LIT

LIT is the Summer Writing Program’s “off season” poetics and publishing salon series. During the academic year we invite a number of literary luminaries from the small press and publishing world and internationally renowned writers to share their experiences with our students and the local Boulder/Denver community.

From the nuts and bolts of how to get an agent and shape a manuscript to the stories of developing new publishing endeavors to reading works in progress, the LIT series has hosted editors and agents from Houghton Mifflin, Kelsey Street Press, Coffee House Press, TimeWarner Books UK, BOA Editions, and Kneerim & Williams; writers Brenda Coultas, U Sam Oeur, Stephen White, Laird Hunt, Laynie Brown, Bhanu Kapil, Phil LaMarche, Danielle Dutton.

Laynie Browne is the author of five full-length poetry collections, including, most recently, Drawing of a Swan Before Memory and Mermaid's Purse. Forthcoming are Daily Sonnets and The Scented Fox, which was selected for the National Poetry Series by Alice Notley. Her other collections are Pollen Memory, The Agency of Wind, and Rebecca Letters. She is also the author of Acts of Levitation, a novel. Recent chapbooks include Original Presence, The Desires of Letters, Webs of Agriope, Nascent Toolbox. She is former co-curator of The Subtext Reading Series in Seattle, and The Ear Inn in NYC. She has taught poetry-in-the-schools as a visiting artist in New York City, and Seattle, and has taught creative writing at University of Washington, Bothell and at Mills College. She currently lives in Oakland, California and is guest editing “mem,” a journal of poetry by women who are mothering young children.

Bhanu Kapil teaches writing at Naropa University. Her books include The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers and Incubation: A space for monsters. A cross-genre essay on schizophrenia and cross-cultural healing practices was published as a chapbook, Water-damage: A Map of Three Black Days.

Phil LaMarche was a writing fellow in the Syracuse University graduate creative writing program. He was awarded the Ivan Klima Fellowship for fiction in Prague and a Summer Literary Seminars fellowship in St. Petersburg, Russia. His story “In the Tradition of My Family,” published in the spring 2005 edition of Ninth Letter and 2005 Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories anthology, has been made into a film by orLater Productions. He lives in Central New York.

Danielle Dutton was born in Visalia, California in 1975. She is the author of a novel, S P R A W L (Clear Cut Press), and her work has appeared in many journals including NOON, 3rd bed, Denver Quarterly, and Fence. She lives with her husband in Colorado, where she is completing a Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing at the University of Denver. She teaches at Naropa University.