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Stephen Dobyns………………Context and Causality Jennifer Grotz…………………An Anxiety of Influence for Girls Brooks Haxton………………..Wheres and Wherefores Tony Hoagland………………..Associative and Disassociative Only Look Alike James Longenbach…………..Poet Amplitude Heather McHugh……………..Zoom Control Kevin McIlvoy………………..”I have a daughter who can spin straw into gold”: Thoughts on Discovering Opportunities for Imminence Alexander Parsons……………Syntax in the Novel: Hidden Narrative Structures Dominic Smith………………..Varieties of Movement: Plot and Beyond in Fiction Sarah Stone……………………Self-Awareness and Self-Deception: Beyond the Unreliable Narrator Peter Turchi…………………..Archimedes’ Problem, and Three Solutions Ellen Bryant Voigt……………Double Vision Eleanor Wilner………………..The Revolving Door of the Imagination: Becoming Otherwise or Becoming Otherwise: The Revolving Door of the Imagination
CLASSES:
Gabrielle Calvocoressi…………When I Say “I”: Masks, Monologues, and the Prickly Poetics of Persona Victor LaValle………………….The Forgotten Art of Plot Michael Parker…………………Narrative Tease, or the Rhythm of Desire Frederick Reiken……………….Time, Space, and the Quantum Nature of Fictional Reality Martha Rhodes…………………Tone and Tonal Shifts READINGS:
Michael Parker, Jennifer Grotz, Sarah Stone, Tony Hoagland, Debra Allbery Victor LaValle, James Longenbach, Dominic Smith, Heather McHugh Maurice Manning, Karen Brennan, Ellen Bryant Voigt, David Shields Brooks Haxton, Debra Spark, Eleanor Wilner, Megan Staffel Alexander Parsons, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Frederick Reiken, Stephen Dobyns Rick Barot, Kevin McIlvoy, Martha Rhodes, Peter Turchi, C. Dale Young Maryse Meijer, Shadab Zeest Hashmi, Irene Svete, Angela Torres, Alexander Tilney Nick Fox, Joanne Dominique Dwyer, Helen Hooper, Lucy Tobin, Vicky Mlyniec
SUMMER 2008 RESIDENCY
LECTURES: Charles Baxter: Regarding Happiness Stacey D’Erasmo: Love Among the Ruins Stephen Dobyns: Linebreaks Grace Dan Mazur: Forbidden Looking Peter Turchi: “If it makes you happy, why the hell are you so sad?”
CLASSES: Liam Callanan: For Openers: The Use of Rhythm, Diction, Character and Conflict in Strong Starts Gabrielle Calvocoressi: Bodies Receding, Rejoicing and in Repose: Some Thoughts on the “Embodied” Poem Christopher Castellani: Words on Trial Reginald Gibbons: The Apophatic in Poetry David Haynes: It Wasn’t Me, It was Her: The Agenda of First Person Narrators Laura Hendrie: Can We Talk: Ten Conundrums of Dialogue C.J. Hribal: Vision and Revision: The Discussion Murad Kalam: Everybody Says I Love You Laila Lalami: The Language of Fiction in a Globalized World Mary Leader: Visual Shenanigans in Lieu of Voice Susan Neville: Stranger Than Alix Ohlin: Time Travel in Fiction: Where are you going, where have you been? Steve Orlen: Orlen’s Formula for Writing an Annotation Alan Shapiro: Repetition and Variation in Sound and Sense Daniel Tobin: Seamus Heaney’s North
READINGS: • Robert Cohen, Mary Leader, Laila Lalami, Daniel Tobin, Kevin McIlvoy • Stacey D’Erasmo, Reginald Gibbons, Laura Hendrie, Martha Rhodes, C.J. Hribal • Charles D’Ambrosio, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Murad Kalam, D. Dale Young, Susan Neville • Grace Dane Mazur, Rick Barot, Peter Turchi, Stephen Dobyns • Heather McHugh, Charles Baxter, Steven Orlen, David Haynes, Ellen Bryant Voigt • Laurie Capps, Brian Furuness, Layla Carroll, Sarah Grano, Abby Wender, Frederick Weihe • Lauren Alway, Timothy Cook, Ann Knol, Vicki Murray, Lili Flanders, Ross White • Maudelle Driskell, Christopher Causey, Marie Pavlicek-Wehrli, Janet Crossen, Judith Westley, Krystn Lee • Graduation Ceremonies
WINTER 2008 RESIDENCY
LECTURES: Betty Adcock: Questions and Revisions and All That Jazz Debra Allbery: When Light Went Forth Looking for the Eye: A Meditation on the Contemporary Ekphrastic Poem Wilton Barnhardt: Don’t Take That Tone With Me Maud Casey: It’s a Wooden Leg First: Paying Narrative Attention to the Literal Level of the Story in Order to Achieve the Figurative Jennifer Grotz The Pathetic Fallacy C.J. Hribal Vision and (Re)vision A. Van Jordan: Synchronicity of Senses Maurice Manning: In Kind: Some Thoughts on Sympathy Heather McHugh: Matters of Letters Dominic Smith: The Literature of Delusion – Approaches to Madness and Mania in Fiction Debra Spark: New Wave Fabulism
CLASSES: Gabrielle Calvocoressi: Lush Life: The Use of Repetition in Whitman and Hopkins’ Ruptures Pastorals Anthony Doer: Defamiliarization: Ugly Word, Beautiful Idea Michael Martone: Lizard, Lizard, Lizard, Lizard. There’s nothing wrong with it if you say it enough times. Steve Orlen: How Poems End (& Why They Have To) OR How Do Poems Proceed to Their Endings? Ellen Bryant Voigt: Tonal Structure
READINGS: • C.J. Hribal, Debra Allbery, Debra Spark, Steve Orlen • David Haynes, Betty Adcock, Victor LaValle, Heather McHugh • Allison Paige, Justin Bigos, Sunil Rao, Scott Challener • Sara Bauer, Kande Culver, J.J. Penna, Tom McHenry, Mark Prudowsky • Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Megan Staffel, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Pete Turchi • Wilton Barnhardt, Jennifer Grotz, Maud Casey, Maurice Manning • Amy Cloud, Kira Obolensky, Henry Kearney, Matthew Simmons, Maeve Kinkead • Graduation Ceremonies
SUMMER 2007 RESIDENCY
LECTURES: David Baker: Daring, Drama, and Melodrama Adria Bernardi: Half-Day: The Nearly Unbearable Suspension Karen Brennan: Beyond Accessibility Stephen Dobyns: The Origin of Metaphor Brooks Haxton: Cliché Laura Hendrie: How to Make Larger-Than-Life Live C.J. Hribal: Comic and Cosmic Distance Frederick Reiken: The Legacy of Anton Chekhov Mary Ruefle: On Secrets: Eight Beginnings, Two Ends Peter Turchi: Puzzles, Mysteries, and other Problems; Or Chekhov, Kasparov, Howard Garns, and You; Or The Seven Bridges of Konigsberg
CLASSES: Gabrielle Calvocoressi: To See What It Was I Was: Jarrell, Merrill and the Intricate Business of Memory Murad Kalam: Using Dramatic Monologue in the First-Person Novel Thomas Mallon: Real Lives: Putting Actual People--Dead and Alive, Famous and Obscure--into Fiction Alan Williamson: James Wright’s Two Citizens Dean Young: The Primitive
READINGS: July 5: C. Dale Young, Laura Hendrie, Murad Kalam, Mary Ruefle July 6: Thomas Mallon, James Longenbach, Erin McGraw, Heather McHugh July 7: Elizabeth Arnold, Pablo Medina, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, David Shields, David Baker July 8: Stephen Dobyns, Adria Bernardi, Brooks Haxton, Grace Dane Mazur July 9: C.J. Hribal, Joan Aleshire, David Haynes, Alan Williamson, T.M. McNally July 11: Karen Brennan, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Frederick Reiken, Dean Young, Peter Turchi July 12: Jean Hallingstad, Larissa Amir, Heather Maki, Edward Porter, Leslie Shipman July 13: Natalie Baszile, Daniel Harris, Majka Burhardt, Karen Llagas, Janet Thornburg July 14: Kathy Nguyen, Katie Bowler, Suzanne Wilsey, Ann Stanford July 14: Graduation Ceremony
WINTER 2007 RESIDENCY
LECTURES: Rick Barot: The First Herbert Adria Bernardi: The China Night-Light and the Bottle-Tree: Visual Image and Noise in Eudora Welty Marianne Boruch: Is & Was Jennifer Grotz: Flung Speech Brooks Haxton: Else Lasker-Schüler Kevin McIlvoy: Making, Masking, and Unmasking “God” in Fiction Debra Spark: Size Matters Eleanor Wilner: Like a piece of ice on a hot stove, a poem must ride on its own melting....
CLASSES: Debra Allbery: Translation: An Appreciation Robert Boswell: On Omniscience Maud Casey: Imagery in Fiction Stacey D’Erasmo: The Composition of Character Percival Everett: On the (Im)possibility of Experimental Fiction Tony Hoagland: Compression: How Much Baking Soda and Confetti Can I Get Into This Soup Can? Maurice Manning: Odes, Prodigals, and Pyres: Dark Matter & Resurrection Steve Orlen: The Structuring of Memory Alexander Parsons: Artic Exploration and How to Love It: Landscape in Fiction Danzy Senna: Fictive Distance Peter Turchi: Parting the Curtain
READINGS: Jan 3: Maud Casey, Debra Allbery, Alexander Parsons, Eleanor Wilner Jan 4: Stacey D’Erasmo, Mark Jarman, Percival Everett Jan 6: Victor LaValle, Betty Adcock, Megan Staffel, Steve Orlen Jan 7: Rick Barot, Adria Bernardi, Marianne Boruch, Robert Boswell Jan 9: Charles D’Ambrosio, Tony Hoagland, David Haynes, Ellen Bryant Voigt Jan 10: Maurice Manning, Debra Spark, Martha Rhodes, Peter Turchi Jan 11: Leslie Blanco, Thad Logan, Anna Clark, Kathy Alma Peterson, Jason Githens Jan 12: Jeneva Stone, Catherine Brown, Cate Williamson, Bora Reed Jan 12: Graduation Ceremonies
SUMMER 2006 RESIDENCY
LECTURES: Charles Baxter: Sonia’s Last Speech Robert Cohen: Emblem, Essence, Naming, and its Discontents Stuart Dischell: State of Alert Brooks Haxton: Schrodinger’s Cat Grace Dane Mazur: The Hinges of Hell Kevin McIlvoy: Laughter and the Laws of Nature TM McNally: Lyrical Fiction Alan Williamson: A Forgotten Modernist: St. John Perse CLASSES: Gabrielle Calvocoressi: The Poem Beneath The Poem: Some Thoughts on Haunting and (Re)vision C.J. Hribal: Don’t Start Me to Talkin’: Occluded Narratives A. Van Jordan: Developing Tone by Charting Potential and Kinetic Energy Thomas Lux: Dreamsong Megan Staffel: The Floating World Peter Turchi: Analyze That
READINGS: July 5: Maristead, Dichell, McNally, Calvocoressi, Wagman July 6: Barrett, Lux, Schwartz, CD Young, Staffel July 7: Cohen, McHugh, Mazur, D Young, McIlvoy July 8: Doenges, Gibbons, Haynes, Haxton, Williamson July 9: Aleshire, Baxter, Jordan, Hribal, Voight, Turchi July 11: Cobbs, Bahr, Fay, Yarbro, Gitterman July 12: Brahic, Krell Haukaas, Reeves, Martin July 13: Janson, Arieff, Rembold, Tynan, Rose July 14: Anderson, Belnap, Gaines, Bingham, Henderson July 14: Graduation Ceremonies
WINTER 2006 RESIDENCY
LECTURES: Wilton Barnhardt: Folks Aesthetics Rick Barot: Poems and the Impure Adria Bernardi: Narrative Distance and the Visual Image and Hemingway: Getting Right with Papa or Side by Side and the Ballgame Marianne Boruch: Heavy Lifting Justin Cronin: “Baby, It's Yu": Einstein, Jung, One Really Awful Dream, and the Problem of Meaning in Fiction Jane Hamilton: Getting Back to Basics Mark Jarman: To Make the Final Unity: Metaphor's Matter and Spirit Maurice Manning: Defending Poetry Susan Neville: Barometric Pressure (or How Climate--Primarily Meteorological But at Times Cultural--Puts Pressure on Characters and Advances Story) Debra Spark: And Then What Happened Pimone Triplett: Something More on the Sublime Eleanor Wilner: “How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea...?" Poetry in an Age of War, Atrocity and Censorship
CLASSES: Elizabeth Arnold: Lyricism in Canto 2 Jennifer Grotz: Zbigniew Herbert's Stratagems and Crimes Brooks Haxton: Lyric Voice: Wyatt and Jonson Pagan Kennedy: Hooking the Reader Steve Orlen: Off Your Meds: The Manic Joys of Obsessive Repetition or The Overly-Textured Free-Verse Poem or The Heart-Beat & The Heart-Attack Peter Turchi: Analyze This (tape only) Ellen Bryant Voigt: Analyze This
READINGS: Jan 2: Jennifer Grotz, Jane Hamilton, Maurice Manning Jan 3: Justin Cronin, Pimone Triplett, Pagan Kennedy Jan 5: Elizabeth Arnold, Debra Spark, Mark Jarman Jan 6: Marianne Boruch, Peter Turchi, Mary Leader Jan 7: The World's Fastest Readings" at Malaprop's: Arnold, Barot, Bernardi, Boruch, Brennan, Cronin, Hribal, Manning, Nelson, Neville, Orlen, Turchi Jan 8: Rick Barot, Wilton Barnhardt, Karen Brennan, Antonya Nelson, Eleanor Wilner Jan 9: Brooks Haxton, C.J. Hribal, Martha Rhodes, Kevin McIlvoy, Ellen Bryant Voigt Jan 10: Scott Gould, Sandra Nadazdin, Tatjana Soli, Rosalynde Vas D Jan 10: Louise Aronson, Ben Jackson, Julie Benesh, Eric Johnson Jan 10: Graduation Ceremonies
SUMMER 2005 RESIDENCY LECTURES: Stephen Dobyns: Sense Data Judy Doenges: The 'Secret Communion' Reginald Gibbons: How to Use Hélène Cixous James Longenbach: Purity, Stillness, Restraint Grace Dane Mazur: The Whistling Roar or: World of Fiction and the Land of the Dead Kevin McIlvoy: The 'Something There' Sensation: Learning from the Work of Anais Nin Peter Turchi: Glimpsed in Twilight: Unresolved Characterization C. Dale Young: Anatomy of the Contemporary Elegy CLASSES: Joan Aleshire: Found in Translation? Robert Boswell: Process & Paradigm Lan Samantha Chang: Unfold Charles D'Ambrosio: Dialogue on Dialogue Victor LaValle: Whatever happened to the 3rd Person? Martha Rhodes: Props Megan Staffel: Inside/Outside or What We Can Learn from Aristotle Dean Young: Surrealism
READINGS: June 30: Michael Collier, Judy Doenges, C. Dale Young, Grace Dane Mazur, Dean Young July 1: Stephen Dobyns, Charles D'Ambrosio, Dana Levin, Victor LaValle, Heather McHugh July 2: C.J. Hribal, Brooks Haxton, Megan Staffel, Martha Rhodes, Peter Turchi July 3: Joan Aleshire, Adria Bernardi, Reginald Gibbons, Robert Boswell, Alan Williamson July 4: Lan Samantha Chang, James Longenbach, David Haynes, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Kevin McIlvoy July 6: Robin Black, Victoria Chang, Mindy Friddle, Heather Faller, Michael Henriques July 7: Kathleen Lee, Justin Gardiner, Natalie Serber, Wendell Hawken, Agica Zivaljevic July 8: Megan Gillespie, Robert Oldshue, Elizabeth Green, Eve Schaenen, Twilight Greenaway July 8: Graduation Ceremonies
WINTER 2005 RESIDENCY
LECTURES: Adria Bernardi: Spandrels, Spark, and a Leap over the Tombstone: A discussion of (sift) connections and (unexpected) associations made outside chronological sequence Linda Gregerson: Poetic Embodiment Michael Martone: Homer on Homer or A Bunch of Stuff That Happened (or What Is a Story When It Is Not A Story)
CLASSES: Karen Brennan: The Sentence Mark Jarman: Patterns of Repetition and the Story of a Feeling Van Jordan: The Hyper-reality of the Harlem Renaissance and the Surreal Translation Roger King: The Attractions of Danger Mary Leader: Revision Using Form Christopher McIlroy: Felicity in Economy Steve Orlen: Orlen's Formula for Writing an Annotation
READINGS: Jan 5: Betty Adcock, Adria Bernardi, Rick Barot, Michael Martone Jan 6: David Haynes, Marianne Boruch, Susan Neville, Tony Hoagland Jan 8: Karen Brennan, Wilton Barnhardt, Martha Rhodes, Peter Turchi Jan 9: Addie Tsai, Cole Thompson, Jim Zukowski Jan 10: Maggie Maurer, Meghan O'Rourke, Mary-Sherman Willis, Karen Olsson Jan 11: Christine Casson, Sarah Wareck, Colleen Reader Jan 11: Graduation Ceremonies
SUMMER 2004 RESIDENCY
LECTURES: Tracy Daugherty: A Pigeon Coop, A Crystal Palace: On Philosophy and Fiction" Stephen Dobyns: The Syllable in Love and War Matthea Harvey: Imaginary Worlds Brooks Haxton: Rhythmic Plot Laura Kasischke: Smiling, and Recognizing, and Going Dark Debra Spark: Stand Back Peter Turchi: Travels with Charlie, Part 2; or, Hiding the Elephant; or, I Am the Walrus (Goo Goo Ga Joob) CLASSES: Elizabeth Arnold: George Oppen and Lorine Niedecker: Some Short Lyrics Karen Brennan: Is it Poetry? Is it Prose? Does it Matter Charles D’Ambrosio: The Power of Not Knowing Reginald Gibbons: Prosody Traditional and Contemporary Thomas Lux: The Lost Son Megan Staffel: Should It Sing and Dance Too? Larry Watson: Belief, Authority, and Voice, or Why Your Editor is Wrong to Ask You to Cut the Glovemaking Section
READINGS: July 1: Charles D’Ambrosio, Megan Staffel, Elizabeth Arnold, Larry Watson July 2: Matthea Harvey, Kevin McIlvoy, Martha Rhodes, Peter Turchi, Thomas Lux July 3: Joan Aleshire, Laura Kasischke, Stephen Dobyns, Debra Spark, Ellen Bryant Voigt July 4: Karen Brennan, Brooks Haxton, David Haynes, Heather McHugh, C.J. Hribal July 5: Reginald Gibbons, Lan Samantha Chang, Alan Williamson, Tracy Daugherty, Eleanor Wilner July 7: Jesse Lichtenstein, Genanne Walsh, Ethna McKiernan, Jim Walker July 8: Colleen Abel, Heather McElhatton, Sally Molini, Margaret Serich July 9: Mary Lou Buschi, Karen Fein, Peg Cronin, Sonya Hess, Rachel Webster July 10: Erin Stalcup, Daniel Johnson, Jim Zervanos, Bliss Morehead July 10: Graduation Ceremonies
WINTER 2004 RESIDENCY
LECTURES: Betty Adcock: Imperfect Wonders: A Look at Some Poems by James Dickey David Baker: The Figure of Grief Robert Cohen: Rants, or The Piano Has Been Drinking Carl Dennis: The Great and the Small Barbara Ras: The Geography of a Poem Frederick Reiken: What is 'True'? Thoughts on Fictional 'Truth,' Unconscious Metaphor, and Celery Peter Turchi: Travels with Charlie Eleanor Wilner: Elsewhere: Topographies of the Imagination
CLASSES: Wilton Barnhardt: Current Affairs Rick Barot: Chaos and Limit Adria Bernardi: Going through the Motions: A Discussion of Gesture Daisy Fried: Defying the King of Hearts: Digression and Narrative in Some Recent Poems Judith Grossman: Writers in Training: The Diaries of Franz Kafka & Virginia Woolf Van Jordan: Architecture and Narrative Victor LaValle: This Guy Fell from the Sky, Now What Do I Do with Him? Thomas Lux: Hart Crane's The Bridge Martha Rhodes: Markers
READINGS: Jan. 3: Rick Barot, Daisy Fried, Victor LaValle, Barbara Ras Jan. 4: Adria Bernardi, Robert Cohen, A. Van Jordan, Thomas Lux Jan. 5: Karen Brennan, David Baker, Judy Doenges, Stephen Dobyns Jan. 6: (Part I) Carl Dennis, Wilton Barnhardt Jan. 6: (Part II) Steve Orlen, Frederick Reiken Jan. 7: Martha Rhodes, Susan Neville, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Peter Turchi Jan. 9: Betty Adcock, Judith Grossman, Marianne Boruch, C.J. Hribal, Eleanor Wilner Jan. 10: Lynne Carstarphen, Daniel Becker, David Peterson Jan. 11: Amelia Cox, John Fried, Danielle Svetcov Jan. 12: Pollyanne Power, David Ruekberg, Kaitlin Thomas
SUMMER 2003 RESIDENCY
LECTURES: Charles Baxter: Great Faces Tony Hoagland: Diffidence, the Erosion of Tone, and Apollinaire Laura Kasischke: What Doesn't Kill You Dana Levin: Necessity: Style, Originality, and Invention James Longenbach: The Spokenness of Poetry Jim Shepard: Structure Where You Least Expect It Debra Spark: Speaking of Style
CLASSES: Joan Aleshire: The Varieties of Rhetoric Robert Boswell: The Half-Known World Reginald Gibbons: Why Are There Cows in the Garden of Eden?: On Poetic Logic Kevin McIlvoy: The Human Voice, Singular and Plural Steven Schwartz: In Defense of Contrivance Pimone Triplett: The Hybrid Model, or Gradually Getting There Kind of Fast--Lyric Pacing in the Longer Poem Alan Williamson: Cynicism Dean Young: Against Reduction Bookshop Panel READINGS: July 3: Pimone Triplett, Peter Turchi, Alan Williamson July 4: Steven Schwartz, Stuart Dischell, Debra Spark July 5: David Haynes, Susan Wood, Jim Shepard July 6: Reginald Gibbons, Andrea Barrett, Dana Levin July 7: James Logenbach, Lan Samantha Chang, Steve Orlen July 9: Charles Baxter, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Robert Boswell July 10: Joan Aleshire, Laura Kasischke, Tony Hoagland, Kevin McIlvoy, Dean Young July 11: Rick Bursky, Angela Rydell, Willa Rabinovitch, Rynn Williams July 12: Zack Finch, Elizabeth Eslami, Adam Halbur, Amy McNamara
SPECIAL: "Shape Is Made by Exclusion" dance mix ($2)
WINTER 2003 RESIDENCY
LECTURES: Marianne Boruch: The Cult of Development Karen Brennan: Place as (Psychic) Space Carl Dennis: Rhetoric and Narrative Matthea Harvey: The Rose Is an Estate in Sicily: Miniaturization, Magnification & the Imagination Peter Turchi: Blanks (Silences) Ellen Bryant Voigt: The Transparent Prose Style of William Maxwell (available as written transcript only -- $4.00) Eleanor Wilner: Not in Our Name
CLASSES: Adria Bernardi: Listing, Layering, and Word Heaps: A Discussion of Accumulation Roger Fanning: Footwork and Firework: Les Murray's Emphatic Repetitions Judith Grossman: Stories, and Really Creative Accounting Terrance Hayes: The Poet in Chehaw Station David Haynes: Sven! Without your dashiki I hardly recognized you! C.J. Hribal: Know-It-All Narrators: Milan Kundera and the Novel of Ideas Pablo Medina: The Angle of the Poet: A Discussion Class on C. P. Cavafy Antonya Nelson: The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber Pussy-Whipped Steve Orlen: The Short Poem & Why I Hated It Until I Had an Epiphany Janet Peery: In the Workroom: Second Draft Strategies" Part One of Two (available only on tape) Janet Peery: In the Workroom: Second Draft Strategies" Part Two of Two (available only on tape) Frederick Reiken: Autobiographical Novels: Considerations of Psychic Distance and the Problem of the 'Author-Narrator-Character Merge' Martha Rhodes: An Intimate Moment
READINGS: • Pablo Medina, Frederick Reiken • Martha Rhodes, Antonya Nelson • Marianne Boruch, Karen Brennan, Steve Orlen, Peter Turchi • Carl Dennis, David Haynes • Heather McHugh, Richard Russo • Roger Fanning, C.J. Hribal, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Janet Peery, Eleanor Wilner • Andrea Lucard, Randall Couch, Rebecca Winterer • Lee Strickland, Michael Collins, Lyndane Yang • Barbara Bowen, Rebecca Friedman, Tracy Hyland, Cynthia Phoel • Hillary Nelson, Patrick Donnelly, Sandy Tanaka
SUMMER 2002 RESIDENCY
LECTURES: Robert Boswell: The Alternate Universe Chris Forhan: What Happens When I Say 'I' Laura Kasischke: How Should I Live? Pablo Medina: Don Quixote and Huckleberry Finn: Partners in Crime Debra Spark: Cheer Up--Why don't you? Peter Turchi: A rigorous Geometry; or, Erathosthenes, Kundera, and You Ellen Bryant Voigt: More on Syntax
CLASSES: Joan Aleshire: Anna Akhmatova: The Art of Autobiography Wilton Barnhardt: Elegy Lan Samantha Chang: What Comes Next? An examination of sequencing in two short stories Richard Chess: Rewriting the Bible Michael Collier: The Look of Things Reginald Gibbons: How Sophokles Makes a Poem Judith Grossman: The Language of the Night, or, Realism & Its Discontents David Haynes: A Fiasco in the Making: The Comic Novel C. J. Hribal: The Art of Lying Dana Levin: Poetry and Post-Modernism: Cool Tools, Deep Suspicions Steve Orlen: Revision Panel Elizabeth Strout: Authority Dean Young: Ecstatic Subjectivity READINGS: • Richard Chess, Elizabeth Strout, Michael Collier, Marly Swick, Dana Levin • Lan Samantha Chang, Steve Orlen, Debra Spark, Dean Young • Chris Forhan, David Haynes, Laura Kasischke, Peter Turchi • Joan Aleshire, Robert Boswell, Reginald Gibbons, Pablo Medina • Wilton Barnhardt, Marianne Boruch, Judith Grossman, Ellen Bryant Voigt, C. J. Hribal • Adrian Blevins, Champa Bilwakesh, Gary Lilley, Allison McKittrick, Sara Rivara • Diana Collins, Elizabeth Pilchik, Beth Ferris, Tim Weed • Lisa Croneberg, Jay Ponteri, Elizabeth Miranda, Wm. Vandoren Wheeler • Valerie Bandura, Eliza Harding, Joanne Hayhurst, Tracy Winn, Patrick Martin • Steve Simoncic, Diane Holland, Ami Walsh, Ian Wilson • Graduation Ceremonies
WINTER 2002 RESIDENCY
LECTURES: Tracy Daugherty: Joan Didion's Changing Sense of Narrative Carl Dennis: Generosity Roger Fanning Animal Poems Ehud Havazelet: An Examination of Gimmickry James Longenbach: The End of the Line Peter Turchi: Theatre of the World Eleanor Wilner: Vibrant Disturbances as Form and Message in Poetry and Nature CLASSES: Wilton Barnhardt: Sensibility Robert Cohen: The Sentence Judy Doenges: Literary Emotion Matthea Harvey: Recipes, License Plates & Greased Pigs Brooks Haxton: Yeats' Stanza Logic David Haynes: Character and Image across Race, Class and Culture Tony Hoagland: Mixing Texture in Your Poetry Ensemble Kevin McIlvoy: Of No Benefit Susan Neville: Time Martha Rhodes: Radical Revision Chuck Wachtel: Keeping Yes and No Unsplit Renate Wood Submerged: The Speaker without the Personal Pronoun
READINGS: • James Longenbach, Judy Doenges, Susan Wood, Kevin McIlvoy • Matthea Harvey, Tracy Daugherty, Martha Rhodes, Chuck Wachtel • Rob Cohen, Carl Dennis, Ehud Havazelet, Roger Fanning • Stuart Dischell, Susan Neville, Brooks Haxton, Peter Turchi • Tony Hoagland, Wilton Barnhardt, Eleanor Wilner, David Haynes, Renate Wood • Frances Sjoberg, Kim Ponders, Paula Szuchman, Robert Thomas • Mary Jean Babic, George Higgins, Katherine Bratkowski • Michele Carroll, Catherine Barnett, Paula Yoo • Shauna Hannibal, Matt Hart, Dave Rutschman, Amanda Schaffer • Graduation Ceremonies
WINTER 2002 RESIDENCY
LECTURES: Tracy Daugherty: Joan Didion's Changing Sense of Narrative Carl Dennis: Generosity Roger Fanning Animal Poems Ehud Havazelet: An Examination of Gimmickry James Longenbach: The End of the Line Peter Turchi: Theatre of the World Eleanor Wilner: Vibrant Disturbances as Form and Message in Poetry and Nature
CLASSES: Wilton Barnhardt: Sensibility Robert Cohen: The Sentence Judy Doenges: Literary Emotion Matthea Harvey: Recipes, License Plates & Greased Pigs Brooks Haxton: Yeats' Stanza Logic David Haynes: Character and Image across Race, Class and Culture Tony Hoagland: Mixing Texture in Your Poetry Ensemble Kevin McIlvoy: Of No Benefit Susan Neville: Time Martha Rhodes: Radical Revision Chuck Wachtel: Keeping Yes and No Unsplit Renate Wood Submerged: The Speaker without the Personal Pronoun
READINGS: • James Longenbach, Judy Doenges, Susan Wood, Kevin McIlvoy • Matthea Harvey, Tracy Daugherty, Martha Rhodes, Chuck Wachtel • Rob Cohen, Carl Dennis, Ehud Havazelet, Roger Fanning • Stuart Dischell, Susan Neville, Brooks Haxton, Peter Turchi • Tony Hoagland, Wilton Barnhardt, Eleanor Wilner, David Haynes, Renate Wood • Frances Sjoberg, Kim Ponders, Paula Szuchman, Robert Thomas • Mary Jean Babic, George Higgins, Katherine Bratkowski • Michele Carroll, Catherine Barnett, Paula Yoo • Shauna Hannibal, Matt Hart, Dave Rutschman, Amanda Schaffer • Graduation Ceremonies
WINTER 2001 RESIDENCY
LECTURES: Betty Adcock: Retrievals Tom Andrews: Is Disinteredness Possible? David Baker: Ecstasy and Irony Roger Fanning: Reverb Linda Gregerson: Elegy Ehud Havazelet: Hero Worship: An Agnostic's Notes Kevin McIlvoy: A Steel Mirror and a Testament: On Narrative Sensibility Peter Turchi: Twice-Told Tales Renate Wood: A Prayer to Emptiness: Time and the Timeless Moment in Tomas Transtromer's Poems CLASSES: Wilton Barnhardt: Politics Andrea Barrett: The Wide View Stuart Dischell: Asked and Answered? Judith Grossman: Writing the First Novel C.J. Hribal: I've Been Framed Margot Livesey: And Thereby Hangs... Christopher McIlroy: Paul Bowles and the Literature of the Other Susan Neville: What Flannery O'Connor Learned from Caroline Gordon Steve Orlen: Non-Identical Twins: A Study of Influence & Similarity, Lineage & Pedigree Joan Silber: Leaping out of Categories Daniel Tobin: Ancient Salt, American Grains Ellen Voigt: Syntax, Part II Part One of Two Dean Young: Who's There?
READINGS: • Andrea Barrett, Steve Orlen, Ehud Havazelet • David Baker, Joan Silber, Daniel Tobin • Judith Grossman, Stuart Dischell, CJ Hribal, Ellen Voigt • Margot Livesey, Linda Gregerson, Christopher McIlroy, Dean Young • Susan Neville, Betty Adcock, Peter Turchi • Tom Andrews, Wilton Barnhardt, Roger Fanning, Kevin McIlvoy, Renate Wood • Diane Fisher, Alisa Slaughter, Angela Shannon • Joe Myer, Danielle D'Ottavio Harned, Mary Jane Nealon • Linda Elkin, Wendy Marston, Emily Wheeler • Graduation Ceremonies
SUMMER 2000 RESIDENCY
LECTURES: Joan Aleshire: Larry Levis' 'The Perfection of Solitude' Wilton Barnhardt: To the Manner Born... Marianne Boruch: Poetry's Over and Over Tracy Daugherty: What We Learn from Buildings Chris Forhan: The Sense of Sound Tony Hoagland: Obsession & the Creative Wound Laura Kasischke: Stepping into the Poem David Shields: In Praise of Blurredness Debra Spark: Cry, Cry, Cry: Handling Emotion in Fiction Eleanor Wilner: The Mutable Magnitudes of Metaphor Anne Winters: The Imitation Exercise and the Serious Pursuit of Craft
CLASSES: Samantha Chang: Beyond the Narrator's Eye Brooks Haxton: The Poetry of Victor Hugo David Haynes: Forgive Us Our Trespasses: Writing Along the Borderlines Mary Leader: Camera Lucida Tom Paine: Prometheus Returns from Hollywood Kai Maristed: Rilke, Reinvention, and the Enduring Vitality of Letters to a Young Poet Ellen Bryant Voigt: Pattern and Variation: Some Syntactical Strategies" Part One (includes handout)
READINGS: • “The Widening Spell of the Leaves," a poem by Larry Levis (various readers) • Chris Forhan, Tom Paine, Laura Kasischke • David Haynes, Joan Aleshire, Kai Maristed, Mary Leader • Marianne Boruch, Wilton Barnhardt, Ellen Voigt, Peter Turchi, Eleanor Wilner • Samantha Chang, Tony Hoagland, David Shields, Heather McHugh • Tracy Daugherty, Brooks Haxton, Debra Spark, Anne Winters • Analisa Lee, Annie MacConnel, Emily Schaeffer, Suzanne Segal • Laurie Baker, Dale Gill, Heidy Steidlmayer, Emilie White • Marjorie Hudson, Kathleen Jesme, Dana Huebler, Constance Merritt • Veronica Patterson, Justin Smith, Rhonda Rieseberg, Shari Smith
WINTER 2000 RESIDENCY
LECTURES: Betty Adcock: The Double Axe of Robinson Jeffers Debra Allbery: Lives of the Artists: Line, landscape and the poet's calling in the work of Charles Wright Wilton Barnhardt: First Person Brian Bouldrey: Tell, Don't Show Karen Brennan: Fiction as Vision Carl Dennis: Using Myth Pablo Medina: Rulfo Reconsidered Renate Wood: Love for the Unknown: Two Strategies in W.S. Merwin's Work Carl Phillips: Confession, and the Model of George Herbert Jim Shepard: I Know Myself Real Well. That's the Problem
CLASSES: David Baker: Line, Form, and Meaning Andrea Barrett: Telling Time Stuart Dischell: Effects and Techniques Roger Fanning: Richard Hugo Judith Grossman: Working with Dialogue Antonya Nelson: Newfangled or Business as Usual? Steven Schwartz: Characters at Work Danel Tobin: Intensity
READINGS: • Debra Allbery, Andrea Barrett, Daniel Tobin, Wilton Barnhardt • Joan Aleshire, Stuart Dischell, Peter Turchi, Carl Phillips, Ellen Voigt • Judith Grossman, Carl Dennis, Pablo Medina, Renate Wood • Karen Brennan, Antonya Nelson, Roger Fanning, Jim Shepard • Alison Greene, Amy Bottke, Eva McCollaum, Greg Rappleye • Joan Moore, Audrey Levin, Kate ten Haken • Natalie Harris, Ann Humphreys, John Zic, Gretchen Melancon • Nathan Pritts, Emily Pease, Kristin Vander Wilt • Graduation Ceremonies
SUMMER 1999 RESIDENCY
LECTURES: Joan Aleshire: The Patience of Proust Brooks Haxton: Candor and Wisdom Tony Hoagland: Metaphor Eleanor Wilner: ..and the lion lie down with the lamb..
CLASSES: Robert Boswell: Hard-Boiled, a fiction class Michael Collier: Influences and Affinities Tracy Daugherty: Visual into Verbal: Ekphrasis in Donald Barthelme's Fiction Kim Edwards: On Language and Narrative Form Judith Grossman: On Don DeLillo's White Noise David Haynes: In the Voice of a Child: Creating Credible Child and Adolescent Narrators C.J. Hribal: Voice and Structure Mary Leader: Experimental Writing Kai Maristed: The Vision Thing (or, why some Presidents don't write fiction) Claire Messud: This, too, is a novel--isn't it? Steve Orlen: What’s This Trout Doing in my Poem? Or, How to Expand from the Minimal and Tell the Universe's Biggest Secrets Tom Sleigh: The Fascination of What's Difficult" Part One of Two Chase Twichell: The Difference Between Structure and Form Chuck Wachtel: False Documents Dean Young: Poetry as Hoax
READINGS: • Joan Aleshire, Judith Grossman, Brooks Haxton, C.J. Hribal, Ellen Voigt, Eleanor Wilner • Kim Edwards, Kathleen Peirce, David Haynes, Dean Young • Michael Collier, Claire Messud, Steve Orlen, Chuck Wachtel • Tony Hoagland, Robert Boswell, Mary Leader, Peter Turchi • Tracy Daugherty, Tom Sleigh, Kai Maristed, Chase Twichell • Michael Simon, Robert Wilder, Dianne Stepp • Rodney Jack, Franklin Tate, Barbara Lau, David Yetter • Sue Crannell, Ven Begamudre, Diane Kerr, David Prather • Graduation Ceremonies
WINTER 1999 RESIDENCY
LECTURES: Reginald Gibbons: In the Silence of the Night: On Unconscious Deliberateness Margot Livesey: The Hidden Machines Debra Spark: Aspects of the (Short) Novel Ellen Bryant Voigt: The Adjective Anne Winters: Translation, Close Reading and Poetic Craft Renate Wood: Sensibility and the End of Pure Reason
CLASSES: Karen Brennan: Genre-Bending in Carole Maso's The Art Lover Roger Fanning: Assonance Roland Flint: Ways with (and without) metaphor C.J. Hribal: Slinkies, Yo-Yos, Hula Hoops and Frisbees: Notes on the Teller and the Tale Christopher McIlroy: In Praise of Ideas Kevin McIlvoy: The Omniscient Voice Antonya Nelson: Narrative Strategy: The Joke Lucia Perillo: Sob Stories and Heroin Chic: Confessional Poetry in the Age of Oprah Carl Phillips: Association in Poetry Claudia Rankine: Emily Dickinson and Her Progeny" Part One of Two Claudia Rankine: Emily Dickinson and Her Progeny" Part Two of Two Agha Shahid Ali: The Dramatic Monologue Joan Silber: Giorgio Bassani's The Garden of the Finzi-Continis Peter Turchi: On a Book Entitled Lolita Jean Valentine: An Introduction to the Poetry of Eleanor Ross Taylor Chuck Wachtel: Irony
READINGS: • Carl Phillips, Ehud Havazelet, Jean Valentine, Debra Spark • Joan Silber, Agha Shahid Ali, Chuck Wachtel, Roland Flint • Karen Brennan, Antonya Nelson, Claudia Rankine, Peter Turchi, Ellen Bryant Voigt • Margot Livesey, Roger Fanning, Christopher McIlroy, Lucia Perillo • Reginald Gibbons, C.J. Hribal, Anne Winters, Kevin McIlvoy, Renate Wood • Annie Guthrie, Samantha Hunt, Kimberly McClintock, Genoa Shepley • Eric Torskey, Cammy Thomas, Donna Gershten, Brian Blanchfield, Cindy Eppes • Helena Fox, Tripp Hartigan, Margot Kadesch, Karen Kates • Susan Kelly, Edison Jennings, Elizabeth Lutyens, Kathryn Schwille • Graduation Ceremonies
SUMMER 1998 RESIDENCY
LECTURES: Wilton Barnhardt: Risk Anne Carson: Economy Linda Gregerson: On Transparency Judith Grossman: Thinking about the Reader Mary Leader: These People Live Here Kevin McIlvoy: The Editor Comes Clean at Last, Part II Claire Messud: Character in Context Michael Ryan: Vocation According to Dickinson Jim Shepard: Saying What They Mean: The Child's Sensibility in Fiction
CLASSES: Joan Aleshire: Ashbery: River & Rock" Part One of Two Joan Aleshire: Ashbery: River & Rock" Part Two of Two Andrea Barrett: Conveying Emotion through Description in First-Person Narration Robert Boswell: James Baldwin's 'Sonny's Blues' Stuart Dischell: As If We Had a Choice David Haynes: What Happened, What 'Happened' Marcie Hershman: Moral Architecture in the Stories of Bernard Malamud Michael Martone: Bad Writing 101 Steve Orlen: The Craft Annotation: A Formulaic Approach Debra Spark: Triggers in Fiction Ellen Bryant Voigt: Stories Told and Enacted" Part One of Two Ellen Bryant Voigt: Stories Told and Enacted" Part Two of Two Alan Williamson: The Iambic Pentameter Line" Part One of Two Alan Williamson: The Iambic Pentameter Line" Part Two of Two Robert Wrigley: Not Making Sense of Music, But Music of Sense" Part One of Two Robert Wrigley: Not Making Sense of Music, But Music of Sense" Part Two of Two
READINGS: • Andrea Barrett, Michael Ryan, David Haynes, Ellen Bryant Voigt • Heather McHugh, Judith Grossman, Alan Williamson, Debra Spark • Joan Aleshire, Kevin McIlvoy, Steve Orlen, Peter Turchi • Marcie Hershman, Stuart Dischell, Claire Messud, Linda Gregerson • Mary Leader, Michael Martone, Robert Wrigley, Jim Shepard • Wilton Barnhardt, Anne Carson, Robert Boswell • Judith Krause, Charlene Finn, Jeffrey Levine, V. Charles Shapira • Judy French, Van Jordan, John Shapiro, Martha Zweig • Ken Hart, Reid Mitchell, Melissa Hotchkiss • Graduation Ceremonies
WINTER 1998 RESIDENCY
LECTURES: Agha Shahid Ali: A Darkly Defense of Dead White Males Charles Baxter: Inflection and the Breath of Life C.J. Hribal: Serious Whimsy Eleanor Wilner: A Metastable Talk on Metamorphosis and Poetry Anne Winters: The Poet and the Bridge
CLASSES: Joan Aleshire: Osip Mandestam" Part One of Two Joan Aleshire: Osip Mandestam" Part Two of Two Reginald Gibbons: Euripides' The Bacchae Tony Hoagland: Deregulating Devices" Part One of Two Tony Hoagland: Deregulating Devices" Part Two of Two Kevin McIlvoy: How Time Flies Pablo Medina: The Lyric Moment in Fiction Antonya Nelson: Texturizing Your Test" Part One of Two Antonya Nelson: Texturizing Your Test" Part Two of Two Susan Neville: Where's Iago? Steve Orlen: Adelia Prado Carl Phillips: Identity Claudia Rankine: Voice in Ashbery & Mullen Steven Schwartz: Extremity David Shields: Strategies of Literary Collage Joan Silber: Dreiser's Sister Carrie Ellen Bryant Voigt: Scene and Soliloquy" Part One of Two Ellen Bryant Voigt: Scene and Soliloquy" Part Two of Two Chuck Wachtel: The Ontology of the Sentence Renate Wood: Sarah Kirsch
READINGS: • Agha Shahid Ali, Reginald Gibbons, Chuck Wachtel, Pablo Medina • Antonya Nelson, Tony Hoagland, Susan Neville, Steve Orlen • Carl Phillips, Steven Schwartz, Anne Winters, David Shields • Charles Baxter, Joan Aleshire, Kevin McIlvoy, Claudia Rankine, Joan Silber • Ellen Bryant Voigt, C.J. Hribal, Eleanor Wilner, Peter Turchi, Renate Wood • Carol Adinolfi, Katherine Florey, Hilary Mosher Buri, Richard Schmitt • Colin Erickson, Laura Hope-Gill, Paul Michel, Jody Mahoney • Katherine Barham, Jeffrey Hillard, David Wroblewski, Sue Oringel • Richard Gabriel, Mary Engel, John Gribble, Kelly Malone, Carolyn West • Graduation Ceremonies
SUMMER 1997 RESIDENCY
LECTURES: Joan Aleshire: Whose Universe Is It, Anyway? Tom Andrews: Via Negativa: Traveling in Contemporary Poetics Wilton Barnhardt: The Sense of Place Marianne Boruch: Old Worlds and New Kevin McIlvoy: Truth Be Told Ellen Bryant Voigt: The Flexible Lyric II Eleanor Wilner: The Closeness of Distance, or Narcissus as Seen by the Lake Renate Wood: Thoughts on Precision
CLASSES: Manette Ansay: Landscape Part One of Two Manette Ansay: Landscape Part Two of Two Judith Grossman: Authority Part One of Two Judith Grossman: Authority Part Two of Two Ehud Havazelet: Point of View Brooks Haxton: Greeks C.J. Hribal: Narrative Strategies Thomas Lux: Berryman Steve Orlen: Lineation Michael Ryan: Looking Backward Part One of Two Michael Ryan: Looking Backward Part Two of Two Joan Silber: And Then?
READINGS: • Manette Ansay, Tom Andrews, Judith Grossman • Ehud Havazelet, Alan Williamson, C.J. Hribal • Heather McHugh, David Haynes, Eleanor Wilner • Joan Aleshire, Brooks Haxton, Kevin McIlvoy, Thomas Lux, Ellen Bryant Voigt • Joan Silber, Steve Orlen, Peter Turchi • Wilton Barnhardt, Marianne Boruch, Chuck Wachtel, Michael Ryan • Babo Kamel, Richard Lehnert, Virginia Rivard, Alex Pierce • Sue Chenette, Jennifer Collia-Cassidy, Michael Thomas, Dawn Gilchrist-Young • Susan Eisenberg, Elise Cannon, Suzanne Keyworth, Michael Mahone • Tracy May Adair, Marian Szczepanski, Chris Matthews, Tania Rochelle • Graduation Ceremonies
WINTER 1997 RESIDENCY
LECTURES: Agha Shahid Ali: Cross-Cultural Translation: A Personal Choice Carl Dennis: Mid-course Corrections Tony Hoagland: Altitudes & Rhetoric C. J. Hribal: Big Secrets of Writing Richard Russo: Laugh? I Thought I'd Die: A Meditation on Humor Dave Smith: Don't Hang That Bird Around My Neck: Some Ideas About the Poet and the Place of Responsibility Peter Turchi: The Writer as Cartographer
READINGS: • Andrea Barrett, Agha Shahid Ali, Richard Russo • C. J. Hribal, Joan Aleshire, Peter Turchi, Thomas Lux • Karen Brennan, Dave Smith, Kevin McIlvoy, Ellen Bryant Voigt • Tony Hoagland, Joan Silber, Steve Orlen • Carol Jane Allen, William Van Every, Michael Jarmer • David Haynes, Reginald Gibbons, Debra Spark • Fred Arroyo, Laura-Gray Street, Rose Ann Miller • Kathleen Lester, Michael Ritterbrown, Linda Wing, Robert Yardumian • Sharon Bryan, Carl Dennis, Carl Philips
SUMMER 1996 RESIDENCY
SPECIAL: 20th Anniversary Gala Banquet. Two tapes, $12.00
LECTURES: Joan Aleshire: The Bees of the Invisible: Rilke's 'Task of Transformation' Marianne Boruch: Line and Room Karen Brennan: Memory, Dream, Story and the Recovery of Narrative Kevin McIlvoy: Damaged by Willa Cather: One Writer's Recovery Program Pablo Medina: Literature and Democracy Gregory Orr: The Politics of the Lyric" (only Part One available) Michael Ryan: Authority and Authenticity Eleanor Wilner: Etudes of Finitude: The Poetry of Maxine Kumin
READINGS: • Dave Smith, Charles Baxter, Steve Orlen, Kevin McIlvoy, Alan Williamson • Ehud Havazelet, Brooks Haxton, Pablo Medina, Eleanor Wilner • Gregory Orr, Peter Turchi, Ellen Bryant Voigt • Joan Aleshire, Louise Gluck, Michael Ryan, John Skoyles • Marianne Boruch, Antonya Nelson, Ira Sadoff, Chuck Wachtel • Michael Collier, Nahid Rachlin, Claudia Rankine, David Shields • Deborah Artman, Jeff Bens, Elizabeth Arnold, Merin Wexler • Diane Droster, Foley Schuler, Jan Eliasberg, Fran Edinger, Barbara Moss • Julie Abbruscato, Rofiah Breen, Chris Hale, Cass Pursell • Karen Whalley, Joan Frank, Gayle Nosal, Susan Kan
WINTER 1996 RESIDENCY
LECTURES: Debra Allbery: My Emily Dickinson Robert Boswell: Writing the Political Novel: The Responsibilities of the Writer in an Inconvenient Time Ellen Bryant Voigt: A Moment's Thought: Some Notes on Revision Renate Wood: The Embodiment of the Speaker
READINGS: • Agha Shahid Ali, Margot Livesey, Tony Hoagland • David Haynes, Stephen Dobyns, Debra Spark • Ellen Bryant Voigt, C.J. Hribal, Joan Aleshire • Larry Levis, Robert Boswell, Renate Wood • Peter Turchi, Andrea Barrett, Steve Orlen, Rick Russo • Robert Cohen, Debra Allbery, Christopher McIlroy • Adrianne Harun, Hal Herring, Maria Benet, Kathy Tanney • Deb Geigis Berry, Nancy Krim, Connie Matthiessen, Becke Roughton • Michael DiLeo, Amey Miller, Kathryn McCord, Marisa Silver • Peg Alford, Pat Corbus, Dawn O'Dell, Muriel Nelson, Kathleen Stocking
SUMMER 1995 RESIDENCY
LECTURES: Joan Aleshire: Breaking Apart: Emotion versus Sentimentality Marianne Boruch: Decoys Brooks Haxton: Creative Freedom and Expressive Urgency Ira Sadoff: Modernism, Writing Workshops and the Myth of Closure Eleanor Wilner: The Compass Rose, Part II (Part I found at January 1995)
READINGS: • Andrea Barrett, Heather McHugh, Peter Turchi • Antonya Nelson, Steve Orlen, Susan Neville • C.J. Hribal, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Chuck Wachtel • Ehud Havazelet, Campbell McGrath, Pablo Medina • Joan Aleshire, Marianne Boruch, Ira Sadoff, Eleanor Wilner • Mary Elsie Robertson, Brooks Haxton, Joan Silber • Arlene Jones, Jane Christensen, Barbara O'Dair, John Vincent • Crystal Bacon, Anne Caston, Martha Peeples, Brandel France de Bravo • Gary Hawkins, Gina Brandt, Quentin Sherwood, Anne Voegtlen • Jennifer Martelli, James Reed, Erika Nanes • Mari Coates, Dinah Berland, Denise Stallcup, Ralph Sneeden
WINTER 1995 RESIDENCY
LECTURES: Michael Martone: Camouflage Richard Russo: Place in Fiction Eleanor Wilner: The Compass Rose, Part I" (Part II found at July 1995) Renate Wood: Poetry and Surprise: Reflections on Aspects of the Unexpected for Writer and Reader
READINGS: • Debra Allbery, Darcey Steinke, Dave Smith • Janet Peery, Agha Shahid Ali, Richard Russo • Karen Brennan, Heather McHugh, Pete Turchi • Michael Martone, Eleanor Wilner, Antonya Nelson • Renate Wood, Kevin McIlvoy, Ellen Voigt, Irini Spanidou, Larry Levis • Barabara Preminger, Michaela Carter, Scott Ummel, Beret Strong
SUMMER 1994 RESIDENCY
LECTURES: Robert Boswell: The Spandrels of San Marcos Susan Neville: The Infinite Regression of Self-Consciousness
READINGS: • Andrea Barrett, Heather McHugh, Robert Boswell • Joan Aleshire, Karen Brennan, Ellen Voigt, Kevin McIlvoy, Alan Williamson • Margot Livesey, Pablo Medina, Peter Turchi • Mary Elsie Robertson, Steve Orlen, Joan Silber • Pinckney Benedict, James McMichael, Susan Neville • Pam Berkman, Mary Lynn Ellis, Jane Viehl, Tom Lux • Kim Downing, Sara Harrell, Susan Imhoff, Peggy Shinner • Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Burt Shulman, Abigail Howell, Leslie Walker Williams • Nora Dvosin, Laura Newbern, Emmy Liston, Rachel Roze • Susan Kolodny, Gene Case, Corey Marks, Sandy Jacobs
WINTER 1994 RESIDENCY
LECTURES: Joan Aleshire: The Contest of Reason and Unreason in Robert Frost Stephen Dobyns: Tone C.J. Hribal: The Scene Beast is Hungry Larry Levis: Elegy as History: Vision and Revision in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney Chuck Wachtel: Narrative Voice, Beyond Persona
READINGS: • Charles Baxter, Stephen Dobyns, Michael Martone • Edward P. Jones, Marie Howe, Antonya Nelson • Joan Aleshire, C.J. Hribal, Thomas Lux • Margot Livesey, Steve Orlen, Chuk Wachtel • Reginald Gibbons, Joan Silber, Larry Levis • Richard Garcia, Nika Helmer, David Lanier, Lori Storie-Pahlitzsch • Sally Ball, Philip Herter, Sandy Ballard, Browning Porter • Steve Fay, Peter Turchi, Ellen Voigt
SUMMER 1993 RESIDENCY
LECTURES: Marianne Boruch: Poetic Sound Robert Boswell: Urban Apocrypha & the Role of the Writer in the Realm of the Radically Real, or EXPLODING POODLES Roland Flint: Would You Its Trick Transfer: Learning from James Wright Kevin McIlvoy: A 'Sex Scene' Sutra Ira Sadoff: Transformation and Surprise
Student Class: Joe Wenderoth
READINGS: • Andrea Barrett, Roland Flint, Irini Spanidou • Charlotte Matthews, Achy Obejas, Priscilla Orr, Pete Turchi • Douglas Brayfield, Joanne Green, Meg Hill Fitz-Randolph, Cynthia Wyatt • Joan Aleshire, Joan Silber, Thomas Lux • Kevin McIlvoy, Heather McHugh, Geoffrey Wolff • Leslie Stahlhut, Joe Wenderoth, Mary Elsie Robertson • Marcia Pelletiere, Gary Carlson, Jody Zorgdrager, Edite Cunha • Marianne Boruch, Brigit Kelly, Robert Boswell, Michael Collier, Ellen Voigt, Eleanor Wilner • Pablo Medina, Karen Brennan, Ira Sadoff • Robert Ayres, Kurtis Clements, Melissa Berton, Jocelyn Lieu • Graduation, featuring E. Cunha, Browning Porter and the Poets
WINTER 1993 RESIDENCY
CLASS: Larry Levis: Poems that MEAN? Poems that ARE?
LECTURES: Carl Dennis: Lyric Point of View Carol Frost: John Berryman at Thirty-Six Tony Hoagland: On Disproportion C.J. Hribal: Jittery Omniscience: Strategies for the Squeamish Richard Russo: Interior/Exterior Alan Williamson: Stories About the Self
READINGS: • Carlen Arnett, Paula Panich, Paul Jones, Tommy Hays • Charles Baxter, Alan Williamson, C.J. Hribal • Connie Porter, Tony Hoagland, Geoffrey Wolff • Elizabeth Brownrigg, Margaret Kaufman, Floyd Harris, Chris Nealon • Elizabeth Moore Kaiser, Clare Nagel, Cara Palladino, Mark Solomon • Joan Aleshire, Reginald Gibbons, Carol Frost, Brooks Haxton, Renate Wood, Larry Levis • Joyce Johnson, Steve Orlen, Richard Russo • Margot Livesey, Carl Dennis, Jim Shepard • Nan Anderson, Grace Mazur, Ruth Anderson, Lee Polevoi • Robert Boswell, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Kevin McIlvoy
SPECIAL: Foreign Language Reading (proceeds from this recording will go to Friends of Writers)
SUMMER 1992 RESIDENCY
LECTURES: Stephen Dobyns: Yannis Ritsos, Mary Oliver, and the Metaphysical Moment: Arguments Against the Mundane Renate Wood: George Trakl: An Introduction
READINGS: • Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Bruce Weigl, Steven Schwartz • Cheryl Baldi, Pam Mandell, Ellen Dudley, Michael Pritchett • Elinor Cramer, John Donoghue, Robert Boswell • Joan Aleshire, Michael Collier, Marianne Boruch, Kenneth Rosen, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Ira Sadoff, Renate Wood • Joan Silber, Brooks Haxton, Chuck Wachtel • Joyce Johnson, Stephen Dobyns, Michael Martone • Judith Chaves, Charles Mann, Susan Sterling, Jan Worth • Kevin McIlvoy, John Skoyles, Mary Elsie Robertson • Stuart Downs, Paula Ruth Moore, Joe Loizzo, Catherine Thompson
SPECIAL: "The Song of Solomon" (proceeds from this recording will go to Friends of Writers)
WINTER 1992 RESIDENCY
LECTURES: Greg Orr: Keats and Yeats: From Lyric to Dramatic Lyric Ellen Voigt: The Ruthless Lyric: Point of View
READINGS: • Ann Guzzardi, Sarah Buttenwieser, Anne Sullivan • Brooks Haxton, Judith Grossman, Heather McHugh • Eleanor Wilner, C.J. Hribal, Larry Levis • James Wilcox, Carol Frost, Jim Shepard • Joan Aleshire, Robert Boswell, Ellen Voigt • Joan Silber, Greg Orr, Chuck Wachtel • Lucy Brennan, Lauren Yaffe, Don Colburn • Nancy Koerbel, Jan Neudeck, John Skoyles • Reginald Gibbons, Margot Livesey, Thomas Lux
SUMMER 1991 RESIDENCY
LECTURES: Marianne Boruch: Poetry and Its Rubble Judith Grossman: Departures from the Vernacular Greg Orr: The Post Confessional Lyric Ira Sadoff: Hearing Voices: A Discussion of Components and Consequential Pleasures of 'Voices' Renate Wood: Renate Wood: "Poetry and the Self" Part One of Two Renate Wood: Renate Wood: "Poetry and the Self" Part Two of Two
READINGS: • Brian Bouldrey, Lynn Becker, Mimi Herman, Francine Sterle • Charles Baxter, Brooks Haxton, Mary Elsie Robertson • Chuck Wachtel, Ira Sadoff, Joan Silber • Elizabeth Dodge, Steve Kowit, Vicki Lettman, Michele Wyrebeck • Judith Dancoff, Marta Maretich, Lisa Springer • Judith Grossman, Marianne Boruch, Kevin McIlvoy • Karen Minton, Deborah Lambert_Brown, Sam Hodges, Susan Roney-O'Brien • Kurt Ayau, Susan Abraham, Ken Cook, Dzvinia Orlowsky, Helen Fremont for Ali Dor-Ner • Libby Mosier, Linda Dyer, Joe Schuster, Mary Leader • Susan Stewart, Alan Williamson, Joan Aleshire, Ken Rosen, Greg Orr, Ellen Voigt
WINTER 1991 RESIDENCY
LECTURES: Susan Engberg: Between the Acts: Thinking About the Writing Life and the Aging Process C.J. Hribal: How to Really Ruin a Story Larry Levis: Snodgrass: After the Confessional Michael Martone: The History of Corn Richard Russo: Imagination: A Working Definition
READINGS: • Charlotte Hussey, Joseph Bathanti, Nancy Mitchell • Sarah Kafatou, Lee Sharkey, Neal Lulofs • Joan Aleshire, John Skoyles, Eleanor Wilner, Thomas Lux, Ellen Voigt • Susan Engberg, Carl Dennis, Richard Russo • C.J. Hribal, Heather McHugh, Joan Silber • Sarah Lantz, Helen Fremont, Janice Sabin • Bev Stoughton, Charles Wyatt, Chris Llewellyn • Marie Howe, Joyce Johnson, Reg Gibbons
SUMMER 1990 RESIDENCY
LECTURES: Marianne Boruch: Plath's Bees READINGS: • Alison Moore, Ken Rosen, Robert Boswell • Barbara Murphy, Elizabeth Evans, Ed Hirsch • Bruce Kijewski, Chuck Wachtel, Joan Aleshire • Frank Edwards, Alan Williamson, Mary Elsie Robertson • Jane Todd Cooper, Chuck Harmon, Curtis Derrick • Judith Grossman, Michael Ryan • Larry Starzec, Heather McHugh, Charles Baxter • Marianne Boruch, Kevin McIlvoy, Brooks Haxton • Mary Jo Moore, Jean Thompson, Robert Wrigley
WINTER 1990 RESIDENCY
LECTURES: Don Belton: Authentic Presence Stephen Dobyns: On Structure Lynn Emanuel: The New Formalists and the Language Poets: An Introduction Louise Glück: Milosz, Jeffers, and Hass Michael Martone: Ruining a Story Greg Orr: Bishop and Lowell Richard Russo: In Defense of Omniscience Ira Sadoff: Neo-Formalism: Blind Ambition or Text Without Contexts READINGS: • on Belton, Ira Sadoff • Doreen Gildroy, Richard Baker • John Minczeski, Ann Scott Knight, Greg Orr • Louise Gluck, C.J. Hribal • Lynn Emanuel, Margot Livesey, Peter Cooley • Norm Goodwin, Kathleen Thomas, Daniel Tobin • Reg Gibbons, Judith Grossman • Richard Russo, Eleanor Wilner • Stephen Dobyns, Michael Martone
SUMMER 1989 RESIDENCY
LECTURES: Joan Aleshire: Out of Extremity: The Opposition of Writing Marianne Boruch: The Writer in Time Michael Ryan: The Literary Dictator: A lecture and discussion of T.S. Eliot and his influence Jean Thompson: Happy Endings Alan Williamson: 'Falling Off the World': Poetry and Innerness
READINGS: • Beth Hales, Greg Orr, Heather McHugh • Grace Schulman, Steven Schwartz, Martha Carlson_Bradley, Kathy Craig • Joan Fishbein, Robert Boswell, Joan Aleshire • Kathy Aponick, Mary Elsie Robertson, Michael Ryan • Nan Cuba, John Skoyles, Joan Silber • Ricia Gordon, Charles Baxter, Ellen Voigt • Robert Wrigley, Jean Thompson • Valerie Allison, Alan Williamson, Marianne Boruch
WINTER 1989 RESIDENCY
LECTURES: Carl Dennis: The Voice of Authority Reginald Gibbons: Against Maxims Judith Grossman: Gender and the Vision of American Private Life: Grace Paley and Philip Roth Greg Orr: Disorder and Order Richard Russo: What Writers Read
READINGS: • Gail Segal, Joan Silber, Thomas Lux • Jeff Talmadge, Ellen Voigt, Carl Dennis • Judy Young, Richard Russo, Joan Aleshire • Karen Whitehill, Dale Neal, Rebecca Seiferle, C.J. Hribal • Rachel Fink, Shirley Warren, John Skoyles • Reg Gibbons, Judith Grossman • Roger Fanning, Susan Engberg, Eleanor Wilner • Thomas Farber from his book Compared to What? • Virginia Weir, Michael Ryan, Gregory Orr
SUMMER 1988 RESIDENCY
LECTURES: Joan Aleshire: Coleridge and Redemptive Imagination Marianne Boruch: Hopkins' Solitude Clarence Major: Necessary Distance: Afterthoughts on Becoming a Writer Gregory Orr: Four Worlds and Some Poems about Things
READINGS: • Alan Williamson, Marianne Boruch, Michael Martone • Heather McHugh, Ken Rosen, Chuck Wachtel • Jane Brox, Steve Kronen, Kate McCorkle • Joan Aleshire, Michael Ryan, Charles Baxter • John Skoyles, Clarence Major • Kathy Giencke, Martha McFerren, Carl Zettelmeyer • Naomi Guttman, Terry Culleton, Beth Stahlecker • Robert Boswell, Ellen Voigt, Mary Elsie Robertson • Tommy Hays, Bethany Pray
WINTER 1988 RESIDENCY
LECTURES: Stephen Dobyns: Chekhov's Sense of Aesthetics as Seen Through His Letters Allen Grossman: Orpheus/Philomel Allan Gurganus: Garden Sermon READINGS: • Douglas Unger • Ellen Voigt, Robert Boswell • Greg Orr, Sara Vogan • Jean Thompson, Susan Stewart • Jill Coupe • John Skoyles, Allen Gurganus • Lucy Cummin, Eva Davidson, Diane Swan, Ann Turkle • Norman Rush • Ruth Stone, Stephen Dunn • Thomas Lux, Joan Aleshire
SUMMER 1987 RESIDENCY
LECTURES: Susan Engberg: Questions on Experience and Fiction Writing Gerald Stern: The Outsider" Part One of Two Gerald Stern: The Outsider" Part Two of Two
READINGS: • Chris Bursk • Francine Prose, Ellen Bryant Voigt • Gerald Stern • Joan Aleshire, Michael Ryan • Joan Silber, Thomas Lux • Marck Beggs-Vema, Kitty Hamilton • Mary Elsie Robertson, Ken Rosen • Peter Harris, Susan Lewis • Robert Boswell, Heather McHugh • Sarah Barnhill, Sandy Solomon • Susan Engberg
WINTER 1987 RESIDENCY Lectures not recorded before this date.
READINGS: • Carl Dennis, Edward Hirsch • Carol Lawrence, Janet Winans • Dulcie Leimbach, Gail Peck • James Wilcox, Fred Chappell • Joan Silber, Heather McHugh • John Skoyles, Ellen Voigt • Mary Elsie Robertson • Michael Ryan, Stephen Dobyns • Stuart Dybek, Thomas Lux • Stuart Phillips, Marjorie Woodbury • Tom Sleigh, Charles Baxter
SUMMER 1986 RESIDENCY
READINGS: • Bridget Morton • Gwyn Rubio, Marilyn Tatlow • Heather McHugh, Carol Mahler • Jay Cantor, Louise Glück • Jim Schley, Debra Conner • Joan New, Stuart Robbins • John Skoyles, Joan Aleshire • Ken Rosen, Robert Boswell, Lisel Mueller, James McManus • Mark Swanson • Mary Elsie Robertson, Michael Ryan • Stephen Dobyns, Francine Prose • Sue Hand Robinson, Julie Bruck • Thomas Lux, Stuart Dybek
WINTER 1986 RESIDENCY
READINGS: • Charles Baxter • E.J. Graff, Janice Murray • Gail Lathrop, Kelly Powers, Meredith Skeath • Joan Aleshire, Greg Orr • Joan Silber • John Skoyles, Ellen Voigt • Joy Manesiotis, Duncan Moran, Gayle Roby • Maura Stanton, Stuart Dybek • Michael Ryan, Mary Elsie Robertson • Patricia Hampl • Steve Orlen
SUMMER 1985 RESIDENCY
READINGS: • Carol Hill, Steve Orlen • Ellen Bryant Voigt, Robert Hemenway • Jane Smiley, Heather McHugh • Joan Aleshire, Gregory Orr • John Skoyles, Mary Bonina • Karen Chamerlain, Robert Satterwhite • Robert Pinsky, Diane Johnson • Stephen Dobyns, Francine Prose • Thomas Lux, Michael Ryan
WINTER 1985 RESIDENCY
READINGS: • C.K. Williams, Francine Prose • Dennis Johnson, Mary Chevako • Ellen Voigt, Stephen Dobyns • Janet Sanford, John Skoyles • Joan Aleshire, Lisel Meuller • Robert Hemenway, Mary Elsie Robertson • Stuart Dybek, Renate Wood • Thomas Lux
SUMMER 1984 RESIDENCY
READINGS: • Brenda Hillman, Diane Johnson • Cathy Appel, Karen Ashe • David Huddle • Dona Stein, Mary Jean Smoller • Ellen Voigt, Mary Elsie Robertson • John Skoyles, Joan Aleshire • Julia Duncan, Blanch Farley • Terri Ford, Pam Kircher
WINTER 1984 RESIDENCY
READINGS: • Francine Prose, David Huddle • Geoffrey Wolff, Reg Gibbons • Joan Aleshire, Stephen Dobyns • John Skoyles, Greg Orr • Lisel Mueller, Michael Ryan • Mary Elsie Robertson, Rocio Aragon, Linda Pessolano • Sylvia Moss, Candace Denning • Thomas Lux, Ellen Bryant Voigt
WINTER 1983 RESIDENCY
READINGS: • Geoffrey Wolff • Heather McHugh, Joan Aleshire • Michael Ryan, Marcia Southwick SPECIAL COLLECTIONS: • Four Poems Read by Agha Shahid Ali at WWC 1995-1999 • Tom Andrews Readings, July 1997, January 2001 • Larry Levis Readings, 1992-1996
