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Chaparral Updrafts, Volume 67, No Chaparral from the updrafts California Federation of Chaparral Poets, Inc. serving California poets for over 65 years Volume 67, No. 9 • December, 2006 President Three poets join AAP’s chancellor board James Shuman, PSJ The Academy of American Poets announced on December 14 the election of Lyn He- First Vice President jinian, Sharon Olds, and Carl Phillips to its board of chancellors. They were chosen by David Lapierre, PCR current chancellors Frank Bidart, Rita Dove, Robert Hass, Susan Howe, Galway Second Vice President Kinnell, Philip Levine, Nathaniel Mackey, Robert Katharine Wilson, RF of Arrows: Selected Poems 1986–2006 is forthcom- Pinsky, Kay Ryan, Gary Snyder, Gerald Stern, James ing from Farrar, Straus and Giroux next year. He is Th ird Vice President Tate, Ellen Bryant Voigt, and C. K. Williams. Dan Saucedo, Tw a professor of African and Afro-American studies Hejinian’s books of poetry include The Fatalist Fourth Vice President at Washington University in St. Louis, where he Donna Honeycutt, Ap (Omnidawn Publishing, 2003), A Border Comedy also teaches in the creative writing program. The (Granary Books, 2001), Happily (Post-Apollo Press, Treasurer Academy’s board of chancellors was established in Roberta Bearden, PSJ 2000), The Cold of Poetry (Sun and Moon Press, 1946. Former chancellors have included W. H. Auden, 1994), The Cell (Sun and Moon Press, 1992), and Recording Secretary John Berryman, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Lee Collins, Tw My Life (Sun and Moon Press, 1987). She lives in Marianne Moore, and James Merrill, among others. Berkeley, California. Corresponding Secretary —as reported by Poets & Writers, Inc. Dorothy Marshall, Tw Olds is the author of eight poetry collections, in- Members-at-Large Chair cluding the National Book Critics Circle Award-win- Board to choose site of 2008 Frances Yordan, FG ning The Dead and the Living (Knopf, 1984) and The convention at January meeting Father (Knopf, 1992), which was shortlisted for the T. Monthly Contest Chair Carried over from the October meeting is an es- S. Eliot Prize. She teaches in New York University’s Cleo Griffi th, PSJ pecially important piece of business: where to hold graduate creative writing program. Convention Chair, 2007 the CFCP. Inc. Convention in 2008. Several hotels David Lapierre, PCR Phillips’s most recent book of poetry is Riding have submitted bids; your input is needed on this Convention Program Chair Westward (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006). Quiver vital topic. Chapter presidents (or their representa- Dan Saucedo, Tw tives), along with state offi cers and committee chairs, Annual Contest Chair Donald Hall, new US poet are voting members at Board meetings, and the Lisabeth Shuman, PSJ contribution of their thinking is needed in planning Youth Contest Chair laureate, true to his standards events for the future. In addition, all CFCP members Elaine E. Harper, Tw by Mike Pride, St. Petersburg Times are welcome to attend, especially members of local Children’s Poetry Fair and The short cold days of winter have come to north- area chapters. We urge you to show your support by Education Committee Chair ern New England, and Donald Hall dreads them. He attending! Linda McCarty, VW is the nation’s poet laureate, a man made for this job, The next CFCP, Inc. Board Meeting has been set a poet seasoned to speak about essential things - what Publications Chair for January 20, 2007 at the Marriott Ontario Airport James Shuman, PSJ poetry means in our age, what poetry is, and isn’t. Hotel, 2200 E. Holt Boulevard, Ontario, 91761. The Hall is also a 78-year-old man, bowed, slowed but Roster and ByLaws Chair telephone number is 1 909-975-5000. The meeting Jeremy Shuman, PSJ not quite stilled, wishing he were 70 again. will begin at 11:00 am in room 320 with a break for Archivist and Librarian He writes little now, or seems to. When I visited lunch. Katharine Wilson, RF him recently, he said he had a couple of poems under Many issues and concerns have been put forward Millennium Poetry way and was thinking about another. You can’t trust for the Board to consider and act upon. Come and C. Joy Haas, RF what poets tell you about their works in progress give your input! because they delight in exaggerating their misery, but Web Site There are many specifi c details yet to be worked Hall is famous for his industry. He has almost always www.ChaparralPoets.org out regarding plans for the 2007 convention, and had dozens of poems in various stages of revision. additional volunteers for the Convention Committee FEDERATION Some mornings now, he works on his memoirs, but are still needed. Since this is the third year in which of others he spends reading and dozing in the blue chair the convention has been developed without a local in the living room of what was once his mother’s host committee, the Board now recognizes the need CHAPARRAL family’s farmhouse. for an adequate team of helpers. The local chapter is poets Age has not diminished Hall’s standards for already heavily involved, but needs volunteers from poetry, including his own. The Nov. 13 New Yorker other chapters to assist them. Don’t wait to be asked; CALIFORNIA inc. continued on page four: ‘Interview’ continued on back page: ‘Board’ Copyright 2006 California Federation of Chaparral Poets, Inc. Chaparral Updrafts, Volume 67, No. 9, December 2006. All rights reserved. Poets retain rights to their poems. Copyright 2006 California Federation of Chaparral Poets, Inc. All rights reserved. Poets retain rights to their poems. Chaparral 2006 Frost Medal goes to Maxine Kumin The Board of Governors of the Poetry The Frost Medal is awarded annually at updrafts Society of America recently announced Max- the discretion of the Board of Governors of ine Kumin as the recipient of the 2006 Frost the PSA for distinguished lifetime service Editor & Publisher .......James Shuman Medal. to American poetry. 2521 Meadow Rue Drive Maxine Kumin’s fi f- The $2,500 prize is Modesto, CA 95355-3910 provided by a con- 209-523-6954 FAX 209-521-8778 teenth poetry collection, Jack and Other New Po- tribution from Jack Treasurer ...................Roberta Bearden ems, appeared in 2005 Stadler, PSA Trea- P O Box 1750, Empire, CA 95319 in her 80th year. Her Se- surer Emeritus. 209-522-9600 lected Poems: 1960-1990 The Shelley Me- Corresponding Secretary (Norton, 1997) was a New morial Award of ............................Dorothy Marshall York Times Notable Book more than $3,500, 430 Eleventh St, Pomona, CA 91766 of the Year in 1997. In established by the 888-308-7488 1994, Looking for Luck will of the late Mary Please send news and information items to won the Poets’ Prize; the P. Sears, is given to following year, it was the editor one month in advance of intended Maxine Kumin a living American publication date. awarded the Aiken Tay- poet selected with For questions involving membership, either lor Poetry Prize. Her other awards include reference to genius and need. new or renewal, please contact the treasurer. the Ruth E. Lilly Poetry Prize, the Pulitzer George Stanley of Vancouver, British Be sure to visit our new web site: Prize, and the Harvard Arts Medal for 2005. Columbia, has been selected as the recipient http://www.ChaparralPoets.org She served as Consultant in Poetry to the of the 2006 Shelley Memorial Award. Recent Library of Congress (now titled Poet Laure- recipients of this prestigious award include ate) in 1980-81. The universities at which she Lyn Hejinian, Yusef Komunyakaa, Angela The Final Poem has taught include Princeton, Massachusetts Jackson, Marie Ponsot, Jean Valentine, Frank Institute of Technology, Columbia, and Bidart, Lucille Clifton, Alan Dugan, Ether- Bread Loaf, late August, the chemistry Brandeis. She has also served on the Bread idge Knight, Kenneth Koch, Robert Pinsky, of a New England fall already Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conference fac- Cathy Song, and Anne Waldman. inviting the swamp maples to fl are. ulties. Kumin is now distinguished poet in residence at the New England College M.F.A. George Stanley was born into an Irish Magisterial in the white wicker rocker in Poetry program. She and her husband live Catholic family in San Francisco in 1934. Robert Frost at rest after giving with their dogs on a horse farm in central After briefl y attending the University of Utah a savage reading New Hampshire, where for many years they in Salt Lake City (1952-53), enlisting in the bred and raised Arabians and competed in U.S. Army (1953-56), and returning to San holding nothing back, his rage distance rides. Francisco, he met Jack Spicer in 1957. Hav- at dying, not yet, as he barged ing showed Spicer a copy of his poem “Pabli- his chair forth, then back, don’t sit Are you a good organizer? The to at the Corrida,” Stanley was invited to join Convention Committee needs you! the Magic Workshop, which Spicer had just there mumbling in the shadows, call The Convention Committee is looking for created at the San Francisco Public Library. yourselves poets? All There he met Robert Duncan, who, along but a handful scattered. Fate a Display Area coordinator— please consider volunteering to help in this way. with Jack Spicer, became his mentor. In 1971, he moved to Vancouver where he worked rearranged us happy few at his feet. In the interest of effi ciency, the Board has He rocked us until midnight. I took revised the way the Display Area will be man- temporary jobs in bookstores and warehouses away these close-lipped dicta. Look aged. Individuals will no longer be expected to until, in 1976, he was hired to teach English be solely responsible for their own materials; at Northwest Community College in Terrace, up from the page.
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