Paris
Poetry Workshop
March 17 to 20, 2003
Faculty and Presenters
CECILIA
WOLOCH
Cecilia Woloch was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1956, but grew up in rural Kentucky. She attended Transylvania University and earned degrees in English and Theater Arts before moving west in 1979.
A resident of Los Angeles for twenty-two years, Ms. Woloch has been active in the L.A. literary community as both a poet and teacher of creative writing. For seven years she was the L.A. Project Director for California Poets in the Schools, and also served on the statewide board of that organization, as well as on the advisory council for the Mark Taper Artists in Residence Program at Los Angeles Children's Hospital.
Over the past fifteen years, she has conducted poetry workshops for several thousand elementary, junior high, and high school students throughout Southern California, as well as intensive creative writing workshops for professional writers, educators, patients at Patton State Mental Hospital, and participants in Elderhostel programs for senior citizens. For five years, she conducted workshops for the writing staff of Disney's Imagineering Division, and has recently served on the creative writing faculties at the University of Redlands, The University of Southern California, and California State University at Northridge. A number of her students have gone on to win local and national literary awards.
In 1998, she was named Director of Summer Poetry in Idyllwild, a week-long celebration of poets and poetry held in the San Jacinto mountains. In 1999, she completed her M.F.A. in creative writing through Antioch University, with thesis manuscripts in both poetry and creative non-fiction. Ms. Woloch has received grants for her work in the community from the California Arts Council and the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, and has been the recipient of poetry prizes from Kalliope, The Wildwood Journal, Literal Latte, and the Kentucky Arts Council. Her poems have appeared most recently in the anthologies Orpheus & Company (University Press of New England, 1999), Grand Passion: The Poets of L.A. and Beyond (Red Wind Press, 1995), and Catholic Girls (Penguin/Plume 1992), along with such literary journals as The Greensboro Review, The Antioch Review, Zyzzyva, The Prose Poem: An International Journal, Chelsea Hotel (Germany), The Cider Press Review, Kalliope, and many others.
Her book-length manuscript, Sacrifice,
was a finalist for the 1994 Marianne Moore Prize, the Anhinga Prize,
and the Snake Nation Press Poetry Prize, and was published by Cahuenga
Press in 1997. In 1998 it received a special mention from the Pushcart
Prize committee. Poet and critic David St. John called Sacrifice,
"an extraordinary debut... Cecilia Woloch's poems unveil the wreckage
of love after what has been sacramental turns sacrificial. Her poems
are by turns reverential, devotional, and incantatory — they are
prayers spoken to, and on behalf of, a difficult world."
Ms. Woloch spends part of each year traveling, lecturing and teaching
throughout Europe. She’s given lectures and readings at the University
of Basel in Switzerland, Frieburg University in Germany, The LiteraturHaus
in Berlin, and the American School in Warsaw, in addition to collaborative
performances (with Australian musician/composer Brett Petrie) at various
venues in France and Germany. In the spring of 2000 she was awarded
a fellowship to the International Writers Retreat at Hawthornden Castle
in Scotland, and subsequently travelled in the spring and summer to
Poland on a grant from ArtsLink/CEC International Partners. In early
2002, she will be the first writer-in-residence at Bernheim Forest and
Arboretum in Clermont, Kentucky.
A book-length poem about the gypsies of eastern Europe, Tsigan: The Gypsy Poem, was published by Cahuenga Press in early 2002; and a second collection of poems, Late, is slated to be published by BOA Editions in 2003. Ms. Woloch has relocated to Atlanta with her husband, the poet Thomas Lux.
JEFFREY
GREENE
Jeffrey Greene is the author of a memoir French
Spirits (Morrow/HarperCollins AU-NZ/Harper Perennial/Bantam/Prometheus
2002/3), two books of poems, American
Spirituals (winner of the 1998 Samuel French Morse Prize) and
To the Left of the Worshiper (Alice James Books, 1991), and a poetry
chapbook Glimpses of the Invisible World in New Haven (Coreopsis Books,
1995). He was a winner of the Randall Jarrell Prize and the "Discovery"/The
Nation Award and received prizes from The Denver Quarterly and The Southern
California Anthology. His work has been supported by the NEA, Connecticut
Commission on the Arts, the Mary Rinehart Fund, and VSC. His poetry
has appeared or is forthcoming in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Nation,
Parnassus, The North American Review, The Sewanee Review, Ploughshares,
The Southern Review, and many other journals and anthologies. A graduate
of the Universities of Iowa (MFA) and Houston (Ph.D.), he has taught
creative writing and literature at Golden Gate University, The University
of Houston, Southern CT State University, the University of New Haven,
and most recently the Goddard MFA program.
ELIZABETH REICHERT
Elizabeth Reichert is a freelance arts and travel writer based in
Paris, France. She was educated at Vassar College with a year at the
University of Oxford, Saint-Edmund's Hall College, where she studied
English Literature, focusing in Early Modernism and Critical Theory,
and also at the Sorbonne, where she spent year 2002 studying French
language and literature. While completing her undergraduate degree,
Elizabeth worked as an intern at Martha Stewart Living and as a freelance
writer for Hemp Times Magazine. Since her post-graduation move to France,
she has continued to freelance for arts and travel publications abroad.
Her articles have appeared in the art journals Ceramics Monthly and
Ceramics Art and Perception, and in such travel publications as France
Magazine, The Paris Voice, Paris Notes, Morning Calm: The In-flight
Magazine of Korean Air, International Living newsletters and the online
French Property Digest. She is the author of the Writers
Insider Guide to Paris, published electronically by International
Living and Adrian Leeds Group, LLC, and is co-author of the guidebook Paris Confidential,
soon to be released in its third-edition by Agora Press. Alongside her
writing, Elizabeth has also worked in France as an au pair, a painter's
model, and as a part-time English-language instructor in various primary
schools located throughout the city's 13th arrondissement. She also
gives literary tours and/or literary-history lectures for International
Living's Ultimate Travel Writers Workshop and for WICE's Paris Writers
Workshop. She is currently living, quite happily, in the Montparnasse
area.
ETHAN
GILSDORF
Since 1999 Ethan Gilsdorf has lived in Paris, where he is a poet, freelance writer and critic.
The winner of the Hobblestock Peace Poetry Competition and the Esmé Bradberry Contemporary Poets Prize, Gilsdorf, 36, is also the recipient of grants from the Vermont Arts Council and the Vermont Studio Center. His poems can be seen in Poetry, The Southern Review, The North American Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Poetry London, among other dozens of publications. Gilsdorf is the Paris regional coordinator for Poets For Peace/United Poets Coalition. He gives readings and workshops in cities such as Paris, London and New York.
Gilsdorf is a regular contributor to Time Out (film, theater and restaurant critic), The Boston Globe, Poets and Writers (Paris literary correspondent), and Paris Notes. He has also written for Fodor’s travel guides, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, New York Post, The Common Review, Chronicle of Higher Education, Christian Science Monitor, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Literary Review of Canada and American Bookseller.
He is also the former managing and poetry editor of the Paris-based "Frank" (http://www.readfrank.com). He also was poetry editor of "The New Delta Review," and the founder and editor of "Rant." He received his M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Louisiana State University.
ELLEN
HINSEY
Ellen Hinsey is the author of the volume of poetry "Cities of Memory," which was the winner in1996 of the prestigious Yale Series of Young Poets Award. In 1998 she received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award and in 1999 a nomination for the Pushcart Prize. Her poems and essays have appeared in a number of publications, including The New Yorker and the New York Times. She has been a guest author at the Sorbonne, the École Normale Supérieure and the Prague International Writers Workshop. Hinsey resides in Paris, where she teaches for Skidmore College's Paris Program. During her stay at the Hans Arnhold Center she will be working on the project The Natural Lesson of History.
KATHLEEN
SPIVACK
Kathleen Spivack is the author of The Break-Up Variations (scheduled with Zoland), The Beds We Lie In (Scarecrow 1986 -- nominated for a Pulitzer Prize), The Honeymoon (Graywolf 1986), Swimmer in the Spreading Dawn (Applewood 1981), The Jane Poems (Doubleday 1973), Flying Inland (Doubleday 1971), Robert Lowell, A Personal Memoir; and a novel, Unspeakable Things ( the latter two currently with an agent). Her work has been published in over 300 magazines and anthologies, her work has also been translated into French.
Ms. Spivack has taught in France full or half time for the past twelve years (1991-present). A Fulbright Professor in Creative Writing to France (1993-94), she has been Visiting Professor at the University of Paris VII, VIII; the University of Francois Rabelais/Tours, the University of Versailles, and at the Ecole Superieure (Polytechnique). She has held grants from the National Endowment for the Arts; Massachusetts Artists Foundation; Bunting Institute; Howard Foundation; Massachusetts Council for the Arts and Humanities; is a Discovery winner and has been at Yaddo, MacDowell, Ragdale ,LesVaults, and Karolyi.
In Boston and Paris she directs the Advanced Writing Workshop, an intensive training program for professional writers, with an emphasis on multi-cultural writers. This program has been active since 1973. Among her clients number many outstanding writers: you would recognize their work! She advises magazines, theatre groups, multicultural educational and arts programs, writing retreats, publishers, and bookstores , as well as top individual writers.
Ms. Spivack has read her work widely in both the United States and
Europe. She has been Writer-in-Residence, most recently at the University
of New Mexico; gives theater performances and master classes. She has
taught at conferences in Aspen, Santa Fe, Burgundy, and on the high
seas, (Holland American Line). She is a keynote speaker on modern American
literature on French television, at international conferences, at the
Salon de Livres,/Paris and elsewhere, and often presents English language
writers in programs abroad.
SARAH
LUCZAJ
Sarah Luczaj is an English poet, who has, after some travels, settled in Poland, where she lives in the countryside with her husband and little girl, Nasim. Her work has appeared in, amongst others, the APR, The New Statesman (UK), Cream City Review, and bottlerockets, and her translations of the Polish poet Halina Poswiatowska have appeared in the Cider Press Review, The Great River Review, Diner, The Lyric Review and www.thedrunkenboat.com and are forthcoming in Modern Poetry in Translation (UK). She has been joint recipient with Cecilia Woloch of an Artslink grant, and worked with her on projects in Poland, including readings and workshops, culminating in the publication of a joint bi-lingual collection (including the work of Waclaw Turek) This Line on the Map. She has also translated a haiku collection by Robert Naczas, Trick of the Light. She is presently training as a therapeutic counsellor, and is a teacher of English.
JAMES
BAKER HALL
Kentucky's New Poet Laureate
James Baker Hall, a highly respected teacher of writing at the University of Kentucky, is Kentucky's new ambassador of poetry.
Hall, who has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in poetry, has taught creative writing at UK since 1973. He has published five volumes of poetry, two novels, and four collections of photography. The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The American Poetry Review, Poetry, The Hudson Review, and The Kenyon Review are among the many magazines to have published his work.
Hall's latest books include A Spring-Fed Pond, available from Crystal Communications in Lexington (e-mail: [email protected]) featuring his photos of Kentucky writers, including his wife Mary Ann Taylor Hall, a novelist and short story writer; Praeder's Letters, from Sarabande Books, 2002 and Yates Paul, His Grand Flights, His Tootings, an early novel, reissued by the University of Kentucky Press, 2002.
For more information about all of Hall's books or to order, click here:
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MARY
ANN TAYLOR-HALL
Mary Ann Taylor-Hall attended Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia; and graduated with a B.A. in English from the University of Florida in 1959. In 1962 she received the Master of Arts degree with honors from Columbia University, with a specialization in dramatic literature and also studied acting during those years with Herbert Berghof and Uta Hagen. She taught at Auburn University, the University of Kentucky, the University of Puerto Rico, and Miami of Ohio, has lived in Germany and England and New York City. Ms. Taylor-Hall's short fiction has appeared in The Sewanee Review, The Colorado Quarterly, The Kenyon Review, The Paris Review, The Florida Review, Ploughshares, The Chattahoochee Review, and Shenandoah. It has won a PEN/Syndicated Fiction Award, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and an Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council. “Banana Boats” appeared in Best American Short Stories 1988 and "Come and Go, Molly Snow," was published in February 1995 by W.W. Norton & Company Inc. and reissued in paperback in June 1996 by Avon. It is currently under option for an ABC Movie-of-the-Week. she was a featured reader after its publication at The Manhattan Theater Club. A collection of her short fiction, "How She Knows What She Knows About Yo-Yos," was published in December by Sarabande Books. She lives on a farm on the Harrison-Scott County line with her husband, James Baker Hall.
ADRIAN
LEEDS
Adrian Leeds has been living in Paris nine years. She is the
Director of the International
Living Paris office and President of Adrian Leeds Group, LLC, her Internet U.S. based company. She is the author
of the "Insider Paris Guide for Good Value Restaurants" published by International
Living, the result of her insatiable desire for great food at bargain
prices, writes the Parler Paris
email newsletter, and co-hosts her own brainchild, the popular Parler
Parlor French/English Conversation Group in Paris where members
from almost 50 different countries meet to practice speaking French
and English.
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Workshop Schedule
• Faculty and Presenters
• Farewell
Dinner and Reading
Reading at the Village Voice • World
Poetry Day • Survival
French Course
Literary Tour • Tsigan: The
Gypsy Poem • Accommodations
Comments from Participants • Poems
