In the mid-90s Palattella was a special projects editor at Lingua Franca and co-editor of The Real Guide to Graduate School (Lingua Franca Books, 1997). From 2004 to 2007 he was an editor-at-large of the Columbia Journalism Review, and in 2007 he served as poetry editor of The Nation. Palattella's essays and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, including the London Review of Books, The Boston Review, Bookforum, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, the Washington Post Bookworld, Newsday, Dissent, American Scholar, and the Chronicle Review. In 1995 he was the recipient of the Robert D. Richardson Award in Non-fiction Writing from the Denver Quarterly for an essay about the poet Susan Howe.
Introduction by James Longenbach, Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English
]]>John Palattella will discuss magazines and literary culture in the present economic and publishing climate. He is literary editor of The Nation, the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States. He received a BA from Washington & Lee University and a PhD from the University of Rochester. His dissertation focused on the early poetry and prose of William Carlos Williams.
In the mid-90s Palattella was a special projects editor at Lingua Franca and co-editor of The Real Guide to Graduate School (Lingua Franca Books, 1997). From 2004 to 2007 he was an editor-at-large of the Columbia Journalism Review, and in 2007 he served as poetry editor of The Nation. Palattella's essays and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, including the London Review of Books, The Boston Review, Bookforum, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, the Washington Post Bookworld, Newsday, Dissent, American Scholar, and the Chronicle Review. In 1995 he was the recipient of the Robert D. Richardson Award in Non-fiction Writing from the Denver Quarterly for an essay about the poet Susan Howe.
Introduction by James Longenbach, Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English
Sze is the author of nine books of poetry, including The Ginkgo Light, Quipu, The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970-1998, Archipelago, and The Silk Dragon: Translations from the Chinese. He is also the editor of Chinese Writers on Writing, forthcoming from Trinity University Press. His poems have been translated into Albanian, Bosnian, Chinese, Dutch, Italian, Romanian, Spanish, and Turkish. He was poet laureate of Santa Fe from 2006-2008 and is the recipient of many awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Book Award, a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, and two National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing fellowships. He is professor emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Photo © Mariana Cook.
Introduction by James Longenbach, Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English
]]>Arthur Sze will discuss "Tyuonyi: Multicultural Perspectives on Poetry." Tyounyi, a Keresan word, is the name of a meeting place situated in Bandelier, New Mexico. Sze has 22 years of experience working with Native Americans at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He translates classical Chinese poetry, and has as a deep interest in Japanese culture. He will show how these strands run through the evolution of his own poetry and how they are an essential part of our world today.
Sze is the author of nine books of poetry, including The Ginkgo Light, Quipu, The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970-1998, Archipelago, and The Silk Dragon: Translations from the Chinese. He is also the editor of Chinese Writers on Writing, forthcoming from Trinity University Press. His poems have been translated into Albanian, Bosnian, Chinese, Dutch, Italian, Romanian, Spanish, and Turkish. He was poet laureate of Santa Fe from 2006-2008 and is the recipient of many awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Book Award, a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, and two National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing fellowships. He is professor emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Photo © Mariana Cook.
Introduction by James Longenbach, Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English