Entries from L I T T O R A L | the journal of the Key West Literary Seminar tagged with 'Valerie Martin'
Robert Pinsky: Modernism and Memory
Robert Pinsky is an acclaimed poet, translator, and essayist whom <em>The New York Times</em> has called "our finest living specimen of this sadly rare breed." He has spoken of poetry as "one of the most fundamental pleasures a person can experience," and as U.S. Poet Laureate from 1997-2000, he established the hugely successful Favorite Poem Project, in which Americans from a wide range of backgrounds shared their favorite poems, asserting the role of poetry in the lives of Americans.<br> <br> In this recording of the John Hersey Memorial Address from the 2010 Key West Literary Seminar, Pinsky reads some of his own favorite poems while musing about the process of remembering and forgetting in the context of modernist poetry. Pinsky discusses work by well-known poets including John Keats, Walter Savage Landor, Dante, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Allen Ginsberg, and Richard Wilbur. He also discusses an anonymous poem from the 18th century that was left with an infant at England's Foundling Hospital; a visit he made to a Zulu Sangomo on a trip to Africa; and the work of psychoanalytic writer Hans Loewald.
Valerie Martin offers KWLS Workshop
Critically acclaimed novelist Valerie Martin will return to Key West to teach a four-day advanced fiction writers' workshop this January 11-14. Martin is the author of nine novels, including <em>Mary Reilly</em>, the Orange Prize-winning<em> Property</em>, and her newest work, <em>The Confessions of Edward Day</em>.<br><br> Participants in Martin's advanced fiction workshop will work on the critique and revision of a work-in-progress to bring it to a more complete and polished form. There are no limitations as to genre or subject matter, however a writing sample is required to determine acceptance.
Valerie Martin | 2009<br>A reading from <i>Property</i>
In this recording from the 27th Key West Literary Seminar, Valerie Martin reads from her Orange Prize-winning historical novel, <em>Property</em>. Set on a plantation outside New Orleans in 1828, <em>Property</em> is narrated by Manon Gaudet, a slaveowner whose husband has fathered two children with one of Manon's slaves. In the passage presented here, Manon meets with her brother-in-law following an insurrection in which Manon has been shot in the shoulder, the slave has run away, and her husband has been killed.
Writers Recommend
With more than 40 writers scheduled to speak during our Seminar this January, it can be difficult for a reader to know where to start. Sure, there are the classics and prize-winners, like William Kennedy's Ironweed and David Levering...
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