Dorianne Laux
DORIANNE LAUX’s poems are prayers to the present; tiny rituals to keep us engaged with other living beings, our own lives, and the world. She knows it is a world where some people are crushed, and is well aware that some people are capable of horrific cruelty, and that others suffer through that cruelty in nightmarish childhoods. She was one such child, with some terrible stories to tell, and tells them with the same unflinching attention she brings to all her work. But Laux is also a witness to acts of kindness and the possibility of redemption. Laux is the author of Facts About the Moon (2005), recipient of the Oregon Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her other collections include The Book of Men (2011); Smoke (2000); What We Carry (1994), finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Awake (1990), which was nominated for the San Francisco Bay Area Book Critics Award for Poetry.
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Schedule
THURSDAY
9:30-10:45 am
Welcome & Reading and Conversation
Kurtis Lamkin, Dorianne Laux, Taylor Mali
Prudential Hall
12:30-1:45pm
Conversation: A Life Together
Brian Barker, Nicky Beer, Dorianne Laux, Joseph Millar
Chase Room
7:30-10:00
POETRY SAMPLER
Richard Blanco, Eavan Boland, Henri Cole, Sharon Dolin, Nikky Finney, Terrance Hayes, Juan Felipe Herrera, Jane Hirshfield, Fanny Howe, Kurtis Lamkin, Dorianne Laux, Ada Limón, Thomas Lux, Rachel McKibbens, Taylor Mali, Joseph Millar, Idra Novey, Gregory Orr, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Patricia Smith, Arthur Sze, Larissa Szporluk, Natasha Trethewey, C.K. Williams, Raúl Zurita
Prudential Hall
FRIDAY
9:30-10:30am
Festival Poet Readings
Amiri Baraka, Eavan Boland, Juan Felipe Herrera, Dorianne Laux, Rachel McKibbens
Prudential Hall
12:10-1:10pm
Festival Poet Readings
Richard Blanco, Kurtis Lamkin, Dorianne Laux, Ada Limón, Natasha Trethewey
Prudential Hall
1:30-2:30pm
Conversation: For Lack of What Is Found There: Poetry and Survival
Nikky Finney, Dorianne Laux, Gregory Orr, Raúl Zurita and Translator
Prudential Hall
SATURDAY
10:30-11:40am
Conversation: Poetry and Working Life
Eavan Boland, Dorianne Laux, Philip Levine, Joseph Millar
Prudential Hall
12:00-1:10pm
Conversation: On Craft
Dorianne Laux
First Peddie Baptist Memorial Church
6:30-9:30pm
Readings & Music
Nikky Finney, Henri Cole, Dorianne Laux, C. K. Williams, Patricia Smith, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Quartet
Prudential Hall
SUNDAY
9:00-10:10am
Festival Poet Readings
Richard Blanco, Dorianne Laux, Timothy Liu, Thomas Lux
North Star Academy Great Room
12:00-1:10pm
Conversation: Where We're From: A Sense of Place
Eavan Boland, Terrance Hayes, Dorianne Laux, Philip Levine
North Star Academy Great Room