In Flory’s world, squirrels are giant beasts and bats can be dangerous predators, but this little fairy has the magic and the heart to face any danger — even when she no longer can use her wings to fly away.
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Brady to speak on poetry canon, how it disappeared, what it means
August 16, 2011
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Returning poet-in-residence Philip Brady will speak on the fractured landscape of poetry in his lecture “Ginsberg in Ballydehob: The Dissolving Canon of American Poetry” at 12:15 p.m. today at the Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall.
The name of his speech comes from an old Irish poet who once asked Brady, with a wag of the finger, “Who are your contemporaries?” In an age of thousands of small publishers, new graduate programs, poetry ’zines and blogs, his answer is a bit more complicated than it seems.
Read moreWeek Eight workshops to offer tips for readers and writers
August 14, 2011
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The Writers’ Center will host a unique workshop for poetry readers rather than writers this week, and a children’s author will teach how to activate prose’s senses.
The writers-in-residence Philip Brady and Donna Jo Napoli will read from their work at 3:30 p.m. Sunday at the Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall.
Read more Greenhouse to take audience on her journey out of Christian Science
August 12, 2011
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The last time Lucia Ewing Greenhouse saw her father alive was while he lay in his hospital bed. This would be normal, except that her father was a Christian Science practitioner.
According to Christian Science, Greenhouse’s father was not ill, nor did he die. And his religion discouraged him from going to the doctor, let alone the hospital.
Read more Smith to share truth and consequences of memoir
August 12, 2011
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Writer-in-residence Marion Roach Smith knows that writing a life story does not always come out in one easy piece, nor does it come without raising some serious questions.
Read more Meyer’s first novel tackles the individual in industrial decline
August 10, 2011
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Steel. Its industry once supported entire regions of the United States.
When factories starting going under, the towns they kept afloat did as well. Philipp Meyer’s American Rust is the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle selection for Week Seven, and it is a story of one of these cities. As the book demonstrates, wide-scale collapse cuts much deeper than just the economy.
Read more Forester offers kids tips on helping the environment
August 10, 2011
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Julian Carter-Li has the worst family in the world. His mother left him behind so that she could go to China and made him stay with his evil aunt and uncle who don’t even like him. And worst of all, Julian’s uncle is responsible for cutting down hundreds of redwood trees just so he can be rich and have chauffeurs drive him around in fancy cars.
Read more SLIDESHOW: 2011 Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle Recognition Day
August 9, 2011
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SLIDESHOW: Special thanks to the Chautauqua community for sharing photographs from the 2011 Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle Recognition Day parade and ceremonies on Aug. 3.
Read more Romanian-born poet to give Brown Bag on the art of translation
August 9, 2011
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“Translation is not a matter of words only; it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture,” said English writer Anthony Burgess.
At 12:15 p.m. today at the Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall, Mihaela Moscaliuc, the poet-in-residence, will speak about translation’s pleasures, frustrations and current debates in her lecture “The Poetics and Politics of Translation.”
Read moreWeek Seven workshops focus on writing in sequence, writing on self
August 7, 2011
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The Writers’ Center this week will welcome a husband-wife poetry team and an ace in autobiography.
To kick off their week of residence and workshops, poet Mihaela Moscaliuc and prose writer Marion Roach-Smith will read selections from work at 3:30 p.m. Sunday at the Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall.
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