Monday, May 22, 2006
RopeWalk Writers Retreat offers free public lectures and readings
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The week-long RopeWalk Writers Retreat June 11-17 in New Harmony, Indiana, gives participants an opportunity to attend workshops and to confer privately with one of five prominent writers, and offers the public the opportunity to hear readings and craft lectures for free. The 2006 faculty is Stephen Dobyns (short fiction), Heather McHugh (poetry), Susan Neville (nonfiction), and Ellen Bryant Voigt (poetry). The guest reader is poet David Wojahn. Dobyns is the author of 21 books of fiction, including the short story collection Eating Naked, as well as the novel, The Church of Dead Girls, and the Saratoga mysteries featuring Charlie Bradshaw; 10 books of poems, including Mystery, So Long, The Porcupine's Kisses, Pallbearers Envying the One Who Rides; Cemetery Nights, which won a Melville Cane Award; Black Dog, Red Dog, which was a winner in the National Poetry Series; and a book of essays on poetry, Best Words, Best Order. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. He is on the faculty of Warren Wilson College's MFA for Writers program. McHugh is a core faculty member of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Her books of poetry include Eyeshot, Shades, Dangers, and Hinge & Sign: Poems 1968-1993, which won both the Boston Book Review's Bingham Poetry Prize and the Pollack-Harvard Review Prize, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and was named a "Notable Book of the Year" by The New York Times Book Review. Her essays include “Broken English: Poetry and Partiality.” Her honors include two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship. Between 1999 and 2005 she was a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. 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. Her most recent book, Iconography, is a memoir and meditation on writing. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize, Susan teaches at Butler University in Indianapolis. Voigt has published six books of poetry: Shadow of Heaven, a 2002 National Book Award finalist, Claiming Kin, The Forces of Plenty, The Lotus Flowers, Two Trees, and Kyrie, a National Book Critic's Circle Award finalist, as well as The Flexible Lyric, a collection of craft essays. Her poems, which have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The Nation, and many literary journals, have also been selected for a Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry (1993). She founded and teaches in the Warren Wilson M.F.A. program. Wojahn’s first collection, Icehouse Lights, was chosen by Richard Hugo as a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize in 1982. Other works include Mystery Train, Late Empire, The Falling Hour, and Spirit Cabinet. His most recent collection, Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems 1982-2004, will be published in 2006. He is professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, and a member of the program faculty of the MFA in Writing Program of Vermont College. RopeWalk offers several opportunities for the public to attend free readings and craft lectures. Each reading will be followed by a reception. Here’s the schedule: Sunday, June 11 RopeWalk Alumni Reading, 2 p.m., Barn Abbey. RopeWalk: Ellen Bryant Voigt reading, 7 p.m., The Atheneum. Monday, June 12 RopeWalk: Stephen Dobyns reading, 7 p.m., The Atheneum. Tuesday, June 13 RopeWalk: Ellen Bryant Voigt craft lecture, 9:30 a.m., Barn Abbey. RopeWalk: Heather McHugh craft lecture, 10:30 a.m., Barn Abbey. RopeWalk: Susan Neville reading, 7 p.m., The Atheneum. Wednesday, June 14 RopeWalk: guest artist David Wojahn reading, 7 p.m., The Atheneum. Thursday, June 15 RopeWalk: Susan Neville craft lecture, 9:30 a.m., Barn Abbey. RopeWalk: Stephen Dobyns craft lecture, 10:30 a.m., Barn Abbey. Friday, June 16 RopeWalk: Heather McHugh reading, 7 p.m., The Atheneum. For more information, go to www.usi.edu/ropewalk. |
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