Residency #133
APRIL 13 – MAY 3
Application deadline: January 16, 2009
DENISE DUHAMEL, poetry
 Denise Duhamel’s most recent book Two and Two (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005) is winner of Binghamton University’s Milt Kessler Book Award. Her other titles include Mille et un Sentiments (Firewheel, 2005); Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (Pittsburgh, 2001); The Star-Spangled Banner (Southern Illinois University Press, 1999); and Kinky (Orchises Press, 1997). She co-edited, with Maureen Seaton and David Trinidad, Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry (Soft Skull, 2007). A bilingual edition of her poems, Afortunada de mí (Lucky Me), translated into Spanish by Dagmar Buchholz and David Gonzalez, is forthcoming with Bartleby Editores (Madrid) in 2009. Duhamel has read her work on NPR and as a featured poet on the PBS special “Fooling with Words,” hosted by Bill Moyers. A recipient of an NEA Fellowship, she is an associate professor at Florida International University in Miami. William D. Waltz, in Rain Taxi, writes "As I read her work...I feel like I'm taking a sneak peek at the future: Duhamel hints at a poetry that transcends irony and alienation. There's plenty of both here, but she's busy working them over...pushing so hard that the next step may be beyond what is known."
Residency Statement
I would like to think of our time together at Atlantic Center for the Arts in three-acts. Each group meeting will be a combination of exercises and workshop. The first week, we will focus on memory, desire, and fear, with writing prompts designed to highlight and refine each participant’s core issues and themes. Week two will be spent shaping our poems through form—traditional and otherwise—sculpting, expanding, collaging, and listing. During the third week, we will focus on revision strategies and collaborative work, even writing a group poem to which we all contribute lines. The group will meet from 3-5 PM Mondays through Thursdays, with time for individual conferences on Fridays. Conferences can address any writing you like—breathing new life into older projects, re-envisioning manuscripts, or poems-in-progress. Be prepared to write every day, to embrace the play instinct, and to surprise yourself and each other.
Application Requirements
Please send three representative poems, a short bio, and a one-paragraph statement about your process and/or what you hope to accomplish during the residency.
* For more information on Denise Duhamel please visit http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/33 |
