Announcement of Upcoming Residencies
Thanks to everyone who applied. On behalf of the entire selection committee, we wanted to say that reading the body of work that we received was inspiring and very exciting. As always, the choices were difficult. We are pleased to announce the following Residency recipients:
Fall 2009, Bill Miles
Winter 2009-10, Alicia Holmes
Spring 2010, Kelly Luce
Summer 2010, Emily Carr
Brian Turner Hosts Writing Around Town
Brian Turner * Saturday, July 18, 2009 * 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
In conjunction with Mad About Words and the well known Writing Around Town series.
This workshop will delve into the intersections between visual and written/spoken arts. For centuries poets have written pieces in direct conversation with paintings and sculpture. We will discuss methods of approaching Ekphrastic art and then we’ll write one of our own.
You won’t want to miss this chance to write in the Kerouac House with a fun group and a wonderful leader.
Latest Post from Writer's Page
by Brian TurnerHere, Bullet
If a body is what you want,
then here is bone and gristle and flesh.
Here is the clavicle-snapped wish,
the aorta’s opened valves, the leap
thought makes at the synaptic gap.
Here is the adrenaline rush you crave,
that inexorable flight, that insane puncture
into heat and blood. And I dare you to finish
what you’ve started. Because here, Bullet,
here is where I complete the word you bring
hissing through the air, here is where I moan
the barrel’s cold esophagus, triggering
my tongue’s explosives …
Jack Kerouac lived in this home at the time On the Road made him a national sensation. And it was in this home that Kerouac wrote his follow-up, The Dharma Bums, during eleven frenetic days and nights. The Kerouac House, as it has come to be known, is now a living, literary tribute to one of the great American writers of the twentieth century. Like all the other places in Kerouac’s nomadic journey, he didn’t live here long. But the home represents a critical juncture in Kerouac’s life, when he made the transition from a 35-year-old nobody writer, to the bard of the Beat Generation.