Visiting Writers
Eileen Myles's collection of essays The Importance of Being Iceland, for which she received a Warhol/Creative Capital grant is just out from Semiotext(e)/MIT. Eileen also writes novels (Chelsea Girls, Cool for You) and libretti (“Hell”) and poems constantly (Sorry, Tree, Not Me). She ran St. Mark’s Poetry Project in the 80s. In '92 she conducted an openly female write-in campaign for President. She’s the Hugo writer at Missoula this semester. Generally she lives in New York.
Feb. 25th, Thursday, 7:30pm, location TBA
Alex Lemon is the author of Happy: A Memoir (Scribner), the poetry collections Mosquito (Tin House Books), Hallelujah Blackout (Milkweed Editions), Fancy Beasts (forthcoming, Milkweed Editions), and the chapbook At Last Unfolding Congo (horse less press). His writing has appeared in Esquire, Best American Poetry 2008, AGNI, BOMB, Gulf Coast, jubilat, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Open City, Pleiades and Tin House, among others. He was awarded a 2005 Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and a 2006 Minnesota Arts Board Grant. He co-edits LUNA: A Journal of Poetry and Translation with Ray Gonzalez and is a frequently writes book reviews. He lives in Fort Worth, Texas and teaches at Texas Christian University.
March 11th, Thursday, 7:30pm, location TBA
Poet Anne Waldman has been an active member of the “Outrider” experimental poetry community for over 40 years as writer, sprechstimme performer, professor, editor, magpie scholar, infra-structure and cultural/political activist. She has also collaborated extensively with a number of artist, musicians, and dancers. She grew up on Macdougal Street in Greenwich Village where she still lives, and bi-furcated to Boulder, Colorado in 1974 when she co-founded The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics with Allen Ginsberg at Naropa University, the first Buddhist inspired school in the West, where she currently serves as Artistic Director of its celebrated Summer Writing program. Allen Ginsberg has called her his “spiritual wife.” She is the author of over 40 books of poetry including Kill or Cure, Marriage: A Sentence, Structure of the World Compared to a Bubble, and the poetic text: Outrider which includes an interview with Ernesto Cardenal, and essays on Lorine Niedecker and Charles Olson. Manatee/Humanity (Penguin Poets 2009) is Waldman’s most recent book. She has also the author of the legendary Fast Speaking Woman (City Lights, San Francisco), now translated into Italian, Czech and French, as well as the 800 page epic Iovis trilogy (Coffee House Press), forthcoming in 2011. She is editor of The Beat Book (Shambhala Publications) and co-editor of The Angel Hair Anthology (Granary Books), Civil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action (Coffee House) and Beats at Naropa (Coffee House, 2009), with previously unpublished work by Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, and William Burroughs, among others. Her play RED NOIR is currently on off off Broadway in New York City, produced by the Living Theatre and directed by theatre legend Judith Malina.
April 15th, Thursday, 7:30pm, location TBA
Steven Church is the author of the nonfiction books, The Day After The Day After: My Atomic Angst (April, 2010 Soft Skull Press), Theoretical Killings: Essays and Accidents, and The Guinness Book of Me: a Memoir of Record, a book that is currently being developed for television by Lionsgate Studios and Fox TV. His essays and stories have been published widely in literary journals and nominated 5 times for a Pushcart Prize. His essay, "I'm Just Getting to the Disturbing Part" was named a Notable Essay in the 2008 Best American Essays. He teaches in the MFA Program at Fresno State and for the Low-Residency MFA at the University of New Orleans. He is also a founding editor of the literary magazine, The Normal School.
April 22nd, Thursday, 7:30pm, location TBA
Books
Thanks to Bob Green of Bookpeople, located on Main Street in Moscow, Idaho, who supplies the books and book-signing station for all our visiting writers.
Scenes from last year's Visiting Writer's Series
Kate Greenstreet
Linda Russo
