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SUMMER WRITING PROGRAM 2004

Orientation: June 1st to 6th 2004
Academic Program: June 7th to July 4th 2004

WEEK ONE: June 7 - June 13
Borders: Literary, Ethical, Geographical & Personal
Invited faculty include: Nicole Brossard, Jack Collom, George Evans, Brian Evenson, Thomas Glave, Harryette Mullen, David Henderson, Maureen Owen, Rudy Rucker, Julia Seko, Eleni Sikelianos, Jo Ann Wasserman, Daisy Zamora
Please note that a new workshop "The Poet as Subject and Suspect: How Can We Trust What We Write?" by Jo Ann Wasserman is now being offered.
Please note that a new workshop by David Henderson is now being offered. Lorenzo Thomas's workshop has been cancelled.

WEEK TWO: June 14 - June 20
Political Activism & Writing
Invited faculty include: Amiri Baraka, Alan Gilbert, Bob Holman, Laird Hunt, Rachel Levitsky, Gloria Frym, Eliot Katz, Kristin Prevallet, Bhanu Kapil Rider, Deborah Richards, Sonia Sanchez, Peter and Donna Thomas, Anne Waldman
Guest faculty: Amina Baraka, Antler, Phil Solomon, Rani Singh
Please note that a new workshop "Exploring Eden" by Gloria Frym is now being offered. Eileen Myles's workshop "The Poetry of Prose" has been cancelled.
A new workshop "Garrulous and gutteral: Making the (mini) epic" by Deborah Richards is now being offered. Ammiel Alcalay's workshop "Foreign Policy / Domestic Space" has been cancelled.
Please note that a new workshop by Eliot Katz is now being offered.

WEEK THREE: June 21 - June 27
Translation & Intercultural Literary Arts
Invited faculty include: Anselm Berrigan, Robin Blaser, Lee Ann Brown, Rebecca Brown, Samuel R. Delany, Ed Friedman, Sam Hamill, Anselm Hollo, Sonja Kravanja, Mary Laird, Alice Notley, Bhanu Kapil Rider, Laura Wright
Guest Faculty: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Please note that a new workshop by Lee Ann Brown is now being offered.

WEEK FOUR: June 28 - July 4
Performance & Collaboration
Invited faculty include: Heather Akerberg, Junior Burke, Reed Bye, Brenda Coultas, Thalia Field, Lisa Jarnot, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Joanne Kyger, Ken Mikolowski, Akilah Oliver, Michelle Ellsworth, Steven Taylor, Wang Ping
Guest Faculty: Arthur Sze and Carol Moldaw
Please Note that a new workshop by Reed Bye is now being offered.

 

How to Register

To receive our Summer Catalog ,
please contact:

Lisa Birman
SWP Co-Director
2130 Arapahoe Avenue
Boulder CO 80302
ph: 303 245 4600
email: swpr@naropa.edu

Program Information
Weekly workshops run simultaneously on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday mornings from 10 am to 12:30 pm. Printshop and Book arts classes will run from 9 am to 12:30 pm. (Locations of workshops will be posted outside the Summer Writing Office at the beginning of each week.) Each student will select one workshop to attend each week. Afternoons and evenings are devoted to lectures, special MFA and BA credit classes, panel discussions, readings, and performances. (Events are subject to change. Please see the Master Schedule for exact times and locations of events.)

Previous Summer Writing Program Information

2007
2006
2005
2004
2003

For more history,
visit the Naropa University History page.
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