| Suzanne Rancourt Suzanne Rancourt will perform at ACC on Wednesday, October 7, at 12:30 pm in Miller Auditorium, Dearlove Hall. WHOSE MOUTH DO I SPEAK WITH I can remember my father bringing home spruce gum. He worked in the woods and filled his pockets with gold chunks of pitch. For his children he provided this special sacrament and we'd gather at his feet, around his legs, bumping his lunchbox, and his empty thermos rattled inside. Our skin would stick to Daddy's gluey clothing and we'd smell like Mumma's Pine Sol. We had no money for store bought gum but that's all right. The spruce gum was so close to chewing amber as though in our mouths we held the eyes of Coyote and how many other children had fathers that placed on their innocent anxious tongues the blood of trees? "Her strong social agenda and sense of injustice militate against any naive gazeteering or overawed exoticism. So does her zest for specific birds, people, ways of farming, motions of the wind." Nicholas Birns, American Book Review |
Suzanne Rancourt |
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| Wednesday, October 07, 2009 • 12:30pm • Miller Auditorium • Dearlove Hall |
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| Janine Pommy Vega Janine Pommy Vega's first CD, Across the Table, recorded in Woodstock, and from live performances in Italy and Bosnia, came out in November 2007. An Italian translation of her travel book, Tracking the Serpent (Sulle tracce del serpente, Nutrimenti, Rome), was published in July 2007. Her translations from Spanish of migrant workers' poems, Estamos Aqui, came out from Bowery Books in 2007. Vega performs with music and solo in English and Spanish in international poetry festivals, museums, prisons, universities, cafes, nightclubs, and migrant workers' camps in South America, North America and Europe. She is Director of Incisions/Arts, an organization of writers working with people behind bars, and has taught inside prisons for more than twenty-five years. She currently teaches a course in poetics for Bard Prison Initiative. Other links of interest: Click here and also here. |
Janine Pommy Vega |
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| Monday, October 26, 2009 • 12:30pm • Visual Arts Gallery • Dearlove Hall |
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| Jeffrey Goodell Jeff Goodell is the author of BIG COAL: THE DIRTY SECRET BEHIND AMERICA'S ENERGY FUTURE (Houghton Mifflin). He is also the author of SUNNYVALE, a memoir about growing up in Silicon Valley that was selected as a New York Times Notable Book; and OUR STORY, an account of the nine miners trapped in a Pennsylvania coal mine, was a New York Times best-seller. He is a Contributing Editor at Rolling Stone Magazine, and his work has appeared in many publications, including The New Republic, The Washington Post, The New York Times Magazine, and Wired. His new book, to be published next year by Houghton Mifflin Harcount, is titled HOW TO COOL THE PLANET: GEOENGINEERING AND THE AUDACIOUS QUEST TO FIX THE EARTH'S CLIMATE. Goodell lives and works in Saratoga Springs, New York. For more information on Jeff Goodell, go here or here. Jeff Goodell's appearance is co-sponsored by the ACC Freshman Seminar Experience. |
Jeffrey Goodell |
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| Wednesday, November 04, 2009 • 12:30pm • Scoville Auditorium • Scoville Learning Center |
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| Richard Kenney Richard Kenney, a native of Glens Falls, NY, is published in many magazines and journals, including The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and the American Scholar. He teaches at the University of Washington, in Seattle. His work has been described as being influenced by science, human evolution, magical reasoning and Celtic and classical literature. ALBA RED by Richard Kenney December 3, 2007 - The New Yorker Hung vial I.V. morphine drip hummingbird feeder where the cats can't get it long brake light occluded in billowing exhaust in the chill predawn fog of a final wish in the world and the sun rising through it |
Richard Kenney |
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| Monday, November 16, 2009 • 12:30pm • Visual Arts Gallery • Dearlove Hall |
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