Join Poets Dorianne Laux & Joseph Millar

Renowned Poets & Extraordinary Teachers

offer a full-day workshop

10 a.m.-4 p.m

on August 1, 2008

photo by Billy Collins

at an historic house near Stone Ridge, NY

The group will be introduced to a variety of poems to use as models for writing. Bring a notebook and pen (or laptop) and a poem that has inspired you at some point in your life. Also bring a photograph or object that holds some deep abiding significance for you, something that has a story you need to tell buried within it.

Limited to 20 participants

Cost for the day: $150

Rain or Shine

Lunch will be provided

To register write nh19@nyu.edu

Directions will be sent after registration

About Dorianne Laux and Joe Millar

A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, DORIANNE LAUX’s fourth book of poems, Facts about the Moon (W.W. Norton), is the recipient of the Stafford/Hall Award, chosen by Ai. It was also short-listed for the 2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for the most outstanding book of poems published in the United States and chosen by the Kansas City Star as a noteworthy book of 2005. Laux is also author of three collections of poetry from BOA Editions, Awake (1990) introduced by Philip Levine, recently reprinted by Eastern Washington University Press, What We Carry (1994) and Smoke (2000). Superman: The Chapbook was released by Red Dragonfly Press in January, 2008. Co-author of The Poet’s Companion, she’s the recipient of two Best American Poetry Prizes, a Best American Erotic Poems Prize, a Pushcart Prize, two fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her work has appeared in the Best of the American Poetry Review, The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Poetry and Best of the Net, and she’s a frequent contributor to magazines as various as the New York Quarterly, Orion and Ms. Magazine as well as a host of on-line journals. A columnist for Writer’s Digest, Laux has waited tables and written poems in San Diego, Los Angeles, Berkeley, and Petaluma, California, and as far north as Juneau, Alaska. For the last 13 years she has taught at the University of Oregon in Eugene and since 2004, as core faculty at Pacific University’s Low Residency MFA Program. Her summers are spent teaching poetry workshops in the beauty of Esalen in Big Sur and Truro on Cape Cod. She and her husband, poet Joseph Millar, now live in Raleigh where she has joined the faculty at North Carolina State University as a Poet-in-Residence.

ON-LINE INTERVIEWS:

POETRYMAGAZINE.COM
THESMOKING POET.COM
http://www.facebook.com/n/?note.php&note_id=22474651008

READINGS/VIDEO POEMS:

http://blip.tv/file/444090
http://blip.tv/file/445598/
http://www.poetrymagazine.com/
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Laux.html

Dorianne Laux’s poems Dust and Sunday Radio, and Joseph Millar’s Love Pirates and Telephone Repairman are set to music by singer Paula Sinclair and Uncle Tumbleweed on her new album The Good Horse produced by Rob Stroup at 8 Ball Studios in Portland, Oregon.

For clips of the songs or to purchase go to: http://cdbaby.com/cd/paulasinclair3

JOSEPH MILLAR is the author of Fortune,which he won a Pushcart Prize in 2008, and , Overtime (2001) was finalist for the Oregon Book Award. Millar grew up in Pennsylvania, attended Johns Hopkins University and spent 25 years in the San Francisco Bay area working at a variety of jobs, from telephone repairman to commercial fisherman. It would be two decades before he returned to poetry. His poems—stark, clean, unsparing—record the narrative of a life fully lived. Fathers, sons, brothers, weddings and divorces, men and women, all play their parts in this second collection from a poet who refuses to look away from our losses or our fortunes. His work has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in Poetry and Oregon Literary Arts. In 1997 he gave up his job as a telephone installation foreman and moved to western Oregon where he now teaches at Pacific University’s Low Residency Program, a course annually at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, and works with private students.. Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa has said, “There’s a tenderness at the core of Fortune, where the commonplace becomes atypical and fantastical, and each poem possesses a voice that summons and reveals. Joseph Millar is a poet we can believe.”

http://www.cstone.net/~poems/rivermil.htm

http://www.ewu.edu/ewupress/poetry/fortune.htm

http://www.ewu.edu/ewupress/poetry/overtime.htm

http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/06.19.02/poets-0225.html