UTSA Creative Writing Reading Series Features Author Wendy Barker Feb. 20
Wendy Barker
Wendy Barker
Share this Story(Feb. 18, 2015) - The Creative Writing Program in the UTSA Department of English will present UTSA author Wendy Barker as the featured speaker in the 2015 Spring Creative Writing Reading Series at 7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 20 in the Business Building University Room (BB 2.06.04) on the UTSA Main Campus. The event is free and open to the public.
The UTSA Creative Writing Reading Series features public readings by notable writers who visit UTSA classes and meet with students to discuss their writing.
The fundraising event for the program features Wendy Barker, the UTSA Pearl LeWinn Endowed Professor of Creative Writing and Poet in Residence, who will read her own poetry, including poems featured in the volume "The Quiet Born From Talk," a festschrift edited by Catherine Kasper, UTSA associate professor of English.
Festschrift, a German term, refers to a volume of writings by different authors presented as a tribute or memorial to a scholar. "The Quiet Born from Talk" is a 131-page book featuring scholarly and personal essays and poems written by Barker’s former students, friends and colleagues in celebration of her life-long career as a poet, scholar, translator, teacher and mentor. This is the first festschrift volume produced at UTSA.
Barker is the only two-time winner of the Violet Crown Book Award from the Writers' League of Texas. Her sixth collection of poems, "One Blackbird at a Time: The Teaching Poems," was awarded the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry and will be published this fall by BkMk Press.
Her poetry novel, "Nothing Between Us: The Berkeley Years" (Del Sol Press, 2009) was runner up for the Del Sol Prize. Earlier full-length collections include "Poems from Paradise" (WordTech, 2005), "Way of Whiteness" (Wings Press, 2000), "Let the Ice Speak" (Ithaca House, 1991) and "Winter Chickens" (Corona, 1990).
Barker’s poems have appeared in numerous anthologies, including The Best American Poetry 2013, as well as dozens of journals, including Gettysburg Review, Poetry, Georgia Review, Southern Review and Boulevard.
A recipient of NEA and Rockefeller fellowships, Barker’s co-translations from the Bengali of Rabindranath Tagore received the Sourette Diehl Fraser Award from the Texas Institute of Letters. Her work has also been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Bulgarian and Punjabi.
She received her doctoral degree in English from the University of California at Davis and her master’s degree in English and bachelor’s degree in English education from Arizona State University.
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