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Asheville Wordfest
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Asheville Wordfest Sponsor-a-Poet.
On these pages you will see and read about the poets who comprise Asheville Wordfest 2009. The festival is free and open to the public and in order to keep it that way, we invite poetry-lovers to sponsor the poets' readings. To sponsor a poet, simply click on the "buy" button. You are making a tax deductible donation to The Mountain Area Information Network/ Asheville Wordfest program. Please feel free to sponsor more than one poet or one poet many times.
Asheville Wordfest is sponsored by the Mountain Area Information Network. Asheville Wordfest contextualizes an intercultural poetry festival as journalism. By presenting diversity in the line-up, we draw diversity in audience. An outreach project of The Mountain Area Information Network, a non-profit media network, in Asheville, NC, we take down the wall between literature and life, art and reality, and pull everything together. Asheville Wordfest will present a panel at AWP in Chicago. We are funded by NCArts and the North Carolina Humanities Council and private sponsorship. University of North Carolina-Asheville, Warren Wilson College, Bookworks, Malaprops, and the Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center are our partners. Thank you so much for building Asheville Wordfest.
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Quincy Troupe
Poet, performer, and editor Quincy Troupe was born July 22, 1939, in St Louis, Missouri. His books of poetry include Transcircularities: New and Selected Poems (Coffee House Press, 2002); Choruses: Poems (1999); Avalanche: Poems (1996); Weather Reports: New and Selected Poems (1991); Skulls along the River (1984); Snake-Back Solos: Selected Poems 1969-1977 (1979), which received an American Book Award; and Embryo Poems, 1967-1971 (1974). He is also the author of Miles: The Autobiography (1989), which received an American Book Award; James Baldwin: The Legacy (1989); and the memoir, Miles and Me: A Memoir of Miles Davis (2000). Troupe edited the anthology Giant Talk: An Anthology of Third World Writing (1975) and is a founding editor of Confrontation: A Journal of Third World Literature and American Rag and the founding Editorial Director of Code. In 1991, he received the Peabody Award for co-producing and writing the radio show The Miles Davis Radio Project. Among his honors and awards are fellowships from the National Foundation for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts. He has taught at the University of California--San Diego, and Columbia University. He was the first official poet laureate of the state of California. Troupe lives with his wife, Margaret, and son Porter, in La Jolla, CA.
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Li-Young Lee
Li-Young Lee was born in 1957 in Jakarta, Indonesia, to Chinese parents. His father had been a personal physician to Mao Zedong while in China, and relocated the family to Indonesia, where he helped found Gamaliel University. In 1959, the Lee family fled the country to escape anti-Chinese sentiment and after a five-year trek through Hong Kong, Macau, and Japan, they settled in the United States in 1964.
Lee attended the Universities of Pittsburgh and Arizona, and the State University of New York at Brockport. He has taught at several universities, including Northwestern and the University of Iowa.
He is the author of Behind My Eyes (Norton, 2008); Book of My Nights (2001), which won the 2002 William Carlos Williams Award; The City in Which I Love You (1991), which was the 1990 Lamont Poetry Selection; and Rose (1986), which won the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Poetry Award.
His other work includes Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee (Edited by Earl G. Ingersoll, BOA Editions, 2006), a collection of twelve interviews with Lee at various stages of his artistic development; and The Winged Seed: A Remembrance (Simon and Schuster, 1995), a memoir which received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.
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