The Event
The program is co-sponsored by the Friends of the OSU Library
and the Mission of Hope (Stillwater). In addition to these sponsors, the
program was also made possible through the Associated Writing Programs
Benefit Reading Series. The Associated Writing program is the only national
nonprofit organization cultivating both the appreciation of contemporary
literature and the growth and quality of education in creative writing.
Proceeds from the 2000 book sale went to the Mission of Hope (Stillwater).
Also visit OSU's
Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writer
The Poets
- April 2002
Silvia Curbelo was born in Matanzas, Cuba, and
as a child emigrated to the U.S. with her parents. Her numerous awards
include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Cintas
Foundation, and the Florida Arts Council, and an Atlantic Center for
the Arts Cultural Exchange Fellowship to La Napoule Arts Foundation
in France. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry
Review, Kenyon Review, Gettysburg
Review, Prairie Schooner, Tampa
Review, and many other publications. She is the recipient of
a James Wright Award for Poetry from Mid-American Review, an Escape
to Create Fellowship from the Seaside Institute, and the 1996 Jessica
Nobel-Maxwell Memorial Prize from the American Poetry
Review. Silvia lives in Tampa, Florida, and works as an editor
for Organica Quarterly. Silvia Curbelo's
The Secret History of Water is the inaugural
volume in the Anhinga Press Florida Poetry Series.
- October 2000
Joy Harjo was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1951.
Her books of poetry include A Map to the Next World:
Poems (W. W. Norton, 2000); The Woman Who
Fell From the Sky (1994), which received the Oklahoma Book Arts
Award; In Mad Love and War (1990), which
received an American Book Award and the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award;
Secrets from the Center of the World (1989);
She Had Some Horses (1983); and What
Moon Drove Me to This? (1979). She also performs her poetry and
plays saxophone with her band, Poetic Justice. Her many honors include
The American Indian Distinguished Achievement in the Arts Award, the
Josephine Miles Poetry Award, the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award,
the William Carlos Williams Award, and fellowships from the Arizona
Commission on the Arts, the Witter Bynner Foundation, and the National
Endowment for the Arts. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
- April 2000
Eric Pankey is the author of five collections
of poetry, including For the New Year (1984),
winner of the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets,
Heartwood (1988), Aprocrypha
(1991), The Late Romances (1997), and Cenotaph
(2000).
- 1999
C.D. Wright currated"a walk-in book of Arkansas,"
an exhibition that toured her native state for a two-year period. In
1997 she was the Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa Writers'
Workshop. Currently, she edits "Lost Roads" with poet Forrest Gander
and teaches at Brown's University in Providence, Rhode Island
- 1998
Stanley Plumly, award-winning author of "In the
Outer Dark" and "Boy on the Step."
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