POETRY BENEFIT READING
IN SAN FRANCISCO
LUCILLE CLIFTON
ROBERT HASS
SHARON OLDS
C.D. WRIGHT
DEAN YOUNG
Friday July 18, 2008
7:30 PM
Starr King Room
First Unitarian Universalist Center of
San Francisco
1187 Franklin Street at Geary
On Friday, July 18, 2008, at 7:30 p.m., Lucille Clifton, Robert Hass, Sharon Olds,C.D. Wright and Dean Young will read their poetry the Starr King Room at the First Unitarian Universalist Center of San Francisco (1187 Franklin Street at Geary). This benefit reading will raise money for the Poetry Scholarship Fund at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Books donated by the poets and their publishers will be available for purchase before and after the reading, and the poets will be available to sign books after the reading.
This will mark the 17th year for this annual benefit event, and every year it is a standing-room-only success. All proceeds will benefit the Poetry Workshop Scholarship Fund, enabling talented writers to attend the week-long poetry writing workshop held each year in Squaw Valley, California. It is the goal of this program to support both established and emerging writers of talent who would benefit from working with their peers at the Poetry Week at Squaw Valley.
Doors will open at 6:30 pm, and seating is general admission. The venue is wheelchair accessible.
Premium Seating (An unreserved seat in the first 3 rows): $30
General Admission: $20
Student: $15
Group discounts are available. Please email squawpoet@ureach.com for or call 877-537-8073 for details.
ADVANCE TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE.Click here to purchase your tickets from Brown Paper Tickets. If we do not sell out in advance of the reading, there will be tickets available at the door.
Don't miss this chance to hear some of the our greatest living poets read their work!
The Community of Writers at Squaw Valley is a non-profit organization.
*Prices may change without notice.
PARKING NOTE: There is $5 flat rate parking (after 5 p.m.) at Cathedral Hill Hotel, 1101 Van Ness.
For more information on the venue and its location, visit www.uusf.org.
The Mill Valley Book will generously provide books for sale the evening of the event and will donate a percentage of the evening's proceeds. Visit them in Mill Valley or online: www.depotbookstore.com
Hotel Rex has generously provided hotel rooms for our Poets the night of the reading for the last 4 years.
Cafe Andrée at the Hotel Rex has generously offered all of the attendees of the Benefit on July 20, a complimentary glass of wine with every purchase of an entree per person.
To make a reservation, please call 415.217.4001. All calls will be returned after 4pm.
OTHER SPONSORS:
Rev. Audrey Gonzalez, a volunteer probation officer, CASA worker, and prison chaplain for Shelby County juvenile court in Tennessee, an art collector, theatrical entrepeneur, former award winning journalist, and resident of Uruguay for 20 years, is attempting to be a poet.
Deborah and Leo Ruth have been supporters of the Community of Writers for many years. Deborah is a poet and a many-time Poetry Program participant. They are sponsoring this event to help poets who, without the financial aid this event provides, would be unable to attend.
POETS APPEARING AT BENEFIT:
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LUCILLE CLIFTON is an award-winning poet, fiction writer and author of children’s books. Her most recent collection, Mercy, was published by BOA Editions in August 2004. Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1969-1999 (BOA), won the 2000 National Book Award for Poetry. Two of Clifton’s BOA poetry collections, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 and Next: New Poems, were chosen as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in 1988, while Clifton’s The Terrible Stories (BOA) was a finalist for the 1996 National Book Award. Clifton served as distinguished Professor of Humanities and holder of the Hilda C. Landers Endowed chair in the Liberal Arts at St. Mary’s College of Maryland until her retirement in the fall of 2005. She continues to serve St. Mary’s as Professor emeritus and Friend to the College. She was appointed a Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and elected as Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets in 1999. In 2007 she was awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize which honors a living U.S. poet whose lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition. |
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ROBERT HASS is a poet, translator and essayist. His recent books include his collection of poems, Time and Materials (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2007), which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Now & Then, a collection of his Washington Post articles was published by Shoemaker & Hoard in 2007. His other books of poetry include Sun Under Wood: New Poems, Human Wishes, Praise, and Field Guide. He has also co-translated several volumes of poetry with Czeslaw Milosz, most recently A Second Space; and is author or editor of several other collections of essays and translations, including The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa, and Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry. For HeyDay Books, he recently co-edited, with Jessica Fisher, The Addison Street Anthology: Berkeley’s Poetry Walk. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997 and is currently a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. He was the guest editor of the 2001 edition of Best American Poetry. Awarded a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, and the National Book Critics Circle Award twice, he is a professor of English at UC Berkeley. |
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SHARON OLDS’s books of poetry include Blood, Tin, Straw; The Wellspring; Satan Says; The Father; and The Gold Cell. Her most recent collection is a selected, Strike Sparks, published by Knopf in 2004. The Unswept Room, was a finalist for The National Book Critics Circle Award and for the National Book Award in 2002. The Dead and the Living was chosen as the Lamont Poetry Selection by The Academy of American Poets, and received the National Book Critics Circle Award. She teaches in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University, and for 22 years has helped run a writing workshop at the Sigismund Goldwater Memorial Hospital, a 900-bed state hospital for the severely physically challenged. From 1998-2000 she was New York State Poet Laureate. She is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and lives in N.Y.C. She spent some childhood summers in the Sierra Nevadas. |
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C.D. WRIGHT has published twelve collections of poetry and prose. Her most recent books are Like Something Flying Backwards: New and Selected Poems (Bloodaxe, 2007) and One Big Self: An Investigation (Copper Canyon Press, 2007), the text edition of the collaboration with photographer Deborah Luster. Her collection, Rising, Falling Hovering is forthcoming in 2008. She is also the author of Steal Away, and Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil; One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana, a collaboration with photographer Deborah Luster, which was awarded the Dorothea Lange- Paul Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.Wright has composed and published two state literary maps, one for Arkansas, her native state, and one for Rhode Island, her adopted state. Honors include fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bunting Institute, the Guggenheim, Wallace, and Lannan Foundations, and a MacArthur Fellowship. She is newly elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2005 she was awarded the Robert Creeley Award. For over twenty years she co-edited Lost Roads Publishers, an independent literary press. Wright is on the faculty of Brown University. |
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DEAN YOUNG is the author of eight books of poems including his recent collection, Embryoyo, which was published by Believer Books in 2007. Elegy on Toy Piano, (Pittsburgh University Press), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is also the author of Skid, First Course in Turbulence; Strike Anywhere, which won the first Colorado Poetry Prize; Design With X; Beloved Infidel, which will soon be republished by Hollyridge Press. His new collection, Primitive Mentor, is forthcoming from Pittsburgh University Press. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, he has received two National Endowment for the Arts grants and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is on the permanent faculty at the Iowa Writers Workshop and also teaches in the Warren Wilson low-residency MFA program. |
2008 Events will be listed soon. Check back in June.
SQUAW VALLEY
2007 LITERARY EVENTS
ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
The 39th Annual Squaw Valley Community of Writers will convene again this summer with workshops in Poetry, Fiction and Screenwriting. We are pleased to announce our Literary Events for this August.
August 2 - 9, the prestigious Writing Workshops in Fiction and NonFiction, will meet for a week in Squaw Valley. Writing Workshop participants meet each day in workshop, as well as attend presentations on the craft and the business of writing. Most of these events are free and open to the public. Members of the public who are interested in attending can contact SVCW to receive a full schedule of events and for location info. (530) 581-5200 info@squawvalleywriters.org.
It is too early to post the 2008 schedule of events. See last year's schedule below, or download it:
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http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2_allversions.htm.
Visit the Writers Workshop page to view author bios.
2007 COMMUNITY OF WRITERS LITERARY EVENTS SCHEDULE
Sunday August 5
1:00 Al Young, Poet Laureate of California – Poetry, Fiction & Nonfiction
2:00 Craft Talk: Lynn Freed- “Taming the Gorgon: My Mother into Fiction”
3:00 Panel: What to Write About: Finding Your Subject: Mark Childress, Louis B. Jones, Sue Miller, Varley O’Connor Moderated by Michelle Latiolais
5:30 Short Takes Staff Readings: Alev Lytle Croutier, Michelle Latiolais, Gregory Spatz
8:00 Writers Read & Talk about Their Work: Ron Carlson, Mark Childress, James D. Houston, Varley O’Connor
$10/$5 student tax-deductible donation payable at the door. Please make a reservation by calling 530-581-5200 or email info@squawvalleywriters.org
Monday, August 6
1:00 Craft Talk: Sue Miller “Getting Ready to Write”
2:00 Craft Panel: Writing the Short Story:
Michael Jaime-Becerra, Gregory Spatz, Ron Carlson, Karen Joy Fowler moderated by Andrew Tonkovich
3:30 Let Me Tell You Where I’ve Been: New Writing by Women of the Iranian Diaspora with Editor Persis Karim and contributors Beatrice Motamedi, and Katayoon Zandvakili - Introduced by Al Young
5:30 Short Takes Staff Readings: Rabih Alamaddine, Michael Jaime-Becerra, Sands Hall,
8:00 The Screenwriting Program presents: “Adaptation, Five Examples to Remember” with
Judy Rascoe, Tom Rickman, Lisa Rosenberg, Camille Thomasson, and Michael Urban
Tuesday, August 7
1:00 pm Editors Panel: with Ann Close, Joy Johannessen, Michel Pietsch, Jay Schaefer – Moderated by Michael Carlisle
2:00 Agents Panel: Michael Carlisle, Leslie Daniels, BJ Robbins, Peter Steinberg – Moderated by Anne Close
3:30 Agent & Writer: Michael Carlisle and Julie Flynn Siler
5:30 Short Takes Staff Readings: Leslie Daniels, Louis B. Jones, Andrew Tonkovich
8:00 Roots Panel: Rabih Alameddine, Alev Lytle Croutier, Alex Espinoza, Dagoberto Gilb, Rhoda Huffey Moderated by Mark Childress
Wednesday, August 8
1:00 Readings by our recently Published Alums: Anita Amirrezvani, Alex Espinoza, Robin Romm, Julie Flynn Siler
Thursday August 9
1:00 Craft Talk: The Use of Tension in Scene: Sandra Scofield
2:00 Historical Novel Panel: Alev Lytle Croutier, Karen Joy Fowler, Oakley Hall, James D. Houston
moderated Sands Hall
3:00 Panel: Essay and Memoir: Freed, Gilb, Scofield - Moderated by Leslie Daniels
5:30 Writers Workshop in a Book: The Community of Writers publishes craft book
Edited by Alan Cheuse & Lisa Alvarez; Chronicle Books Editor Jay Schaefer. With on-site contributors:
Max Byrd, Oakley Hall, Sands Hall, James D. Houston, Diane Johnson, Louis B. Jones, Amy Tan, Al Young
8:00 Writers Read & Talk about Their Work: Alan Cheuse, Sue Miller, Tom Rickman, Amy Tan
$10/$5 student tax-deductible donation payable at the door. Please make a reservation by calling 530- 581-5200 or email info@squawvalleywriters.org
Friday August 10
1:00 Craft Talk: Dagoberto Gilb “Quit Studying Writing Like You’re in Freaking School (And Tell Me A Good Story)”
2:00 Panel: Publishing the Short Story: Leslie Daniels, Andrew Day, Andrew Tonkovich
3:00 Panel: Out of Place: Writing About Geography, and Other Imaginary Places:
James D. Houston, Michael Jaime Becerra, Lynn Freed, Amy Tan - moderated by Andrew Tonkovich
Saturday, August 11
10:00 Closing Talk by Diane Johnson: “How Writers Read”
Brett Hall Jones
Executive Director
Community of Writers
PO Box 1416
Nevada City, CA 95959
(530) 470-8440
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POETRY READING IN SQUAW VALLEY
Thursday, July 26, 2007
8:15 pm
Olympic Village Lodge
1901 Chamonix Place off the SV Main Road
POETS APPEARING IN SQUAW VALLEY:
JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA
ROBERT HASS
BRENDA HILLMAN
SHARON OLDS
CLAUDIA RANKINE
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Visit Poetry Staff for bios. LINK HERE
Tickets: $10/$5 student
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Poetry Reading in Squaw Valley
