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ENGLISH
Jefferson
Holdridge
- Northern Irish Poetry Project
Awarded $35,000 for the period 8/1/07–12/31/08
Source: National Endowment for the Arts
Wake Forest University Press will publish a volume of Northern Irish poetry.
- WFU Series of Irish Poetry, Volume 2
Awarded $8,000 for the period 1/1/06 to 12/31/07
Source: National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
Wake Forest University Press publishes representative anthologies
meant to introduce a number of contemporary Irish poets whose work
has not appeared widely in North America. The inaugural volume featured
Harry Clifton, Dennis O'Driscoll, David Wheatley, Sinéad Morrissey,
and Caitríona O'Reilly. From the burgeoning economic realities
of the “Celtic Tiger” to the burden of religious and
political realignment, from urban scenes to historical landscapes,
these poets sensitively record the effects of writing in a dramatically
shifting society. However, they do not write solely from historical
or social contexts but also out of psychological compulsions or mythic
modes. Whatever the subject, their writing shows an awareness of
the formal traditions and tensions of Irish poetry.
Connor O’Callaghan
- Visit by Poet Adam Zagajewski to Wake Forest University
Awarded $1,200 for the period 1/31/007 to 2/14/07
Source: North Carolina Humanities Council
Hosted by the WFU Dillon Johnston Writers Reading Series, Zagajewski
is one of the most well-known and highly regarded contemporary
European poets, His work was described in the New York Times
as ”luminous
and searching… imbued with a deep engagement with history,
art, and life,” and critic Dennis O’Driscoll called him “a
world-class writer, a Nobel laureate-in-waiting.” His collections
in English include Mysticism for Beginners (1997) and Without End:
New and Selected Poems (2002). His poem, “Try to Praise the
Mutilated World,” was carried on the back cover of the New
Yorker in response to the 9/11 attacks.
Zagajewski’s work is both dazzlingly current and historically
aware: he writes about exile, dissidence, and political friction
with insights gleaned from negotiating the constraints of the Polish
Communist regime for much of his adult life. His work is also fragile,
tender, and open to wonder. He writes, “I will never be someone
who writes only about birdsong – though I admire birdsong
highly, but not enough to withdraw from the historical world, for
the historical
world is fascinating.”
- Poetry Reading by Devin Johnston at Wake Forest University
Awarded $960 for the period 08/18/06 to 09/26/06
Source: North Carolina Humanities Council
Winston-Salem native Devin Johnston has published two books
of poetry, Aversions (Omnidawn, 2004) and Telepathy (Paper Bark,
2001), as well
as a book of criticism, Precipitations: Contemporary American Poetry
as Occult Practice (Wesleyan UP, 2002). He currently teaches at
St. Louis University. Funds supported a free public reading from
his
work, hosted by the Dillon Johnston Writer Reading Series at Wake
Forest.
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Dillon Johnston Writer’s Reading Series
Awarded $1,200 for the period 1/01/06 to 12/31/06
Source: North Carolina Humanities Council
Funds will support a visit and free public reading at Wake Forest
by the poet Harryette Mullen as part of the Dillon Johnston Writers
Reading Series. Born in Alabama, Mullen grew up in Texas, the
daughter
of teachers, and the granddaughter and great-granddaughter of Baptist
ministers in the still-segregated South. While completing a BA
in
English at the University of Texas at Austin, she began writing,
participating in the burgeoning black arts movement in the 1970s.
She received a
PhD from the History of Consciousness Program at the University
of California at Santa Cruz and teaches African-American literature
and
creative writing at the University of California at Los Angeles.
Her works include five poetry collections; most recently, Sleeping
with
the Dictionary (University of California Press, 2002). She has
also published a critical study, Gender, Subjectivity, and Slave
Narratives
(Cambridge University Press, 1998). Of her latest collection, Oyster
Boy Review noted: Sleeping with the Dictionary contains more
than
enough light, heat and sheer pleasure to bring Harryette Mullen
the attention she so richly deserves”; and according to African
American Review, “Sleeping with the Dictionary is an important
book. Timely in its concerns, brilliantly idiosyncratic yet stylishly
ground-breaking, this is a triumphant performance by Harryette
Mullen.”
Eric Wilson
The Occult Current: A Romantic Poetics of Electricity
Awarded
a residential fellowship for the period 2003-2004
Source: National Humanities Center
Associate Professor of English Eric G. Wilson is among
42 scholars to win a National Humanities Center Residential Fellowship
for 2003-2004. The award provides financial support and a stimulating
environment for the best new work in the humanities at the center
in Research Triangle Park. Dr. Wilson will work on his new book, .The
Occult Current: A Romantic Poetics of Electricity. It argues
that Coleridge and other British and American Romantic writers who
responded to him—including Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley,
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Walt Whitman—combined
alchemical speculation and the science of electromagnetism to inspire
an ecological vision and a corresponding naturalist poetics. The study
examines the neglected alchemical and scientific subtexts of these
writers’ literary works, leading to a wider theory relating
human consciousness and natural processes, words and things, and magic
and science.
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