In celebration of our mutual 20th anniversaries, we are collaborating with Seattle Arts & Lectures to co-present readings from selected recipients of the Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Literary Arts Fellowships. From October 2007 through April 2008, 12 Fellowship awardees will read from their work prior to SAL's monthly Literary Lecture Series. This will be a wonderful opportunity to hear from some of our state's most accomplished poets, essayists and novelists.
Monday nights, 5:30-6:30pm
S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, Benaroya Hall, Seattle
Free for Artist Trust members and Literary Lecture Series ticket holders; $5 suggested donation general public; Artist Trust members also receive 15% off single or full-series LLS tickets.
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2007-2008 Literary Lecture Series Pre-Lecture Readings Schedule
October 15, 2007 :: Linda Bierds and David Shields
MacArthur "genius" and University of Washington professor Linda Bierds is an award-winning poet who has earned particular recognition for her verse reflections of historic events and personages. Her most recent collection is First Hand. David Shields, another UW professor, is the author of eight books, including Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season -- a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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November 19, 2007 :: Peter Pereira and Susan Rich
Physician-poet Peter Pereira interweaves the worlds of the body, medicine, word play, and domestic gay life. A founding editor of Floating Bridge Press, his books include The Lost Twin, Saying the World, and What's Written on the Body. Susan Rich is a poet, traveler, and activist. Author of two books of poetry, including the recent volume Cures Include Travel, she has also worked as a staff person for Amnesty International, an electoral supervisor in Bosnia, and a human rights trainer in Gaza.
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January 14, 2008 :: Ann Pancake and Lyanda Haupt
Ann Pancake is a fiction writer and essayist who focuses on the people and atmosphere of Appalachia, contributing to our understanding of poverty in the 20th century. Her first novel, Strange As This Weather Has Been, is just out. Naturalist Lyanda Haupt has worked for Seattle Audubon and as a seabird researcher in the tropical Pacific. Her first book, Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds, which explores the relationship between humans and birds, won the 2002 Washington State Book Award.
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February 4, 2008 :: Kathleen Flenniken and Donna Miscolta
Kathleen Flenniken's first collection of poems, Famous, won the 2005 Prairie Schooner Prize and was named a Notable Book of the Year by the American Library Association. Co-editor at Floating Bridge Press, she has taught poetry through Seattle Arts & Lectures' Writers in the Schools program. Donna Miscolta's poems have appeared on the King County Poetry Bus Project, and her short fiction has been published in the Raven Chronicles, The Americas Review, and Seattle Magazine. Her story "Rosa in America" is in the 2006-07 issue of New Millennium Writings.
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March 5, 2008 :: Kathleen Alcala and Mark Halperin
Kathleen Alcalá is the author of a short story collection, Mrs. Vargas and the Dead Naturalist, and three novels: Spirits of the Ordinary, The Flower in the Skull, and Treasures in Heaven. A play based on her novel, Spirits of the Ordinary, was produced by The Miracle Theatre of Portland, Oregon. Mark Halperin has taught in Japan, Estonia, Russia and the United States. He has published translations of Russian and Soviet period writers Bunin, Galich, Kharms and Platonov. His latest book is Falling Through the Music.
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April 29, 2008 :: Laurie Lamon and Nance Van Winckel
Laurie Lamon described her debut collection, The Fork Without Hunger, as using "language to point us toward...the world of stillness." Professor at Whitworth College, she was chosen by Poet Laureate Donald Hall for the 2007 Witter Bynner Fellowship. Poet and short story writer Nance Van Winckel has received two NEA Poetry Fellowships. Her fifth poetry collection, No Starling, was just published. She teaches at Eastern Washington University and Vermont College.
