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Events 2003-2004
Writers
at Work
Laurie
McCants
and Elaine Williams
Monday, March 22, Noon-1 p.m.
Writing Center, 200G Roberts Hall
Bloomsburg Theater Ensemble founding member Laurie
McCants and Bucknell scene and costume designer (and BTE Affiliated
Artist) Elaine Williams
will discuss the collaborative process of writing, directing and staging
their new play for solo performer, The Alexandria Carry-On.
As the BTE
web site notes, "The vanished Library of Alexandria once contained
almost all of the known books of the world, gathered from the many cultures
of the ancient Mediterranean. It disappeared without a trace. This new
solo music-theatre piece tells the story of a curious slave (played by
avant-garde jazz performer Theo
Bleckmann) who repairs the precious papyrus scrolls stored in the
honeycombed shelves of the Library. He teaches himself to read, and discovers
what has been hidden from him: the tantalizing possibility of knowledge,
freedom, and love. Blending ancient text, contemporary music, and modern
technology, The Alexandria Carry-On will follow its world premiere
at BTE with an international tour."
The Alexandria
Carry-On premieres at BTE's Alvina Krause Theater March 18-21 and
will be performed at Bucknell for one night only on March 23, in Rooke
Recital Hall of the Weis Music Building, at 8 p.m. From there it will
tour libraries around the world, including the new library at Alexandria,
where it will appear as part of the opening celebration in October, 2004.
Feel free
to bring a bag lunch; beverages and cookies will be provided.
Sandra Kohler
Thursday, March 4, Noon - 1 p.m.
Writing Center, 200G Roberts Hall
Winner of the
2002 AWP Award Series in Poetry for her book The Ceremonies of Longing,
Selinsgrove poet Sandra Kohler has taught literature and writing courses
at levels ranging from elementary school to university and adult education.
Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines and literary journals including
New Republic, Southern Review, West Branch,
Massachusetts Review, Calyx, Prairie Schooner, Tulane Review,
Gettysburg Review, and American Poetry Review. Her first
book of poems, The Country of Women, was published in 1995 by
Calyx Books.
Laurie Kutchins
Monday, February 9, Noon - 1 p.m.
Writing Center, 200G Roberts Hall
After her Sunday
night reading, Laurie will visit a creative writing class on Monday morning
and then discuss her writing process in this informal setting over the
noon hour. Those who attend are welcome to bring lunch; beverages and
cookies will be provided.
Liliana
Ursu and Rebecca Warner
Tuesday, Novmber 18, Noon - 1 p.m.
Writing Center, 200 G Roberts Hall
Internationally-acclaimed
Romanian poet Liliana Ursu is this year's Poet-in-Residence. Three of
her many books of poetry are available in English translation: Goldsmith's
Market, translated by Sean Cotter (2003); Angel Riding a Beast,
translated by Ursu and Bruce Weigl(1998); and The Sky Behind the Forest:
Selected Poems, translated by Ursu with Adam Sorkin and Tess Gallagher
(1997). She is also an essayist, fiction writer, and translator of poetry;
for more complete information, please see the Stadler
Center for Poetry web page.
Rebecca Warner
is the current Stadler Fellow at Bucknell, where she teaches creative
writing and is Associate Editor of West Branch. Her poems have
appeared or will appear in Notre Dame Review, Paterson Literary
Review, Passages North, Minnesota Review, Puerto del
Sol, and elsewhere. Her essay "Imp of Verbal Darkness: Poetry
Hoaxes and the Postmodern Politic" is forthcoming in the AWP
Writer's Chronicle. Her poetry collection Northwest Passage
will be published by Orchises Press in January 2005.
Michelle
Johnson and Ned Searles
Thursday,
Oct. 2, Noon - 1 p.m.
Writing Center, 200 G Roberts Hall
"Writing Ethnography: Anthropologists at Work"
What
is ethnography and how do anthropologists approach it? In this
seminar, a husband and wife team explores the process of transforming
fieldnotes (ethnographic "data") into published texts. They
will also
discuss issues of current debate among ethnographers, including reflexivity,
generalization, authorship, and ethnography as "fiction."
Shara
McCallum
Poet, essayist and new Director of the Stadler
Center for Poetry;
author of Song of Thieves and The Water Between Us.
Tuesday, Sept. 16, Noon - 1 p.m.
Writing Center, 200 G Roberts Hall
Paul
Loeb
Social commentator, associated scholar at the Seattle-based Center for
Ethical Leadership, and author of Soul of a Citizen: Living Lives
of Commitment in Cynical Times
Tuesday, Sept. 9, Noon - 1 p.m.
Writing Center, 200 G Roberts Hall
Drew
Darrow Memorial Reading:
Laurie
Kutchins
Sunday,
February 8, 2004
7 p.m., Bucknell Hall
Laurie Kutchins
has published two books of poetry, Between Towns, winner of the
Texas Tech University Press First Book Poetry Award, and The Night
Path, which received the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award from BOA Editions.
Her poems have appeared in many journals and magazines including Poetry,
Ploughshares, The New Yorker, and The Kenyon Review. She
teaches creative writing and 20th-century poetry at James Madison University
in Virginia. She has previously taught as visiting writer at the University
of New Mexico and at Bucknell.
The Drew Darrow
Memorial Reading Series honors the memory of Andrew Darrow, Class of ‘86.
A student employee of the Writing Center, Darrow later worked as an actor
in New York City. He died in 1997.This
reading is sponsored by the Association for the Arts, the Drew Darrow
Memorial Fund, the Stadler Center for Poetry, and the Writing Center.
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comments to: Sabrina Kirby
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