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Release date: Sept. 18, 2003 Emory Creative Writing 2003-04 Reading SeriesEmory University's creative writing program celebrates its 13th year of nurturing tomorrow's great writers and providing opportunities for students and public alike to meet today's acclaimed writers face-to-face through its annual reading series. The series brings prominent writers to Atlanta for readings, symposia, lectures, workshops and discussions. Awards Night caps the series by celebrating the work of students alongside that of literary giants. This year's series includes poet Carol Frost, novelist Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Philip Levine. Readings and colloquia are free and open to the public. For more information, call 404-727-4683 or go to: www.emory.edu/COLLEGE/CREATIVEWRITING/series/index.html. Among the dozens of acclaimed novelists, poets and non-fiction writers who have participated are: Czeslaw Milosz, Kurt Vonnegut, Grace Paley, Adrienne Rich, Alice McDermott, Peter Carey, Allan Gurganus, John Edgar Wideman, Ursula Le Guin, Leslie Silko, Gloria Naylor, William Styron, Rita Dove, Yusef Komunyakaa, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Pinsky and Louise Glück. The schedule is as follows: Carol Frost, poet Carol Frost, director of the Catskill Poetry Workshop, has published nine books of poetry, including "Pure" (1994), "Venus and Don Juan" (1996), and "Love and Scorn, New and Selected Poems" (2000). She has been awarded two NEA fellowships and three Pushcart Prizes, and has taught at such places as Syracuse University, Washington University, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Bread Loaf and the Sewanee writers' conferences. She presently is writer-in-residence at Hartwick College and an editor for Pushcart XXVIII. Her most recent collection, "I Will Say Beauty," was just published by TriQuarterly Books (Northwestern University Press) in spring 2003. Colson Whitehead, novelist Colson Whitehead was born in New York City in 1969. A graduate of Harvard University, his journalism has appeared in Vibe, Spin, Newsday and The Village Voice, where he was a television columnist. His first novel, "The Intuitionist," won the QPB New Voice Award. He was an Ernest Hemingway/PEN Award finalist. In 2002, The MacArthur Foundation named him one of 24 winners of a $500,000 "genius award." His second novel, "John Henry Days," was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Paula Vogel, playwright Paula Vogel is recipient of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for "How I Learned to Drive." Her plays have been performed throughout the United States, Canada, England, Brazil, Chile and Spain. "The Baltimore Waltz" won the Obie for Best Play (1992). Other awards include the Pew Charitable Trust Senior Residency Award, the Laura Pels/Pen Award (1999), a Guggenheim grant (1995), an AT&T New Plays Award, the Fund for New American Plays, the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center Fellowship, several National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, among several others. Vogel has been on the faculty of the M.F.A. playwriting program at Brown University since 1985. Philip Levine, poet Recipient of the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for "The Simple Truth," Philip Levine was born in 1928 in Detroit and was educated at Wayne State University. After a succession of industrial jobs he left Detroit and lived in various parts of the country before settling in Fresno, Calif., where he taught for many years at California State University. His collection "The Names of the Lost" won the Lenore Marshall Award for the best book of poetry published by an American in 1976. "Ashes" and "7 Years From Somewhere" both received the National Book Critics Circle Award, and "Ashes" also received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize awarded by Poetry magazine and the American Council for the Arts. "What Work Is" received the National Book Award in Poetry for 1991. His latest collection, "The Mercy," was published in 1999 by Alfred A. Knopf. ### Note to editor: Author photos are available as jpegs by contacting Deb Hammacher at dhammac@emory.edu. More detailed bios are available at www.emory.edu/COLLEGE/CREATIVEWRITING/series/index.html. |
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