Writers Project Events

David Budbill, poet

HAPPY LIFE, WHILE WE'VE STILL GOT FEET and MOMENT TO MOMENT: POEMS OF A MOUNTAIN RECLUSE (Copper Canyon Press)
 
Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012
6:30 Dearlove Art Gallery
In Conjunction with the Lois Eby art exhibit,Improvised!, opening reception 
 
"​​David Budbill is a no-nonsense free-range sage who celebrates tomatoes in September, the whistle of a woodcock and sweet black tea and ancient Chinese
poems. He watches the seasons, the years and his own thoughts pass, embracing it all." - Dana Jennings, New York Times 

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Alexis Levitin

Poetry in Translation
Wednesday, March 7th
12:30 Dearlove Art Gallery
SUNY Plattsburg professor Alexis Levitin "is one of the most respected—if not the most respected—English-language translator of Portuguese and Brazilian
literature, as well as literature from Ecuador." - Daniel M. Jaffe

In addition to 20 books of translations, including eleven collections of poems by Portugal’s foremost living poet, Eugenio de Andrade, Alexis has published
translations in approximately 25 anthologies and 200 literary journals.

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David deVries

Award-winning Documentary Filmmaker

Wednesday, March 21

12:40 Scoville Auditorium

David deVries has produced, directed, and written television documentaries in twenty-six countries for American and international networks, including PBS,
CBC, NBC, A&E, BBC, the Discovery Channel, and the Disney Channel.

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Elizabeth Samet, Nonfiction

A SOLDIER'S HEART, Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point 
(Picador Press)
Monday, April 2nd
12:40 Scoville Auditorium
co-sponsored by The Military Club of SUNY Adirondack

"By writing a thoughtful, attentive, stereotype-breaking book about her 10 years as a civilian teacher of literature at the Military Academy, she offers a
significant perspective on the crucial social and political force of honor: a principle of behavior at the intersection of duty and imagination." - Robert
Pinsky, New York Times

The opinions Elizabeth D. Samet expresses are her own; they do not necessary represent those of the U.S. Military Academy, the Department of the Army, or the Department of Defense.

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John Francis, Nonfiction

PLANETWALKER and THE RAGGED EDGE OF SILENCE, National Geographic Books
Monday, April 30th
12:40 Scoville Auditorium

"It began as a silent environmental protest, but as a young African-American man, walking across the country in the early 1970s, his idea of "the
environment" expanded beyond concern about pollution and loss of habitat to include how we humans treat each other and how we can better communicate and work together to benefit the earth. Through his silence and walking, he learned to listen, and along the way, earned college and graduate degrees in science and environmental studies. An amazing human-interest story with a vital message, PLANETWALKER is also an engaging coming-of-age pilgrimage." - National Geographic

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