AT THE TOP OF THEIR GAME
Kurt
Brown is founding director of the Aspen Writers’ Conference, served for years
on the board of Sarabande Books, is currently on the board of Poets House, and
is the editor of three annuals which gather outstanding lectures from writers’
conferences and festivals. He has edited several anthologies, including Drive,
They Said: Poems About Americans and their Cars (1994), and co-edited with
his wife, poet Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Night Out: Poems about Hotels, Motels,
Restaurants & Bars (1997), all from Milkweed Editions.
He is the author of five chapbooks and four full-length collections of poems including Future Ship, to be published by Story Line Press this fall. Stephen Dobyns describes him as “a poet who loves the world...with a clear eye” and who “has line breaks that will break your heart.”
Joan
Silber is the author of Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories (W. W. Norton),
selected last year as a finalist for the Story Prize and for the controversial
National Book Award in fiction. Set in the past and present in France, Italy,
New York, and China, these stories are linked in that a minor element in one becomes
major in the next.
She has published four other books of fiction, and her first novel, Household Words, winner of a PEN/Hemingway Award, will be reissued in November. Her work has been chosen for the O. Henry Prize Stories and the Pushcart Prize and has appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, The Paris Review, and other magazines. She has awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the NY Foundation for the Arts.
Both writers live in NYC and teach at Sarah Lawrence College.
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credits:
Kurt Brown by Valentin Moscaliuc; Joan Silber by Barry Goldstein
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The readings at the HVWC are made possible in part by a grant from the Bydale Foundation; the David G. Taft Foundation; the Orchard Foundation; and the Thendara Foundation; with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency; and by Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government, corporations and individuals.