Friday, May 09, 2003
RopeWalk presenting free public events
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The 15th annual RopeWalk Writers Retreat, a program of University of Southern Indiana, will offer a variety of free readings and lectures to the public in June. The annual retreat brings writers to New Harmony, Ind., to attend workshops in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, to write, critique the work of others, and to confer privately with prominent authors. Workshop leaders and other speakers also make public presentations during the retreat, which will be held June 15 through 21 this year. The schedule of free public events includes: Saturday, June 14 (Pre-conference activity) § 7 p.m. – Lee Martin Guest Reading at The Atheneum. Reception follows. Free. An award-winning writer and former Evansville resident, Lee Martin is the author of the recently released Quakertown, heralded by the Washington Post as “a consistently impressive and often dazzling new novel.” He also wrote the acclaimed memoir, From Our House, and the short story collection, The Least You Need to Know. A native of southern Illinois, Martin is an associate professor of English at Ohio State University. Sunday, June 15 § 7 p.m. – Reading by Ellen Bryant Voigt at The Atheneum. Reception follows. Free. Ellen Bryant Voigt has published six books of poetry: Claiming Kin, The Forces of Plenty, The Lotus Flowers, Two Trees, Kyrie, a National Book Award finalist, and Shadow of Heaven, as well as The Flexible Lyric, a collection of craft essays. Her work has been awarded the Pushcart Prize, Best American Poetry, and numerous fellowships. She founded and teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA program and is the State Poet of Vermont. Monday, June 16 § 7 p.m. - Reading by Kevin McIlvoy at The Atheneum. Reception follows. Free. Kevin McIlvoy has published four novels, most recently Hyssop in 1998. His short stories have appeared in The Southern Review, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, The Missouri Review, and other literary magazines. In addition to other honors, he has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fiction Fellowship. McIlvoy is on the English faculty at New Mexico State University, where he teaches fiction writing, form and technique, and novella writing. Tuesday, June 17 § 9:30 a.m. – Victoria Redel Craft Lecture at The Barn Abbey. Free. Victoria Redel's novel, Loverboy, won the S. Mariella Gable prize. She has published a book of short fiction, Where the Road Bottoms Out, and a book of poetry, Already the World. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in publications including Story Quarterly, Bomb magazine, and Harvard Review. She teaches in the MFA program at Vermont College as well as at Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University. § 1:30 p.m. – Kevin McIlvoy Craft Lecture at The Barn Abbey. Free. § 7 p.m. - Reading by Susan Neville at The Atheneum. Reception follows. Free. Susan Neville's essay collections include Indiana Winter and Fabrication. She is the author of the story collections Invention of Flight, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction; In the House of Blue Lights, selected as one of the 'Best Books of 1998' by the Chicago Tribune; and the forthcoming Iconography. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize, Neville teaches at Butler University. Wednesday, June 18 § 7 p.m. - Reading by Victoria Redel at The Atheneum. Reception follows. Free. Thursday, June 19 § 9:30 a.m. – Susan Neville Craft Lecture at The Barn Abbey. Free. § 10:45 a.m. – Stephen Dobyns Craft Lecture at The Barn Abbey. Free. Stephen Dobyns is the author of 10 books of poems, 20 novels, and a book of essays on poetry, Best Words, Best Order. A new book of poems, The Porcupine's Kisses, will be published this fall by Penguin Books. Dobyns is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and three National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. He is a guest writer for the San Diego Weekly Reader and is on the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College. § 1:30 p.m. – Ellen Bryant Voigt Craft Lecture at The Barn Abbey. Free. Friday, June 20 § 6 p.m. - Reading by Stephen Dobyns at The Atheneum. Free. The public also is invited to attend the RopeWalk Alumni Picnic at 5 p.m. Saturday, June 14, and the Closing Dinner at 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 20. Reservations for the picnic, $15, and the dinner, $20, are required by June 12 and June 18 respectively. To make a reservation, call 812/464-1989 or 800/467-8600. Additional information is available on the Web: /ropewalk.org Now in its 15th year, RopeWalk has been assisted by grants from Mrs. Ruth Lilly, Susan R. Enlow, the Indiana Arts Commission, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Blaffer Trust, the Witter-Bynner Foundation, the USI Society for Arts and Humanities, and the support of Historic New Harmony, an outreach program of USI. |
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