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2008 Featured Speakers |
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Verlyn Klinkenborg was born in Colorado in 1952 and raised in Iowa and California. He graduated from Pomona College and received a Ph.D. in English Literature from Princeton University. He is the author of Making Hay (1986), The Last Fine Time (1991), The Rural Life (2003), and Timothy: Or, Notes of an Abject Reptile (2006). His work has appeared in many magazines, and he has taught literature and creative writing at Fordham University and Harvard University. He is a visiting professor at Bard College and the visiting writer in residence at Pomona College. Mr. Klinkenborg lives in rural New York State with his wife, Lindy Smith. He is the recepient of a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship and has been a member of the editorial board of The New York Times since 1997. |
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Alison Hawthorne Deming is the author of Science and Other Poems, selected by Gerald Stern for the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets and listed among the Washington Post’s Favorite Books of 1994 and Bloomsbury Review’s Best Poetry books of the past fifteen years. She is the author of two additional poetry books, The Monarchs: A Poem Sequence and Genius Loci. Deming has also published three nonfiction books, Temporary Homelands, The Edges of the Civilized World, which was a finalist for the PEN Center West Award, and Writing the Sacred into the Real. Her poems and essays have appeared in The Georgia Review, Orion, American Nature Writing, Verse and Universe: Poems on Science and Mathematics and the Norton Book of Nature Writing. |
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John Elder has published widely in magazines such as Orion, Vermont Life, and Wild Earth. An article on Rachel Carson's relation to the Romantic tradition in poetry recently appeared in a collection devoted to Carson entitled Courage for the Earth and edited by Peter Matthiessen. His last three books--Reading the Mountains of Home, The Frog Run, and Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa--form a sequence that combines natural history, environmental history, literary discussion, and memoir. His current writing project focuses on the importance of celebration, community, and local food in a time of environmental crisis.
John is active in local and statewide conservation organizations, including Vermont Family Forests, the Vermont Land Trust, and the Center for Whole Communities. He and his wife, Rita, also operate a sugarbush in the nearby town of Starksboro, along with their three grown children, Rachel, Matthew, and Caleb. He will be in residence throughout the conference. |
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Additional featured speakers can be found on the following page . . . |
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