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Summer Writing Program
Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics
Credit and noncredit programs available
Poetry • Fiction • Translation • Letterpress Printing
Week One: The Wall: Troubling of Race, Class, Economics, Gender, and Imagination
Monday, June 16–Sunday, June 22, 2008
Week Two: Elective Affinities: Against the Grain: Writerly Utopias
Monday, June 23–Sunday, June 29, 2008
Week Three: Activism, Environmentalism: The Big Picture
Monday, June 30–Sunday, July 6, 2008
Week Four: Performance. Community: Policies of the USA in the Larger World
Monday, July 7–Sunday, July 13, 2008
Additional 2008 Information
2008 Faculty Include:
Charles Alexander, Will Alexander, Amiri Baraka, Dodie Bellamy, Lee Ann Brown, Junior Burke, Reed Bye, Jack Collom, Samuel R. Delany, Linh Dinh, Rikki Ducornet, Marcella Durand, George Evans, Brian Evenson, Raymond Federman, Forrest Gander, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Anselm Hollo, Bob Hollman, Laird Hunt, Brenda Iijima, Pierre Joris, Ilya Kaminsky, Daniel Kane, Bhanu Kapil, Kevin Killian, Lewis MacAdams, Douglas Martin, Miranda Mellis, K. Silem Mohammad, Tracie Morris, Anna Moschovakis, Harryette Mullen, Laura Mullen, Eileen Myles, Sawako Nakayasu, Alice Notley, Akilah Oliver, Maureen Owen, Kristin Prevallet, Karen Randall, Margaret Randall, Max Regan, Joe Richey, Elizabeth Robinson, Selah Saterstrom, Julia Seko, Eleni Sikelianos, Stacy Szymaszek, Anne Tardos, Steven Taylor, Roberto Tejada, Donna Thomas, Peter Thomas, Chris Tysh, Orlando White, Daisy Zamora.
with Guests:
Mei Mei Berssenbrugge, Joanna Howard, Carol Moldaw, Sue Salinger, Arthur Sze, Richard Tuttle.
The themes of the Summer Writing Program 2008 will dovetail into one another as the US of A goes forward to elect new leaders, whose power and politics influence the conditions on the whole planet and affect many lives for better or worse. This is an important shift and it is felt - as visionary writers with a long lineage in the “outrider” tradition - we need to be especially vocal and vigilant, continuing our grassroots work and our imaginations of generosity and accountability with an allegiance to vital and refreshed language. Also keeping in mind the basis of what in meditative traditions is referred to as “big mind” and the Bodhisattva vow - working on behalf of other suffering sentient beings. The Summer Writing community is a “temporary autonomous zone” of camaraderie and mutual support, acknowledging cultural and creative difference yet finding “common ground” by establishing web-works of communication and collaboration that may last many years. When we founded Naropa University in 1974, at a famous meeting with founder Chögyam Trungpa that included Allen Ginsberg, Diane di Prima, John Cage, Jackson MacLow, and yours truly (Anne Waldman) we determined it was “a hundred year project at least.”
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.
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