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Part of the The Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Poetry Series Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon is the author of two collections of poetry, Black Swan (2002) which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, and ]Open Interval[ (2009), a finalist for the National Book Award which Bomb magazine calls, “a lovely meditation on the concept of distance.” The National Book Award citation reads, “Passionate and personal, innovative and elegant, ]Open Interval[ marries a wildness of vision with a lens-maker’s precision. The book takes on the actual astronomical phenomenon of ‘RR Lyrae’ stars not only to form a metaphor for the self, but to reveal a constellation of lyric impulses. In exploded sonnets, taut syllabics, Dickinsonian dashes, or that new poetic invention, the bop, Van Clief-Stefanon writes of science, rock-n-roll, and the history of a heart that could be hers, but speaks to all of ours.” Van Clief-Stefanon teaches at Cornell University. Jill McDonough was a Stegner fellow at Stanford, and has published one book of poems, Habeas Corpus (2008), 50 sonnets, each one about a legal execution from 1608 to 2005. Poet Eavan Boland writes, “These poems, with their catalog of deaths and histories, build a powerful, relentless music. The music and plain-spoken craft in turn make clear that the true subject here is not death but human survival — in memory, language and suffering.” When she’s not teaching at Westminster College, McDonough works with incarcerated college students through Boston University's Prison Education Program. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center and in 2010, is a Witter Bynner Fellow at the Library of Congress.
Dumke Student Theatre, Emma Eccles Jones Conservatory. |
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