Here they are - ten crazy, glorious days at Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier, where I teach in the Writing for Children and Young Adults MFA program. It's our winter residency and I cannot wait to see people. I'll try to post a few summaries about what I'm hearing and seeing (faculty and grad lectures, workshops, Katherine Paterson's opening speech, guest readings and lectures - David Macaulay, Grace Lin, anf Tobin Anderson, who is bravely offering up a mini-course in literary theory) in addition to NECI food and the ghost in College Hall. Coming on to campus tonight in the airport shuttle, Uma and Laura and I saw Christmas lights all over College Hall, including quite a display in one huge tree on the snow-covered grass not far from the fountain....
Gorgeous! Will you be blogging the residency, off and on, Julie? Please give everyone my very best.
ReplyDeleteI'll post snippets when I have time, Cyn! Wish you were here.
ReplyDeleteI just heard Howard Dean speaking about the tragedy in Arizona. What a wonderful state yours must be to have given our country that man: the most honest man in politics today.
ReplyDeletewhat about rumored poetry stretches during rez?
ReplyDelete(can you tell i'm going through withdrawl this winter?)
David - I'll definitely announce a few poetry stretches - butit's weird, having all our lectures over in the Chapel - the group is apparently too big to have any lectures in Noble (I'm not sure I believe it, but that's what the bosses say. ) The Chapel feels cavernous - and caverns intimidate poets. But I will try.
ReplyDeleteIf I send out each challenge via email - would that be kind of like a nicotine patch for your withdrawal symptoms?? (Actually, I think you're going to need a bigger fix than that!) Wish we were seeing your smiling face among the Grad. Assistants this time around.
Julie
julie, wherever you post poetry stretch, i will find them. a thread on the forum?
ReplyDeletei both can and cannot believe you guys are having winter lectures in the chapel. looks like we'll have to get the alum to pony up for a new, quasi sub-terrainian lecture hall on the lawn.
as for the intimidation factor, just stand there like whitman and sing out like it's a song of yourself and i'm sure you'll melt the distance.
perhaps they'll permit me to return in july...
Oh, good idea- yes, I'll post on the Forum. Fingers crossed for you + July = VCFA.
ReplyDeletePlease try to blog about the rez whenever you can so I can live vicariously. I am have serious withdrawal symptoms too, David. It's killing me to hear about all the wonderful lectures (even if they are in the cavern), but I don't want to miss a thing! I hope to be there in July too.
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