990;
Stuck in Time: The Tragedy of Childhood Mental Illness, Henry Holt (New York, NY), 1993;
Creative Nonfiction: How to Live It and Write It, Chicago Review Press (Chicago, IL), 1996;
The Art of Creative Nonfiction: Writing and Selling the Literature of Reality, Wiley (New York, NY), 1997;
The Veterinarian's Touch: Profiles of Life among the Animals, Henry Holt (New York, NY), 1998.
Links:
Creative Nonfiction |
| Lee Gutkind is the editor and founder of the
magazine, Creative Nonfiction. Born in Pittsburgh,
PA he has continued to live and work in the area.
Currently he is Professor of English at University
of Pittsburgh and has been the inspiration for
many creative nonfiction writers. He, also, works
as a freelance reporter for NPR and teaches narrative
techniques to reporters, producers and editors
for National Public Radio.
Creative Nonfiction is described by Gutkind as
"dramatic, true stories using scenes, dialogue,
close, detailed descriptions and other techniques
usually employed by poets and fiction writers
about important subjects - from politics, to economics,
to sports, to the arts and sciences, to racial
relations, and family relations." |
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| Diane Wakoski -
March 16, 2005 |
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Works by Diane Wakoski:
Emerald Ice: Selected poems 1962 - 1987, Black Sparrow Press
(winner Williams Carlos publ: Prize 1989)
Books in the series"Archealogy of Movies & Books," Black Sparrow Press:
Medea the Soceress, 1991;
Jason the Sailor, 1993;
The Emerald City of Las Vegas, 1995;
Argonaut Rose, 1998 |
| Diane Wakoski, who is a professor of English
at Michigan State University, was born in Whittier,
CA, in 1937. Diane has published more than 40
collections of poetry. She is frequently named
among the foremost contemporary American poets
by virtue of her experiential vision and her unique
voice according to Paul Zweig in the New York
Times Book Review. In 2003 she received the
Author of the Year award from the Michigan Library
Association. |
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