Literature: FY 2005 Grants Panelists

Access to Artistic Excellence
July 28-30, 2004

Matthew C. Brennan
Poet, Critic
Professor of English,
Indiana State University
Terre Haute, IN

Stephen C. Enniss (Layperson)
Director, Special Collections
Robert W. Woodruff Library
Emory University
Atlanta, GA

T.R. Hummer
Poet
Editor, The Georgia Review
Athens, GA

Barbara Ras
Poet
Director, Trinity University Press
San Antonio, TX

Bart Schneider
Fiction Writer
Literary Director, The Loft
Editor, Speakeasy
St. Paul, MN

Will Schwalbe
Editor-in-Chief
Hyperion Books
New York, NY

Mary Yukari Waters
Fiction Writer
Los Angeles, CA

Access to Artistic Excellence Panel
December 8-10, 2004

Kim Addonizio
Poet, Fiction Writer
Oakland, CA

Angela Elam
Producer and host, New Letters on the Air
Assistant Professor of Communications Studies
University of Missouri at Kansas City
Kansas City, MO

Archie Givens, Jr. (Layperson)
President and CEO, Legacy Management &
Development Corporation
President, Givens Foundation
Minneapolis, MN

Michael Peich
Founder and Publisher, Aralia Press
Co-Founder and Director, West Chester Poetry Conference
Professor of English, West Chester University
West Chester, PA

Donald Sheehan
Executive Director
Robert Frost Place
Sharon, VT

Dao Strom
Fiction Writer
Austin, TX

Larry Watson
Fiction Writer, Professor
Marquette University
Milwaukee, WI

Translation Projects In Poetry
May 25, 2004

Aliki Barnstone
Translator, Poet, Editor, Critic
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Las Vegas, NV

Walter Martin
Translator, Poet
Owner, Chimera Books
Menlo Park, CA

Michael Palma
Translator, Poet, Editor
New Rochelle, NY

Carl Phillips
Poet, Translator
Professor of English and African and Afro-American Studies,
Washington University
St. Louis, MO

Robert Royal (Layperson)
Scholar, Commentator
President, Faith & Reason Institute
Washington, DC

Rebecca Seiferle
Poet, Translator
Founding Editor, The Drunken Boat
Instructor, San Juan Community College
Farmington, NM

Poetry Fellowships
September 21-23, 2004

Judith Ortiz Cofer
Poet, Prose Writer, Editor
Franklin Professor of English and
Creative Writing,
University of Georgia
Athens, GA

Toi Derricotte
Poet, Prose Writer
Co-Founder, Cave Canem
Professor of English,
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA

Mark Doty
Poet, Prose Writer
Professor of English,
University of Houston
Houston, TX

Carol Frost
Poet
Director, Catskill Poetry Workshop
Writer-in-Residence,
Hartwick College
Cedar Key, FL

H.L. Hix
Poet, Translator, Literary Critic
Vice President of Academic Affairs,
Cleveland Institute of Art
Cleveland, OH

Eunice (Nicie) Johnson (Layperson)
Founder, President, & Portfolio Manager,
Kaintuck Capital Management
Boston, MA

William Louis-Dreyfus
(Layperson)
President and Chief Executive Officer,
Louis Dreyfus Group
New York, NY

Ron Rash
Poet, Prose Writer
Parris Distinguished Professor of Appalachian Cultural Studies,
Western Carolina University
Clemson, SC

Amy Uyematsu
Poet
Math Instructor,
Venice High School
Culver City, CA

David Yezzi
Poet, Actor
Associate Editor, Parnassus: Poetry in Review
Director, Unterberg Poetry Center
92nd Street YMHA
New York, NY

Al Young
Poet, Prose Writer
Berkeley, CA

Dean Young
Poet
Faculty Member,
University of Iowa Writers Workshop
Iowa City, IA

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