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Director • Scholarship News • Community News • Participant
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<b><u><font face=Times><span style='font-family:Times;font-weight:bold'>Letter
from the Director:<br>
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<font face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>Dear Friends and Poets and
Friends of Poetry ~<br>
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<font face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>By the time you read this, it
will be summer, "officially," and only a few more weeks before Summer
Poetry in Idyllwild begins ... Poetry week "on the hill" runs this
year from July 15 - 21. Although the special chapbook workshop with David
St. John is full (with a waiting list) there are still spaces in the workshops
that will be taught by Natasha Trethewey -- recently announced winner of the
Pulitzer Prize in Poetry -- along with Terrence Hayes, Richard Garcia, Eloise
Klein Healy, and myself. Our distinguished visiting poets this summer
will be Marilyn Nelson and David Lehman.<br>
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<font face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>Every day after the intensive
morning workshops, there will be small group discussions on topics ranging from
how to begin a poem to putting together a manuscript and publishing a chapbook,
followed by talks/master classes conducted by our distinguished visiting poets
on "The Making & Performance of Poetry." David Lehman will be presenting
talks entitled "Wild Nights: the Poetry of Eros" and "Poetry
& Parody;" Marilyn Nelson will discuss "Inviting the Muse in
Silence" and "Making Poems from Research."<br>
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<font face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>There's also a nightly open
mic for workshop participants in the beautiful open-air amphitheater, followed
by a reading by members of the poetry faculty and a reception. It's always an
intensive, productive and festive week in one of the most beautiful spots in
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/></span></font><font face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>California</span></font><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>, and I hope you can be part of
it. But register SOON, as sessions are filling quickly and time is of the
essence!<br>
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<font face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>You can register for either of
the three-day sessions, or both, by going to the Idyllwild Arts website (<a
href="http://www.idyllwildarts.org/">www.idyllwildarts.org</a> -- follow the
links to SUMMER POETRY) or calling the registrar: (951) 659-2171, ext. 2365.<br>
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<font face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>Hope to see you in July!
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<font face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>Best from sunny </span></font><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>Poland</span></font><font
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<font face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>Cecilia Woloch<br>
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<font face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>Director, Summer Poetry in
Idyllwild<br>
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<font face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>This year's recipient of the
Patricia Bibby Scholarship for a beginning poet has been awarded to Amy Shulz.<br>
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<font face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>POET-IN-RESIDENCE NATASHA
TRETHEWEY WINS THE PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY<br>
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<font face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>The biggest news this summer
is that our own Natasha Trethewey has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
for her gorgeous, elegant, elegaic collection, Native Guard. Several of us at
Idyllwild (including Maxine Kumin a few summers ago) told Natasha, on first
hearing these poems, that the book was going to win the Pulitzer. In my
opinion, this recognition couldn't be more well-deserved. It's going to be an
enormous pleasure to celebrate with Natasha and her husband Brett this summer!<br>
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<font face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>Other members of the faculty
and participants in Summer Poetry in Idyllwild have been garnering awards and
kudos galore, as well ...<br>
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<font face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>LYNNE THOMPSON, who's been
participating in Summer Poetry in Idyllwild since the program began in 1999,
has won the 2007 Perugia Press First Book Award for her manuscript, Beg No
Pardon, which will be published by </span></font><font face=Times><span
style='font-family:Times'>Perugia</span></font><font face=Times><span
style='font-family:Times'> in the coming year. Kudos and congrats to Lynne!<br>
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<font face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>INDIGO MOORE, 2006 Fellowship
recipient, recently published his first book of poems. Tap Root has been
published as part of Main Street Rag’s Editor’s Select Poetry
Series and has been greeted with outstanding reviews. <br>
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<font face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>BRENDAN CONSTANTINE, assistant
to the director of Summer Poetry in Idyllwild, has been named a finalist for
the National Poetry Series for the third time. He's also released a new
chapbook, called Crimewave, which will be available for purchase during Summer
Poetry week in Idyllwild.<br>
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<font face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>MARK CHAPMAN, Summer Poetry in
Idyllwild alum, has been awarded the 2007 Jane Kenyon Poetry Prize from
Water~Stone Review for his poem "Ascension: the Uprising."<br>
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<font face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>STEPHEN MCDONALD, who's
attended the summer poetry workshops for the past three years, is having a
chapbook, Where There Was No Pattern, published by Finishing Line Press in late
June 2007.<br>
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<font face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>HARRY GRISWOLD'S first
book-length collection of poems, Camera Obscura, is being published this summer
by Wordcraft of Oregon.<br>
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<font face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>BETH RUSCIO, last summer's
recipient of the Patricia Bibby Scholarship, has been named one of six Newer
Poets of L.A. by the L.A. Poetry Festival, and will read with the other five
poets on July 19th at the Central Library, downtown L.A., Mark Taper
Auditorium, as part of their ALOUD series. <br>
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<font face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>LARRY COLKER (see Participant
Profile below) was named the poetry winner of the 2007 </span></font><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>California</span></font><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'> Writers Exchange Contest,
sponsored by Poets & Writers; the prize was a trip to </span></font><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>New York</span></font><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'> to meet with publishers, editors
and poets.<br>
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<font face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>SYLVI</span></font><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>A L</span></font><font face=Times><span
style='font-family:Times'>EVINSON was chosen National Award Winner for the City
Works 2007 literary anthology. <br>
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<font face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>RACHEL KANN received a James
Kirkwood Fiction Award in November of 2006 from UCLA Extension Writers'
Program.<br>
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<font face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>LEE BEN YEHUDA'S poem,
"Piano," was published in the Acorn Review 2005-2006 Issue, published
by </span></font><font face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>Grossmont</span></font><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'> </span></font><font face=Times><span
style='font-family:Times'>College</span></font><font face=Times><span
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<h1><b><font size=6 face=Times><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:Times'>Participant
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alt=larry><font face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>When I was growing
up, my parents spoke French to each other when they didn't want us children to
understand. I credit that fact with my lifelong interest in language. The
realization that there are “different languages” astonished me, for
some reason. I got a master’s degree in Romance Languages and Literatures
and studied psycholinguistics in graduate school. At my high school, we had a
50-word vocabulary test every week; like piano lessons, which were often
dispiritingly tedious but which have been the source of much enjoyment in my
life, that forced attention to words has been a boon. What I came to admire in
writing was precision. I may as well mention that in my day job I am a
technical writer.<br>
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<font face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>The impetus to write poetry
came from reading "A Shropshire Lad" by A. E. Houseman when I
was 14. Nearly everything I wrote for the next ten years was in strict form,
and “poetic” in mostly 19th-Century terms. A turning point occurred
in 1993, when I started taking Jack Grapes’ classes, a method approach
that he calls “Finding the Deep Voice.” A few years later I started
attending the Redondo Poets workshop and reading at their open mic. This
evolved into the weekly Redondo Poets reading at Coffee Cartel in </span></font><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>Redondo Beach</span></font><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>, which I have co-hosted since 1998.
During that time I have been privileged to be invited to feature at many venues
in and around LA.<br>
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<font face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>I first attended
Idyllwild’s Summer Poetry Workshop in 2000, when one of the guests was
Billy Collins. I have attended as often as I can since then, with one summer
off to attend Cecilia’s inaugural </span></font><font face=Times><span
style='font-family:Times'>Italy</span></font><font face=Times><span
style='font-family:Times'> summer workshop, a special treat. Each trip to
Idyllwild has been a spectacular experience. The setting, the poets (students
and guests), the workshop leaders, the writing are like being transported to
Fantasyland.<br>
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<font face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>Many poems born at Idyllwild
are in my chapbooks What the Lizard Knows and Hunger Crossing (with Danielle
Grilli), and in a manuscript titled Amnesia and Wings, which was a finalist for
the Cider Press Review Book Award. Last year an excerpt from that manuscript
won the California Writers Exchange poetry contest, sponsored by Poets &
Writers. I have been gratified to have my work selected by a couple of dozen
print and online poetry journals, including local anthologies from Tebot Bach,
Valley of the Contemporary Poets, Poeticdiversity.org, Poetry in the Windows,
and Little Joy Open Mic.<br>
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