Wanda Coleman offers a poet’s “trade secrets” at Centrum this summer
Friday April 23, 2004
from Centrum’s Port Townsend Writers’ Conference:
“For 30 years, writers from across the country have gathered at Centrum in a true community devoted to advancing the art of writing and understanding the writer’s life. What sets this conference apart from the rest? Community. Discovery. Centrum is not a place of hierarchies, but rather a place that encourages exploration. Participants work closely with the distinguished faculty to open doors of perception, exploring new ways of communicating.
“We are excited to have Wanda Coleman on faculty this year. Ms. Coleman is one of the nation’s most respected African-American writers. She was the first African-American to receive an Emmy in daytime TV writing, and is an award-winning poet and short story writer whose work has appeared in American Voice, Callaloo, Fiction International, MQR, Obsidian Ill, Other Voices, Zyzzyva and many others. She is known for her dramatic readings and has performed in numerous venues including The Folger Library (D.C.), The Nuyorican Poets’ Cafe, The Manhattan Theatre Club, The Paterson Literary Center, Seattle’s Bumbershoot Festival and The Smithsonian Institution. She has been featured on Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion (NPR), The United States of Poetry (PBS), and Salon.com Audio.”
Related resources:
Wanda Coleman’s Book Club
Live Poetry, Festivals & Conferences
“For 30 years, writers from across the country have gathered at Centrum in a true community devoted to advancing the art of writing and understanding the writer’s life. What sets this conference apart from the rest? Community. Discovery. Centrum is not a place of hierarchies, but rather a place that encourages exploration. Participants work closely with the distinguished faculty to open doors of perception, exploring new ways of communicating.
“We are excited to have Wanda Coleman on faculty this year. Ms. Coleman is one of the nation’s most respected African-American writers. She was the first African-American to receive an Emmy in daytime TV writing, and is an award-winning poet and short story writer whose work has appeared in American Voice, Callaloo, Fiction International, MQR, Obsidian Ill, Other Voices, Zyzzyva and many others. She is known for her dramatic readings and has performed in numerous venues including The Folger Library (D.C.), The Nuyorican Poets’ Cafe, The Manhattan Theatre Club, The Paterson Literary Center, Seattle’s Bumbershoot Festival and The Smithsonian Institution. She has been featured on Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion (NPR), The United States of Poetry (PBS), and Salon.com Audio.”
Related resources:
Wanda Coleman’s Book Club
Live Poetry, Festivals & Conferences
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