Symposium to Discuss Discrimination Against the Woman Artist

the ridgerunner • thursday, january 13, 1972 Symposium To Discuss Discrimination Against The Woman Artist from page 1 passionate thinking,” and by University of Minnesota, an crew. Her first full-time teaching “Time” magazine as “remarkable” honor graduate of Oxford Uni position was at the University of in an eight-page cover story on versity, and holds a Ph. D. in North Carolina at Greensboro in Millett and the movement in English and comparative literature the English Department, in 1959. its August 31, 1970 issue. from Columbia. She is also a She has also taught at Hunter and Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, sculptor and more recently a film at Barnard colleges. She lives in she is a Phi Beta Kappa, magna- maker, with the movie “Three New York City with her husband, cum-laude graduate of the Lives” made by an all-women the sculptor Fumio Yoshimura. Carolyn Kizer, poet in residence at UNC-Chapel Hill in 1968 and during the current acadamic year, is a native of Spokane, Washington. Much of her life since gradua tion from Sarah Lawrence College Whisnant has been a combination of public- of poetry here. Her influence on UNC-Asheville, in 1970 and 1971. life activities with teaching and the campus and in the department She has a varied educational writing. During the Johnson will fortunately be felt for a long background. Her B.A. is in Administration she directed the time.” English and Latin from Meredith literary programs of the National Bertha Harris, a native of College, and her M.A. is in litera Endowment for the Arts, the Fayetteville, N. C., is the author ture from UNC-Chapel Hill. federal cultural program estab of two novels, “Catching Sara- She studied music at the West lished by the Congress in the fall dove” (1969) and “Confessions of minister Choir College, painting of 1965. She is now literature Cherubino,” to be published in in Sonora, California, and studied consultant to the Endowment. March. Both are partially set in poetry for one summer with She spent the academic year North Carolina. Ezra Pound in Washington, D. C. 1964-65 in Pakistan as Poet in She received her B.A. and M.A. She is writing a book on Pound as Residence for the U. S. Depart degrees from the University of a teacher and his influence on ment of State, the first time an North Carolina at Greensboro, young writers. American writer has been so where she studied with the well- She has taught at North honored. known writers Randall Jarrell, Carolina State University, 1956- She has read widely at colleges Guy Owen, and Grances Grey 57, and at Queens College, Char and universities throughout the Patton. She has worked at lotte, as a member of the English United States and in England and various office jobs and for a faculty, 1957-65, and in 1972 has served two terms as director publisher in New York City and will teach a course there in of the Association of Literary taughe at East Carolina Univer creative writing. She has directed Magazines of America. sity. She now teaches literature poetry workshops at various She founded the magazine and creative writing at UNC- writers’ conferences, including “Poetry Northwest” at the Charlotte. those at Belmont College, Appa University of Washington and Charleen Whisnant, a native of lachian State University, Ridge edited it from 1959 until 1966. Greensboro, N. C. now living in crest Writers Conference, and the She has published three books of Charlotte, is founder and editor Governor’s School. Harris poetry; “The Ungrateful Garden” of Red Clay Publishers, and from She is married to Murray (1961), “Knock Upon Silence” 1964 to 1970 was editor of “Red Whisnant, an architect, and has two children. The Women Writers’ temporary plans are to present short (1965), and “Midnight was my Clay Reader,” a hardcover annual Cry” (1971) collection of new writing. Both the evening program and talks the night of the thirteenth. She was formerly married to Her poetry has appeared in the poetry discussion sessions Bertha Harris will cite the plight of the woman within the Stimson Bullitt, by whom whe has numerous magazines and anthol the following morning will be educational system. Charlene Whisnant has indicated that three teen-aged children, two ogies, and she has lectured and open to the public without charge. she might speak on the element of competition between men daughters and a son. given readings at colleges through Books by all the writers will be and women within the sexist society. Carolyn Kiser will Commenting on her work at out the country, including Bryn on sale in the campus bookstore tentatively outline the function of monetary concerns within UNC-Chapel Hill, Max Steele, Mawr, Wesleyan, and Cornell, during the week preceding the the society in the oppression of women. Finally Kate Millett director of the creative writing and on ABC and NET television symposium and in the lobby of the will narrate the problems the woman artist encounters in program there, says, “ Miss Kizer programs in New York City. Lipinsky Student Center Fol lowing the symposium. , publishing. has revolutionized the teaching She has given two readings at BOOKSTORE FEATURES BOOKS by and about FEMINISTS The UNC-A Campus Store is Goode; The Nature of Prejudice presently selling copies of these by Gordon Allport; and The books by authors participating Second Sex by Simone Beauvoir. in The Writer’s Symposium this Volumes of poetry available week: Midnight Was My Cry by are: "The Jacobs Ladder" and Carolyn Kizer; Catching Sara- several other volumes of The dove by Bertha Harris; and Work of Denise Levertov. Also I Sexual Politics by Kate Millet. featured is “To Bedlam and Part Other books of interest: “The Way Back" and also more volumes Other Half: edited by Cynthia of The Poetry of Anne Sexton. Fucks Epstein and William J. Millett Kizer.

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