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"Kathleen Spivack is teaching an Advanced Poetry Workshop at the PARIS Writers Workshop in late June 2012 in France.* A great conference; participants read their work in distinguished Paris venues. Please join Kathleen in Paris! It fills up…"
Kathleen Spivack left a comment for Member News
"Kathleen Spivack's last book A History of Yearning was awarded the Sow’s Ear Chapbook Prize, and the London Book Festival First Prize, among others. Recent work received the Allen Ginsberg Award, the Knightsville Poetry prize, The…"
Kathleen Spivack posted a blog post
Please come as my guest! Stanley Kunitz Association
Please let people know, as I just found out that we can have guests! -(non paying! exceptionally). Your students are also welcome. I am presenting, with a stellar cast of speakers, at the Stanley Kunitz Association, which will celebrate its first year as part of the American Literature Association Meetings in Boston May 26-29,Westin Copley Place. Guests are welcome at the presentations on Kunitz and a beautiful film and other events in Kunitz’ honor on Thursday May 26. The other meetings…See More
Kathleen Spivack posted an event
Shaping Your Written Work: An Advanced Workshop at Cambridge Center for Adult Education
April 30, 2011 from 10am to 4pm
Join acclaimed writer Kathleen Spivack for this special one-day,two-session workshop open to writers in all genres. We will lookcarefully at some choices in how to shape a longer piece of writtenwork: beginnings, transitions, and endings, with some attention topublication possibilities as well. Please choose one writing project towork on during this time. Limited to 10.See More
Kathleen Spivack commented on the blog post 'Member News Week Ending September 18, 2010'
"What a useful site! Am recommending it to my clients too-- so much that is helpful here. All best wishes, Kathleen Spivack."
Kathleen Spivack left a comment for Marsha Browne
"Thanks Marsha. And what a great photo. Hope things are going well. Love, Kathleen"
Marsha Browne left a comment for Kathleen Spivack
"Too bad you weren't at the She Writes meetup, Kathleen. Lynne Barrett and I both went; it was a great evening, and Kamy was right, Jaclyn is a real dynamo. I'm looking forward to your upcoming readings.
M."
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Poetry Reading at The Yenching Common Room
September 13, 2010 from 7pm to 9pm
Monday, September 13 at 7 pm.NEPC (New England Poetry Club) 2010 prize winners, Susan Eisenber, Kathleen Spivack (Erika Mumford Prize) and others will read at The Yenching Common Room at 2 Divinity Ave in Cambridge, MA, off Kirkland Street, near Quincy Street and Memorial Hall. Free and Open to the Public.See More
Kathleen Spivack left a comment for Sally Schloss
"thank you Sally. I will be the boston area now and in paris in the winter/early spring. thanks to Delaine for bringing us together. all best wishes for your writing! best, Kathleen"
Kathleen Spivack posted a blog post
Book Announcement
THE SOW’S EAR POETRY REVIEWis proud to announce the publication ofA History of Yearning by Kathleen SpivackThis collection is the winner of the annual chapbook competition in 2009.“Most of these poems begin with paintings and photographs, and rise from them as fragrance rises from spring flowers after a hard winter, a gift to us from language that survives and blooms and brings us pleasures we hardly know how to name. Kathleen Spivack has created another in her series of award-winning books, a…See More
Sally Schloss left a comment for Kathleen Spivack
"Hi Kathleen, Welcome! My friend Delaine Douglas met you at an IWWG weekend in NYC and told me how wonderful you were. She mentioned a program in Paris that you're involved in. Would love to know more about that. This is a great place to be and…"
Kathleen Spivack left a comment for Julia
"thank you julia, will be looking at your info and appreciate it. all the best, kathleen"
Kathleen Spivack left a comment for Kate the Book Buff
"thank you kate. a lovely space! best, kathleen"
Kathleen Spivack left a comment for Kamy Wicoff
"thanks for your warm welcome! all the best, Kathleen"
Profile Information
- Who I am:
- Visit my blog at www.kathleenspivack.com, also see Poets & Writers profile and LinkedIn.
- Books I've written, anthologies I've contributed to, and any scripts or plays I've authored:
- 7 books, prose, Most recent, A History of Yearning, Winner, Sows Ear International Poetry Prize 2010; Moments of Past Happiness, (Earthwinds/Grolier Editions 2007); The Beds We Lie In (Scarecrow 1986), nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; The Honeymoon (Graywolf 1986); Swimmer in the Spreading Dawn (Applewood 1981); The Jane Poems (Doubleday 1973); Flying Inland (Doubleday 1971); Robert Lowell, Bishop ,Plath, Sexton et al: A Personal Memoir; (forthcoming I hope in 2010,) Lots of anthologies mags , etc
- Media outlets that I currently write for:
- Lots of mags. This doesn't exactly fit, but your readers might be interested in the following articles on Lowell, Bishop, Sexton, and Plath-- I am probably one of the last poets alive who knew them all....( oh, that sound tooo creaky!!!!) Anyhow, here they are.
Published Articles Relevant to the Lowell Memoir:
“A. Sexton, S. Plath, A. Rich, E. Bishop,” Thirteenth Moon. 1989.
“Robert Lowell,” Agni. 1988.
“Anne Sexton,” Croton Review. 1988.
“Robert Lowell, a Memoir,” Robert Lowell, Univ. of Michigan Press. 1988.
References in Sylvia Plath, L. Wagner-Martin, Simon & Schuster. 1987.
“Lear in Boston, Robert Lowell as Teacher and Friend,” Ironwood. 1985.
“Robert Lowell,” Antioch Review. 1985.
“Journal Entries,” Ariadne’s Thread, Harper & Row. 1982.ed Lynn Lifshin
“Sharers of the Heart: Anne Sexton,” Boston Globe Magazine. August 1981, cover story.
“Anne Sexton,” American Poetry Review. 1975.
-Sylva Plath, Frank, Paris 1999
-Elizabeth Bishop, Worcester Review l999
-Fusion/Loss in Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetry. Resonances 2003
-Conceal/Reveal:Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop. Massachusetts Review/2006
-Sylvia Plath. Virginia Quartely 2005
-Notes of a Witness, Worcester Review forthcoming)Bishop Centennial 2010.
-Talents in a Teapot. Boston, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop and Protective Coloration. Presented at ALA Boston 2009
Keynote speaker, the Elizabeth Bishop Society, Worcester, Robert Lowell, Cleveland, Sylvia Plath, Bordeaux, Lowell, France, Bishop, in France throughout 2002--others ,ALA Boston 2009others.
- My writing is:
- Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Memoir, Lit Crit
- Outlets where I review books, TV, or film:
- no, have connections with too many writers-- love their work! Completely supportive-( and subjective) - we're all part of the tapestry, aren't we?
- Services I offer to other writers:
- Readings, performance, workshops, master classes, talks, most of all individual coaching for advanced writers. Cited as top writing coach and teacher. Clients have won the Yale(2) , Discovery, Cleveland, Pitt,(2) Ohio, WordWorks(3), Carnegie Mellon, O’Neill,(2) Provincetown,(2) Bunting,(3) and NEA(several) awards. Recently they won two Tupelos, Kore, Gival, Sheep Meadow, Cottage Street, Red Hen,(2) Graywolf, Scribner, Tupelo, Penguin (2) etc. publication and awards, as well as a first prizes for best online poetry book of the year. What they all have in common is a level of excellence, purpose, something to say, and engagement.
NEA and MA Council have sponsored scholarship programs for my writers, and I only take a few writers each year. I bring a lifetime of experience in writing, teaching, publishing, psychology, language and language development as well as full attention and commitment to the writing process. I come from a writing family and this has always been my life.
- I'm part of these writers' groups or salons:
- Book group, women on my block.
- My professional associations:
- I have been Visiting Professor of American Literature/Creative Writing (one semester ) in France since 1990. Have has held posts at the University of Paris VII-VIII, the University of Tours, the University of Versailles, and at the Ecole Superieure (Polytechnique).Was a Fulbright Senior Artist/Professor in Creative Writing, France (1993-95.). Often read and perform in theatres. my work has been featured at festivals in France and in the U.S. Also work with composers. Song cycles and longer pieces have been performed worldwide. Just won a first prize,Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award 2010 , and the Sow's Ear International Poetry Chapbook Award, book just out 2010.
I have received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts; Bunting Institute; Two Radcliffe Institute fellowships; Massachusetts Council for the Arts and Humanities; the Fulbright Commission and others. A Discovery winner, s residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, Ragdale, Karolyi, Byrdcliffe and the American Academy in Rome. An international writing coach, I direct the Advanced Writing Workshop, created through the NEA, an intensive program for professional writers. Have taught in the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Barbados, at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center in its early days, and for the Holland America Line. I've taught at Santa Fe, Taos, Aspen, IWWG : Skidmore Brown and other programs throughout the United States as well as abroad. Member, int. Pen, PSA, Poets House, NE Poetry Club,support the NWU all kinds of writers retreats and little mags, and many other writing programs and organizations.
Kathleen Spivack's Blog
Paris Writing Workshop
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 2:00pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
I will be teaching at the Paris Writers Workshop in late June 2012 in France.* Other terrific workshops also being offered. Enhance your “professional development” and have a great time too! It would be wonderful if you could join me. Mais bien sur!
*Shaping the Poem. “How do we shape a poem so that it shimmers with meaning? Read your work in famed Paris venues as part of the program….”…
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Posted on February 20, 2012 at 1:30pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
My new book, “With Robert Lowell and His Circle: Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Elizabeth Bishop, Stanley Kunitz, others” is coming out with the University Press of New England, in fall 2012. I came to Boston in 1959 to study with Lowell in “that famous class”; he introduced me to poets of his time who took me under their wing. The memoir looks at friendships and how these poets approached their work. I am probably one of the few writers still alive from that…
Continue Please come as my guest! Stanley Kunitz Association
Posted on May 25, 2011 at 11:26am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Please let people know, as I just found out that we can have guests! -(non paying! exceptionally). Your students are also welcome.
I am presenting, with a stellar cast of speakers, at the Stanley Kunitz Association, which will celebrate its first year as part of the American Literature Association Meetings in Boston May 26-29,Westin Copley Place. Guests are welcome at the presentations on Kunitz and a beautiful… Continue
I am presenting, with a stellar cast of speakers, at the Stanley Kunitz Association, which will celebrate its first year as part of the American Literature Association Meetings in Boston May 26-29,Westin Copley Place. Guests are welcome at the presentations on Kunitz and a beautiful… Continue
Book Announcement
Posted on August 10, 2010 at 8:08am 0 Comments 0 Likes
THE SOW’S EAR POETRY REVIEW
is proud to announce the publication of
A History of Yearning by Kathleen Spivack
This collection is the winner of the annual chapbook competition in 2009.
“Most of these poems begin with paintings and photographs, and rise from them as fragrance rises from spring flowers after a hard winter, a gift to us from language that survives and blooms and brings us pleasures we hardly know how to name. Kathleen Spivack has created… Continue
is proud to announce the publication of
A History of Yearning by Kathleen Spivack
This collection is the winner of the annual chapbook competition in 2009.
“Most of these poems begin with paintings and photographs, and rise from them as fragrance rises from spring flowers after a hard winter, a gift to us from language that survives and blooms and brings us pleasures we hardly know how to name. Kathleen Spivack has created… Continue
Comment Wall (6 comments)
- At 5:02pm on September 12, 2010,
Marsha Browne said… - Too bad you weren't at the She Writes meetup, Kathleen. Lynne Barrett and I both went; it was a great evening, and Kamy was right, Jaclyn is a real dynamo. I'm looking forward to your upcoming readings.
M.
- At 3:42pm on August 6, 2010,
Sally Schloss said… - Hi Kathleen, Welcome! My friend Delaine Douglas met you at an IWWG weekend in NYC and told me how wonderful you were. She mentioned a program in Paris that you're involved in. Would love to know more about that. This is a great place to be and I'm excited that you have joined...Sally
- At 2:58pm on June 21, 2010,
Kamy Wicoff said… - Hi there--just wanted to drop by your page and invite you personally to our first-ever She Writes Boston meetup, celebrating She Writes' one-year anniversary! The Boston gathering will be hosted by none other than Jaclyn Friedman, author of "Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape (and one of Publishers' Weekly's Top 100 Books of 2009)," and visionary leader of Women, Action Media (WAM!). At the meetup writers will take part in the She Writes "Book Communion," where attendees arrive with one book, their own or another She Writers', new or gently used, and leave with another book as a meaningfully way to support one another's work. We will also be blowing out a candle and making a wish for our upcoming writing year -- along with She Writers gathering in 16 cities around the country. I hope you will be part of this historic (well, at least kind of cool) occasion, and RSVP now to Jaclyn here.
- At 8:52am on June 8, 2010,
Kate the Book Buff said… - Welcome to She Writes Kathleen! I just wanted to introduce myself, and my blog, The Book Buff: Book Reviews for Regular People. Check it out at http://www.thebookbuff.blogspot.com
Kate
- At 5:27am on June 8, 2010,
Julia said… - Hi Kathleen,welcome! Here is some information to help you get started at She Writes. Also, we have a ton of interesting groups on the site and would love to have you join any that might interest you!
We're so glad to have you here!
Julia
- At 9:17pm on June 7, 2010,
Meg Waite Clayton said… - Welcome to She Writes, Kathleen. Hope you enjoy the site!
Meg Waite Clayton
She Writes Salonista (think Welcome Wagon)
www.megwaiteclayton.com
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