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SAN MIGUEL POETRY WRITING JAN TERM CLASS |
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Study Advanced Poetry Writing (ENG 303) in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, in January, 2008.
WHAT IS IT? From January 6-12, 2008, students will have an opportunity to study advanced poetry writing in Mexico with some of the best-known poets currently writing, as part of a special class in which Whittier College is collaborating with the San Miguel Poetry Week (http://www.sanmiguelpoetry.com).
Students will travel to San Miguel de Allende with Professor of English, Tony Barnstone, who will be one of the faculty members in San Miguel. The other faculty members include distinguished American poets C.K. Williams, Reginald Gibbons, and the Welsh poet Gwyneth Lewis. Students will have workshop sessions with all four poets.
After a week in San Miguel, students will return to Whittier to finish the semester studying with poet Mariano Zaro.
HOW TO APPLY? As a prerequisite for the class, students must have taken INTD 120, and should have extensive poetry writing experience. Students must complete the email application attached to this document to be considered for one of the 12 slots in the class. With the application, students must submit the four poems they want to have workshopped in San Miguel. Applications should be emailed to tbarnstone@whittier.edu by October 30th. Students will be informed whether they have been admitted by November 1st, and by November 15th must pay a nonrefundable deposit of $480 to Sally Cardenas, Director of Off-Campus Programs (ext. 4533, email: scardenas@whittier.edu, office in Philadelphia House). Students who wish to take the additional workshop with Jennifer Clement must pay a deposit of $530. There will be an informational session (location TBA): on Oct. 25th.
HOW MUCH DOES IT COST?
Hotel: 420 pesos (about $40) a night for 7 nights=$280 Plane Fare: about $400-500 (from Los Angeles) Registration & Tuition: $700 (minus $500 paid by college) Additional Workshop with Jennifer Clement (Optional): $50.00
Of the Registration and Tuition fees, $500 per student will be funded as a gift from Whittier Alumnus Louis Vogt, who lives in San Miguel de Allende. The hotel, plus the $200 of the fees not covered by Mr. Vogt’s gift, will be paid out of the student deposits. Students must buy their own plane fares and their own meals in Mexico (except for breakfast, which is provided by the hotel).
Total: approximately $880-1050 (+ meals)
WHAT IS THE SCHEDULE? Sunday, Jan 6th: TRAVEL TO MEXICO AND WELCOME Students fly to Leon, Guanajuato. They take a shuttle or taxi to San Miguel de Allende, and check in to their rooms at the Hotel Posada de Las Monjas. That night there will be a welcome cocktail at the hotel. Monday, Jan 7th-Friday Jan 11th: CLASSES AND READINGS Students will workshop every morning from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., after which they are free to work on their writing and to explore the beautiful mountain town of San Miguel. Each night after dinner there will be a reading by one of the distinguished faculty members. Students should bring four of their poems to workshop in San Miguel. On the last night, students and faculty will read their poems together. Mornings will consist of lectures, small workshops and a writing exercise class. During the afternoons, students work on their own poems and have time to explore the beautiful city. In the evenings, poetry readings by the faculty will be held at Bellas Artes, San Miguel's stunning Fine Arts Institute. Saturday, Jan 12th: GROUP READING by all the participants (students and faculty will read their poems together). Sunday, Jan 13th: TRAVEL TO LOS ANGELES: Students fly back to Los Angeles. Monday Jan 14th-Feb 1st: CLASS CONTINUES IN WHITTIER: Students will continue studying with Mariano Zaro at Whittier College.
WHO ARE THE POETS?
C. K. Williams was born in 1936 in Newark, New Jersey. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, including The Singing (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2003), which won the National Book Award; Repair (1999), winner of a Pulitzer Prize; The Vigil (1997); A Dream of Mind (1992); Flesh and Blood (1987), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; Tar (1983); With Ignorance (1997); I Am the Bitter Name (1992); and Lies (1969). Williams has also published five works of translation: Selected Poems of Francis Ponge (1994); Canvas, by Adam Zagajewski (with Renata Gorczynski and Benjamin Ivry, 1991); The Bacchae of Euripides (1990); The Lark. The Thrush. The Starling. (Poems from Issa) (1983); and Women of Trachis, by Sophocles (with Gregory Dickerson, 1978). In addition to the National Book Critics Circle Award, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize, he has won an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award, the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, a Pushcart Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Williams teaches in the creative writing program at Princeton University and lives part of each year in Paris. ---------------- Reginald Gibbons (Ph.D Stanford University, Comparative Literature) is a poet, fiction writer, translator, literary critic, artist, and Professor of English and Classics. From 1981 to 1997, he served as the editor of TriQuarterly magazine, an international journal of new writing, art and cultural inquiry published at Northwestern; during that time, in addition to general issues of the magazine, he published special issues of writing from South Africa, Spain, Poland and Mexico. He also co-founded and edited TriQuarterly Books, an imprint for contemporary writing at Northwestern University Press. His most recent poetry publications are two chapbooks, In the Warhouse (Fractal Edge, 2004) and Fern-Texts (Hollyridge, 2005). He has published seven poetry collections, most recently Sparrow: New and Selected Poems (LSU 1997), Homage to Longshot O'Leary (Holy Cow! Press 1999), and It's Time (LSU, 2002); a collection of short fiction, Five Pears or Peaches (Broken Moon Press 1991); a novel Sweetbitter (Penguin 1996); and other works. He translated Selected Poems of Luis Cernuda (California, 1977; reprint Sheep Meadow Press, 1999); Guillen on Guilen: The Poetry and the Poet (with A. L. Geist; Princeton, 1979); Euripides' Bakkhai (Oxford Univ. Press, 2001) and Sophokles' Antigone (Oxford, 2003), both of the latter with Charles Segal; he has edited The Poet's Work , (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1989) and, with Gerald Graff, Criticism in the University (Northwestern Univ. Press, 1985). Gibbons has also published numerous essays and reviews, held Guggenheim and NEA fellowships in poetry, and has won the Anisfield Wolf Book Award, the Carl Sandburg Prize, the Folger Shakespeare Library's 2004 O. B. Hardison Jr. Poetry Prize, and other honors, among them the inclusion of his work in Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prize anthologies. His most recent book (his thirtieth) is an edited collection of the autobiographical writings of William Goyen, Goyen: Autobiographical Essays, Notebooks, Evocations, Interviews (forthcoming from University of Texas Press and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center in 2007). His eighth collection of poems will be published in 2008 (LSU Press). His current projects include more translations from ancient Greek, to be published by Princeton University Press; a work on twentieth-century and contemporary Russian poetry, co-authored with Ilya Kutik, including essays and translations; and essays on poetry. He is currently a columnist for American Poetry Review , and has recently published poems, translations and essays in Poetry , Iowa Review , Harvard Divinity Bulletin , New Literary History , and elsewhere. Gibbons teaches poetry, fiction, and literature courses. ---------------- Gwyneth Lewis was appointed Wales’s first National Poet from 2005-06. She has published six books of poetry in Welsh and English. Her first collection in English, Parables & Faxes (Bloodaxe, 1995) won the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize and was short listed for the Forward, as was her second, Zero Gravity (Bloodaxe, 1998). The BBC made a documentary of Zero Gravity, inspired by her astronaut cousin's voyage to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. Y Llofrudd Iaith ('The Language Murderer', Barddas, 2000), won the Welsh Arts Council Book of the Year Prize and Keeping Mum was short listed for the same prize in 2004. Gwyneth was responsible for composing the words on the front of Cardiff's new Wales Millennium Centre opened in November 2004. She is one of the poets in the Poetry Book Society's Next Generation promotion and was recently adopted as Cil-y-cwm's Community Poet. Redflight/ Barcud, her first libretto, with music by Richard Chew, was given its world premier in a temporary opera house (a marquee) in the village. The opera, about the red kite, was commissioned and presented by Welsh National Opera with pupils from Ysgol Capel y Cynfab, Cynghordy and Ysgol Cil-y-cwm. Gwyneth's first non-fiction book Sunbathing in the Rain: A Cheerful Book on Depression (Flamingo 2002), was shortlisted for the Mind Book of the Year. Her second, Two in a Boat: A Marital Voyage, recounts a voyage which she made with her husband on a small boat from Cardiff to North Africa. She has written an oratorio for six hundred voices, The Most Beautiful Man from the Sea to music by Richard Chew and Orlando Gough, to be performed in the Wales Millennium Centre by the Chorus of Welsh National Opera and five hundred amateur singers. Gwyneth will be Poet in Residence at the Physics and Astronomy department of Cardiff University until Christmas 2005. Gwyneth was a scholar at Girton College, Cambridge and was awarded a double first in English literature and the Laurie Hart Prize for outstanding intellectual work. She received a D.Phil in English from Oxford, having written a thesis on eighteenth-century literary forgery. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a member of the Welsh Academi and a NESTA Fellow. NESTA is the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, the organisation that invests in UK creativity and innovation. In 2005 she was elected Honorary Fellow of Cardiff University. In the past she spent three years in the US as a Harkness Fellow and was a documentary producer and director at BBC Wales. She left the BBC to become a freelance writer. ---------------- Tony Barnstone is Professor of English at Whittier College. His 11 books include The Golem of Los Angeles, winner of the Benjamin Saltman Award in Poetry, Sad Jazz: Sonnets; Impure: Poems by Tony Barnstone; Chinese Erotic Poems; The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry; Out of the Howling Storm: The New Chinese Poetry; Laughing Lost in the Mountains: Poems of Wang Wei; The Art of Writing: Teachings of the Chinese Masters; and the textbooks Literatures of Asia, Africa and Latin America, Literatures of Asia, and Literatures of the Middle East. Born in Middletown, Connecticut, and raised in Bloomington, Indiana, Barnstone lived for years in Greece, Spain, Kenya and China before taking his Masters in English and Creative Writing and Ph.D. in English Literature at U.C. Berkeley. His poetry, translations, essays on poetics, original artwork, and fiction have appeared in dozens of American literary journals, from APR to Agni. He has won fellowships and poetry awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, the Pushcart Prize, the Paumanok Poetry Award, the Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize, The Sow's Ear Poetry Contest, the Milton Dorfman Poetry Prize, the National Poetry Competition (Chester H. Jones Foundation), the Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry, the Cecil Hemley Award, and the Poetry Society of America. In 2006 he won the Benjamin Saltman Award in Poetry for The Golem of Los Angeles. ---------------- Mariano Zaro was born in Borja (Spain) in 1963 and since 1994 he has lived in Santa Monica. He attended the University at Zaragoza and earned his master´s degree in Spanish Literature in 1986. His work has been published in Spain’s literary magazines El signo del gorrión and Luces y sombras. His poetry has been included in the anthologies Al aire nuevo (San Luis Potosí, Mexico), and New Baroque (Los Angeles). Among his translatios are The California Mission poems/Poemas de las Misiones de California by Philomene Long and a collection of poems from Hair Pieces by Alicia Vogl Sáenz. His short fiction has appeared in The Louisville Review and The Baltimore Review. His first poetry book Where From/Desde Donde, was published by Bay Books (Santa Monica) in 1996. In September 2003, Carayan Press (San Francisco) published his Poems of erosion/Poemas de la erosión. Mariano is currently working on a collection of portraits (short stories) entitled Imago Animi. |
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