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From: afilreis at writing.upenn.edu
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Subject: poet laureate - live by webcast


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LIVE WEBCAST    
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United States Poet Laureate

DONALD HALL on April 17, 2007

at the Kelly Writers House

join us by live webcast 

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The Kelly Writers House Fellows program presents

DONALD HALL

10:30 AM (eastern time) on Tuesday, April 17, 2007

a conversation (with audience Q&A) conducted by Al Filreis

To participate via webcast, simply rsvp to: 

            whfellow at writing.upenn.edu

Anyone with an internet connection can participate. Participants in the
webcast will be able to pose questions to Mr. Hall by email or
telephone. For more information about the Kelly Writers House webcast
series, see

              http://www.writing.upenn.edu/wh/webcasts/

Those who rsvp will receive further instructions.

For more about Writers House Fellows, see:

        http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~whfellow/

Kelly Writers House
3805 Locust Walk
University of Pennsylvania
215 573-WRIT
http://writing.upenn.edu/wh


Donald Hall is the current United States Poet Laureate. He has published
fifteen books of poetry, most recently White Apples and the Taste of
Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006 (2006); The Painted Bed (2002) and
Without: Poems (1998), which was published on the third anniversary of
the death from leukemia of his wife, the poet Jane Kenyon. Other
collections are The One Day (1988), which won the National Book Critics
Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and a Pulitzer Prize
nomination, and The Happy Man (1986), which won the Lenore Marshall
Poetry Prize. He has also published children's books, short stories,
plays, and several autobiographical works, such as The Best Day The
Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon (2005) and Life Work (1993), which won
the New England Book award for nonfiction. His honors include two
Guggenheim fellowships, the Poetry Society of America's Robert Frost
Silver medal, and a Lifetime Achievement award from the New Hampshire
Writers and Publisher Project. Hall served as Poet Laureate of New
Hampshire from 1984 to 1989.

Poet, novelist and critic John Fuller has said of Hall's work, "It is
the hardest thing to write poems as simple and celebratory as these,
full of love and observation of the commonplace." 


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     Writers House Fellows is funded by a generous grant from Paul Kelly.

                    previous Fellows:
                                      
                    Jamaica Kincaid     2007
                    John McPhee           
                                        Richard Ford            2006
                                        Cynthia Ozick
                                        Ian Frazier
                                        Adrienne Rich           2005
                                        E. L. Doctorow
                                        Roger Angell
                                        James Alan McPherson    2004
                                        Lyn Hejinian
                                        Russell Banks
                    Susan Sontag        2003
                    Walter Bernstein
                    Laurie Anderson
                                        John Ashbery            2002
                                        Charles Fuller
                                        Michael Cunningham
                                        June Jordan             2001
                                        David Sedaris 
                                        Tony Kushner
                                        Grace Paley             2000
                                        Robert Creeley
                                        John Edgar Wideman
                                        Gay Talese              1999

   recordings of live webcasts featuring the Fellows can be found here:

        http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~whfellow
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