History

Summer Writing Program

Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics

Credit and noncredit programs available
Poetry • Fiction • Translation • Letterpress Printing

Week One: Ecology, Planet News, and Contemplative Practice
Monday, June 18- Sunday, June 24, 2007

Week Two: Lineages of the New American Poetry
Monday, June 25-Sunday, July 1, 2007

Week Three: Cultural Activism and Cross-Cultural Exploration
Monday, July 2-Sunday, July 8, 2007

Week Four: Performance, Collaboration, Publishing, Anthologies, Community, Media
Monday, July 9-Sunday, July 15, 2007

Weekly Workshops
Monday, June 18–Sunday, July 15, 2007
Boulder, Colorado

2007 Faculty Include:
Anne Waldman, Wanda Coleman, Jerome Rothenberg, Shelley Jackson, Bernadette Mayer, Samuel R. Delany, C.S Giscombe, Daisy Zamora, Eileen Myles, Brian Evenson, Hettie Jones, Laird Hunt, Bill Berkson, Ken Mikolowski, Rebecca Brown, Peter Gizzi, Marjorie Welish, Clark Coolidge, Carla Harryman, Leslie Scalapino, Wang, Ping, Eleni Sikelianos, Jennifer Moxley, Myung Mi Kim, Mac Wellman, Heriberto Yépez, Sesshu Foster, Thomas Glave, Camille Roy, Mónica de la Torre and others

The Summer Writing Program is a four-week-long convocation of students, poets, fiction writers, scholars, translators, performance artists, activists, Buddhist teachers, musicians, printers, editors and others working in small press publishing. Programming includes workshops, lectures, panels, readings, special events, and more.

In dialogue with renowned practitioners, students engage in the composition of poetry, prose fiction, cross-genre possibilities, inter-arts, translation and writing for performance. Participants work in daily contact with some of the most accomplished and notoriously provocative writers of our time, meeting individually and in small groups, so that both beginning and experienced writers find equal challenge in the program.

All four weeks (or any combination of weeks) are open to any interested participant for noncredit. Students from other institutions or degree programs may also elect to attend for undergraduate or graduate credit.

Previous Summer Writing Program Information

2007
2006
2005
2004
2003

For more history,
visit the Naropa University History page.