Jana Harris, "Who Giveth This Woman? Courtship and Wedding Tales of the American Frontier"

Date
Mon October 20th 2008, 11:45am
Event Sponsor
Clayman Institute for Gender Research
Location
Serra House, 589 Capistrano Way, Stanford, CA 94305

Award winning poet Jana Harris will be reading from and discussing her book-in-progress: "Who Giveth This Woman?", a work of documentary imagination. Harris' poems are based on interviews, reminiscences, diaries, journals, accounts, etc. of women of the American West in the 19th Century: These poems have appeared in many journals including TriQuarterly, Feminist Studies, and Michigan Quarterly Review. A poet, novelist, short story writer, and essayist, Jana Harris' award-winning books include Manhattan as a Second Language and Other Poems ( Harper & Row) and Oh How Can I Keep On Singing? Voices of Pioneer Women (Ontario Press, Princeton), both Pulitzer Prize nominees. Oh How Can I Keep On Singing? was a Washington State Governor's Writers Award winner, a PEN West Center Award finalist, and has been adapted for educational television as well as for the stage. The Dust of Everyday Life, (Sasquatch) won the 1998 Andres Berger Award. In 2001 she won a Pushcart Prize for poetry and in 2004 she won a Reader's Choice Award in poetry from Prairie Schooner. Born in San Francisco and raised in the Pacific Northwest, she worked for six years as director of Writers in Performance at the Manhattan Theatre Club in New York. Harris now teaches creative writing at the University of Washington where she is editor and founder of Switched-on Gutenberg (http://www.switched-ongutenberg.org), one of the first electronic poetry journals of the English-speaking world. Harris is a member of the National Book Critics Circle, PEN, Poetry Society of America, and AWP. Harris' visit is co-sponsored by the Program in Feminist Studies. The Stanford Bookstore will be present to sell works by Jana Harris. Lunch will be served first, before Jana Harris speaks.

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