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| 2005 - 2006 Featured Writers |
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| All lectures supported by the Michigan
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| Betsy
Sholl - Sept. 19, 2005 |
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Works by Betsy Sholl:
"Changing Faces"; "Appalachian
Winter"; "Rooms Overhead"; "The Red Line"
Awards Include:
1991 Associated Writing Programs Award for Poetry
1997 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry
NEA Grant & Two Maine Artists' Fellowships |
| Betsy Sholl, author of five books
of poetry, is a founding member of Alice James Books. A native
of New Jersey, She holds degrees from Bucknell University, the
University of Rochester, and Vermont College. The University
of Southern Maine and the MFA Program at Vermont College claim
her as a professor. |
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| Dinty
W. Moore - Nov. 8, 2005 |
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Works by Dinty W. Moore:
"The Truth of the Matter: Art and Craft
in Creative Nonfiction" (2006); "Buddhism in the American
Heartland", Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill; "Sudden
Stories" (2003); "Toothpick Men: Short Stories,"
Mammoth Books, 1998; "The Accidental Buddhist: Mindfulness,
Enlightenment, and Sitting Still," Algonquin Books, 1997;
"The Emperor's Virtual Clothes: The Naked Truth about Internet
Culture," Agonquin Books of chapel Hill, 1995; "The
Big White Thing" (dance theater script), performed in Baton
Roughe, La., at Louisiana State University Dance Theater, 1988.
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| Dinty W. Moore has many talents.
Before becoming known as a writer of both fiction and creative
nonfiction, he worked as a reporter for United Press International,
made documentary films, and danced professionally. Dinty did
his undergraduate work at the University of Pittsburgh, where
he studied with Lee Gutkind, the Godfather of creative nonfiction,
and earned his M.F.A. at Louisiana State University. He teaches
at Pennsylvania State University Altoona, where he co-coordinates
the Integrative Arts program. He also edits Brevity, an online
creative nonfiction journal. |
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| Stuart
Dybek - Jan. 18, 2006 |
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Works by Stuart Dybek:
"I Sailed with Magellan" Farrar, Straus & Giroux,
2003; "The Coast of Chicago" (short stories) Knopf,
1990; "Childhood and Other Neighborhoods" Viking,
1980; "Brass Knuckles" (poems) University of Pittsburgh
Press, 1979 |
| Stuart Dybek lives in Kalamazoo,
Mich. and has taught English since 1974 at Western Michigan
University. He received his undergraduate and master's degree
from Loyola University, and then went on to the University of
Iowa where he received his Master of Fine Arts degree. He is
not only an author but enjoys jazz and the saxophone. |
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| Sven
Birkerts - April 20, 2006 |
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Works by Sven Birkerts:
"My Sky Blue Trades: Growing Up Counter in a Contrary Time,"
Viking, 2002; "Tolstoy's Dictaphone: Technology and the
Muse," editor Graywolf Press, 1996; "The Gutenberg
Elegies: The Fate of Reading in the Electronic Age," Faber,
1994; "Literature: The Evolving Canon," Allyn &
Bacon, 1993; "The Longwood Introduction to Fiction,"
Allyn & Bacon, 1992; "The Electric Life: Essays on
Modern Poetry," Morrow, 1989; "An Artificial Wilderness:
Essays on Twentieth-Century Literature," Morrow, 1987 |
| Sven Birkerts, a well known literary
critic and a native of Pontiac, Mich., lives in Arlington, Mass.
He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan.
At present he is a lecturer at Mt. Holyoke College and teaches
as a member of the faculty for the Bennington Writing Seminars. |
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| Seamus
Heaney - May 10, 2006 (FREE
and OPEN to the Public!!!) |
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Works by Seamus Heaney:
Most Recent Publications:
Translated: "The Burial at Thebes - A Version of Sophocles'
Antigone," 2004; "Electric Light," 2001; Translation
of "Beowulf," 2000; "Diary of One who Vanished,"
2000; "Open Ground," 1998
Latest Collection
of Poems: "District & Circle," 2006
Latest Collection of Essays: "Finders
Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001" |
| Seamus
Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995.
Robert Lowell deemed Heaney "the most important Irish
poet since Yeats." He is undoubtedly the most popular
poet writing in English today.
This special appearance
is underwritten by Deborah Meijer's Rimbaud Fund at the Grand
Rapids Community Foundation. |
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