Saturday
September 6, 2008
9:30 am to 6:00 pm
Martin Luther King Arts Complex
876 Mt. Vernon Avenue, Columbus Ohio
http://www.thekingartscomplex.com


Special Guests:

• JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL, Author and Co-Director, The Program in Creative Writing and Director, The Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, Wisconsin University
  
• JOHN FOX, Poet and Author, and Head and Founder of the Institute for Poetic Meditation in Palo Alto, California
  
• KELLY CHERRY , Author, Creative Writing Program in Wisconsin University, Eudora Welty Professor Emerita of English and Evjue-Bascom Professor Emerita in the Humanities
  
• PAUL BRETT JOHNSON - Children's Book Author and Illustrator and School Author extraordinaire

Free and Open to the Public!

• Authors, come sell your books at the Columbus Book Fesitval - $10.00 Table space.  Contact Norah Holt
• Catered breakfast and lunch buffet style
• Lots of networking and book buying time
• 2 Open mic times

Contact Info

Norah Holt, Writers' Ink
email noraholt5@hotmail.com
writersinkcreativity.com
Phone: 614-493-3298
Feel free to call collect

 

JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL

Sally Mead Hands Professor of English, Co-Director, The Program
in Creative Writing, Director, The Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing

Jesse Lee Kercheval was born in France and raised in Florida, but she has lived in Madison, Wisconsin since 1987. Her most recent book The Alice Stories, set in Madison, won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize. Her newest poetry collection, Cinema Muto, was selected by David Wojahn for the Crab Orchard Poetry Series and will be published by Southern Illinois University Press in February 2009.  Her short story collection, The Dogeater won the Associated Writing Programs Award.
  
She is the author of 8 other books of fiction, poetry and nonfiction including the poetry collection Dog Angel, and Space, a memoir about growing up near Cape Kennedy during the race for the moon which won the Alex Award from the American Library Association. She has received grants from the NEA, the Radcliffe Research and Study Center at Harvard, the Wisconsin Arts Board, and James A. Michener and the Copernicus Society. Her work appears regularly in magazines in the U.S., the U.K., Canada, and Australia.
 
She was the founding director of the University of Wisconsin MFA Program in Creative Writing. Currently, she is the Sally Mead Hands Bascom Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin where she directs the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. She lives in Madison with her husband, her two very good children, and her one very bad dog.

Her stories and poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Georgia Review, Chicago Review, Poetry London, and other literary publications. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Radcliffe Research and Study Center at Harvard, the Wisconsin Arts Board, and the James A. Michener and Copernicus Society of America. More information about Jesse Lee Kercheval may be found at her website.

 
KELLY CHERRY

Eudora Welty Professor Emerita of English and Evjue-Bascom Professor Emerita in the Humanities

Kelly Cherry is the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and criticism including the novels and short story collections Sick and Full of Burning, We Can Still Be Friends, Augusta Played, Conversion, The Society of Friends, In the Wink of an Eye, The Lost Traveller's Dream, and My Life and Dr. Joyce Brothers; the poetry collections Death and Transfiguration, An Other Woman, Lovers and Agnostics, Rising Venus, Natural Theology, Songs for a Soviet Composer, Welsh Table Talk, God's Loud Hand, Relativity: A Point of View, Time Out of Mind, Benjamin John and Hazard and Prospect: New and Selected Poems; and the nonfiction and critical books The Poem: An Essay, The Exiled Heart, Writing the World, The Globe and the Brain, and History, Passion, Freedom, Death, and Hope: Prose about Poetry. She has also translated the Antigone of Sophocles and Seneca's Octavia.
 

JOHN FOX

Poet and author of  FINDING WHAT YOU DIDN'T LOOSE AND POETIC MEDICINE

John says, "Since 1981, I have been passionately committed to helping people discover their healing poet, the one that lives and breathes within each of us. I teach, consult, write and mentor individuals, professional groups and organizations across the globe.

It doesn't matter if you have never written poetry or have written for a long time. If you are new to poetry or just want to deepen your writing practice, this work can support and inspire you.

In early 2005, I formed The Institute for Poetic Medicine, the next manifestation of my life's mission and purpose. We are a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to healing body, mind and spirit through the creative and therapeutic process of hearing and writing poetry. Our vision is to awaken this creative an d healing voice in the human spirit. We are collectively dedicated to nurture and strengthen the human capacity to connect to Self, Other, Community, the Natural World and the Divine. On behalf of myself and my Board of Directors, I invite you to experience The Institute for Poetic Medicine."
 

PAUL BRETT JOHNSON

Children's Book Author and Illustrator

Author/Illustrator Paul Brett Johnson is a native of Kentucky's Appalachian Mountains. He has published over twenty books for children. His work has garnered numerous honors including two Kentucky Bluegrass Awards and a California Young Readers' Medal. Many of his books have been selected to noteworthy lists in School Library Journal, American Bookseller, Bulletin, Smithsonian magazine, the New York Public Library's "100", and the IRA/CBC children's choices. He has been profiled in CHILDREN'S WRITER'S & ILLUSTRATOR'S MARKET as well as Writers' Digest. He has been listed in WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA. Paul currently lives in Lexington, Kentucky.  Paul studied art at the University of Kentucky where he also received a Masters Degree in Education.  After working as an art teacher, a display designer, a freelance photographer, a graphic artist, and a studio painter, he found his calling as a children's book illustrator and writer.