| The Writers Project at ACC was developed to give students and Warren and Washington County residents the chance to listen to and speak in person with nationally renowned and up-and-coming writers. |
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| All readings are free and open to the public. |
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| 640 Bay Road |
| Queensbury, NY 12804 |
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| Phone: 518-743-2210 |
| Fax: 518-745-1433 |
| Email: writersproject@sunyacc.edu |
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| Director |
| Lâle Davidson |
| Media Relations |
| Bob Myers |
| Advisory Board |
| Paul Gallipeo |
| Sheldon Hurst |
| Kathleen McCoy |
| Courtney Reid |
| Nancy White |
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Schedule of Events: Free and Open to the Public
Nancy White
Monday, February 25, 2008
12:30 p.m.
Visual Arts Gallery
Dearlove Hall
Queensbury Campus
Free and Open to the Public |
Nancy White will read from a collection of poems gleaned from interviews with local residents who work the land: farmers, loggers and others. "A lot of people have no notion of what it's like to make a living by directly producing what human beings need in order to live-milk, grain, produce, lumber, wool." White is an Associate Professor of English at ACC, a Cambridge, NY native going back several generations, and a recipient of the LARAC individual artist grant. She has published in numerous nationally-recognized journals and her first book Sun, Moon, Salt won the Washington Prize for Poetry. |
Rob Faivre
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
12:30 p.m.
Visual Arts Gallery
Dearlove Hall
Queensbury Campus
Free and Open to the Public |
Cultured Wildness: 21 Paragraphics (Wood Thrush Books 2008) is a sequence of "paragraphics" or prose-poems that form a plural argument about the relationship of what we call "nature" to civilization. Rob Faivre teaches writing, literature and literary theory ACC. He has published two chapbooks, Looking for the Lost, winner of the Hudson Valley Writers Guild Poetry Chapbook Contest in 1995, and Walking (Wood Thrush Books, 2000). The presentation will begin with a reading of select paragraphics, followed by commentary from ACC faculty of various disciplines, and moving into a general discussion of the issues. |
Conference for Writers of Young Adult Literature
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Dearlove Hall
Queensbury Campus |
A day-long event for teachers, high school and college students, and other adults interested in writing or teaching young adult literature. Registrants will have the opportunity to practice the craft in workshops with four distinguished and award winning authors of diverse backgrounds followed by four readings. Non-fiction writer Marc Aronson will open the event with a lecture, and fiction writers Jacqueline Woodson, An Na, and Jennifer Armstrong will give workshops. Registration required: $75 for adults $40 for students, lunch and coffee included. Call the ACC Center to register: (518) 743-2238. Jacqueline Woodson Reading from 12:30-1:30 is free and open to the public. |
Carol Graser
Monday, April 14, 2008
7:00 p.m.
Wilton Extension Center
Free and Open to the Public |
Carol Graser's first book of poetry, The Wild Twist of Their Stems (Foothills Publishing 2007) describes the myriad angles of being a mother. MotherVerse Magazine lauded the work as "at once shocking and then calming" with "images will remain long after you have closed the book". She has published her work in local, literary and parenting magazines over 20 years. She has read her poetry at fund-raisers, anti-war rallies and open mics. She hosts a monthly poetry reading series at Saratoga.s legendary Caffe Lena. |
Copies of our guests' most recent work are available at Red Fox books, 28 Ridge Street, Glens Falls, NY 12801, Tel: 518-793-5352.
All venues for readings for the Writers Project at Adirondack Community College are handicap-accessible, and amplification devices for the hearing impaired can be made available upon request.
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