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	History of the Plutzik Reading Series Dannie Abse Edward Albee John Ashberry James Baldwin Toni Cade Bambara John Barth Dan Beachy-Quick Madison Smartt Bell John Berryman Linda Bierds Elizabeth Bishop Gwendolyn Brooks J. M. Coetzee Robert Coover Robert Creeley Robertson Davies Lydia Davis Kathryn Davis Samuel Delany James Dickey Daniel Donaghy Beverly Donofrio Rita Dove Rikki Ducornet Ralph Ellison Clayton Eshleman Brian Evenson Alan Ginsberg Dana Gioia Joy Harjo Matthea Harvey Anthony Hecht John Hollander Maureen Howard Richard Howard Fanny Howe Christine Hume Shelly Jackson LeRoi Jones Erica Jong Ilya Kaminsky Sally Keith Galway Kinnell Maxine Kumin Denise Levertov James Longenbach Robert Lowell Alison Lurie Nathaniel Mackey Gerard Malenga Ben Markus Heather McHugh Christopher Merrill W. S. Merwin Stephen Millhauser Rick Moody Michael Ondaatje Alicia Ostriker Michael Palmer Carl Phillips Tom Piazza Marge Piercy Robert Pinsky Bin Ramke Donald Revell Adrienne Rich Salman Rushdie Joanna Scott Alan Shapiro William De Witt Snodgrass John Updike Helen Vendler Ellen Bryant Voigt Andrei Vosnesensky Derek Walcott Richard Wilbur C K Williams James Wright Charles Wright Dean Young Paul Zimmer Ellen Bryant Voigt 30 Oct 2001 More about Ellen Bryant Voigt. Ellen Bryant Voigt is the author of several collections of poetry, most recently Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006 (W.W. Norton & Co., 2007), Shadow of Heaven (2002), which was a finalist for the National Book Award; Kyrie (1995), a finalist for the National Book Critic's Circle Award; Two Trees (1992); The Lotus Flowers (1987); The Forces of Plenty (1983); and Claiming Kin (1976). She has also written a collection of essays on craft, The Flexible Lyric (2001). Voigt has been awarded the 67th Academy of American Poets Fellowship. Her other awards and honors include grants from the Vermont Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation, as well as a Pushcart Prize. Since 1981 she has taught in the M.F.A. program for writers at Warren Wilson College. In 1976, Voigt developed and directed the nation's first low-residency writing program at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont--a design for graduate M.F.A. study that has since been emulated by many other colleges and universities. Voigt was elected a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets in 2003. She lives in Cabot, Vermont, where she served as the Vermont State Poet from 1999 to 2003. Text from poets.org (http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/880) Picture from http://web2.unt.edu/news/media/voight.jpg
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