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Summer Writing Program

Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics
June 15–July 12, 2009

Credit and noncredit programs available
Poetry • Fiction • Translation • Letterpress Printing

Week One: Outrider: JKS Lineages
Monday, June 15–Sunday, June 21, 2009

Rebecca Brown, Junior Burke, Jack Collom, Samuel R. Delany, Renee Gladman, Brad Gooch, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Anselm Hollo, Laird Hunt, Joyce Johnson, Basil King, Martha King, Eileen Myles, Janine Pommy Vega, Julia Seko, A.B. Spellman and others

Week Two: Contemplative Poethics: Endangered Species & Imagination
Monday, June 22–Sunday, June 28, 2009

Ed Bowes, Reed Bye, Amy Catanzano, Maxine Chernoff, Andrew Clausen, Laura Elrick, Kass Fleisher, LeRoy Moore, Akilah Oliver, Elizabeth Robinson, Jerome Rothenberg, Selah Saterstrom, Eleni Sikelianos, Wesley Tanner, Cecilia Vicuña, Anne Waldman, John Whalen-Bridge and others

Week Three: Polyvalent/Rhizomic Identities
Monday, June 29–Sunday, July 5, 2009

Mei Mei Berssenbrugge, Sherwin Bitsui, Travis Hedge Coke, Bei Dao, Shari De Graw, Clayton Eshleman, Gloria Frym, Mark McMorris, Semezdin Mehmedinovic, Leonard Schwartz, Christopher Stackhouse, Truong Tran, Lewis Warsh, Zhang Er and others

Week Four: Artistic Sangha: Performance, Publishing, Community, & Collaboration
Monday, July 6–Sunday, July 12, 2009

Michelle Ellsworth, Brian Evenson, Simone Forti, CS Giscombe, Joanna Howard, Allan Kornblum, Dan Machlin, Hoa Nguyen, Max Regan, Ed Roberson, Alberto Ruy Sanchez, Dale Smith, Mary Tasillo, Steven Taylor, Wang Ping and others

Please note that Robin Blaser, Bhanu Kapil, Rosa Alcala and Rusty Morrison will not be able to join us for the
2009 Summer Writing Program.  

Additional 2009 Information

Check out our SWP2009 flyer here

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The Summer Writing Program is a four-week-long convocation of students, poets, fiction writers, scholars, translators, performance artists, activists, Buddhist teachers, musicians, printers, editors and others working in small press publishing. Programming includes workshops, lectures, panels, readings, special events
and more.

In dialogue with renowned practitioners, students engage in the composition of poetry, prose fiction, cross-genre possibilities, inter-arts, translation and writing for performance. Participants work in daily contact with some of the most accomplished and notoriously provocative writers of our time, meeting individually and in small groups, so that both beginning and experienced writers find equal challenge in the program.

All four weeks (or any combination of weeks) are open to any interested participant for noncredit. Students from other institutions or degree programs may also elect to attend for undergraduate or graduate credit.

Summer Writing Program Monthly Contest.
Win SWP schwag by entering our monthly SWP contest. Winners will be selected at random and will be notified by email at the end of each month. Enter here

Click Here to see images from the 2008 Summer Writing Program

Click Here to receive our summer 2009 catalog.

For more information, please contact:
SWP Finance & Registration Manager
Summer Writing Program
2130 Arapahoe Ave.
Boulder, CO 80302
303-245-4600; swpr@naropa.edu



Granada Poetry Festival,
Nicaragua, Feb 2009
Courtesy of David Howard

Claudia Cragg's Interview with Anne Waldman (.mp3), aired on 2.11.08. Anne discusses the SWP, the Poets Party, and other pertinent issues in poetry & politics.

See Also:
History
2008 Slideshow
Kerouac Festival
Kerouac Festival Blog
Article: Howl at 50
Lit
Audio Excerpts
Kerouac School
MFA Writing & Poetics
MFA Creative Writing
BA Writing & Literature
Bombay Gin
Not Enough Night
Writing Center
Harry Smith Printshop
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