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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, 25 June 2024, will be:
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MAIREAD CASE (maireadcase.com) is a lecturer, writer, and editor in Denver. She teaches at Naropa University, GALS Denver, and the Denver Women's Jail. Mairead wrote See You In the Morning, and earned an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a PhD from the University of Denver. She publishes widely, and has been a Legal Observer with the NLG for over a decade.
SARAH RIGGS is a writer and artist, born in New York where she is now based, after having spent over a decade in Paris. Before directing Six Lives: A Cinepoem, she produced The Tangier 8 at the Cinémathèque de Tanger in Morocco, which was screened at the Berlin Film Festival and the Tate Modern Museum among other international venues. She is the author of seven books of poetry in English: Waterwork (Chax, 2007), Chain of Minuscule Decisions in the Form of a Feeling (Reality Street, 2007), 60 Textos (Ugly Duckling, 2010), Autobiography of Envelopes (Burning Deck, 2012), Pomme & Granite (1913 Press, 2015) which won a 1913 poetry prize, Eavesdrop (Chax, 2020) and The Nerve Epistle, fall 2021. She is the author of the book of essays Word Sightings: Poetry and Visual Media in Stevens, Bishop, & O’Hara (Routledge, 2002), and has translated and co-translated six books of contemporary French poetry into English, including most recently Etel Adnan’s TIME which won the Griffin International Poetry Prize and the Best Translated Book Award in 2020. She is the director of the international arts organization Tamaas which focuses on earth arts justice, film, and an annual poetry translation seminar.
RAJIV MOJABIR was born in London, England to Guyanese parents. He grew up in New York City and in the Greater Orlando Area in Florida. Mojabir holds a BA from the University of Florida in religious studies, an MSEd in TESOL from Long Island University, Brooklyn, and an MFA in poetry from Queens College, CUNY. While in New York working as a public school teacher, he also produced the nationally broadcast radio show KAVIhouse on JusPunjabi (2012-2013). He received his PhD in English from the University of Hawai’i and is an assistant professor of poetry in the Department of English at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is the author of many award winning books and chapbooks.
ISAAC JARNOT was born in Buffalo, NY, and educated at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the author of the Bagley Lecture Series book, Four Lectures, and several collections of poetry, including Some Other Kind of Mission; Ring of Fire; Black Dog Songs; Night Scenes; Joie De Vivre: Selected Poems 1992-2012 and A Princess Magic Presto Spell . She co-edited An Anthology of New (American) Poets, and her biography of San Francisco poet Robert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus, was published by the University of California Press in 2012. He has been a visiting professor at Naropa University, Brooklyn College, and the University of Colorado, Boulder. He lives in Jackson Heights, Queens, holds a Masters of Divinity degree from New York Theological Seminary, is a PhD student in theology at Drew University, and is a minister at Safe Haven United Church of Christ.
LAIRD HUNT is the author of eight novels, including the 2021 National Book Award finalist Zorrie. He is the winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction, the Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine, the Bridge Prize and a finalist for both the Pen/Faulkner and the Prix Femina Étranger. Hunt’s reviews and essays have been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Daily Beast, the Guardian, and his fiction and translations have appeared in many literary journals, including Conjunctions, McSweeney’s, Bomb and Zoetrope, in the United States and abroad. A former United Nations press officer who was raised in rural Indiana, he now lives in Providence where he teaches in Brown University’s Literary Arts Program and spends his days with his wife, the poet Eleni Sikelianos, their daughter, Eva, and two cats.
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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, 25 June 2024, will be:
**********
MAIREAD CASE (maireadcase.com) is a lecturer, writer, and editor in Denver. She teaches at Naropa University, GALS Denver, and the Denver Women's Jail. Mairead wrote See You In the Morning, and earned an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a PhD from the University of Denver. She publishes widely, and has been a Legal Observer with the NLG for over a decade.
SARAH RIGGS is a writer and artist, born in New York where she is now based, after having spent over a decade in Paris. Before directing Six Lives: A Cinepoem, she produced The Tangier 8 at the Cinémathèque de Tanger in Morocco, which was screened at the Berlin Film Festival and the Tate Modern Museum among other international venues. She is the author of seven books of poetry in English: Waterwork (Chax, 2007), Chain of Minuscule Decisions in the Form of a Feeling (Reality Street, 2007), 60 Textos (Ugly Duckling, 2010), Autobiography of Envelopes (Burning Deck, 2012), Pomme & Granite (1913 Press, 2015) which won a 1913 poetry prize, Eavesdrop (Chax, 2020) and The Nerve Epistle, fall 2021. She is the author of the book of essays Word Sightings: Poetry and Visual Media in Stevens, Bishop, & O’Hara (Routledge, 2002), and has translated and co-translated six books of contemporary French poetry into English, including most recently Etel Adnan’s TIME which won the Griffin International Poetry Prize and the Best Translated Book Award in 2020. She is the director of the international arts organization Tamaas which focuses on earth arts justice, film, and an annual poetry translation seminar.
RAJIV MOJABIR was born in London, England to Guyanese parents. He grew up in New York City and in the Greater Orlando Area in Florida. Mojabir holds a BA from the University of Florida in religious studies, an MSEd in TESOL from Long Island University, Brooklyn, and an MFA in poetry from Queens College, CUNY. While in New York working as a public school teacher, he also produced the nationally broadcast radio show KAVIhouse on JusPunjabi (2012-2013). He received his PhD in English from the University of Hawai’i and is an assistant professor of poetry in the Department of English at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is the author of many award winning books and chapbooks.
ISAAC JARNOT was born in Buffalo, NY, and educated at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the author of the Bagley Lecture Series book, Four Lectures, and several collections of poetry, including Some Other Kind of Mission; Ring of Fire; Black Dog Songs; Night Scenes; Joie De Vivre: Selected Poems 1992-2012 and A Princess Magic Presto Spell . She co-edited An Anthology of New (American) Poets, and her biography of San Francisco poet Robert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus, was published by the University of California Press in 2012. He has been a visiting professor at Naropa University, Brooklyn College, and the University of Colorado, Boulder. He lives in Jackson Heights, Queens, holds a Masters of Divinity degree from New York Theological Seminary, is a PhD student in theology at Drew University, and is a minister at Safe Haven United Church of Christ.
LAIRD HUNT is the author of eight novels, including the 2021 National Book Award finalist Zorrie. He is the winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction, the Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine, the Bridge Prize and a finalist for both the Pen/Faulkner and the Prix Femina Étranger. Hunt’s reviews and essays have been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Daily Beast, the Guardian, and his fiction and translations have appeared in many literary journals, including Conjunctions, McSweeney’s, Bomb and Zoetrope, in the United States and abroad. A former United Nations press officer who was raised in rural Indiana, he now lives in Providence where he teaches in Brown University’s Literary Arts Program and spends his days with his wife, the poet Eleni Sikelianos, their daughter, Eva, and two cats.
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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!
