•

BENNINGTON WRITING SEMINARS

MA/MFA PROGRAM IN WRITING AND LITERATURE

THE COURSEOF STUDY

The Bennington Writing Seminars at offer a low-residency Master of Arts (M.A.) or Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) degree in Writing and Literature. This two-year graduate program involves intense ten-day residency periods at Bennington College during Januaryand August of each year. To complete the program, four semesters and five residencies are required. Between residencies, students spend the six-month semesters corresponding directly with faculty who teach as part of the program's core staff. Additionalfaculty participate as associate staff during the 10-day residency periods, teaching literature from a writer's point of view. The five residencies feature workshops, readings, lectures and discussions of literature, and an ongoing investigation of what constitutes the world of letters. In keeping '0.ith Bennington's progressive tradition, the course of study in the Seminars is largely self-structured by the student. Students, in consort with the core staff, form their own reading lists, and submit interpretive and original work-fiction, nonfiction, and poetry-forcritique at regular intervals throughout the semester. The tutorial and development of individual work is at the heartof the program, as it is at the heart of Bennington College and its other graduate programs in dance, music, and the visual arts. Students are expected to devote at least twenty-five hours each week to their writingand reading, and a successfully completed semester's work is granted sixteen hours of graduate credit. To receive the M.F.A., each student will create and submit a manuscript of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry at the end of the program. The M.A. degree will be awarded to those who elect to concentrate on interpretive andcritical work. In all cases, students will be expected to explore both arenas and to complete a major independent written project. During each residency, workshops will be conducted in fiction, nonfiction. and poetry by the core staff. Associate staff will visit to conduct five-day residencies, teaching literature in three lecture/ discussion sessions. Whatever the genre in which a student is working, all students are expected to attend the sessions of associate faculty in at least three lecture/discussions. During the ten-day residency, students willdesign their course of study for the coming semester-readings and writings-in consultation with the core faculty member with whom the student will be corresponding. All faculty will give readings of their work, and associate faculty will consult informally with students about student reading lists. Students will also give readings of their work. Workshops are small-never more than twelve people­ and an intimate student/teacher ratio will be maintained throughout the program.

The first two semesters aredevoted to original and interpretive work, with a minimum ten-page critical paper. based on one's reading list. to be submitted to the core staff member and the students in one's genre at the end of each semester. The third semester requires, in addition to original work, that each student complete a minimum twenty-page critical work which will then be revised and presented to the faculty and students in a lecture which will take place during the fourthresidency period. During the course of the program each student concentrates on the genre in which their applicationwas accepted. However. since the Writing Seminars look to encourage writing as a broad person of letters, students are allowed to spend on semester outside the area of their focus, with the permissionof the corresponding teacher. Many of our writers write between the genre distinctions of fiction,poetry, and nonfiction,and ample opportunityto study all three genres is constituted in the core and associate faculty. No writing program-nor government, for that matter-can call great writing into being. The Writing Seminars offers to aid those who have heard the call and are working to answer it. The emphasis at the WritingSeminars will not be towards training nor credentializing those who wish to teach, though our M.F.A. degree will be regarded as an "appropriate terminaldegree in the arts" for those who might someday look to teach on the college level. Our emphasis will remain on the merits of the work at hand, augmented by becoming able to participate and contribute to the larger world of letters. Students must be in residence each day of the January and August residencies. arriving the day before the residency and leaving no sooner than the day after. ADMISSIONS

The Bennington Writing Seminars began in January of 1994. Students may begin the program during either of the ten-day residency Januaryor August. Admission is limited and competitive. sessions in Students are admitted to the program primarily on the strength of the original manuscript submitted with the application, which will be judged according its literary merit, and on demonstratedabilit y to study writing and literature onto a graduate level. The application should include two manuscript copies. Although we encourage students to write broadly in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, students will initially be accepted to work in one primary genre. The manuscript submitted should be in the genre in which the student intends to concentrate. Manuscripts cannot be returned. The application should otherwise provide a two- to three-page essay on how a student intends to use the program to shape the student's work. and what in the student's background prepares the student for work in the Seminars. Normally a Bachelor's degree is required to gain admission, but this requirement canbe waived if the quality of the work submitted warrants such an exception. Students who are applying to the program will often have completed some graduate work or attained graduate degrees in various fields; no credits taken beforehand can be applied to the Bennington Writing Seminars. The low-residency format has its own internal logic and requirements. and in order to receive a degree a student must have completed the entire course of study. In addition the original manuscript and the essay on how a student intends to use the program,to in admitting students we will give weight to previous education and life experience. We will look see that a prospective student has both the ability work independently, to successfullyto utilize the low-residency format, and to benefitto from direct criticism within the collaborative nature of the residency periods. Our aim is to provide a vortex for the person of letters and to be part ,of the lifelong continuum within the world of letters. Transcripts from previous schools attended must also be submitted, along with recommendations from two persons familiar with the student's writing and capacity to function independently and collaboratively. A $40 application fee is required in order that an application be processed, and this fee cannot be waived nor refunded. Financial aid is available, in the form of student loans. and these funds must be applied for within the deadlines outlined on the application form. We invite interestedapplicants call the program and discuss matters in detail. to Refunds in the program are scheduled in accordance with the Bennington Business Office. Ask for details. BENNINGTON WRITING SEMINARS BENNINGTON COLLEGE

CORE FACULTY To teach workshops during the two ten-day residencies in January and August, to correspond with students during the six-month semesters between residencies, to give readings of their work, andto advise students in setting up their course of study.

Fiction DOUGLAS BAUER: Mr. Bauer's novels are (Morrow, 1993) and The Verv Air y (Simon and Schuster, 1989), which was also published in Germany and England.Dexterit He has written a book of nonfiction, (G.P. Putnams, 1979). Mr. Bauer has received a fellowship in Prairiefiction fromCity, Iowathe National Endowment for the Arts and received awards in teaching at the Harvard-Danforth Center. He has published essays and criticism in the andThe elsewhere. Atlantic, He holdsNew Yorka Doctor ofTimes Arts Book from Review, the State Harper's, University Esquire, of New Playboy, York at Albany and a B.A. in journalism from Drake University; and has taught at Drake, Harvard, the University of New Mexico, Ohio State University, and elsewhere. He has worked as an editor, and he lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

SUSAN DODD: Ms. Dodd's novels are (Viking, 1988) and (Viking, 1986). She has also publishedMamaw two books of short stories,No Earthly Nod.on (Viking, 1990) and (,Hell-Bent i'vlen1984). and In Their 1992 Citiesshe received a fellowshipOld in fiction Wives' from Tales the NEA andshe has received two Distinguished Teaching Awards from . She has taught at Harvard, College, and at the Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa. She has also worked as a speechwriter and as a legislative aide. Her stories, essays, and reviews have been published in and Yankee,in other The periodicals. New Yorker, Ms. DoddRedbook, holds Lear's, an M.F.A. Newsday, from thethe Washingtonlow-residency Post, writing program at Vermont College and a B.S. in InternationalAffairs from Georgetown University. She currently makes her home in Ocracoke. North Carolina, an island whichis part of the Outer Banks. MARIA FLOOK: Ms. Flook's first novel, (Pantheon, 1993), received a PEN/ErnestHemingway Foundation Special Family Citation. Night Her new novel, is forthcoming in January of 1995 fromPantheon, who will thereafter publishOpen Water, a collectionof her stories, A limited edition of short stories, Human Shores. with appeared from Ampersand Press in 1987. She has alsoDancing published My two Sister volumes Jane, of poems, (Wesleyan, 1990) and (Houghton Mifflin, 1982), whichSea Roomreceived the Great Lakes CollegeReckless AssociationWedding new writer's award. Her work has appeared in and otherThe magazines. New Yorker, Her Theother awardsNew Criterion, include Michigana Pushcart Quarterly, Prize, a fellowship Ploughsh ares,from the NEA, and a North Carolina Writers Award. Ms. Flook received an M.F.A. from the Writers Workshop at the l:niversity of Iowa and a B.A. from Roger Williams College. She has taught at Warren Wilson College, the University of North Carolina/Asheville, Rhode Island College, and Roger Williams College. She lives in Truro, Massachusetts J KLE: Ms. McCorkle's published four novels: ( 1990), ILL McCOR has Ferris Beach to (1987), (1984), and 1884), and a shortTending story collectionVirginia , The Cheer(1992), Leader all originally published July 7th by (Algonquin Books, with several booksCrash translated Diet into Swiss, Japanese, French, and Swedish. Her short stories have appeared in and other magazines. She tookCosmopolitan, an M.A. from The the Atlantic, writing theprogram Southern at HollinsReview, College and a B.A. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has taught at Tufts, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University, and she currently teaches at Harvard University. Ms. Mccorkle livesin Wayland, Massachusetts. REGINALD McKNIGHT: Mr. Mc.Knight has published two books of short stories, (Little, Brown,1992) and The Kind(University of Light Thar of Pittsburgh, Shines on 1988);Texas and a novel, Moustapha's(Little, Eclipse I Ger on the Bus Brown, 1990), which was also published in a French edition. 1n 1994 he published a book of nonfiction. (New World Library). His stories and reviews have appearedAfrican in American the Wisdom the and elsewhere.Kenyon He hasReview, taught Calaloo, at Carnegie Leviathan, MellonNew University, York Times Washington Book Review, University, the University of Pittsburgh, and Colorado College. In 1990 he received the 0. Henry award, and he has been the recipient of a fellowship in fiction from the NEA.. Mr. McKnight is fiction editor for and an advisoryeditor to He holds an A.A.African from Pikes American Peak Community Review, College, a B.A. from ColoradoCallaloo. College, an M.A. from the University of Denver, and was awarded an honorary doctorate from Colorado College. He teaches in the writing program at the University of Maryland, and divides his time between Maryland and Pittsburgh.

BEGINNINGIN IBE JANUARY 1995 RESIDENCY AMY HEMPL: Ms. Hempl has published two collections of stories, (Knopf, 1985) and Ar (Knopf, 1990). BothReasons books to Live appeared in French, Spanish,the Gares and of theItalian Kingdom editions, and individual storieshave been published in twelve languages. Her stories have been anthologized in the and Best American Shore Stories, Pushcart Prize, The Norton Anthology of Short and her stories have appeared in magazines and quarterlies such as Fiction; the and elsewhere. Her Harper's, Mother Jones, Grand Street, Yale Review, nonfiction has appeared in the and other outlets.New She York has Timestaught 1Wagazine. at Esquire, University Vogue, and conductedInterview, Ble,residencies at Sewanee, Breadloaf, Ropewalk, the New York State Summer Writers's Institute, and elsewhere. She holds a B.A. in journalism from CaliforniaState University, San Jose. Ms. Hemp! once worked as an editor for and she currently livesin New York. Vanity Fair, BOB SHOCOCHIS: Mr. Shocochis's first novel, (Scribners), was in 1994 nominated for the NationalSwimming Book Award. in the VolcanoHis short story collections are in (Crown, 1985), which won the National Book Award, and Easy the Islands(Crown, 1989). In 1994 he also published The(Scribners), Next New a collectionWorld of hisfood columns from DomesticityMr. Shocochis has worked in the Peace Corps; has taughtGentlemen's at the UniversityQuarterly. of Iowa; has written as a free-lancejournalist for and many others; and is a contributing editor to RollingStone, He took Vogue an , Esquire,M.F.A. from the Writers Workshop at the University of IowaHarper's. and an M.A. and B.A. from the University of ivlissouri. He makes his home in Tallahassee, Florida, and he travels extensively. BEGINNING IN THEAUGUST 1995 RESIDENCY

LYNN FREED: Ms. Freed's novels are Heart Change (New American library, 1982, and Chivers Press, England, 1984), Home Ground (Summit Books, 1986, and Penguin Books, England, 1988), and The Bungalow (Poseidon Press, 1988). Her short stories, articles, and essays have appeared in Harper's, ZYZZYVA, the New York Times Magazine, Mirabella, and elsewhere, and her reviews have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle Review, the Washington Post Book World, the New York Times Book Review, andelsewhere. She has received fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation. Ms. Freed has taught at the Bennington Summer Writing Workshops, City College of San Francisco, and elsewhere, and is a consulting editor to Mirabella. She holds a Ph.D. from , where she was a University Wit Fellow, and a B.A. from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa. She lives in Sonoma, California.

Poetry

DAVID LEHMAN: Mr. Lehman's books of poems are Operation Memory (Princeton, 1990) and An Alternative to Speech (Princeton, 1986). He has edited Ecstatic Occasions, Expedient Forms(Macmillan, 1987), James Merrill: Essays in Criticism (Cornell, 1983), and Beyond Amazement: New Essays on John Ashbery (Cornell, 1980). His books of nonfiction are Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Jvlan (Simon and Schuster, 1991), The LJne Forms Here (University of Michigan, 1992), The Big Question (Michigan, 1995), and The Perfect Murder: A Study in Detection (Macmillan, 1989). He is editor of the University of :Michigan Press's "Poets on Poetry" and "Under Discussion" series. His poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, rhe New York Review of Books, the Gettysburg Review, Grand Street, and other magazines, and he has received fellowships in poetry from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Lila Wallace Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He has taught at Hamilton College, , and Columbia, and has lectured in India and Japan. Mr. Lehman has served as a literary editor and writer for NetNSweekand is the series editor of The Best AmericanPoetry (Scribners). He holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University, a B.A. and M.A. from Cambridge University, and a B.A. from Columbia University. He lives in New York and is currently writing a book about the New York school of poets.

LIAM RECTOR: Mr. Rector is the director of the Bennington Writing Seminars and the Bennington Summer Writing Workshops. His books of poems are American Prodigal (Story line. 1994). The Sorrowof Architecture (Dragon Gate, 1984), and The Day I Was Older: On thePoetry of Donald Hall(Story line. 1989), which he edited. He has received Guggenheim and NEA fellowships in poetry. Mr. Rector is poetry editor of Harvard Magazine, and his poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in the Paris Review, American PoetryReview, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, Harvard Review, and in other periodicals. He has taught at Emerson College, Old Dominion University, Goucher College, George Mason University, and the Phillips Academy at Andover, and has administered literary programs at Associated Writing Programs. the National Endowment for the Arts, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Academy of American Poets. He holds an M.A. from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins and an M.P.A. in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. STEPHEN SANDY: Mr. Sandy is the author of six collections of poems, including 1992), Air(Knopf, 1988), Thanksgivingto Over (Knopf,1983),the Water(Knopf, Man in the Open Graylock and (Houghton Mifflin. 1971). His poems, Riding Roofsappeared in essays, reviews, and translationshave The Atlantic,and The elsewhere. New Yorker, His the Yale Review, Grand Street, the New Republic, Salmagundi, translation of Seneca's will be included in published by JohnsHercules Hopkins Oetaeuus University Press in 1994.Complete Mr. Sandy Roman has taughtDrama, at Haivard, Brown, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, the University of Rhode Island, and he now teaches at Bennington College. He has received fellowships in poetry fromthe National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Vermont Council on the Arts. and he has been a Fulbright Lecturer in Japan. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. fromHarvard and took a B.A. at Yale. Mr. Sandy lives in North Bennington, Vermont.

Nonfiction

SVEN BIRKERTS: In 1994 Faber & Faber published a book about the fate of reading in our electronic culture.The OtherGutenberg books Elegies, of essays by Mr. Birkerts are (Morrow, 1992), American Energies: Essays on Fiction The Bectric Poetry(Morrow, 1989), and An Ufe: Essays on Modem (Morrow, 1987).Artificial He edits, Wilderness: with Donald Hall,Essays the on textbook Twentieth CenturyUterature (Harper), and he edited Writing Well The Longwood to (Allyn & Bacon, 1992) and (Allyn& IntroductionBacon. 1993). Mr.Fiction Birkerts publishes essays and reviewsThe Evolving regularly Canon in New The Nati.on, The Republic, Threepenny Review, Pequod, the New York Times Book Review, and elsewhere, and he is a contributing editor to andl4irabella, He is a 1994 Guggenheim Fellow and also recentlyThe received Boston a Review ilia WallaceAgni. Foundation fellowship in writing. In 1985 he was awarded the Citation for Excellence in Revie\.\ing fromthe National Book Critics Circle. Mr. Birkerts holds a B.A. in English from the University of Michigan, has taught at Haivard and Emerson College, and presently lives in Arlington. Massachusetts ASSOCIATE FACULTY

To conduct lectures and discussions of literature for five-day residencies which take place within the ten-day residencies at Bennington College, to give readings of their work, and to informally consult with students about their reading lists. (This listing denotes those who will be doing residencies over the first two yearsof the Bennington WritingSeminars.)

Fiction Writers

CHARLES JOHNSON: Mr. Johnson's has written four books of fiction: Faith and the Good Thing (Viking. Oxh.erding Tale (Indiana, The Sorcerer's (Atheneum, 1974), and (Atheneum,1982), which won Apprentice 1986), Middle Passage 1990), the National Book Award in fiction. He has also published two collectionsof drawings,1990 (Johnson Publishing, and Black Humor 1970) Half Past Nation Time (Aware Press, and a critical book, Being Race: Black Writing Since (Indiana,1972), He currently teaches philosophyand and literature at the 1970 1988). University of Washington and lives in Seattle.

MARGOT LIVESEY: Ms. Livesey's novels are Homework (Viking, and (Penguin Canada. She has received a fellowship1990) in Learning by Heart 1986). fiction from the NEA and fellowships in fiction from Canada, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania. Ms. Livesey has taught in the BenningtonWriting Workshops, Williams College, Warren Wilson, CarnegieMellon, Tufts, the Universityof Washington, and at the Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa. She holds a B.A. from the Univerity of York, England and currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

BRET LOTT: Mr. Lott's books include the novels Reed's Beach (Pocket Books, Jewel (Pocket Books, The Who Owned Vennont((Vi.king, 1994),and (Viking,1991), andMan the story collections, 1987), A Stranger'sHouse 1988); The Difference BetweenMen Women ( Pocket Books, and A Dream of Old Leaves (Viking, andMr. Lott's stories have appeared1994) the the 1989). in Yale Review, Iowa Review, the AntiochReview, and other magazines. He reviews regularly for the New York Times Book Review. Mr. Lott holds an M.F.A. from the writingprogram at the University of Massachusetts, and a B.A. from California State University at Long Beach. He teaches at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina. SUE MILLER: Ms. Miller's novels are (HarperCollins, For Love 1993), Family Pictures(HarperCollins. and The Good Mother (Harper & Row, Her work has been translated1991), worldwide. She has also published a book of 1986).short stories, (Harper & Row, Ms. Miller has reviewed Inventing theAbbots 1987). for the New York Times Book Review. She has been a BuntingFellow at Radcliffe College and a Guggenheim Fellow. Ms. Miller has taught at M.l.T .. Emerson, Harvard, Tufts, and Boston university, and holds a B.A. fromHarvard and Master's Degrees fromHarvard, Wesleyan, and Boston Cniversity. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts. LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO: Ms. Brock-Broido's books of poems are (Knopf,1988), and the forthcoming (Knopf, 1995A Hunger). Her poems have appeared widely in periodicals Theincluding Master Letters the and the Harper's,She has Ploughshares, received fellowships New in York Times, Kenyon Review, Paris Review. poetryfrom the NEA and the Massachusetts Arts Council, and has received three awards for distinguishedteaching at Harvard University. She has also taught at M.I.T., Tufts, and Wheaton College, and she now teaches in the writing program at Columbia University. She took an M.F.A. from Columbia University, and holds M.A. and B.A. degrees from Johns Hopkins University. Ms. Brock-Broido lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. DONALD HALL: Donald Hall writes poems. essays, short stories, memoirs, plays, biographies, textbooks, and children's books. and has worked as an anthologist and an editor. He has published thirteen books of poetry, including The Museum ( Ticknor & Fields, 199 3). ( Ticknor & Fields, 198 8), of Clear Ideas(Random. 1986), and The One Day (Harper & Row, 1978). HisThe Happy Man Kicking the Leaves books of prose include (Viking, 1961), in String(Coward Too Mccann, Short to 1976). Be Saved Dock(Ticknor Ellis & Fields,the Country 1987), of Baseball (Jvlichigan, 1988),Seasons LJfe at Eagle(Beacon, Pond 1994), which was nominatedPoetry andfor the Ambition National Book Award, and manyWork others. His children's book, Ox (Viking, 1979), won the Caldecott Award for1980. He has been awardedCart the Man National Book CriticsCircle Award in poetryfor and he has received Guggenheim fellowships. the LamontPrize, the RuthThe lillyOne Day.Award from magazine, and numerous other awards for his work. He currently servesPoetry as the representative for literature on the National Council on the Arts. and he makes his home in Danbury, New Hampshire. JANE KENYON: Ms. Kenyon. a poet and translator, has published three books of poems, (Graywolf, 1993), (Graywolf, 1989), Constance(Graywolf, 1976), andLet Evening Come (Alicejames Press).The Boat She translatedof Quiet Hours From Room(Alley to RoomPress). She has received GuggenheimTwenty and National Poems of Endowment Anna Akhmacova for the Arts fellowships in poetry, the Voelcker Award in poetryfrom PEN, and she too lives in Danbury,New Hampshire.

E. ETHELBERT MILLER: In 1994 Mr. Miller published (Black Classic Press) and First Ught:(Stewart Selected Tabori and andNew Chang),Poems an anthology he edited.In His Searchprevious of Color books Everywhere of poems include ,\1.igrantand Worker, Season of Hunger/Cry of Rain, WomenMr. Miller Surviving is poetry Massacres editor andfor Men, Where Are the Lovesenior Poems editor for Dictacors? of and has served onAfrican the boardsAmerican of PEN, Review, AWP, and the PEN/FaulknerWashington Award. Review, He is the director of the African American Resource Center at Howard University, has taught at the liniversity of Nevada, is the founder and director of the Ascension Reading Series, and he hosted a radio program on poetry on WDCU-FM in Washington, where he lives. ROBERT Mr. Pinsky has published four books of poetry, PINSKY: The Want Ecco, 1990), ( Ecco, 1984), Bone(Princeton. ( 1980). andHistory of MyHeart (Princeton,An Explanation 1075). He of has America also published books of essaysSadness and criticism. and Happiness (Ecco, 1988), (Princeton. 1977), andPoetry and the World(University of Chicago,The Situation of Poetry Landor's Poetry 1968). With Robert Hass, he translated epa (Ecco, 1984). Mr. Pinsky has receiveThed SNEA,rate National Notebooks: Endowment Poems for of theCzeslaw HumaniMilosz ties, and Guggenheim fellowships, andhas taught at the University of Chicago, WellesleyCollege, Harvard, the University of California at Berkeley, and presently teaches at Boston University. From 1979 to 1986 he was poetry editor of the New Republic.

Nonfiction Writers

EDWARD HOAGLAND: Mr. Hoagland's books of nonfiction include (Simon & Schuster, 1992), (Simon & Schuster, 1991),Balan cing Acts (RandomHeart's House. Desire 1979), The Edward HoaglandHouse. 1976). Reader Red Wolves and Black Bears (Random Notes from the CenturyBefore: A Journal from British ( Random House, 1982), to (RandomColumbia House, 1979), andmany Africanothers. Calliope:His works A of Journey fictioninclude the Sudan (Capra, 1992), (Simon & Schuster,The Final1986), Fateand of the Alligators( Capra, 1986). He publishesSeven Rivers pieces West often in City Tales the andother periodicals.The Atlantic, He The has New receivedYorker, Antaeus, Guggenheim New fellowships, York Times, the Harper's,Brandeis University Citation in Literature, the Prix de Rome from the Academy of Arts and Letters, and an NEA fellowship. Mr. Hoagland currently teaches at Bennington College and has taught at Sarah Lawrence,Columbia, Brown, the New School forSocial Research, the University of California at Davis. and elsewhere. He lives in Barton, Vermont. KATHA POLLITT: Poet and essayist. Ms. Pollitt has published a book of poems, (Knopf, 1992), which won the National Book CriticsCircle award, Anartic Traveller and the upcoming to She is an associate editor forSubject Debate:and her Essays work on appears Women often and in Feminism. the the The Nationthe New Yorker,and Newelsewhere. York Times She has Book received Review, fellowships New York from Times the GuggenheimMagazine "Her" Foundation, column, the NEA, and the Whiting Foundation, and has taught at Princeton, Barnard, the PoetryCenter of the 92nd St. Y, and the New School for Social Research. In 1992 she won the National Magazine Award.

Publishing Module Not for the sake of agenting or publishing student work, but to better understand the publishing industry-theconduit forthe communion between writer and reader-the WritingSeminars will regularly conduct lectures and panels addressing specific issues in the publishing world, gatherings to be organized and chaired by Tree Swenson. TREE SWENSON: Ms. Swenson has worked in publishing since 1973. She co­ foundedCopper Canyon Press and was publisher there for 20 years. She long worked as art director for Graywolf Press and is a member of the board of directors of Associated Writing Programs, where she served as president of the board from 1993-1994. She currently works as a literary consultant and designer. Visiting Readers Visiting writers willalso be invited to give readings of their work as part of the ten-day residencies. Those who gave readings in the first two residencies were Deborah Digges, Richard Howard, Jamaica Kincaid, and Galway Kinnell.