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“Write Out Loud”

Compelling Live Interpretation of the Written Word for Writers, Actors

and Poets.

A comprehensive emersion in the live delivery of creative writing,

based on Inverse Theater’s “Verse Circus”.

2007 Write Out Loud Faculty

Faculty

Guest Poet/Workshop Leaders

Inverse Theater Artistic Director

Kirk Wood Bromley

Dr. Patrick Drohan – DIRECTOR – PINE LAKE INSTITUTE

Pine Lake Institute for Environmental and Sustainability

Hartwick College

Peter Blue - RESIDENT MANAGER - PINE LAKE INSTITUTE

Pine Lake Institute for Environmental and Sustainability

Hartwick College

Duncan Smith – COURSE SPONSOR - HARTWICK COLLEGE - PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AND THEATER ARTS

Duncan Smith earned a BA in History at the University of California, Riverside, an MA in Theatre at San Francisco State College and a PhD in Dramatic Art at the University of California, Berkeley and took additional acting classes at the American Conservatory Theatre and Shakespeare and Company. He has thirty years experience working in small, liberal arts theatre programs and helped found Theatre as a Liberal Art, an interest group of the American College Theatre Association. He has directed nearly 80 college productions and assisted several hundred more. He has taught classes in all aspects of theatre but recently has focused on Introduction to Theatre, Play Production, Classical Theatre and Drama, Drama to 1850, and the off-campus class, Theatre in England. He currently heads the board of Orpheus Theatre, a local community theatre. He and his wife, Grace, have been married for 40 years and have two children and three undeniably wonderful grandchildren.

Hank Wagner – COURSE DIRECTOR – COURSE INSTRUCTOR

Hank Wagner performed as a multidiscipline performer in NY for the last 16 years.  An actor, singer, writer and lyricist, he has performed with The Pearl Theater, Inverse Theater, hit show De La Guarda at the Daryl Roth Theater, and also on TV with HBO’s “Oz”.  For the last 10 years he has also served as a consultant and teaching artist to the New York City Department of Education; training students, teachers and Principals in Drama Techniques, Conflict Resolution, Electronic Music and Creative Writing.  He is a founding member of Inverse Theater and has performed in over 15 Inverse Productions as well as numerous appearances of original material with the Inverse’s “Verse Circus”.

Robert Laine - COURSE INSTRUCTOR

Robert Laine has taught forensics, oral interpretation and public speaking at Eastern Michigan University (where he was a 5 time National Oral Interpretation Champion as a competitor) Roosevelt University and St. Xavier University in Chicago and Kingsborough Community College in New York. He has been performing his poetry in Chicago and New York for over a decade and was a member of Chicago's National Poetry Slam team as well the Chicago representative in the National Video Poetry Competition. As a member of Inverse Theater he has performed in over 17 original Verse plays in New York and was host of The Inverse Verse Circus for two years. He most recently taught a "Turning Your Poetry into Performance" workshop for the Michigan Speech Association at Oakland Community College.  

Carol Frost-Hartwick College Writer in Residence, Guest Poet / Workshop Leader

Carol Frost teaches poetry and fiction workshops, Introduction to Creative Writing, Experiencing Writing in Australia, and an occasional seminar - Robert Frost, Muriel Rukeyser. She also directs the Catskill Poetry Workshop, held annually at Hartwick College. Her career as a poet spans nearly twenty-five years. Her first book, The Salt Lesson, was published in 1976 by Graywolf Press. Since then, nine collections of her poems have appeared in print.  She is the recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, three Pushcart Prizes (with nominations every year for the last sixteen years), and magazine prizes from Ploughshares and Prairie Schooner. She was a poetry editor for the 2004 Pushcart Prize Anthology. Her poems and essays appear in such places as The Paris Review, Kenyon Review, The New York Times, New England Review, Atlantic Monthly, TriQuarterly, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, and have been read on The Writer’s Almanac (Minnesota Public Radio). She has taught for the Master of Fine Arts programs at Washington University, Wichita State University, and the low residency program at Warren Wilson. She has been on the faculty for the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and the Vermont Studio Center, and has given readings and workshops at West Point, USC, Pomona, University of Illinois, Johns Hopkins, Barnard, Sarah Lawrence, San Francisco State, University of Florida, LSU, etc.

Jeanne Marie Beaumont - Guest Poet / Workshop Leader

Jeanne Marie Beaumont grew up in the Philadelphia area and moved to New York City in 1983. She holds an MFA in Writing from Columbia University. Her first book, Placebo Effects, was selected by William Matthews as a winner in the National Poetry Series and published by W.W. Norton in 1997. In 2004, her second collection of poems, Curious Conduct, was published by BOA Editions, Ltd. With Claudia Carlson, she co-edited the anthology The Poets’ Grimm: Twentieth Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales (Story Line Press, 2003). Her poems have appeared in more than a dozen anthologies and textbooks, including Good Poems for Hard Times, Poetry Daily: 366 Poems from the World’s Most Popular Poetry Website, The Norton Introduction to Literature, 9th ed., The Breath of Parted Lips, vol. II, and Blues for Bill: A Tribute to William Matthews. Journals in which her work has appeared include Boston Review, Colorado Review, Conduit, Court Green, Double Take, Harper’s, Manhattan Review, The Nation, New American Writing, Poetry, Volt, Witness, and World Literature Today, among many others. Her poem “Afraid So” was made into a short film by award-winning filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt: it has been screened at numerous international film festivals in 2006. From 1992 to 2000, she was co-editor of the literary magazine American Letters & Commentary. She has taught at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, and at The Frost Place, where she was recently named director for the Frost Place Seminar. She also teaches at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y in New York City.

Meg Kearney - Guest Poet / Workshop Leader

Meg Kearney’s collection of poetry, An Unkindness of Ravens, was published by BOA Editions in 2001. Her poetry collection for teens, The Secret of Me, was released Persea Books in 2005. She is also co-editor of Blues for Bill: a Tribute to William Matthews. Her poetry has been featured on Poetry Daily and published in such publications as Ploughshares, Poetry, and The Gettysburg Review, and numerous anthologies, including Urban Nature, Poets Grimm, and Never Before: Poems About First Experiences. Recipient of an 2001 Artist’s Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Ms. Kearney has received numerous awards for her work, including a New York Times Fellowship and the Alice M. Sellers Academy of American Poets Award. She has taught poetry at the New School University and myriad festivals, high schools, and universities around the country. Before joining Pine Manor College as Director of the Solstice Creative Writing Programs, she was Associate Director of the National Book Foundation, sponsor of the National Book Awards and a host of educational outreach programs, for more than 10 years.

BJ Ward - Guest Poet / Workshop Leader is the author of Gravedigger’s Birthday, 17 Love Poems with No Despair and Landing in New Jersey with Soft Hands. All three volumes are published by North Atlantic Books of Berkley, California.

His work has appeared in Poetry, TriQuarterly, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology, as well as on National Public Radio, New Jersey Network, and the website, Poetry Daily.

He is a member of the faculty at Warren County Community College and will also teach this summer at The Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire.