OCTOBER 13 - NOVEMBER 2, 2008
WRITER'S RESIDENCY

Application Deadline: May 23, 2008

EAMON GRENNAN, poet

Eamon Grennan’s volumes of poetry are Wildly for Days (1983), What Light There Is (1987), What Light There Is & Other Poems (1989), As If It Matters (1991), So It Goes (1995), Selected and New Poems (2000), Still Life with Waterfall (2001) and The Quick of It ( 2005) Other publications include Leopardi: Selected Poems (1997), and Facing the Music: Irish Poetry in the 20th Century, a collection of essays on modern Irish poetry. Among his grants and prizes in the US are awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Leopardi: Selected Poems received the 1997 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, and Still Life with Waterfall was the recipient of the 2003 Lenore Marshall Award for Poetry from the American Academy of Poets. His poems have been awarded a number of Pushcart prizes. He taught from 1974 to 2007 at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, where he was the Dexter M. Ferry Jr. Professor of English. Now retired from Vassar, he teaches in the graduate writing programs of NYU and Columbia. He divides his time between the US and the West of Ireland.

* For more information about poet Eamon Grennan, please visit www.blueflowerarts.com/egrennan.html

RESIDENCY STATEMENT

Throughout the residency we will hold a writing workshop Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday from 2-4 PM. Participants in the workshop should bring to each session work being done during the residency. The hope is for a worked-on draft of a new poem for each session. Thursday afternoon will be set aside for individual meetings for closer discussion with each poet, concerning work being done for the workshop session, or talking about poems written earlier, or discussing revisions and revising. No prior assumptions about style or subject matter. An openness to—and a willingness to discuss in a sympathetic way—work unlike your own is necessary.

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS

Send three poems and a resume, as well as a brief description of where you’re at, and in what direction you hope to take your work.