S168. Mammoth Publications Authors: Diane Glancy, Xanath Caraza, Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Robert Muroff Bookfair Stage, Level 1
Saturday, April 11, 2015
12:00 pm to 1:15 pm

 

Diane Glancy is an award-winning writer and filmmaker whose Cherokee heritage reflects in her work from Mammoth. Xanath Caraza, winner of international and national recognition for Spanish, English, and Nahuatl language prose and poetry, reads from her second Mammoth book. Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, third poet laureate of Kansas, has poetry collections from Mammoth, both her own work and edited anthologies. These professional readers have great style verve. Denise Low, co-publisher, moderates. 


Participants

Moderator:

Denise (Dotson) Low is a past president of AWP. She is 2007-2009 Kansas poet laureate, with twenty-five published books of poetry, personal essays, and scholarship. Her works explore interactions of historic, "mythic," and "real" time with respect for her Lenape (Delaware) and British Isles heritage.

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg is the 2009-13 Kansas poet laureate, and founder of Transformative Language Arts at Goddard College, where she teaches. Author of nineteen books, including a memoir on cancer and community, and other prose, she leads community writing workshops for people living with serious illness.

Xánath Caraza’s bilingual poetry and short story collections are Syllables of WindNoche de ColibríesWhat the Tide BringsConjuro, and Corazón Pintado. She writes the column “US Latino Poets en español” for La Bloga, and teaches at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Diane Glancy is professor emeritus at Macalester College. She was a 2012-14 visiting professor at Azusa Pacific University.

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