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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, 22 June 2024, will be:
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Benjamin Kunkel (born December 14, 1972, in Colorado) is an American novelist and political economist. He co-founded and is a co-editor of the journal n+1. His novel Indecision was published in 2005, and Utopia or Bust: A Guide to the Present Crisis and Buzz: A Play & My Predicament: A Story were published in 2014
Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola (Mexico City, 1987) is an artist and poet working with language in a variety of ways to explore the materiality of language, archive, memory, and the ecology of sound. She is the author of O (Cielo Abierto) and The Telaraña Circuit (Tender Buttons) and co-edits diSONARE, an experimental editorial platform from Mexico City. She has exhibited & performed at Vernacular Institute (Mexico City); Ex-Teresa Arte Actual (Mexico City); Museo de Arte Moderno (Mexico City); The Poetry Project (NYC); Microscope Gallery (NYC); among others.
Carolina Ebeid is a multimedia poet. Her first book You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior was published by Noemi Press as part of the Akrilica Series, and selected as one of ten best debuts of 2016 by Poets & Writers. Dauerwunder, a chapbook about finding the voice of ancestors within the digital glitch has just been released by Albion Books. Her work has been supported by the Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell University, Bread Loaf, CantoMundo, the NEA, as well as a residency fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. A longtime editor, she currently edits poetry at The Rumpus, as well as the multimedia zine Visible Binary. Carolina grew up in West New York, New Jersey in a Cuban and Palestinian family. She currently serves as the Bonderman Visiting Assistant Professor at Brown University where she teaches poetry and video-art.
Roger Reeves is the author of Best Barbarian (W.W. Norton & Co., 2022), a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Tracy K. Smith called it “a revelation and a form of reparation.” His debut collection is King Me (Copper Canyon Press, 2013), a Library Journal Best Poetry Book of the year, and winner of the Larry Levis Reading Prize, the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award, and a John C. Zacharis First Book Award. His next book is Dark Days: Fugitive Essays to be published by Graywolf in August 2023. His poems have appeared in journals such as Poetry, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, and Tin House, among others. He was awarded a 2013 NEA Fellowship, Ruth Lilly Fellowship by the Poetry Foundation in 2008, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, two Bread Loaf Scholarships, an Alberta H. Walker Scholarship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, two Cave Canem Fellowships and a Whiting Award.
Asked by Ru Freeman in the Huffington Post if he felt there was a particular universality in his work, Reeves responded, “No, I don’t believe my work is particularly universal. I don’t agree or believe in the universal. Many critics have argued this point so I will only say this: often, when we use the term universal, we secretly and not-so secretly mean white and white cultural epistemes. That’s why I resist the term.”
He earned a BA in English from Morehouse College, an MA in English from Texas A & M University, an MFA from the James A. Michener Center for Creative Writing at the University of Texas at Austin, and a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently a fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute and an associate professor of English and creative writing at the University of Texas at Austin.
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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, 22 June 2024, will be:
**********
Benjamin Kunkel (born December 14, 1972, in Colorado) is an American novelist and political economist. He co-founded and is a co-editor of the journal n+1. His novel Indecision was published in 2005, and Utopia or Bust: A Guide to the Present Crisis and Buzz: A Play & My Predicament: A Story were published in 2014
Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola (Mexico City, 1987) is an artist and poet working with language in a variety of ways to explore the materiality of language, archive, memory, and the ecology of sound. She is the author of O (Cielo Abierto) and The Telaraña Circuit (Tender Buttons) and co-edits diSONARE, an experimental editorial platform from Mexico City. She has exhibited & performed at Vernacular Institute (Mexico City); Ex-Teresa Arte Actual (Mexico City); Museo de Arte Moderno (Mexico City); The Poetry Project (NYC); Microscope Gallery (NYC); among others.
Carolina Ebeid is a multimedia poet. Her first book You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior was published by Noemi Press as part of the Akrilica Series, and selected as one of ten best debuts of 2016 by Poets & Writers. Dauerwunder, a chapbook about finding the voice of ancestors within the digital glitch has just been released by Albion Books. Her work has been supported by the Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell University, Bread Loaf, CantoMundo, the NEA, as well as a residency fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. A longtime editor, she currently edits poetry at The Rumpus, as well as the multimedia zine Visible Binary. Carolina grew up in West New York, New Jersey in a Cuban and Palestinian family. She currently serves as the Bonderman Visiting Assistant Professor at Brown University where she teaches poetry and video-art.
Roger Reeves is the author of Best Barbarian (W.W. Norton & Co., 2022), a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Tracy K. Smith called it “a revelation and a form of reparation.” His debut collection is King Me (Copper Canyon Press, 2013), a Library Journal Best Poetry Book of the year, and winner of the Larry Levis Reading Prize, the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award, and a John C. Zacharis First Book Award. His next book is Dark Days: Fugitive Essays to be published by Graywolf in August 2023. His poems have appeared in journals such as Poetry, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, and Tin House, among others. He was awarded a 2013 NEA Fellowship, Ruth Lilly Fellowship by the Poetry Foundation in 2008, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, two Bread Loaf Scholarships, an Alberta H. Walker Scholarship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, two Cave Canem Fellowships and a Whiting Award.
Asked by Ru Freeman in the Huffington Post if he felt there was a particular universality in his work, Reeves responded, “No, I don’t believe my work is particularly universal. I don’t agree or believe in the universal. Many critics have argued this point so I will only say this: often, when we use the term universal, we secretly and not-so secretly mean white and white cultural epistemes. That’s why I resist the term.”
He earned a BA in English from Morehouse College, an MA in English from Texas A & M University, an MFA from the James A. Michener Center for Creative Writing at the University of Texas at Austin, and a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently a fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute and an associate professor of English and creative writing at the University of Texas at Austin.
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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!
