SANCTUARY & APOCALYPSE

Summer Writing Program 2020 • June 7–27

Naropa University

ORACLES + CYBORGS

• CAConrad

• Julie Carr

• Anne Boyer 

• Raquel Salas Rivera

• Danielle Vogel 

• Andrea Abi-Karam 

• Rodrigo Toscano

• Margaret Randall

• Michelle Naka Pierce & Chris Pusateri 

• Michael Cross [Letterpress Printshop]

Special Guest

• Alice Notley

  Alice Notley will deliver a lecture on remembering before one is born; and hold a Workshop (June 9) entitled “Trance Poetics: Hearing Words Arrive, Talking to Voices, Finding the Past and Future.”

SCHOLARSHIPS

To Apply:

•  5–10 pages of your current poetry, prose, or translation

• A personal letter (500–700 words) that addresses current writing projects, recent accomplishments, workshops you’re interested in taking and/or the specific terms of the Scholarship

• February 14, 2020 deadline

• Zora Neale Hurston Scholarships

• Leslie Scalapino Scholarship

• Amiri Baraka Scholarships

• kari edwards Scholarship

• The Institute of American Indian Arts Scholarship

• Jack Collom Memorial Scholarship for Ecology & Writing

• The Margaret Randall Scholarship in Memory of Mark Behr

• The Latinx Poetics Scholrahsip

• Kevin Killian Memorial Scholarship

• Black Mountain College Lineage Scholarship

NOW-TIME & THE COMING COMMUNITY

• Anne Waldman

• Will Alexander

• Sherwin Bitsui 

• Lisa Jarnot 

• Layli Long Soldier 

• Carolina Ebeid

• giovanni singleton          

• Erik Ehn 

• Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman & Yanara Friedland 

• Julia Seko [Letterpress Printshop]

• Giovannina Jobson

  [Maitri Space Awareness]

  Dharma Arts

• Reed Bye

  Special Guest

  Richard Tuttle

• Richard Tuttle will deliver a lecture on St Paul adding to a series of lecture-performances at Naropa that include: “On Puritanism” (2013); “What Sanskrit Means To Me” (2015); and “In Praise of Islam” (2017)

  Spirit & Poesis

  June 19 & 20

  A Symposium in Collaboration with the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School

• Kazim Ali

• Dan Beachy-Quick 

• Sherwin Bitsui

• Sherah Bloor 

• Amy Hollywood

• Lisa Jarnot 

• Michael Namingha 

• Stephanie Paulsell 

• M. NourbeSe Philip 

• Ariella Ruth 

• Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman

• Charles Stang 

• Anne Waldman

• Terry Tempest Williams

InSURRECTIONARY FORMS, REVOLUTIONARY LINEAGES

• Kazim Ali  

• Eleni Sikelianos 

• Tongo Eisen-Martin

• Jos Charles

• Monica de la Torre

• Thurston Moore

• Lily Hoang

• Julian Talamantez Brolaski

• Evelyn Reilly

• Brad O’Sullivan

  [Letterpress Printshop]

  Special Guests

• Rocio Ceron  

• Safaa Fathy

ETHOS & PRAXIS

• An Experiment in Writing & Community

• No Application Fee

• No Gate-Keeping

• Poetry

• Fiction

• Performance

• Experimental Memoir

• Somatics

• Dharma Arts

• Meditation

• Experimental Theatre

• Letterpress Printing

• Recording Studio

• SWP Audio Archive

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Anne Waldman • Co-Founder & Artistic Director | Jeffrey Pethybridge • SWP Director | Swanee Astrid • SWP Coordinator

Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) • Co-Founder & Beloved Spirit