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Poetry. Pizza. People We Love.
Celebrate ten years of connecting, challenging, and championing creative women.
AWP 2010
Thursday, April 8, 8-10 pm
(following the Red Hen Press reading @ 7 pm)
Mario's Double Daughter's Salotto
1632 Market St., Denver, CO Cash bar. First ten RSVPs receive a complimentary beer/wine drink voucher.
BE THERE! ALL ARE WELCOME!
image©Jamie Clifford
Ladies, Mark Your Calendars
AROHO @ AWP:
Thursday, 9 to 10:15 am
R102. Writing the West: The Transplanted Writer as Literary Outsider. (Summer Wood, Pam Houston, Robert Wilder, Uma Krishnaswami) Writing the American West means coming to terms with a mythic landscape and a checkered history. If it's true that land plus history equals story, as N. Scott Momaday wrote, how does not being from here affect the way writers encounter that land and history to write their way into the present? Four literary transplants who set their work along the spine of the continent talk about the creative, technical, and ethical issues that arise when claiming a place that didn't raise them.
Thursday, 4:30 to 5:45 pm
R103. Red Hen Press: Women of the West. (Peggy Shumaker, Camille Dungy, Cynthia Hogue, Jane Hilberry, Eloise Klein Healy) Women writers West of the Mississippi claim frontier territory in language, in subject matter, and in the dangerous spaces we inhabit. These women writers of Red Hen Press have broken down barriers and created a new common language: the language of place.
Friday, 10:30 to 11:45 am
R103. Weaving Story and Music Into Poetry: Libretto and the Homeric Tradition. (Kate Gale, David Mason, Annie Finch, David Yezzi) Poets have always been singers and story tellers. The poets on this panel take those roles seriously, creating librettos for chamber operas, full length operas, and art songs as well as epic poems and novels-in-verse. Themes will include collaboration, style choices, the role of the poet, and the adaptation process.
Saturday, 12:00 to 1:15
R108. Border Crossings: Women Writing the West Across Genres. (E.J. Levy, Sawnie Morris, Summer Wood, Valerie Martinez) This panel will focus on how women writers working in multiple genres narrate the iconic landscape of the American West: how are women rewriting a terrain often associated with masculinity? Panelist will look at the formal and thematic possibilities and challenges posed by place—including brief readings and discussion of how work can be launched by attention to the peculiar features of this landscape (borders, nuclear waste, water) and how place informs and inspires poetry, essay, and fiction.
SANTA FE READING: CELEBRATE AUDACIOUS WOMEN WRITERS
a reading to support the work of A Room of Her Own Foundation with
Pam Houston, Dana Levin, Carolina Monsivais,
Sara Marie Ortiz, Luci Tapahonso, and Summer Wood
DATE: Friday, April 30, 6:00 P.M.
LOCATION: Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM
SUGGESTED DONATION: $10-$20
In celebration of the tenth anniversary of A Room of Her Own Foundation,
a diverse and dynamic group of poets and fiction writers will read from their work to raise funds to send a Native American and a Hispanic woman to the AROHO 2011 Summer Writers Retreat at Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu, NM.
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