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Welcome digital comrades to the first faculty reading of Naropa's 2024 Summer Writing Program season. This marks the 50th anniversary of Naropa's "100 Year Project".
Reading this evening, 18 June 2024, will be:
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SUZI Q. SMITH is an award-winning poet, author, interdisciplinary artist, music maker, and dreamer of dreams who lives in Denver, Colorado.
MATTHEW COOPERMAN is the author of, most recently NOS, disorder not otherwise specified (with Aby Kaupang, Futurepoem, 2018) and Spool (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2016), winner of the New Measure Prize. Other works include the image + text collaboration Imago for the Fallen World (w/Marius Lehene, Jaded Ibis, 2013), Still: of the Earth as the Ark which Does Not Move (Counterpath Press, 2011), DaZE, (Salt Publishing Ltd, 2006) and A Sacrificial Zinc (Pleiades/LSU, 2001), which won the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize. He’s also the author of five chapbooks: Disorder 299.00 (w/ Aby Kaupang, Essay Press, 2016), Little Spool (winner of the 2014 Pavement Saw Prize), Still: (to be) Perpetual (Dove | Tail, 2007), Words About James (Phylum Press, 2005), and Surge (Kent State University Press, 1998).
GRAHAM FOUST lives in Colorado and works at the University of Denver. His latest book is Terminations (Flood Editions 2023). With Samuel Frederick, he has co-translated four books by the late German poet Ernst Meister, including Wallless Space, a 2015 finalist for ALTA’s National Translation Award.
DANIELLE VOGEL is a poet and interdisciplinary artist working at the intersections of queer and feminist ecologies, somatics, and ceremony. She is the author of the hybrid poetry collections A Library of Light (Wesleyan University Press 2024), Edges & Fray (Wesleyan University Press 2020), The Way a Line Hallucinates Its Own Linearity (Red Hen Press 2020), and Between Grammars (Noemi Press 2015). Her installations and site-responsive works have been displayed at RISD Museum, among other art venues, and adaptations of her work have been performed at such places as Carnegie Hall in New York and the Tjarnarbíó Theater in Reykjavík, Iceland. Vogel is committed to an embodied, ceremonial approach to poetics and relies heavily on field research, cross-disciplinary studies, and archives of all kinds. Her installations and site-responsive works—or “ceremonies for language”—are often extensions of her manuscripts and tend to the living archives of memory shared between bodies, languages, and landscapes. She earned a PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Denver and an MFA in creative writing and poetics from Naropa University. She is currently associate professor at Wesleyan University where she teaches workshops in experimental poetics, investigative and documentary poetics, ecopoetics, hybrid forms, memory and memoir, the lyric essay, and composing across the arts. She lives in the Connecticut River Valley where she also runs a private practice as an herbalist and flower essence practitioner.
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Summer Writing Program thrives on the support from its community. We offer many scholarships in the name of beloved faculty and community members to bring students with unique perspectives and talents to Naropa University. Please consider making a gift to Summer Writing program in the ongoing support of these writers and poets.
https://www.naropa.edu/office-of-deve...
Learn more about Summer Writing Program here: https://www.naropa.edu/academics/swp/
Naropa University’s 50th Anniversary: https://www.naropa.edu/about-naropa/5...
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Now join us, for the archive!
Welcome digital comrades to the first faculty reading of Naropa's 2024 Summer Writing Program season. This marks the 50th anniversary of Naropa's "100 Year Project".
Reading this evening, 18 June 2024, will be:
**********
SUZI Q. SMITH is an award-winning poet, author, interdisciplinary artist, music maker, and dreamer of dreams who lives in Denver, Colorado.
MATTHEW COOPERMAN is the author of, most recently NOS, disorder not otherwise specified (with Aby Kaupang, Futurepoem, 2018) and Spool (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2016), winner of the New Measure Prize. Other works include the image + text collaboration Imago for the Fallen World (w/Marius Lehene, Jaded Ibis, 2013), Still: of the Earth as the Ark which Does Not Move (Counterpath Press, 2011), DaZE, (Salt Publishing Ltd, 2006) and A Sacrificial Zinc (Pleiades/LSU, 2001), which won the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize. He’s also the author of five chapbooks: Disorder 299.00 (w/ Aby Kaupang, Essay Press, 2016), Little Spool (winner of the 2014 Pavement Saw Prize), Still: (to be) Perpetual (Dove | Tail, 2007), Words About James (Phylum Press, 2005), and Surge (Kent State University Press, 1998).
GRAHAM FOUST lives in Colorado and works at the University of Denver. His latest book is Terminations (Flood Editions 2023). With Samuel Frederick, he has co-translated four books by the late German poet Ernst Meister, including Wallless Space, a 2015 finalist for ALTA’s National Translation Award.
DANIELLE VOGEL is a poet and interdisciplinary artist working at the intersections of queer and feminist ecologies, somatics, and ceremony. She is the author of the hybrid poetry collections A Library of Light (Wesleyan University Press 2024), Edges & Fray (Wesleyan University Press 2020), The Way a Line Hallucinates Its Own Linearity (Red Hen Press 2020), and Between Grammars (Noemi Press 2015). Her installations and site-responsive works have been displayed at RISD Museum, among other art venues, and adaptations of her work have been performed at such places as Carnegie Hall in New York and the Tjarnarbíó Theater in Reykjavík, Iceland. Vogel is committed to an embodied, ceremonial approach to poetics and relies heavily on field research, cross-disciplinary studies, and archives of all kinds. Her installations and site-responsive works—or “ceremonies for language”—are often extensions of her manuscripts and tend to the living archives of memory shared between bodies, languages, and landscapes. She earned a PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Denver and an MFA in creative writing and poetics from Naropa University. She is currently associate professor at Wesleyan University where she teaches workshops in experimental poetics, investigative and documentary poetics, ecopoetics, hybrid forms, memory and memoir, the lyric essay, and composing across the arts. She lives in the Connecticut River Valley where she also runs a private practice as an herbalist and flower essence practitioner.
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Summer Writing Program thrives on the support from its community. We offer many scholarships in the name of beloved faculty and community members to bring students with unique perspectives and talents to Naropa University. Please consider making a gift to Summer Writing program in the ongoing support of these writers and poets.
https://www.naropa.edu/office-of-deve...
Learn more about Summer Writing Program here: https://www.naropa.edu/academics/swp/
Naropa University’s 50th Anniversary: https://www.naropa.edu/about-naropa/5...
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Now join us, for the archive!
