Juliana Spahr on Hawai'i Bibliovision

Hawai'i Bibliovision in February 2008 spotlights Professor Juliana Spahr, author featured in the second annual Marjorie Putnam Sinclair Edel Reading Series.

Professor Spahr is a critically-acclaimed poet as well as a highly respected scholar and editor. Born and raised in Chillicothe, Ohio, Spahr received her BA from Bard College in Languages and Literatures and her PhD from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York in English. She has taught at Siena College (1996-7), the University of Hawaii at Manoa (1997-2003), and Mills College (2003-).

Her scholarly work includes Everybody's Autonomy: Connective Reading and Collective Identity (2001), American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language (2002) (co-edited with Claudia Rankine), and Poetry and Pedagogy: the Challenge of the Contemporary (2006) (co-edited with Joan Retallack ). She is co-editor (with Jena Osman) of Chain, a poetry journal. Professor Spahr has written many other poetry collections, including Fuck You-Aloha-I Love You (2001), Things of Each Possible Relation Hashing Against One Another (2003), This Connection of Everyone With Lungs (2005), and The Transformation (2007).

Marjorie Putnam Sinclair Edel Reading Series
The English Department at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature has established a Reading Series fund in honor of Marjorie Putnam Sinclair Edel. The Reading Series fund will honor the memory of poet, novelist, biographer, and teacher Marjorie Putnam Sinclair Edel (1913-2005) and her lasting contributions to Hawai‘i’s and the University’s literary communities from 1935 into the twenty-first century.

Celebrated authors in this Series will read from their works and engage students, faculty, and the community in discussions about their writing—with a focus on poetry, Hawai‘i, and Hawaiian culture, three of Marjorie Putnam Sinclair Edel’s life-long interests. The primary purposes of this memorial fund will be to establish Hawai‘i firmly as a central site for writing and creativity in the Pacific region, to allow students and the community at large the opportunity for valuable contact with working writers of national and international reputation, and to deliver readings that speak to the program’s purpose. For more information, please visit: http://www.english.hawaii.edu/events/readingseries.html

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Ruth Hsu, (808) 956-3049, rhsu@hawaii.edu, http://www.english.hawaii.edu

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