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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, 26 June 2024, will be:
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SWANEE ASTRID is a poet-scribe living along the Rocky Mountains as Outrider. She has also worked on *apo-press, Vestal Review, Earthwords, and her own publication, VIBRISSAE. Swanee is also a writing mentor and literacy advocate and has collaborated with Sacramento Poetry Center, Real Poets, Bouldering Poets, Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence. You can find her writing in the Naropa Magazine, StillMagik, and WTF?! among others. Her own writing explores astro-anthropology, linguistic permutations, Norse animism, and the queer experience
KELLY KRUMRIE is a writer and teacher. She is the author of the books Math Class (Calamari Archive, 2022) and No Measure (Calamari Archive, 2024). Her creative and critical writing also appears in journals such as DIAGRAM, La Vague, Black Warrior Review, Full Stop, and The Journal of Modern Literature. From 2020-22, she wrote a column for Tarpaulin Sky Magazine called figuring on math and science in art and literature. She holds a PhD in English & Literary Arts from the University of Denver and teaches at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Denver.
J'LYN CHAPMAN is a writer, teacher, artist, and the author of To Limn / Lying In, winner of the PANK Nonfiction Book Contest (2020), Beastlife (Calamari Archive, 2016), and the chapbooks A Thing of Shreds and Patches (Essay Press, 2016) and Bear Stories (Calamari Press 2008). She also curated the interview chapbook The Form Our Curiosity Takes (Essay Press 2015). Chapman holds a PhD in English from the University of Denver and an MA in English from the University of Central Florida and currently coordinates the MA in Creative Writing, Literature, and Pedagogy Specializations at Regis University in Denver, Colorado.
ANDREW SCHELLING is a poet, translator from the poetry of India, essay writer, and editor of anthologies. Before arriving at Naropa University he was active in the Bay Area with a community of experimental writers, Zen practitioners, and wilderness advocates. He came to the Jack Kerouac School in 1990, and began teaching Sanskrit language for the Department of Religious Studies shortly after, as well as in the Jack Kerouac School. He has been active in land use & ecological issues in the American West, is a student of natural history, and has taught for many years at Deer Park Institute in India. Among his twenty-five published titles are, most recently, a poetry collection The Facts at Dog Tank Spring; a folkloric volume regarding language, bohemian poets, and wilderness, Tracks Along the Left Coast; and three volumes of translated poetry from Shambhala Publications. His anthologies include Love and the Turning Seasons: India’s Poetry of Spiritual & Erotic Longing.
MARGARET RANDALL was born in New York City and grew up in New Mexico. Taking active part in the Mexican student movement of 1968 and then living in Cuba for eleven years and Sandinista Nicaragua for four, Randall returned to the United States in 1984, only to face deportation when the government declared her writings “against the good order and happiness of the United States.” With the support of many, she won her case in 1989. Randall is the author of more than two hundred books, including Che on My Mind (2014), Time’s Language: Selected Poems 1959-2018, and I Never Left Home: Poet, Feminist, Revolutionary (2020). Her most recent titles include Artists in My Life, Luck, and Home. She has received the Poet of Two Hemispheres award from Poesía en Paralelo Cero, Quito, Ecuador, AWP’s George Garrett Award, Albuquerque’s Creative Bravo Award, and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of New Mexico, among other recognitions.
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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, 26 June 2024, will be:
**********
SWANEE ASTRID is a poet-scribe living along the Rocky Mountains as Outrider. She has also worked on *apo-press, Vestal Review, Earthwords, and her own publication, VIBRISSAE. Swanee is also a writing mentor and literacy advocate and has collaborated with Sacramento Poetry Center, Real Poets, Bouldering Poets, Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence. You can find her writing in the Naropa Magazine, StillMagik, and WTF?! among others. Her own writing explores astro-anthropology, linguistic permutations, Norse animism, and the queer experience
KELLY KRUMRIE is a writer and teacher. She is the author of the books Math Class (Calamari Archive, 2022) and No Measure (Calamari Archive, 2024). Her creative and critical writing also appears in journals such as DIAGRAM, La Vague, Black Warrior Review, Full Stop, and The Journal of Modern Literature. From 2020-22, she wrote a column for Tarpaulin Sky Magazine called figuring on math and science in art and literature. She holds a PhD in English & Literary Arts from the University of Denver and teaches at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Denver.
J'LYN CHAPMAN is a writer, teacher, artist, and the author of To Limn / Lying In, winner of the PANK Nonfiction Book Contest (2020), Beastlife (Calamari Archive, 2016), and the chapbooks A Thing of Shreds and Patches (Essay Press, 2016) and Bear Stories (Calamari Press 2008). She also curated the interview chapbook The Form Our Curiosity Takes (Essay Press 2015). Chapman holds a PhD in English from the University of Denver and an MA in English from the University of Central Florida and currently coordinates the MA in Creative Writing, Literature, and Pedagogy Specializations at Regis University in Denver, Colorado.
ANDREW SCHELLING is a poet, translator from the poetry of India, essay writer, and editor of anthologies. Before arriving at Naropa University he was active in the Bay Area with a community of experimental writers, Zen practitioners, and wilderness advocates. He came to the Jack Kerouac School in 1990, and began teaching Sanskrit language for the Department of Religious Studies shortly after, as well as in the Jack Kerouac School. He has been active in land use & ecological issues in the American West, is a student of natural history, and has taught for many years at Deer Park Institute in India. Among his twenty-five published titles are, most recently, a poetry collection The Facts at Dog Tank Spring; a folkloric volume regarding language, bohemian poets, and wilderness, Tracks Along the Left Coast; and three volumes of translated poetry from Shambhala Publications. His anthologies include Love and the Turning Seasons: India’s Poetry of Spiritual & Erotic Longing.
MARGARET RANDALL was born in New York City and grew up in New Mexico. Taking active part in the Mexican student movement of 1968 and then living in Cuba for eleven years and Sandinista Nicaragua for four, Randall returned to the United States in 1984, only to face deportation when the government declared her writings “against the good order and happiness of the United States.” With the support of many, she won her case in 1989. Randall is the author of more than two hundred books, including Che on My Mind (2014), Time’s Language: Selected Poems 1959-2018, and I Never Left Home: Poet, Feminist, Revolutionary (2020). Her most recent titles include Artists in My Life, Luck, and Home. She has received the Poet of Two Hemispheres award from Poesía en Paralelo Cero, Quito, Ecuador, AWP’s George Garrett Award, Albuquerque’s Creative Bravo Award, and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of New Mexico, among other recognitions.
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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!
