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| 1998 - 1999 Featured Writers |
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| Lisel Mueller -
Oct. 1, 1998 |
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Works by Lisel Mueller:
"The Private Life," 1975;
"Second Language," 1986;
"Waving from Shore," 1989;
"Alive Together," 1996;
"Dependencies," 1965 |
A
native of Germany and now a U.S. citizen, Lisel Mueller
was born on February 8, 1924. She earned a B.A. in
sociology at the University of Evansville and did
graduate work in comparative literature, with an emphasis
on folklore and mythology, at Indiana University.
She has been a visiting writer at a number of institutions,
including the University of Chicago and Washington
University in St. Louis. Mueller
is the author of seven books of poetry: Dependencies (1965); The Private Life (1976), which was
the Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American
Poets; Voices from the Forest (1977); The
Need to Hold Still (1981), which received the
National Book Award; Second Language (1986);
Waving from Shore (1989), which received the Carl
Sandburg Prize and Alive Together: New and Selected
Poem (1996). She has also translated several
works from the German.
In
addition to the National Book Award and the Lamont
prize, Mueller has received the Emily Clark Balch
Prize, the Eunice Tietjens Memorial Prize, the English-Speaking
Union Prize, the Jacob Glatstein Translation Award,
the Theodore Roethke Prize, and a Pushcart Prize.
Mueller
lives in Lake Forest, Illinois. |
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| David Mura -
Nov.12, 1998 |
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Works by David Mura:
"Colors of Desire," 1995;
"Turning Japanese," 1997;
"After We Lost Out Way," 1997 |
David
Mura is a poet, creative nonfiction writer, critic,
playwright and performance artist. A Sansei, or
third generation Japanese American, Mura is the
author of "Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei,"
which won a 1991 Josephine Miles Book Award from
the Oakland PEN and was listed in the New York
Times Notable Books of the Year. Mura's new memior,
"Where the Body Meets Memory: An Odyssey of Race,
Sexuality and Identity" was published in 1996.
Mura's
most recent book of poetry is "The Colors of Desire,"
which won the Carl Sandburg Literary Award from
the Friends of the Chicago Library.
Mura
is the Artistic Director of the Asian American
Resnaissance, and Asian American arts organization
in Minnesota, where he lives with his wife and
three children. |
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| Colette Inez -
Feb. 2, 1999 |
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Works by Colette Inez:
"The Woman Who Loved Worms,"
1992;
"Getting Under Way," 1993;
"Clemency," 1998 |
Colette
Inez, the author of seven books of poetry, has
been widely published and anthologized and has
read her work at colleges and universities nationwide.
Colette graduated from Hunter College with a degree
in English Literature.
Her most recent books of poetry include: For Reasons
of Music, Naming the Moons, Getting Underway:
New and Selected Poetry, The Woman Who Loved Worms,
Eight Minutes from the Sun and Alive and Taking
Names.
Among
many awards, she has received fellowships from
the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation,
and two from the Endowment for the Arts. Ms Inez
is currently on the faculty of Columbia University
and has taught at Ohio University. She has also
instructed at writers conferences, conducted poetry
seminars, and has appeared on public radio and
TV. |
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| Mark Doty -
April 8, 1999 |
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Works by Mark Doty:
"Atlantis," 1995;
"My Alexandria," 1995;
"Heaven's Coast," 1997;
"Sweet Machine," 1998 |
| Doty's
four books of poems, including My Alexandria and Atlantis,
have been honored with the National Book Critics Circle
Award, a Whiting Writers' Award and Britain's T.S. Eliot
Prize. His memoir Heaven's Coast has been described
as "a terrifying and elegant document of the age of
AIDS." |
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