CROSSING MANY LINES

This reading by two multi-talented writers and teachers will include both poetry and prose, and although Willard is also well-known for her works for children, it will be aimed at adults.

Michael Blumenthal is the author of six books of poetry, most recently, Dusty Angel, and the novel Weinstock Among the Dying, which won Hadassah Magazine’s Harold U. Ribelow Prize for the best work of Jewish fiction in 1994. His 1998 collection of essays, When History Enters the House: Essays from Central Europe, chronicles his years in Hungary from 1992 to 1996, and he is also a frequent translator from German, French and Hungarian. His 2002 memoir, All My Mothers and Fathers, has just appeared in paperback. Formerly Director of Creative Writing at Harvard, he has held Senior Fulbright Fellowships in Budapest, Berlin and Haifa, Israel, and he has been the recipient of many other prestigious fellowships and prizes. He presently lives in France, where he is Distinguished Visiting Professor of American Literature at the Université Jean-Monnet, and Lecturer in Creative Non-Fiction at the Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris.

Nancy Willard is also a well-published writer in both poetry and prose. She is the author of two novels, Things Invisible to See and Sister Water, a collection of lectures on writing given at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference (Telling Time), and eleven books of poetry—the most recent of which is Swimming Lessons. Her many books for children include A Visit to William Blake’s Inn, which was nominated for the National Book Award and was the first poetry book to win the Newbery medal. She has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts in both fiction and poetry. She teaches at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie.

Note: Nancy Willard will be teaching a workshop for us that afternoon on “Cross-Over Writing” about writing for both adults and children. Click here for details.

Suggested Donation: $5 ($3 for members)

The readings at the HVWC are made possible in part by a grant from the Bydale Foundation; the Taft Foundation; and the Thendara Foundation; with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts; and by Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government, corporations and individuals.

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