Vermont College of Fine Arts

Tuesday, June 30 –7:15 PM, the Chapel

 

David is the author of four books of poems, On the Way to the Island, Strangers, Dwelling Places, and Of No Country I Know; New and Selected Poems, which was awarded the Lenore Marshall Prize, the Academy of American Poets Prize, as well as the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry and the Library of Congress Prize. His books of translation are Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Odes of Horace, the Epistles of Horace, which was awarded the Harold Morton Landon Translation Prize and the Academy of American Poets Prize, the Eclogues of Virgil, and, most recently, the Georgics of Virgil. He teaches in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at Boston University and is Hart Professor of English, Emeritus, at Wellesley College. He has received, among other awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Ingram Merrill Fellowship, an Academy Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2006 he was awarded an honorary Lit.D. from his alma mater, Amherst College. He is now working on translations of Virgil’s Aeneid and Horace’s Satires. He is also completing a new volume of poems and preparing a book of collected poems.

 

Wednesday, July 1 - 7:00 PM, the Chapel

 

Allegra Huston is the author of Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found (Simon & Schuster, 2009), which deals with her childhood as a member of one of Hollywood’s most famous families. She is also a freelance screenplay writer and journalist. Included among her projects is an adaptation of Jill Paton Walsh's Booker Prize-shortlisted novel Knowledge of Angels; the original screenplays Harem, Special Delivery, and The White Rose; and a treatment for an animated adaptation of Kipling's Just So Stories optioned by Elton John's Rocket Pictures and the Walt Disney Co. She co-authored three storylines for the NBC television series Hart to Hart and worked in various capacities on the films Victory, Under the Volcano, and Twilight Time. She and co-writer Roger Landes have recently completed Worlds End, based on the true story of Esteban, the African slave who was the first Spanish conquistador to explore what is now the southwestern US. Her travel writing has appeared in the Tatler, The Times (London) and French Vogue. She contributed to the Independent on Sunday's series “Lives of the Great Songs” (Bob Dylan's "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight") and has written interviews and architectural journalism for The Santa Fean. Her article about midwifery, “Catching Babies in New Mexico,” written for Mothering magazine, appears on the website of the New Mexico state historian. In 2004 Allegra and poet James Navé established The Writing Salon. Allegra has also taught screenwriting courses for the Arvon Foundation. In 2003, she was president of the jury for the Taos Talking Pictures film festival Land Grant Award, and served on the jury the previous year. She has also served on the board of Zoukfest, a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing Celtic and Balkan music to audiences in New Mexico.

Friday, July 3 - 7:15 PM, the Chapel

 

Matthew is author of the chapbooks, Amigos (Q Ave Press, 2007) and Something About a Black Scarf (Azul Press, 2008). He won the APR/Honnickman First Book Prize for his full-length collection, All-American Poem (Copper Canyon Press, 2008). His poems have appeared in a wide range of publications, including the New Yorker (which also featured a recent article on Matthew and his twin brother Michael, also a poet), Tin House, and Lyric. And he’s expressed interest in our annual poets vs. prose writers’ softball game, too! More details on his writing can be found here: http://www.blueflowerarts.com/mdickman.html   

 

Sunday, July 5 - 7:00 PM, Noble Lounge

 

Jody Gladding is a faculty member at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her Rooms and Their Airs is recently out from Milkweed Editions. Her collection, Stone Crop, appeared in the Yale Younger Poets Series, and recent poems have appeared in Poetry, ecopoetics, and Orion, among other journals. She also translates French and has produced some 20 translations for Archipelago Books, Columbia University Press, Princeton University Press, and other publishers. Her translation of Pierre Michon’s Small Lives won the 2008 Translation Award from the French American Foundation. Gladding has taught at Cornell Univ., was Resident Poet at the Frost Place, has received a Whiting Writers Award, and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford. She lives in East Calais, Vermont.   

 

David’s first book of short stories, Between Camelots (Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 2005), won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize and the Great Lakes Colleges Association’s New Writer Award. His short fiction has been published in, among other places, the Connecticut Review, the Greensboro Review, and Crazyhorse; his poetry has appeared in, among other places, Artful Dodge, Phoebe, Mudfish, and the Journal of the American Medical Association, and he wrote the chapter, “Plot: A Question of Focus,” for the Gotham Writers Workshops’ book Writing Fiction (Bloomsbury, USA). He has a PhD in Psychology from the Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison and an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and teaches Creative Writing at Earlham College. Find out more at www.davidebenbach.com.

 

Monday, July 6 - 7:00 PM, the Chapel

 

Don Lee is the author of two novels, Country of Origins and, most recently Wrack and Ruin, as well as a story collection, Yellow—all from W.W. Norton. He has received an American Book Award, the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, an O. Henry Award, a Pushcart Prize, and the Fred R. Brown Literary Award. His stories have appeared in The Kenyon Review, GQ, The North American Review, American Short Fiction, Manoa, The Gettysburg Review, Glimmer Train, Charlie Chan Is Dead 2, and elsewhere. For nineteen years, he was the principal editor of Ploughshares. He now teaches in the graduate creative writing program at Western Michigan University.