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1998-9 Series 1997-8 Series 1995-6 Series 1994-5 Series Buy books at City Lights Books, Sylva, NC Our Visiting Writers Series has become an important voice in western North Carolina, bringing a variety of culturally and racially diverse writers of national and international reputations to this rural region. These writers challenge our audiences to expand their visions of the world beyond these mountains. This year our six writers will include voices from the African American,
Native American, and Latino communities. We will feature artists
whose "spoken word" poetry has been featured on MTV, an important proletarian
voice from rural Maine, a writer whose cutting edge fiction and nonfiction
pushes the border between literature and suspense, and an acclaimed writer
and editor of literary non-fiction.
Gayle Galloway Adams, Fred Chappell, Dannye Romine Powell, R.T. Smith, and Brenda Marie Osbey. September 22, 1997: Clifton Taulbert,
author of Once Upon a Time When We were Colored, a memoir
SPRING 1996 VISITING WRITERS INCLUDED: January 18: John Trudell, Native
American Poet/Activist
1994-1995 Visiting Writers Included: *Doris Davenport
*DENOTES FULL HOUSE PERFORMANCES
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Fiction: A Norton Anthology and co-author of
Creative Fiction Writers'
Companion (HBJ). His new novel, Six Figures, is forthcoming
from Knopf Recommended Books, Winter 1998-99. His nonfiction has appeared
in Writing About Writing and Ethics and Politics. He has
published stories and reviews in Ploughshares, Triquarterly, Grand Street,
Boulevard, and The North American Review. He has been the recipient
of a Fulbright Scholarship, a Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Fellowship,
a James Michener Award, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and a Pennsylvania
Council on the Arts Literature Fellowship. 
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essayist and poet, 
Mexican-American
author 
Letourneau's
Used Auto Parts; Merry Men; and Snow Man; co-author of Up
River: The Story of a Maine Fishing Community
and Elmer Walker:
Hermit to Hero. One reviewer has said, "Chute's gut-level language
reinforces the raw anger in a community under economic and emotional siege:
People and objects bash, ram, tear, shred, and churn. " Richard Schickel
of Time Magazine said of the movie version of Chute's book, The
Beans of Egypt Maine, "The Beans of Egypt, Maine. . . takes marginal
American lives seriously. It does not patronize them. It does not invest
them with tragic significance. It does not turn them into case studies." 
novelist,
is the author of
Driving Under the Cardboard Pines: And Other Stories,
A Long Way from St. Louie: Travel Memoirs, Traveling Music (Poems), Bone
Flames: Poems, Jesus and Fat Tuesday: And Other Short Stories, Queen of
the Ebony Isles, Winters Without Snow, Music from Home: Selected
Poems, and What Madness Brought Me Here: New and Selected Poems,
1968-1988. She has received the Before Columbus American Book Award,
two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, two Fulbright
Creative Writing Fellowships, a Jesse Ball DuPont Distinguished Black Scholar
Fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize, to name only a few of her honors. 
Almanac
of the Dead, Ceremony, Storyteller, Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit:
Essays on Native American Life Today, and Gardens in the Dunes.
Silko's work has been described as writing " informed not by bitterness
and racial animosity, but by a larger sense of sorrow and an awareness
of 'how much can be lost, how much can be forgotten.'"