History

WEEK ONE: July 4 - 10
Meditative Poetics / The Poetics and Politics of Place
Faculty include: Sherwin Bitsui, Brian Evenson,
Indira Ganesan, Reed Bye, Jack Collom, Renee Gladman, Joanne Kyger, Laura Moriarty, Max Regan, Edward Sanders, Anne Waldman, Sam Green (book arts), Sally Green (printer)

WEEK TWO: July 11 - 17
Lineages of the Impossible American Dream and Beyond
Faculty include: Mary Burger, Norma Cole, Mark DuCharme, Albert Glover, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Jack Hirschman, Vincent Katz, Jena Osman, Michael Rothenberg, Sonia Sanchez, Juliana Spahr, Lewis Warsh, Julia Seko (printer)

WEEK THREE: July 18 - 24
Language/Translation/Editing/New Pedagogies
Faculty include: Junior Burke, Marilyn Chin, Michael Davidson, Samuel R. Delany, Linh Dinh, Mónica de la Torre, Anselm Hollo, Semezdin Mehmedinovic & Ammiel Alcalay, Donald Preziosi, Claudia Rankine, Lisa Robertson, Rodrigo Toscano, Charles Alexander (printer)

WEEK FOUR: July 25 - July 31
Community/Performance/Hybrids/Collaboration
Faculty include: Victor Hernandez Cruz
Judith Malina & Hanon Reznikov, Tracie Morris, Laura Mullen, Akilah Oliver, Bin Ramke, Elizabeth Robinson,
Carolee Schneemann, Michelle Ellsworth, Steven Taylor, Cecilia Vicuña, John Yau, Brad O'Sullivan (printer)

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, available soon, 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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