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Continue this Fall
ork will continue this fall on projects began
last winter to restore the stone terrace
that spans the length of the Yaddo Mansion and
to repair the building's weather-worn wood and
stucco façade.
In Januar y, while ar tists toiled elsewhere on
the grounds, the Mansion—normally dormant for
the winter months—was abuzz with activity as
workers moved in to begin demolition of the terrace
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and the task of scraping decades of paint from
the building's outside wood paneling. At the
Digital Ar ts @ Yaddo
same time, plumbing and electrical repairs were
going on inside the house.
The work on the Mansion is par t of a
PHOTO: RICK GARGIULO
comprehensive plan developed as a result of an
Terrace stones lie in wait for reassembly.
architectural sur vey begun in 1991 to help Yaddo
evaluate its buildings and grounds. The study,
according to Claudia Olsen of Olsen Associates
Architects in Saratoga Springs, which prepared
Energize the Corporation
the repor t, was intended to help Yaddo set main-
tenance priorities and to budget for preventative
addo is pleased to welcome four ar tists to the
Erosion under the massive terrace had caused
membership: Cultural critic Margo Jefferson,
the walls of the structure to bow, which pushed
novelist Jonathan Lethem, filmmaker Noah Baumbach,
New Vice President
that project to the top of the priority list. A spe-
and writer Patricia Volk. Together, these fresh talents
cially-created device—akin to a giant ice tong—
bring a diverse breadth of knowledge and experience to
John Nelson Retires
was constructed to carefully lift and remove the
the Corporation.
terrace stones. But, since the object was to
Margo Jefferson, The New York Times' Pulitzer
reconstruct the terrace rather than replace it,
An Essay by Donald
Prize-winning critic-at-large, has been writing book,
each of the stones had to be numbered as the
music, theater, and movie reviews for nearly 30
walls came apar t, then set aside so that they
years. Before joining the newspaper staff, she was
could later be reassembled in the same order as
an associate editor at Newsweek and a contributing
they had stood for over 100 years.
editor for Vogue and 7 Days. Her reviews, features,
By Februar y, a gaping mudhole flanked the
and essays have appeared in Grand Street, The
Mansion where the terrace had been, and workers
Nation, The Village Voice, MS., The Soho Weekly
Yaddo Ar tist Awar ds
from Bast Hatfield—the Halfmoon-based company
News, Dance Ink, Lear's, and Harper's in addition to
in charge of restoring the porch—began building
publications abroad, such as Alt in Denmark and
a retaining wall designed to stem underground
NRC Handelsblad in The Netherlands. Ms. Jefferson
drainage problems and shore up the "new"
frequently lectures on a wide variety of topics, ranging
structure. Incredibly, it was discovered during
from "The State of Criticism" to "Louis Armstrong the
demolition that the terrace had sur vived all those
Per former," and often teaches university classes in
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Mansion Restoration Continued from front cover
years without any retaining wall. The interior of the
each September when there are no ar tists at Yaddo.
structure was simply "junk filled" with remnants
Other recent maintenance work completed at
of the first house (the Childs Mansion) which burned
down in 1891.
• Installation of a washer and dr yer in the swimming
Meanwhile, Old Saratoga Restoration of Saratoga
pool pavilion.
Springs began the tedious job of removing layer-upon-
• Electrical upgrades in Dair y, Cour tyard, Outlook,
layer of paint from the Mansion's outside woodwork
and Pinetree studios and in West House, Pine
and cleaning years of grime from it's stucco. It was
Garde, and the Garage building housing the
delicate work, taking into consideration the architectural
Yaddo offices, librar y, video/internet room, and
detail of the Mansion's woodwork and the deterioration
the winter kitchen.
in some of the wood framing the Mansion's sizeable
• Exterior masonr y work on the foundation of Acosta
Tiffany windows.
Nichols Stone Tower Studio to stabilize the building.
Although the weather was for the most par t cooper-
• Painting of outside studios. ■
ative during the process, working throughout the winter
PHOTOS: RICK GARGIULO
months did pose some problems. Par ts
of the building were at times "tented"
with plastic sheeting and high-powered
lights were brought in to assist work-
men. Still, there were a few days when
weather conditions totally shut down
Samples taken to determine original
paint colors were inconclusive. The paint
was too thin to provide an adequate
sample, Ms. Olsen explained. But histori-
cal photographs indicate the house's
trim was originally brown. So, after the
woodwork was scraped down and
damaged wood was repaired or replaced,
a coat of base paint was applied and was followed by a
fresh cover of brown paint in two tones. The gradation
in color highlights the architectural detail in the wood,
giving it a fresh look. The stucco, too, has been trans-
formed, benefiting from a cleaning that has returned it
to its original, much lighter, shade of yellow.
Masons were able par tially to complete the terrace
in time for it to be used during Yaddo's large season—
which began in mid-May. They will be back on the job in
September to rebuild the steps and to do finishing
work on the terrace floor and ledge. The painting crew
also will return this fall so they can complete work on
the terrace side of the house.
Ms. Olsen labeled the Mansion work an "upgrade,"
not remodeling, emphasizing the goal of keeping
ever ything within the historical integrity of the building
The Yaddo Mansion, listed on the National Register
of Historic Places, was designed by William Halsey
Wood, in collaboration with Yaddo's founders, Spencer
and Katrina Trask.
Top: The shell of the new retaining wall for the Mansion
It is rare for work of such magnitude to be done at
terrace begins to take shape.
Yaddo when ar tist guests are in residence. However,
Bottom: A workman from Old Saratoga Restoration
the scope of the Mansion project required more than
scrapes paint from a window frame.
the three weeks generally allotted for major repairs
New Members Continued from front cover
journalism, and American and English literature.
world, Ms. Volk is known as an award-winning author:
Last year, she was featured as an interpreter of the
her most recent book is Stuffed: Adventures of a
American jazz scene in Ken Burns' public television
Restaurant Family (released by Knopf in the fall of
documentar y, Jazz, and appeared at the Cherr y Lane
2001), and she is also the author of the shor t-stor y
Theater in New York City in the per formance piece
collections The Yellow Banana and All it Takes, and
50 Years with Harriet and Phyllis, which she developed
the novel White Light. Ms. Volk first came to Yaddo in
as an ar tist-in-residence at Anna Deveare Smith's
1983. Her essays and feature ar ticles have appeared
Institute on the Ar ts and Civic Dialogue.
in many publications, including The New York Times
Jonathan Lethem is a writer and editor who won
Magazine, New York, and O: The Oprah Magazine. ■
the 2000 National Book Critics Circle Award for his
1999 novel Motherless Brooklyn, which was par tially
written at Yaddo during his first residency in 1997.
He also is the author of the novels Girl in Landscape,
As She Climbed Across the Table, Amnesia Moon, and
Gun, With Occasional Music, the short story collection
The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye, and a novella.
New York City Office
Mr. Lethem edited the anthology The Vintage Book of
Amnesia and was the founding fiction editor of Fence
addo is among a group of 20 cultural orga-
magazine. His essays and reviews have been widely
Y nizations that will occupy new office space
published, including in The New York Times Book
in mid-town Manhattan thanks to an innovative
Review, Salon, Bookforum, The New York Obser ver,
and The Village Voice. In addition to the National Book
The Ar ts & Business Council, Ar tsConnection,
Critics Circle Award, he is the recipient of a Salon Book
Pick Up Per formance Company, The Drama League,
Award, the Macallan Gold Dagger for Fiction, and
and SITI Company are a few of the other tenants
that have signed on to rent space at below-market
Noah Baumbach's election represents a first for
rates in a 32,000-square-foot space on the third
Yaddo: he becomes the inaugural film director to join
floor of a building at 520 Eighth Avenue at 36th
the Membership of the Corporation. Mr. Baumbach's
Street. Arts organizations will share office equipment
debut, full-length feature film, Kicking and Screaming,
and ser vices as well as studios/multi-purpose
which he wrote and directed, premiered at the New
spaces and a state-of-the-ar t conference room.
York Film Festival in 1995 and was released nationwide
Initiated and managed by the Alliance of
that fall. Mr. Baumbach was subsequently chosen as
Resident Theatres/New York (A.R.T./New York), the
one of Newsweek's "Ten New Faces of 1996," and
project is suppor ted by the City of New York, which
the film appeared on many critics' "Top Ten" lists for
has provided $2 million to renovate the raw space
the year. His second film, Mr. Jealousy (which featured
and build the offices. In addition, Jeffrey Gural,
Eric Stoltz, Annabella Sciorra, Peter Bogdanovitch,
chairman of Newmark & Co. Real Estate Inc., has
and Bridget Fonda), premiered at the Toronto Film
contributed $250,000, and C. Virginia Fields, of
Festival and was released by Lions Gate Films in the
the Manhattan Borough President's Office, also
summer of 1998. Mr. Baumbach is a contributor to
has provided $250,000.
The New Yorker magazine's "Shouts & Murmurs"
"With so many Yaddo artists, members, directors,
depar tment. He is currently shooting his third film
and donors residing in New York City, a stronger
(the script for which he worked on during a visit to
presence here will be a boon to our effor ts to
Yaddo)—titled The Squid and the Whale, which is
expand ser vices, visibility, and resources," said
about his childhood in Brooklyn.
Mar y Esbjornson, Director of Major Gifts, whose
Patricia Volk is known to many of us in the Yaddo
work is based primarily in the city. Yaddo will move
community as a woman of extraordinar y courage—
into its New York City office in late September.
a reputation that stems from two feats of braver y.
Firstly, she took on the organization of the 2000
Yaddo Ar tists' Reunion, and followed up the success
The address is 520 Eighth Avenue,
of that with her agreement to take over from the
Suite 312, New York, NY 10018.
beloved Joe Caldwell as Chair of the Yaddo Ar tists'
The telephone number is 212.244.9686 and
Task Force (a role, it should be said, that Mr. Caldwell
the fax number is 212.244.9685.
nominated her for, and—it's rumored—begged her to
accept so that he could be released!) To the wider
magine flicking on the radio and listening for five
Rubber soul? Yes! There is something of the
wonder fully ridiculous in Mr. Fried's high/low-brow mix
of the latest sampling technologies, sophisticated
seconds to anything—an ad, a newscast, a ball game,
object-oriented computer programming, and his well-
heeled drum pad substitutes. Attempting to classify
a snippet of Radiohead. Imagine snatches of those
his work, Mr. Fried says, "I consider my medium to
be 'music', but I do apply under any categor y that will
have me." Mr. Fried's approach to placing his work
five seconds of sound composed on-the-spot into a
is quite the norm for digital ar tists as their personal
visions, with the help of ever-improving cyber tools,
driving percussive groove with new melodies, catchy
are leading to the emergence of new forms of ar t. A
musician, yes, but more, Mr. Fried leans on complex
computer programming as an essential tool, and his
rhythms, rapid-fire figurations, and full-bodied textures.
work is best appreciated in the elegance of both his
per formance and his programming.
But why imagine? Yaddo artist Joshua Fried does it
Carol Shadford, an ar tist working in video instal-
lation and photography, is also among the Yaddo
digirati (those whose work wouldn't be possible without
live in performance. What's more, he pounds it out
computers). Ms. Shadford's recent installation SMILE
(a nuclear family) 2002 was featured in the exhibition
with drumsticks on a tree of inverted shoes.
"Second Sight" at the Hunter College/Times Square
Galler y from Februar y 27 – April 20, 2002. The four-
channel video installation featured faces projected in
different sizes all continually, seamlessly, warmly
smiling. The viewer was surrounded by and was the
perceived focal point of more unasked for well-meaning
good-feeling than any true New Yorker can possibly
relate to. It was engaging and became eerie the longer
you stayed in the room: why were these strangers
so happy, so unreser ved, and so welcoming? What
did I do to deser ve this? It was poetic and seemed
par ticularly well-placed.
Asked about new media as a genre, Ms. Shadford
said, "I look at digital media as a cultural found object.
As digital becomes more and more of a consumer
Carol Shadford's SMILE
(a nuclear family).
staple, I seek out its social, political, or cultural uses
digital media ar twork, offers some thoughts:
for clues to our collective neuroses."
"Labeling can be detrimental to the acceptance of
Like much digital-based ar t, Mr. Fried's and Ms.
these, or any forms of ar t. It is just ar t. The tools are
Shadford's works are something new, unavailable before
new. The processes are different. And the results can
the advent of computer technologies. These pieces are
be quite star tling. But it is still ar t working within the
par t of the vir tual landslide of new digital genres and
realm of contemporary progress and societal demands."
works that ar tists are creating worldwide.
Yaddo digital ar tists are par t of this for ward-look-
Last year the cyber-ar ts dramatically entered the
ing movement and their work is making the rounds of
American mainstream as simultaneous digital-exclusive
the increasing number of cyber-friendly show spaces.
blockbuster shows were mounted at the Whitney Museum
The industrial panels of Yaddo digital artist Andrew
of American Ar t in New York and the San Francisco
Neumann were featured in a major solo show at the
Museum of Modern Ar t. The exhibitions presented a
DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts, in
star tling range of work: some extended the palettes of
Januar y-May 2002. Mr. Neumann's work combines
traditional genres such as photography, printmaking,
technology—vidcams and programming—with motion,
sculpture, and installation; some merged genres;
and humor. A typical piece might be constructed of
while others simply ignored traditional classifications.
wood, miniature video cameras and monitors, motors,
Evidently all game for the digital ar tist is fair, as ar t—
microprocessors, hardware, and possibly text or image.
and the histor y of ar t—is filtered through a cyber eye.
Built into gridded structures, Mr. Neumann's use
Unquestionably, the digital ar ts now feature a breadth
of unfinished plywood and exposed electronic compo-
of new means of ar tistic expression in which pre-cyber
nents implies a raw confrontation with technology.
arts genres and criticism cannot fully explain or address
This confrontation, however, is frequently leavened
the inner workings, the sensual impact, or even the
with touches of the absurd as in his quasi-scientific
sheer ability to negotiate data which has become possible
Sine Waves Out of Phase in which two miniature video
via the new media. Clearly we're in a next New Age.
monitors, each displaying a rolling sine wave, transverse
A fresh, pioneering spirit of adventure infuses many
the length of the piece, or in his ode to human-com-
of these impor tant new forms and is reflected in the
puter inter facing, Distant Conversations (HAL), which
programming-based works of Golan Levin, the interactive
presents texts taken from Stanley Kubrick's 2001:
installations of Camille Utterbach, and the web-active
A Space Odyssey. The show was tastefully spare and
mega-installations of Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. Even
graceful as it personally engaged our engagement
social engineering is treated as an ar t form by young
with electronica.
ar tists like Jonah Peretti who is based at Eyebeam
Heidi Kumao, another Yaddo-cyberian, was a
Atelier, the ar ts center which is set to open a spectac-
Microsoft Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University in
ular new media museum in New York City in 2005.
Pittsburgh. Ms. Kumao's "intimate installations"
Steve Sacks, the director of bitforms in Chelsea,
feature robotically controlled sculpture which combines
the first galler y in New York that exclusively handles
kinetic objects with video projection. Letter Never
Sent, 2000 one of her "Emotion Machines" was
it is entering the realm of the digital in subject and form.
exhibited in "A Decade of The Space Program: An
He has a more radical acknowledgment of digital
Exhibition of 161 Ar tists" sponsored by the Marie
influence in the ar ts, and his views merit attention.
Walsh Sharpe Foundation at Ace Galler y in New York
The pixelated painting, though a traditional painting
City in May 2002. This installation features video
by way of materials, exhibits a way of seeing that was
footage projected onto the space of a typewriter page.
not available before. The painting is still a painting
Sounds include a woman weeping, a doorbell ringing,
but it has become so via visual cyber data. The work
and the knock at a door. Black ink images rise up the
has been advanced by cyber-means. Ultimately, this
page as dir ty water images appear to jet out from the
train of thought points towards the recognition and
typewriter's base. The old-style typewriter and type-
equality of ar t created in the digital domain.
writer stand amplify emotive connections to a stable if
With the Whitney Museum and SFMOMA exhibitions
outdated past, while they contrast starkly with modern
and with other well-established organizations such as
video projection and Ms. Kumao's digital compositing
the New York Foundation for the Ar ts and the John S.
techniques. The piece swirls past physical constructions
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation currently recognizing
and streams into a narrative, a disturbed projection
new media or computer ar ts sectors apar t from the
of emotional life, one confronting the viewer with a
traditional ar ts, the cyber-ar ts have reached viability
painful myster y and possibly some common par t of
with visibility.
her/his own emotive histor y.
Meanwhile, the digital ar ts are finding a home at
In another piece Ms. Kumao (vis-à-vis Mr. Fried) has
another well-established organization: the Corporation
cyber-elevated the shoe to an ar t form: her Protest
of Yaddo. The long-ago switch to business computers
(Girl on Stage), 2000-01 features a mechanical leg
in the office, the Yaddo website, the office and ar tist
with an attached white shoe which responds to a
internet connections, and the admittance of exclusively
viewer's presence by shaking ner vously at irregular
digital ar tists all point to a cyber-future filled with
intervals or stomping in protest. Rare "footage," indeed.
terrific new ar t. Even now, while still relatively new to
In the technology-based work of Yaddo digital ar tist
Yaddo, these nascent digital forms are vibrantly moving
Kevin Daniel "the computer is essential for the work's
for ward in the studios amid the lakes and forest. Who
conception, production, or understanding. The computer
knows? Perhaps the next webar t master work will be
or technology carries or advances the work and is not
created in Katrina and Spencer's mar velous mansion.
just another means of mechanical reproduction." Richly
evocative metaphoric uses of technology inform his
Joshua Fried: www.echonyc.com/ joshua/
series of Machine works as in Machine #2001101001 –
Carol Shadford: www.shadford.net
Machine for Keeping Secrets, a sculptural object
Andrew Neumann: www.decordova.org/decordova/
which features resin embedded castaway technology,
a floppy disk—already a near-relic of the cyber-age,
amid leaves—fragments of the natural world.
Heidi Kumao: www.ear thlink.net/ bearqueen/
Mr. Daniel also is interested in confining that which
Kevin Daniel: www.ar ts.ufl.edu/ar t/catalog9697/
has no physicality, in "mirroring the immaterial in the
material." In Vessel he projects video images of texts
Jeff Talman: www.jefftalman.com
of over 500 documents related to his education into
the cavity of a canoe mold. As with much digital ar t,
Editor's Note: Jeff Talman, a Yaddo digital ar tist,
the piece is about what is not there, about sensor y
works in sound and space. His sonic installations
and emotive experience versus the implied physicality
have been presented by the MIT Media Lab, The
of models selected - and so he gives us the canoe
Kitchen, Eyebeam Atelier, Columbia University,
mold rather than a canoe itself, the projections rather
The Tang Museum in Saratoga Springs, The Fields
than literal written text. Mr. Daniel's work here reflects
Sculpture Park at Ar t Omi, and many others.
a primar y principle of recent work that largely rejects
Currently, he lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and
the object-centric models of mid-stream modernism.
teaches at the Massachusetts College of Ar t. ■
Many digital ar tists, by the ephemeral nature of their
media, often work similarly to ar tists such as Rober t
Ir win and Rachel Whiteread who focus on the immate-
rial in order to invite us to better see the world.
Mr. Daniel takes the crossing of genres a step
fur ther though. By his definition a painting that deals
with pixelated structures has crossed genres because
Yaddo Establishes
Langston Hughes Fund
Y A D D O , A U G U S T , 1 9 4 2 — Standing, left to right: Newton Arvin, Nicholas Marsicano, Nathan Asch, Philip Rahv, Michael
Seide, Karol Rathaus, Carson McCullers, Malcolm Cowley, Unknown, Langston Hughes, Kenneth Fearing, Unknown, Leonard Ehrlich, Jean
Liberte. Seated, left to right: Mrs. Nathan Asch, Francis Mingorance, Merle Marsicano, Katherine Anne Porter, Helena Kuo, Juan
Mingorance, Nathalie Rahv, Elizabeth Ames.
new named residency at Yaddo will pay tribute
Harlem Renaissance. Ms. Clanton is the founder and
to Langston Hughes' contribution to American
director of the Langston Hughes Center for Ar ts and
literature as a nationwide celebration this year marks
Education, which focuses on ser vice to minority com-
the 100th anniversar y of the renowned writer's bir th.
munities, and ser ves on the boards of the Providence
Yaddo visual artist James Montford is spearheading
Per forming Ar ts Center, the Rhode Island Historical
the effor t to raise a minimum of $10,000 to suppor t
Society, and the Rhode Island Black Stor ytellers. Mr.
the Anne Edmonds Clanton Residency in Honor of
Montford's idea has received suppor t from leaders in
Langston Hughes. The single-year residency will be
the Providence community, including Yaddo board
offered to an emerging ar tist on a competitive basis
member and poet Michael S. Harper and Raymond
using criteria applied to all applicants for Yaddo visits.
Rickman, Deputy Secretar y of State for Administration,
Honoree Anne Edmonds Clanton chaired The Langston
Office of the Secretar y of State, Rhode Island.
Hughes Centennial Bir thday Celebration, a festival of
Mr. Hughes was best known for his poetr y, but he
exhibits, readings, and lectures held earlier this year in
also wrote shor t stories, essays, novels, and plays. He
Providence, Rhode Island, to commemorate Mr. Hughes'
was the first American poet to successfully fuse jazz,
life as an author, an American, and an icon of the
blues, and common speech to celebrate the beauty of
black life and was often referred to as "Harlem's poet
Langston Hughes on Inspiration
laureate." He was in residence at Yaddo in 1942 and
Following is an excerpt from a speech Langston Hughes
again in 1943, along with such notable fellow guests
delivered when he accepted the 45th Spingarn
as Malcolm Cowley, Carson McCullers, Katherine
Medal in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 26, 1960. It
Anne Porter, Agnes Smedley, and Jean Stafford.
was published in Fight for Freedom: The Stor y of
His Collected Poems was par tially written at Yaddo and
the NAACP, W.W. Nor ton & Company, 1962.
his famous Simple Stories appeared in the late 1940s
after his time at Yaddo. In a letter to Yaddo's then-
When I wrote [Merry-Go-Round], I imagined a little
executive director Elizabeth Ames, Mr. Hughes wrote in
colored girl perhaps six or seven years old, born in the
November, 1942: "My stay was most pleasant and
Deep South where segregation is legal. When she was
helpful to me. And I am ver y happy to have had the
about school age, her parents moved to a Northern or
privilege of being there." Mr. Hughes and Mrs. Ames
Western city, perhaps looking for better jobs, or a better
corresponded until his death in 1967.
school for their child. At any rate, in this new town—
While a tribute to Anne Clanton, the establishment
maybe a town like Newark, New Jersey, or Oakland,
of the residency fund also recognizes Langston Hughes'
California, or even St. Paul or Minneapolis—one day
extraordinar y contribution to American ar ts and letters
this little girl goes to a carnival and she sees a merry-go-
and the histor y of his involvement with Yaddo, and it
round going around. She wants to ride. But, being a very
draws attention to the importance of artists' communities,
little girl, and colored, remembering the Jim Crowisms of
which provide critical suppor t to talented ar tists of all
the South, she doesn't know whether colored children can
ages and backgrounds.
ride on merry-go-rounds in the North or not. And if they
Those who wish to contribute to the fund may send
can, she doesn't know where. So this is what she says:
gifts payable to: The Corporation of Yaddo, Attention:
Langston Hughes Fund, P.O. Box 395, Saratoga
Where is the Jim Crow section on this merry-go-round,
Springs, New York, 12866. ■
Mister, cause I want to ride?Down South where I come from white and coloredCan't sit side by side
Selected Works by Langston Hughes
Down South on the train there's a Jim Crow car
On the bus we're put in the back
• The Weary Blues. Knopf, 1926.
But there ain't no back
• Fine Clothes to the Jew. Knopf, 1927.
To a merry-go-round:
• The Dream Keeper and Other Poems. Knopf, 1932.
Where's the horse for a kid that's black?
• Shakespeare in Harlem. Knopf, 1942.
• Montage of Dream Deferred. Holt, 1951.
Our country is big enough and rich enough to have a
• Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz. Knopf, 1961.
horse for every kid, black or white, Catholic or Protestant,
• The Panther and the Lash: Poems of Our Times. Knopf,
Jewish or Gentile—and someday we will. Meanwhile:
1967, Vintage Books, 1992.
I, too, sing America
• The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes. Knopf, 1994.
I am the darker brother
They send me to eat in the kitchen
• Not Without Laughter. Knopf, 1930. Macmillan, 1986.
When company comes,
• The Ways of White Folks. Knopf, 1934.
But I laugh
Random House, 1971.
And eat well
• Simple Speaks His Mind. Simon & Schuster, 1950.
And grow strong.
• Laughing to Keep from Crying. Holt, 1952.
• Something in Common and Other Stories.
I'll eat at the table
Hill & Wang, 1963.
When company comes
• Short Stories of Langston Hughes. Hill & Wang, 1996.
Nobody'll dareSay to me,
"Eat in the kitchen,"
• The Big Sea: An Autobiography. Knopf, 1940. Thunder's
Mouth, 1986.
• I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey.
They'll see how beautiful I am
Rinehart, 1956. Thunder's Mouth, 1986.
And be ashamed—
• (With Milton Meltzer) A Pictorial History of the Negro
I, too, am America.
in America. Crown, 1956. 6th Edition published as APictorial History of African Americans, 1995.
Yaddo Receives Intriguing
Bequest of $3.5 Million
ews of a substantial bequest to Yaddo has
Proceeds from real estate sales amounting to
N turned into a mystery as captivating as some of
$180,000 were left to Yaddo by Robert Garis, a
the stories written at Yaddo.
writer who was in residence at Yaddo four times dur-
Last summer, it was announced that Jancey Stockly
ing the 1950s and 1960s. Mr. Garis taught English at
of Wilton, Connecticut, had bequeathed her entire
Wellesley College for 43 years, retiring in 1994. He
estate—currently valued at more than $3.5 million—
was the Katharine Lee Bates Professor of English
to Yaddo. Such information, especially considering the
emeritus at the school and was a noted critic of
value, is always welcome news. But this gift was
dance, literature, music, and film.
par ticularly intriguing because Mrs. Stockly's ties to
Other gifts to Yaddo ranging from $2,000 to
Yaddo remain unknown.
$25,000 were received in the form of bequests from
A review of Yaddo's meticulously-kept artist records,
businessman and ar ts patron Morris Goldie, who was
research, and inquiries among the membership of The
friends with several Yaddo ar tists (par ticularly Ned
Corporation of Yaddo revealed no connection between
Rorem), and from the ar tists Susannah McCorkle
Yaddo and Mrs. Stockly (whose maiden name was
and Anita Weschler.
Witcher). She had resided in Wilton for many years
All of these gifts are par ticularly valuable because
and was the widow of Walter D. Stockly, an associate
they provide unrestricted support for general operations
editor at Time magazine prior to his death in 1955.
and help to sustain Yaddo during years when fundraising
She had no sur viving children or grandchildren. Friends
or economic conditions yield fluctuating results.
say that Mrs. Stockly loved books and had accumulated
"It's hear tening to know that Yaddo's family of
thousands of them in her home.
suppor ters includes not only ar tist residents and
Yaddo is continuing to research the possible link
members who have directly benefited from our program,
between the corporation and its generous benefactor.
but also those who recognize the value of suppor ting
At a brief ceremony held during the Annual Meeting in
individual ar tists and the creative process," said
September, a tree was planted on the Yaddo estate as
Yaddo President Elaina Richardson.
a memorial to Jancey Stockly.
Planned gifts may take a variety of forms, including
Mrs. Stockly's bequest is the largest gift to Yaddo
a bequest in a will, a remainder interest in a revocable
since the writer Patricia Highsmith bequeathed her
trust, or a beneficiar y designation of life insurance or
entire $3 million estate to Yaddo in 1998. But there
retirement plan proceeds. Yaddo welcomes bequests
also have been other recent bequests of outstanding
at all levels; ever y gift is considered a meaningful
legacy and an expression of a donor's life experiences,
Nanette Heiman named Yaddo the beneficiar y of an
relationships, and values.
IRA valued at more than $225,000. Ms. Heiman was a
Those who have included Yaddo in their estate plans
psychologist who lived in San Francisco. She was never
are invited to join The Trask Society, a recognition
an ar tist guest at Yaddo, but she did like to write and
program. There is no minimum amount required for
during a visit to the estate for the summer benefit in
membership. With their permission, members are
1986, she enjoyed the company of many of the ar tists
acknowledged in publications and receive invitations
in residence, including Tobias Schneebaum, Nancy
to special programs and events. To receive more
Brett, and Doug Martin, as well as Yaddo President
information about estate planning, please contact
Curtis Harnack and his wife Hortense Calisher, both
Yaddo. All inquiries remain confidential. ■
also Yaddo ar tists, and suppor ters from the Saratoga
Springs community.
Variations 2002 Reminiscent
of an Evening at Yaddo
Hughes, Duke Beeson,
and Hannah Griswold.
left, and Michael
Right: Mike Wallace,
Mary Wallace, and
greet current Yaddo
Donald S. Rice.
PHOTOS: MARION CURTIS
addo Variations 2002—a benefit for the artists'
Margo Jefferson, The New York Times' cultural critic,
residency program at Yaddo—magically recreated
and showed clips from their work. Ms. Kelly's featured
the atmosphere of the Trask Mansion in a midtown
film was the just-released Downside UP and Ms.
Thompson presented her Emmy Award-winning film Blink.
For one brief night in April, a few ar tists who have
In the galler y at The Centur y Association, an
called Yaddo home entertained at The Century Association,
exhibition and sale of small works by visual ar tists who
evoking an evening at Yaddo after a day in the studio,
have been guests at Yaddo was par t of the cocktail
when they gather to talk about their work, play a recent
par ty preceding the program and dinner (please see
composition, read from a new piece, or show their film.
"Ar t Exhibition" at right).
In one program, the poetr y of Yaddo writers Maggie
Approximately 250 people attended the event, which
Estep, Paul Muldoon, Gardner McFall, and John
was co-chaired by Ms. Homes and Ms. McFall. It raised
Ashbery was set to music by fellow Yaddo composers
Tom Cipullo, Daron Hagen, Paul Moravec, and Ned
The benefit's major sponsors were Spencer Trask &
Rorem. Soprano Sharla Nafziger joined the poets and
Co., Official Program Sponsor; Condé Nast Publications,
composers to per form the songs.
Merrill Lynch, Paul Newman/Newman's Own, Inc., and
Nearby, Yaddo writer and editor Joel Conarroe
White Flowers Foundation, Corporate Lead Sponsors;
introduced Yaddo novelists Jonathan Ames, who read
Random House, Inc., Simon & Schuster, Inc., and Sony
his recent essay "I Love You More Than That," A.M.
Electronics, Inc., Corporate Contributing Sponsors; AOL
Homes, who read a shor t stor y from her for thcoming
Time Warner Book Group, Hachette-Filipacchi Magazines,
collection Things You Should Know, and Rick Moody,
Insignia/ESG, Inc., and Vivendi Universal/Houghton
who read from his latest book The Black Veil.
Mifflin, Corporate Sponsors; Savoir Faire, Under writing
And, in another space, award-winning Yaddo film-
for Ar t Exhibit; and HarperCollins Publishers,
makers Nancy Kelly and Elizabeth Thompson talked
International Creative Management, and Workman
about the journey from page to screen with Yaddo's
Publishing, Corporate Suppor ters. ■
Jane Kaplowitz
Dennis Kardon
Polly Apfelbaum
David Kasdorf
Sally Apfelbaum
Darra Keeton
Peggy Bates
Joyce Kozloff
Rosemary Beck
Ellen Lanyon
Susan Leopold
Andrea Belag
Claire Leiberman
Zeke Berman
Daniel Levenson
Isabel Bigelow
Lenore Malen
Nancy Bowen
Jesse McCloskey
Terry Braunstein
Beverly McIver
David Brody
Thom Merrick
Sarah Canright
Melissa Meyer
Squeak Carnwath
Garry Mitchell
Joel Carreiro
John Newman
Alex Castro
Aric Obrosey
Emily Cheng
Jennifer Pepper
Cora Cohen
Randy Polumbo
Susan Crile
William Pope.L
Top Left: Kathy Doyle admires some of the art work on
Peggy Cyphers
Marjorie Portnow
display. Bottom Left: Artist Beth Wesson's contribution
Katie DeGroot
Beth Reisman
for the exhibition. Top Right: Anita Shapolsky, left, and
Rackstraw Downes
Veronica Ryan
Hamish Bowles get a closer look at the art work. Bottom
David Driskell
Right: Jonathan Santlofer, center, and Joy Santlofer,
right, discuss brisk art sales with Tim McHenry.
James Esber
Marc Sapir
Garth Evans
Joan Semmel
Variations Art Exhibition a Huge Success
Jules Feiffer
Ezra Shales
Jean Feinberg
Susan Shatter
Yaddo Variations 2002 included a stunning exhibition of small works created especially
Fran Siegel
for the occasion by Yaddo visual artists in celebration of Yaddo's 102-year commitment
Amy Sillman
to American creativity.
The works—varied in form and style—were displayed in a gallery space where guests
Barbara Friedman
Sonita Singwi
had cocktails prior to the program. Each of the original works of ar t was available for
Jason Stewart
purchase for just $102.
Andrew Ginzel
David Storey
"To celebrate Yaddo's 102 years, a group of Yaddo ar tists was asked to create
Ilona Granet
Natasha Sweeten
a small ar t work. The amazing and beautiful results vir tually flew off The Centur y
Association's galler y walls as guests competed to buy their favorites. Not one work
Carol Haerer
Joan Thorne
was left unsold, and most could have sold several times over," said Jonathan Santlofer,
Rachel Harrison
Susan Unterberg
who helped organize the exhibition. "If you missed out this time, you'll have another
Carol Hepper
Jill Viney
chance next year!"
Arturo Herrera
Laura Von Rosk
A panel of Yaddo visual ar tists invited fellow ar tists who had recently been to
Yaddo to contribute work for the exhibition. Ar tists who generously donated their work
Diana Horowitz
Kay Walkingstick
are listed at right.
Julia Jacquette
Leslie Wayne
Besides Mr. Santlofer, Yaddo's Barbara Toll, Susan Crile, Melissa Meyer, and
Mona Jimenez
Beth Wesson
Susan Shatter helped put the show together. ■
Brad Johnson
Barbara Zucker
Record-Breaking Summer Benefit
ward-winning stage and screen actress
A Kathleen Chalfant delighted a crowd of nearly
200 at this year's Yaddo Summer Benefit, which
raised a record-breaking $112,000 to suppor t the
ar tists' residency program.
Ms. Chalfant, under the direction of David
Esbjornson, presented a por tion of a new one-woman
play about renowned Yaddo writer Katherine Anne
Porter, "Passenger on the Ship of Fools," that was
co-authored by Yaddo writer Laura Furman and Lynn
C. Miller. The play dramatizes Ms. Por ter as she
struggles to finish her novel, Ship of Fools, which was
par tially written at Yaddo but took Ms. Por ter more
than 20 years to complete. Ms. Por ter was a notori-
Above: Sebastian Currier,
ously feisty personality who was a guest at Yaddo for
Eliza Griswold, Bliss
extended periods of time in the 1940s and 1950s.
Broyard, Paul LaFarge.
She also was a member of The Corporation of Yaddo.
Left: Susan and Anthony
Speaking at the event, Donald S. Rice, chairman
of The Corporation of Yaddo, thanked the Saratoga
Springs community for its continued suppor t.
The occasion was organized by a Benefit
Palamountain, Bobbie
Committee chaired by Joann Long. Charles V. Wait
was Chairman of the Corporate Committee. Corporate
under writing was provided by The Adirondack Trust
Company, The For t Miller Group, Inc., C.L. King &
Associates, Inc., Turbine Ser vices, Ltd., and one
company that wishes to remain anonymous. ■
Far left: Beverly Mastrianni,
Left: Benefit Committee
PHOTOS: RICK GARGIULO
New Vice President Looks
Forward to Balancing Act
hallenges fascinate Patricia A.
Ms. Sopp managed a $1.6 million annual
PHOTO: LYNN FARENELL
Sopp, so when she saw a blind
operating budget and a $2.1 million
adver tisement for a financial position at a
grant and contract budget in the Chemical
"non-profit ar tists' community," she threw
Engineering Department at RPI in addition
her hat in the ring, and on May 20 she
to preparing donor reports, monitoring
became Vice President/Finance and
expenses, and resolving payroll and
Operations for Yaddo.
personnel issues. She previously was
Ms. Sopp, who came to Yaddo from
the business manager at Calver t Marine
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy,
Museum in Solomons, Mar yland, and
where she was a financial manager, has
budget manager at Cornell University in
worked at other non-profit institutions, but
Ithaca, New York. Ms. Sopp majored in
she was intrigued by the broader and
economics at Cornell University, graduating
different possibilities that a place such as Yaddo might
in 1985, and in 1987 received her MBA, with concentra-
present. She was especially interested in the emphasis
tions in accounting and finance, from the University of
on the creative process and how ever y detail of the
Rochester. She and her husband, Scott Hunter, a professor
operation is related to guaranteeing artists time and
of computer sciences at Siena College, moved from nearby
space to work.
Clifton Park to Saratoga Springs in March.
"In some sense, the kinds of things I would be doing
In welcoming Ms. Sopp to Yaddo, President Elaina
appeared similar to other places where I have worked.
Richardson said, "I'm so pleased that Patricia agreed
But it also seemed as though there would be a lot to
to join our staff. She has tremendous energy, great
learn, and that appealed to me," Ms. Sopp said.
qualifications, and a sense of humor—I know Yaddo will
Ms. Sopp arrived at Yaddo amidst a major building
benefit from all three! She has already had an impressive
renovation project and is quickly learning to balance
career as a financial and business manager and I'm
the various aspects of her job, which include directing
sure she will be a valuable asset to Yaddo." ■
and coordinating the financial activities and day-to-day
operations of Yaddo as well as ser ving as the facilities
manager and personnel director. While she has always
had a financial mind and has spent much of her first few
weeks in her new job reviewing Yaddo's financial policies,
Ms. Sopp is happy also to be super vising projects that
stretch beyond her fiscal exper tise.
"I like an environment where I can make decisions
based directly on what is best for the program," Ms.
Sopp explained. "I recognize that some decisions will
depend on non-financial issues, that the impact on the
artists is always a concern. I want to examine how Yaddo
works and how the various depar tments connect with
each other so I can determine how to best meet the
needs of the ar tists we are here to ser ve."
John Nelson Retires
After 11 Years at Yaddo
ohn A. Nelson retired June 1, 2002, as Vice
J President of Yaddo. At a farewell party in his
honor, Mr. Nelson was greeted by family, friends,
co-workers, and business associates, who applauded
him for his professionalism, his good humor, and his
friendship. In return, Mr. Nelson thanked the Yaddo
staff and board and his family—especially his wife,
Lee—for their support over the years. He included in
his remarks a special "thank you" to members of The
Yaddo Garden Association. The YGA, the all-volunteer
organization responsible for restoration and mainte-
nance of the Yaddo Gardens, was founded the same
year Mr. Nelson came to Yaddo and he worked closely
with the group, especially in its early years.
Mr. Nelson called his time at Yaddo an "eye-opening"
experience, all the more so since his background was
in the business sector prior to coming to Yaddo. His
years at Yaddo helped him understand the creative
process and what it means to be an artist, he said.
And, he added, it convinced him that the ar ts and
PHOTOS: LYNN FARENELL
suppor t of the ar ts
are a reflection of a
society's vision for
John Nelson enjoys a look at a remembrance book from the
During his years
Yaddo staff.
at Yaddo, Mr. Nelson
"mastered a myriad of
Yaddo President Elaina Richardson noted in her
details, brought Yaddo
tribute to Mr. Nelson that Yaddo benefited doubly when
into the computer age,
it hired him because his wife, Lee, played an important
cleaned up a lot of
role at Yaddo, too. In appreciation, Ms. Richardson
deferred maintenance
presented a glass brooch to Mrs. Nelson. Mr. Nelson
literally and figuratively
received a hand blown glass bowl and a remembrance
and leaves Yaddo with
book from the Yaddo staff. The book was filled with
a legacy of strong
photographs of Yaddo events and projects and personal
management sensitive
anecdotes and notes.
to the mission of ser v-
Mr. Nelson came to Yaddo in early 1991 from New
ing the needs of the
Haven, Connecticut, where he had ser ved as president
artists…," Donald S.
and CEO of Community Health Care Plan, a group
Rice, chairman of The
practice HMO. The Nelsons plan to remain in Saratoga
John and Lee Nelson.
Corporation of Yaddo, wrote in Yaddo's most recent
Springs, where both are active in several civic organi-
annual repor t. One of Mr. Nelson's major accomplish-
zations. Retirement hasn't slowed Mr. Nelson down a
ments at Yaddo was to help secure a grant to fund an
bit…he rested a week and then was off to Sweden
architectural study of Yaddo's facilities that has been
with his twin brother to visit relatives. ■
crucial in developing Yaddo's first long-range mainte-
nance plan. The plan will ser ve as a maintenance
blueprint for years to come.
Eventually You Settle Down
arrived at Yaddo on October 7, 2001, the day the
I United States began bombing in Afghanistan.
During the weeks after the attacks on the World Trade
Center and the Pentagon, I, like ever yone I knew, had
nursed a growing anxiety over imminent war; and now it
was beginning. Under the circumstances, the prospect
of a month at Yaddo seemed both wonder ful and,
somehow, wretched. "Escaping" to Yaddo had always
been a figure of speech. Now, driving out of the city, I
felt like an abandoner, as if I were refusing solidarity
with the people at home. Arriving at Yaddo, I felt—what?
carrier of anxiety,
foolish? irresponsible? I'd come to work on a novel,
but to what end, in times like these? Fiction seemed
perverse. And who could work anyway? My colleagues at
the dinner table,
Yaddo were working. What was wrong with them? Were
they unable to grasp reality? "You'll settle down after a
few days," one or two told me. My first night, a fellow
people of the bad news. In the end, of course, there
colonist burglarized the offices and brought a television
was nothing for it but work. In familiar rooms in West
up to the librar y. We adjusted the rabbit ears and
House, I took time out from reading about the Taliban,
watched the ambiguous news repor ts. Rather than
and began work on something that had nothing to do
settle down, I began to think I should use my time in
in any direct way with the events of September 11.
Saratoga Springs investigating real estate. Could you
It occurs to me that Yaddo's function is not, after all,
get Cipro up here? I phoned a magazine in New York
definitively contingent on events in the world, no
to find out if they might outfit me with a satellite phone
matter how shocking or threatening or saddening, any
and a passport to the world of action and meaning.
more than it is a writer's job to automatically and
"Write a shor t stor y," I was told by the editor. Yaddo
immediately address events. I wouldn't be surprised
was becoming a negative version of itself. Anti-Yaddo.
if some of the best writing about these times comes
It was the place that held me (hardly against my will)
from people who grow up with them, people who are
captive and apart; Yaddo's great gift of serenity and
maybe not yet writers, and whose adult perspectives
separateness testified not to any sense I might've had
are likely to be quite emphatically shaped by the
of purpose or pleasure in writing, but, on the other
images of September 11; shaped by, and within, the
hand—and because of what I mostly write—to my
political environment that forms consequentially. I,
feelings that the world is far beyond my comprehending,
in the meantime, have been writing about my mother.
and that in any case it has no more than a small place
It's forever the same with Yaddo. Eventually you
in it for the kind of work I do. I'd become, at Yaddo, a
settle down.
Donald Antrim is the author of the novels The
Verificationist, The Hundred Brothers, and Elect Mr.
Robinson. His work has been translated into several
languages and his essays and short fiction appear
frequently in The New Yorker and other leading
publications. Mr. Antrim has been a guest ar tist at
Yaddo several times since 1990.
Yaddo Medal Honors
High School Students
deals held high by Yaddo founders Spencer and
"Inspiration:" she is handling a torch of Love to bear
Katrina Trask are the foundation for the presti-
out into the world. The medal is now the annual prize
gious Yaddo Medal at Saratoga Springs High School.
of the high school, giving scholars the message of
Each year since 1912, two outstanding members
the lighted torch and the passing on of Inspiration."
of the school's graduating class—a boy and a girl—
Tiffany & Company creates the medals from a
have been awarded the coveted sterling silver medals
mold designed by Brenner. Although Katrina Trask
at graduation to honor their academic achievement
bequeathed $1,200 to the school district upon her
and personal character. School administrators select
death in 1922 to sustain the time-honored tradition,
the recipients and their identity is secret until the
the income from her gift eventually wasn't enough to
winners are announced at graduation.
cover the cost of two medals each year. About 50
Katrina Trask established the prize as a memorial
years ago, The Corporation of Yaddo began including
to her husband based on an idea first conceived by
the medals in its annual budget, and in recent years
Spencer Trask. Mr. Trask invited the Russian sculptor
former medal winners have contributed money to honor
Victor Brenner to design a medal
and uphold the Trask's idea.
that was to be a household
World War II is the only event
talisman symbolizing the princi-
that has eclipsed the awarding
ples which guided the lives of
of the Yaddo Medals. In 1944
the Trasks at Yaddo. But before
and 1945, because of govern-
Mr. Trask could realize his
ment restrictions on the use of
vision, he was killed in a train
silver, students selected to
accident in 1909. Mrs. Trask
receive the medals were instead
chose to have the medal cast
given scrolls at graduation to
and given in commemoration of
show that they had been judged
her husband and the things for
wor thy of the coveted award.
which he stood. Thus, she directed
Those four students finally got
that the medals honor not only
their medals in 1946.
scholarship, but also good citi-
Through the years, Yaddo
zenship, because she believed
Medal recipients have gone on
the combination was the mark of
PHOTO: RICK GARGIULO
to distinguished careers in all
a successful education.
fields. Madelyn Pulver Jennings,
2002 Yaddo Medal Winners Matthew Kuenzel and
Despite only a brief visit at
retired Senior Vice President of
Lindsay Paige Prickett
Yaddo, the sculptor—whom the
the Gannett Co., is a long-time
Trasks knew by reputation and almost not at all per-
member of The Corporation of Yaddo. But there is one
sonally—created a design that per fectly embodied
family in which all four children earned a Yaddo
what the Trasks had hoped to represent. He told them
Medal. The exceptional children of the late George
the concept came to him in the garden at Yaddo on his
and Laura Pierce—including the actor David Hyde
first day at the Trask estate. Years later, Katrina Trask
Pierce (1977)—each took home a Yaddo Medal the
year they graduated from Saratoga Springs High
"Mr. Brenner, with beauty and skill, reproduced
School. The actor's older brother, Thomas, was first,
his vision: The woman has for ward-looking eyes;
in 1964, followed by his sisters, Nancy Pierce
her garments are blown by the wind. He calls her
Morgan, in 1966, and Barbara Pierce in 1970. ■
Roswell S. Frichette
Marcia Polacsek Metzger
Nancy I. Normandeau Koch
Alice H. Cunningham
Joanne E. Rockwell Gotha
Francis Patrick Reilly, III
Howard L. Freeman
Barbara A. Fitzpatrick
Rober t W. Haswell
Sandra Rowland Butler
Edward Pilkington
Margaret D. Foye Schalit
Gregor y K. Pilkington
Esther P. Gaylord
Jame M. Van Rensselaer
Gale Y. Bigsbee Brinkman
Willis J. Goldsmith
Edward H. Vines, Jr.
Nancy H. Pierce Morgan
Lawrence C. Goldsmith
George A. Shipman
Katherine B. Hannahs Whipple
Howard Ryder Foye, Jr.
William G. Bradshaw
Debra L. Poukish Walton
Jennie M. Barass Blodgett
Barbara H. Pierce
Frederick D. Eddy
Mar yLouise Moor Claus
Alber t D. Ritchie, Jr.
Sandra Doyle Peters
Catherine D. Ouellette
G. Ford McAllister
Anna E. Laffan Robinson
Maureen Sweeney Torrens
Dorothy K. Ericson Van Rensselaer
George E. Pettingill
Christopher Olsen
Margaret R. Noland
Candace Crocker Warren
Margaret E. Delaney Peel
Elizabeth A. Walton Hodgson
Leon H. Beach, Jr.
Eileen Farra Gallant
Christopher Aver y
John Rinko, Jr.
Helen M. Callenius
Kathr yn Gutchell
Russell J. Lasher
Stace Haswell Arpey
James Edward Roohan
Elinore Holland Posnor
Phillip J. Landr y, Jr.
Jean E. McAllister Har tman
I. Granville Rouillard, Jr.
John S. Miklosovich
Theodore A. Schulze, Jr.
Heida Suzanne Strader
Glenn Michael Harland
Elizabeth G. Cavanaugh Fridley
Charles F. Bassett
Christine Agnes Alexander
Elizabeth Ann Wagman
Kristen Lee Podesva
Ryan Charles Masterson
Virginia M. Snyder O'Donnell
Rebecca Byington Thomas
John Michael Wood
Leonard M. Warren
Mar y Lawless Hickey
James Sheridan Burleigh
Audrey M. Ellswor th Maehl
Ward A. Cavanaugh
Cor tney Jacobsen
Marilyn Beatty Vooris
Michael P. Glotzbecker
Beverly A. Lohnas Keck
Madelyn E. Pulver
Shannon Colleen Longden
Ryan Joseph Glotzbecker
Joan Kathr yn Johnson Gomez
John E. Parazynski
Mar tina Hur witz
Carol E. Por ter Zanetti
Victoria Gene Bennett
William J. Hickey III
Virginia K. Reeves
James W. Tethers, Jr.
Patricia A. Boyle O'Toole
Michael L. Tibbetts
Lindsay Paige Prickett
Matthew Charles Kuenzel
Mar tha J. Riley Laubach
Michael S. Finkelstein
Yaddo Artists' Awards
Painter Denyse Thomasos won a 2002 Asian Cultural
101 Poems by Paul Celan. Each of the prizes included
Council Award, which includes a $25,000 grant and travel
a $40,000 cash award. Ms. Carson also won the 2001
throughout China and Southeast Asia this fall. The
T.S. Eliot Prize for her book The Beauty of the Husband:
award, presented in conjunction with the Rockefeller
A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos. The prize is given annu-
Foundation, recognizes individuals who "have made a
ally for the best new collection of poetr y published in
significant contribution to the understanding, practice,
the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland during
or study of the visual ar ts of Asia."
the calendar year preceding the year in which the award
Composer Anthony Gatto received a 2001 Bush
is presented.
Ar tist Fellowship from the Bush Foundation. The award
The American Academy in Rome awarded the Frederic
includes a $40,000 stipend.
A. Juilliard/Walter Damrosch Rome Prize Fellowship in
Assor ted Fire Events (Context Books, 2000), a
Musical Composition for 2001–2002 to Derek Bermel.
collection of stories by David Means, won a 2001 Los
Janet Kaplan received a grant in 2001 from the
Angeles Times Book Prize in the fiction categor y. The
Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation to help her complete her
book, par tially written at Yaddo, also was nominated for
second poetry collection, The Glazier's Countr y.
a National Book Critics Circle Award.
Playwright Romulus Linney was
Painter Squeak Carnwath recently
elected to membership in the American
Novelist Andrea Barrett
received a $25,000 grant from the
Academy of Ar ts and Letters in
received a 2001 MacAr thur
Pasadena, California-based Flintridge
March, 2002.
Fellowship from The John D.
Foundation. She was one of 12
Carolyn Albert was named one of
and Catherine T. MacAr thur
visual ar tists from California, Oregon,
the first recipients of the Playwright
Foundation. Since 1981, the
and Washington selected for the
Discover y Award Workshop presented
foundation has annually select-
2001/2002 grants. The biennial
by VSA ar ts. The Playwright Discover y
ed a small group of people
awards honor West Coast ar tists
Award program has for 17 years invited
working in a variety of fields
whose work demonstrates high ar tis-
promising writers with disabilities to
that demonstrate exceptional
tic merit and a distinctive voice dating
explore the human experience of
creativity in their work. The fel-
back 20 years or more.
living with a disability through the
lowship program emphasizes
Colette Brooks won the 2001
creation of a one-act dramatic work
the impor tance of creativity,
PEN/Jerard Fund Award for her first
for the stage. But in the 2000 com-
fresh ideas, and imagination
published book, In the City: Random
petition, a new element was added to
as a means of improving soci-
Acts of Awareness (Nor ton, June,
the program and three scripts—
ety. Each receives $500,000
2002), a collection of meditations on
including Ms. Albert's—were selected
over five years of "no strings
life in New York City. The $5,500
for week-long workshops during which
attached suppor t."
award is presented biennially to
the playwrights worked with a cast
emerging women writers of nonfic-
and other theater professionals to
tion. In the City was par tially written at Yaddo.
refine their scripts for presentation at an invitation-only
Playwright Brighde Mullins is one of 10 recipients of
reading at The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Ms.
a 2001 Whiting Writers' Award. Presented since 1985
Alber t's script, "My Sunshine Away," told the stor y of a
by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation to "emerging
woman with cerebral palsy who must battle her sister in
writers of exceptional talent and promise," the awards
cour t for the right to live her life on her own terms. VSA
include a $35,000 grant.
ar ts is a non-profit organization that provides access to
Melissa Gould's lithograph "NEU-YORK" won a
the ar ts for people with disabilities for purposes of
"materials award" in The Boston Printmakers 2001
education, recreation, and career development.
American Print Biennial, a group exhibition at Boston
received a 2001 National
University 808 Galler y.
Endowment for the Ar ts Writing Fellowship.
Both the International and Canadian Griffin Poetr y
Six Yaddo composers were on the list of winners of
Prizes for 2001 went to Yaddo writers. Anne Carson's
the 2002 American Academy of Ar ts and Letters
collection Men in the Off Hours won the Canadian Prize
awards in music. Claude Baker received a $7,500
and Heather McHugh shared the International Prize
Academy Award in Music for "outstanding ar tistic
with Nikolai Popov for a translated work, Glottal Stop:
achievement" acknowledging composers who have
Ar tist Helène Aylon was
among the honorees at the
Thir teenth Annual Jewish
arrived at their own voice. Eric Moe won the Vladimir
S. Godfrey, and Ricardo Llorca,
Cultural Achievement Awards
and Rhoda Lakond Award, which includes a $5,000
novelist Kathleen Cambor, poet
in the Ar ts held June 3, 2002,
cash prize. Goddard Lieberson Fellowships of $15,000,
Dorianne Laux, playwright Sarah
in New York City. International
established in 1978 by the CBS Foundation to honor
Schulman, and visual artists Joanne
ar tists Jeanne-Claude and
"mid-career composers of exceptional gifts," were
Greenbaum, Beverly McIver, and
Christo presented Ms. Aylon
presented to Alla Borzova and Steven Stucky. James
the Visual Ar ts Award on
Matheson received the Walter Hinrichsen Award,
Jane Calvin received Illinois
behalf of the National
sponsored by the C.F. Peters Corporation, for the
Arts Council Artist Fellowship awards
Foundation for Jewish Culture.
publication of a work. A $7,500 Charles Ives Scholarship,
in 2001 and 1999.
Ms. Aylon was recognized
awarded to composition students of "great promise,"
"Tahirih (1818-54)," a poem from
for "cutting edge" and "eco-
went to Kati Agocs.
a collection by Julia Older based on
feminist" work that "expresses
James Baker Hall was appointed the 2001–2002
poet and martyr Tahirih of Persia, won
the Jewish experience with
Poet Laureate of Kentucky by The Poet Laureate Selection
the Daniel Varoujan Award offered
beauty, insight, scholarship,
Committee in coordination with the Kentucky Ar ts
by the New England Poetr y Club.
Winners read at the Cambridge Public
Alice Friman won the 2001 James Boatwright Prize
Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
Yaddo writer Jonathan Franzen
for Poetr y from Shenandoah and was appointed to the
December 3, 2001.
won the 2001 National Book
Georgia Poetr y Circuit for 2001–2002.
Award for fiction for his novel
Julia Kunin received a "Confront Reality After—
received the 2001 Mark David
The Corrections, the stor y of
Secret Stipend" grant in August, 2001. The award is
Cohen Award, given by The Kennedy
a troubled American family
given to Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation artists and is
Center and the Association of
gathering for one last
funded by an anonymous donor.
Theater in Higher Education, for her
Christmas. Nominees for the
Twenty Yaddo ar tists received $7,000 Ar tists'
play "China Doll."
National Book Award in the
Fellowship grants in 2001 from the New York Foundation
Six Yaddo writers were finalists
fiction categor y included two
for the Ar ts. They are per formance ar tists Joshua Fried
for the 2001 National Book Critics
other novels by Yaddo writers:
and John Kelly, poets Naomi Guttman and Shelley
Circle Awards. In the fiction category,
Look at Me, Jennifer Egan's
Stenhouse, filmmakers Barbara Hammer and Caran
Ann Patchett was nominated for
second novel, and The Last
Hartsfield, sculptors Suzanne Bocanegra, Heidi
Bel Canto and Jonathan Franzen
Report On the Miracles at Little
Kumao, and Alejandra Munizaga, visual ar tist Victoria
for The Corrections. Barry Werth
No Horse, Louise Erdrich's
Palermo, mixed media ar tists Tamiko Kawata and
was a finalist in the biography/auto-
stor y of a missionar y priest
Elizabeth Duffy, and writers Bliss Broyard, Alan
biography field for The Scarlet
who ministers to an American
Burdick, Clifford Chase, Wesley Gibson, Andrea
Professor/Newton Ar vin: A Literar y
Indian tribe.
Louie, Eleni Sikelianos, Catherine Texier, and Susan
Life Shattered by Scandal. Jane
Thames. Ms. Guttman also recently received a grant
Hirshfield was a finalist for her
from the Canada Council.
poetr y collection Given Sugar, Given Salt. In the criti-
Writer Manil Suri won the 2001 Barnes & Noble
cism categor y, Yaddo finalists were W.D. Snodgrass,
Discover New Writers Award for Fiction for his debut
for De/Compositions: 101 Good Poems Gone Wrong,
novel, The Death of Vishnu, (Nor ton, December, 2000).
and Joy Williams, for Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections
John Minczeski received the 2000 Akron Poetr y
on Humanity and Other Animals. Deena Linett's
Prize from The University of Akron Press for the
collection Rare Ear ths was a semi-finalist in poetr y.
collection Circle Routes, published in October, 2001.
Two Yaddo ar tists were among 34 individuals
In 2001, painter Babette Martino received three
selected to receive $12,500 fellowships in the
awards: a Fellowship Award of Excellence from the
Massachusetts Cultural Council's 2001 Ar tist Grants
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Ar ts, a Thorn
Program. Sally Greenhouse received a fellowship in
Thompson Award from Allied Ar tists of America, and an
the Playwriting/New Theater Work categor y and Janice
Audubon Ar tists Award.
Redman in the Sculpture/Installation categor y. The
Yaddo ar tists who received John Simon Guggenheim
grants are intended to "recognize exceptional ar tists
Fellowships in 2001 include filmmaker Jem Cohen,
and to provide them with funding to suppor t their
composers Claude Baker, Gregory D'Alessio, Daniel
creative endeavors."
John Ashbery won the
2001 Wallace Stevens Award
from the Academy of American
Poets. The award is given
Poet Lisa Sewell received a
time off from her job to work on a shor t stor y collection
annually to recognize "out-
$20,000 Leeway Grant for
which explores women's issues in Japan from the post-
standing and proven master y
Achievement for 2001 from the
World War II era through the present. Ms. Borges also
in the art of poetry." Established
Leeway Foundation. She was
received a $5,000 California Ar ts Council Ar tists
in 1994, the award carries a
among 13 recipients of awards
Fellowship in Literature for 2002.
stipend of $150,000. In
designed to "recognize, encour-
Deborah Cummins received an Illinois Ar ts Council
announcing the award last
age, and suppor t the work of
Ar tist Award in Poetr y in June, 2001.
November, Academy Chancellor
outstanding Philadelphia
John Felstiner's Selected Poems and Prose of Paul
and jur y chair Susan Howe
women ar tists." It was the first
Celan (Nor ton, 2000), won the Modern Language
wrote: "The poems John
time the foundation awarded its
Association's biennial Lois Roth Award for a
Ashber y has so meticulously
major grants to poets.
Translation of a Literar y Work, the PEN Center USA
fashioned are singular and
A stor y by David Evanier,
West Award for Translation, and the American
secret, his stirred perceptions
"Mother," won the 2000
Translators Association's biennial German Translation
private, yet how bravely and
McGinnis-Ritchie Award for best
Prize. It also was a finalist for the Goethe Institute's
unreser vedly they maintain a
fiction in Southwest Review.
Helen and Kur t Wolff Prize and the American PEN
sense of infinite generosity
Painter Timothy Van Laar
Award for Poetr y in Translation. He also recently
received a George A. and Eliza
received a National Endowment for the Arts translation
Gardner Howard Foundation
Yaddo filmmaker Elizabeth
Fellowship of $20,000 for the
Author Mary Ann Taylor-Hall's stor y collection How
Thompson's documentar y
2001–2002 academic year. He
She Knows What She Knows About Yo-Yos (Sarabande
Blink—originally broadcast on
was one of 13 recipients selected
Books, Inc., 2000) recently received ForeWord
the PBS series "P.O.V." in
from among 140 scholars nomi-
Magazine's Annual Book Award for the Anthology/Shor t
July of 2000—won a 2001
nated by administrative officers
Stor y. More than 800 books released in the year 2000
Emmy Award for Outstanding
of universities throughout the
were considered for the award.
Coverage of a Continuing
countr y. Mr. Van Laar heads the
Among the 14 visual ar tists selected for The Space
News Stor y (Programs). Blink
painting program at the University
Program 2001 by The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation
examines the stor y of a one-
of Illinois School of Art and Design.
was Jinnie Seo, a painter from Seoul, Korea. Another
time white supremacist leader
Yaddo ar tist, Rochelle Feinstein of New York City, was
whose subsequent flight
received the 2001 Jane Kenyon
among those selected for 2002. The Space Program, a
from the militant White Ar yan
Award for Outstanding Book of
national program now in its 12th year, provides free
Resistance captured the
Poetr y from the New Hampshire
studio spaces in New York City to visual ar tists for
imagination of the national
Writers Project and a 2001–2002
periods of up to a year.
media when he was found
individual ar tist fellowship in
Three Yaddo writers—Andrea Barrett, A.M. Homes,
beaten and "crucified," his
poetr y from the New Hampshire
and Josip Novakovich—were among 15 fellows
hands nailed to a board.
Council on the Ar ts.
appointed to The New York Public Librar y's Center for
Painter Joyce Abrams won a
Scholars and Writers for the 2001–2002 academic
six-month 1999–2000 Creative
year. The Center offers nine-month fellowships allowing
Ar tists Fellowship from The Japan Foundation.
novelists, poets, historians, scientists, and others
Three Yaddo writers were among 14 women awarded
doing research in a variety of fields to draw on the
grants last fall by the Money for Women/Barbara
resources in the Librar y's collections. Fellows receive
Deming Memorial Fund, Inc., which offers encourage-
a stipend and office space. There were 293 applicants
ment and small grants to individual feminists in the ar ts.
from 25 countries for the 2001–2002 appointments.
Poet Millicent C. Borges received a grant to spend time
Nineteen Yaddo ar tists received 2000–2001 grants
at a writers' colony to work on poems about issues related
from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation to suppor t their
to women and cancer. Janice Eidus was awarded a
living and working expenses for one year. Michael
grant to allow her to reduce her teaching load to work on
Asente, Nina Bachhuber, Sohyun Bae, Ron Baron,
a collection of essays exploring her evolution as a writer,
Eugene Constan, Nancy Davidson, Rochelle Feinstein,
woman, and feminist. Mary Yukari Waters' grant was
Nancy Friedemann, Phyllis Goldberg, Willy Heeks,
designated to help pay her expenses while she took
Ann Holcolm, Ada Medina, John Newman, Aric
Practical Gods, a poetr y collec-
tion by Carl Dennis that was
par tially written at Yaddo, won
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in
named poet Ed Ochester its 2001
Poetr y. The book is a series of
"Ar tist of the Year." The award,
free-verse poems that use
which includes a $15,000 prize, is
religious myths and metaphors
presented annually to one estab-
as a lens through which to
lished ar tist chosen from among
view the ordinar y experiences
Pittsburgh area ar tists working in all
Filmmaker Elizabeth Thompson, right, discusses her work with
of daily life. Two other Yaddo
Margo Jefferson.
ar tists were finalists for the
Painter Fran Siegel recently
2002 Pulitzers: David
Obrosey, Richard Posner, Liz Whitney Quisgard,
received a grant from the Fifth Floor
Rakowski was nominated in
Herman Rose, and Jane South were among the 233
Foundation and a Pratt Institute
the music categor y for "Ten of
international recipients who received a total of
faculty development grant to produce
a Kind" (Symphony No. 2),
a catalogue of site-specific works.
which premiered May 20, 2001,
Joan Silber's novel In My Other Life (Saraband Books,
Susan Wheeler received the
at George Mason University in
Inc., 2000) was a finalist for the Paterson Fiction Prize.
2002 and Rachel Wetzsteon the
Fair fax, Virginia; and Jonathan
Writer Barbara Dimmick was awarded a 2001 New
2001 Witter Bynner Poetr y Prize
Franzen was nominated in the
Hampshire Arts Council Individual Fellowship and was
from the American Academy of Ar ts
fiction categor y for his novel
named writer-in-residence at The Thurber House in
and Letters. The prize, established
Columbus, Ohio, for Fall, 2001.
to honor young poets, includes a
Cynthia Huntington recently received the Four Way
$5,000 cash award. Tony Hoagland
Books 2001 Levis Prize for The Radiant, her four th book
was one of eight writers working in any genre to receive
and third collection of poetr y, which will be published in
a $7,500 Award in Literature from the Academy in 2002.
Februar y, 2003. The national award includes publication
Doug Wright received the 2001 Paul Selvin Award
of the book, a $1,500 honorarium, and an invitation to
from the Writer's Guild of America for his screenplay of
par ticipate in a number of readings in New York and New
"Quills." The award recognizes writing that celebrates
freedom of expression. ■
In August, 2001, the University of Hartford presented
a Community Service Award to composer David Macbride.
Mr. Macbride also received a 2001 Connecticut
Commission on the Ar ts Ar tist Grant.
Playwright Jeff Wanshel's screenplay "Diamond Cut
Diamond," based on his play of the same name, won
the Westchester County Film Festival Screenplay Award
in March, 2001. A reading of the play was par t of the
competition in Westchester County, New York. The play
was written at Yaddo.
Writer Carol Dine received the 2001 Frances Locke
Memorial Award for Poetr y for "After Landscape with
Couple Walking and Crescent Moon," based on Van
Gogh's painting. The award included a $1,000 prize. The
poem appeared in the October, 2001, issue of The
Bitter Oleander, sponsor of the contest. Another poem
by Ms. Dine, "Skull," also about Van Gogh, won second
prize in the contest.
Simon Fill won the 2000 National Ten-Minute Play
Contest sponsored by Actors Theatre of Louisville and
the 1999 Heideman Award.
George W. Rickey, 1907-2002
nternationally celebrated sculptor
kinetic sculpture—using window
I George W. Rickey, an emeritus
glass—was created in 1949 while he
member of The Corporation of Yaddo,
was working as an assistant professor
died July 17, 2002, in St. Paul,
at Indiana University.
Minnesota. Mr. Rickey, 95, had worked
Mr. Rickey began showing his
at Yaddo as both a writer and a sculptor
sculptures in New York in 1954 and in
during residencies in 1963 and 1998.
Europe in 1957. He moved to East
Recognized worldwide for his abstract
Chatham, New York, in 1960 and gave
kinetic sculptures, Mr. Rickey star ted
up teaching in 1966, although he con-
out as a painter. But in 1949, he began
tinued to travel extensively for public
to create sculptures with moving par ts
commissions and exhibitions. From
that evolved into heavy stainless steel
1967 to 1992, he maintained a studio
geometric structures delicately bal-
in Berlin, Germany, and beginning in
anced to rotate on precision bearings
1990 wintered and worked in a studio
he devised himself. The arms of the pieces were
in Santa Barbara, California.
poised so that natural air currents would cause them
In 1996, Mr. Rickey transferred to Yaddo ownership
to sweep, spin, or swirl through the air.
of his "Two Slender Lines Excentric," a 23-foot tall
Mr. Rickey and Alexander Calder—whose mobiles
stainless steel piece with two 15-foot blades that slice
Mr. Rickey first saw in the 1930s—are considered the
the air in reaction to wind. In 2000, in honor of the
only two major 20th Centur y ar tists to focus on move-
100th anniversar y of the founding of Yaddo, he estab-
ment in sculpture. Although the work of the two men
lished an endowed residency to suppor t the visits of
was often compared, Mr. Rickey's geometric forms
young visual ar tists. The first designee of the George
and engineering techniques were more closely aligned
Rickey Endowed Residency will be named in 2003.
with the early 20th centur y Russian Constructivist
Mr. Rickey's work is represented in numerous
movement than the Surrealist influence found in the
public and private collections both in the United States
work of Mr. Calder. In 1967, Mr. Rickey published a
and abroad. His last sculpture—and tallest at 57 feet
scholarly book, Constructivism: Origins and Evolution.
1 inch—was installed at the Hyogo Museum in Kobe,
Born in South Bend, Indiana, in 1907, Mr. Rickey's
Japan, in March of this year.
family moved to Scotland in 1913. He received a
British public school education, followed by Oxford and
a year of ar t school in Paris at Académie Lhote and
Académie Moderne, where he worked under the
Modernist painters Fernand Léger and Amédée Ozenfant.
Returning to the United States in 1930, he taught
histor y briefly at Groton School in Massachusetts,
and then dedicated himself to painting fulltime. He had
his first solo exhibition at the Caz-Delbo Galler y in
New York in 1933 and a year later he moved to New
York and set up a studio. During the 1930s, Mr. Rickey
taught ar t at several schools, including Olivet College
and Kalamazoo College in Michigan, Knox College in
Illinois, and Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania.
During World War II, Mr. Rickey ser ved in the U.S.
Army Air Corps, working with engineers in a machine
shop to improve aircraft weaponr y, which renewed in
him an earlier interest in science and technology. He
resumed his teaching career after the war, and while
studying Bauhaus teaching methods at the Chicago
Institute of Design in 1948-1949 he began to consider
Two Slender Lines
combining geometric form and movement. His first
MARY E. BARNARD, a noted poet and author of
CLAUDE BROWN, 64, whose 1965 book Manchild
Sappho: A New Translation, died August 25, 2001, at
in the Promised Land became a classic of American
her home in Vancouver, Washington, at the age of 91.
literature, died Februar y 2, 2002, in Manhattan. He
The cause was cancer. She was a guest at Yaddo in
was a guest ar tist at Yaddo in 1973, 1975, 1976,
1936 and 1938.
1978, 1984, and 1988.
Ms. Barnard was one of the Nor thwest's first
Though not published as a memoir, Manchild in
poets to gain national recognition and was par t of the
the Promised Land, the stor y of a disturbing childhood
modernist movement in poetr y. She graduated from
amidst violent crime and pover ty in Harlem, was
Reed College in Por tland, Oregon, in 1932, and contin-
comparable to Mr. Brown's own life. He was born in
ued to write poetr y while working in Vancouver as a
Harlem to parents who, like many other Southern
caseworker for the Emergency Relief Administration.
blacks, had migrated from South Carolina seeking
Seeking literar y guidance and advice, she found an
oppor tunities in Nor thern cities. But life in New York
address in the local librar y for Ezra Pound, a poet she
City turned out to be more difficult than Mr. Brown's
had first read at Reed, and wrote to him in Italy,
parents had imagined. He was expelled from school at
sending him six of her best poems. He replied with
8, joined a street gang at 9, was shot in the leg during
interest and the two were friends until his death in
a burglar y at 13, and was sent to reform school at 14.
1972. Mr. Pound introduced her to other writers, such
Mr. Brown's life turned around when he met Dr.
as Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams.
Ernest Papanek, a psychologist and the director of the
By the mid-1930s, Ms. Barnard was publishing
Wiltwyck School for deprived and emotionally disturbed
poems and won Poetr y magazine's distinguished
boys. Dr. Papanek became his mentor, encouraging him
Levinson Award, which helped her travel to New York.
to get an education. Mr. Brown attended high school
She worked as a research assistant for Carl Van
night classes while suppor ting himself by working as a
Doren, became curator of the poetr y collection at the
busboy and deliver yman, and in other jobs. He graduat-
Lockwood Memorial Librar y in Buffalo, and met the
ed from Howard University in Washington in 1965.
literar y agent Diarmund Russell, who found a publisher
While a student at Howard, Mr. Brown—at the
for her nonfiction book The Mythmakers, a common-
request of Dr. Papanek—wrote an ar ticle for Dissent
sense approach to mythology. Her poetr y appeared in
magazine. The ar ticle caught the attention of an editor
many periodicals, including The New Yorker, Saturday
at Macmillan and he was offered a $2,000 advance
Review, Kenyon Review, Harper's Bazaar, and the
to write a book. Two years later, he delivered a 1,537-
word manuscript, which was ignored for a year until a
During a 1951 bout with hepatitis, Ms. Barnard
new editor was assigned to look at it. Manchild in the
took Mr. Pound's advice to translate and began working
Promised Land was published at the height of the civil
on Greek metrics—those of Sappho's. Sappho: A New
rights movement and drew new attention to the lives of
Translation was published in 1958, earning her a
urban blacks. It described in detail the way drugs had
National Book Award nomination and establishing her
affected Harlem and offered a narrative of a boyhood
reputation as a scholar. The book has never been out
spent among killers, drug addicts, and prostitutes. The
of print and has recently been reissued. Ms. Barnard's
book has sold more than 4 million copies, has been
1979 Collected Poems launched the Breitenbush
translated into 14 languages, and is required reading
publishing house and won the Elliston Award. Questions
in many schools and colleges.
from younger writers inspired her to write about her life
Mr. Brown attended law school at Stanford and
and resulted in Assault on Mount Helicon: A Literar y
Rutgers and considered a career in politics before
Memoir, published in 1984. She also was the author
deciding to continue writing, lecturing, and teaching.
of Time and the White Tigress, winner of the 1986
His second book, The Children of Ham, told the stor y
Western States Book Award, and Nantucket Genesis:
of a group of Harlem teenagers who escape from the
Tale of My Tribe. Many of her poems have been set to
influence of heroin. He never finished a third book
music and her work appears in several anthologies.
comparing his own childhood experience with those
Ms. Barnard received a lifetime achievement award
of children growing up in Harlem in the 1980s during
in 1990 from the Oregon Institute of Literar y Ar ts,
the cocaine epidemic, but he did publish ar ticles on
was a Clark College Woman of Achievement winner in
the subject.
1988, and was an honoree at the 17th and 22nd
annual Por tland Poetr y Festivals. The 1994 spring
issue of Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound
Scholarship was dedicated to Ms. Barnard.
NICOLE CARSTENS, a sculptor, installation artist, and
he painted after hours in a studio he shared with
photographer who was at Yaddo in 1995, died April 9,
Raymond Steth. At the same time, he was exposed to
2001, in Amsterdam, at age 43. The cause was cancer.
African images placed side by side with modern master
Born in The Hague, The Netherlands, Ms. Carstens
European painters at the Barnes Foundation and it
graduated in 1986 from the State Academy of Fine Arts
influenced his work.
in Amsterdam and received an MFA from Pratt Institute
Mr. Clark built the ar t depar tment at Talladega
in New York City in 1990. Attracted by an ever-changing
College, in Talladega, Alabama, teaching students
ar t scene and the sense of independence it offered
traditional European and African ar t forms. While
her, Ms. Carstens opted to live and work in New York,
working at Sacramento State College toward his BA
although she kept an apar tment in Amsterdam to stay
degree, from 1956 to 1958, Mr. Clark was paid to
close to her family and to ser ve as a European base
teach ar t histor y to students who were studying for
their teaching credentials. He earned his MA from the
By age 35, Mrs. Carstens had established a
University of California at Berkeley in 1962. In 1968,
successful ar t career, exhibiting her work in the United
he was hired to teach studio ar t courses in African and
States, Europe, South America, and Japan. Before 1996,
Afro-American ar t histor y at Merritt College in Oakland,
her work was mostly sculptural, using simple recyclable
California, and he remained at the school until his
materials (mostly plastics) which she transformed
retirement in 1981.
into subtle installations with new meanings which she
Mr. Clark designed and wrote the first curriculum
called "unexpected, odd plots." Then, in 1997, when
for African and African American ar t, A Black Ar t
she found herself without a studio or storage and little
Perspective: A Black Teacher's Guide to a Black Visual
money to suppor t her work, she began to look at her
Ar t Curriculum, in 1970. In 1987, he was among 8
"money job"—working as a flight attendant for KLM
professors from American colleges and universities
Royal Dutch Airlines—as an art project. The photographs
whose letters were included in "Messages From Abroad"
she produced from her KLM experience became "Blue
in the Black Studies Journal, No. 57, published by
Notes From Thin Air," 1998, an intimate insider's view
Kobe City University of Foreign Studies in Japan. He
of the flight industr y and the transient and sometimes
also was featured in two books by Furukawa Hiromi, a
transcendental nature of constantly arriving and depart-
professor at Kyoto Women's University, who researched
ing. The work also became her last exhibition, showing
African American studies at American colleges and
at the Nederlands Foto Instituut in Rotterdam, The
Netherlands, in August and September of 2001. A cat-
On September 22, 2001, Dr. David Driskell, an
alogue for the exhibition included text by Ms. Carstens.
ar tist, educator, and historian of African American ar t,
Friends of Ms. Carstens have established a small
delivered a lecture entitled "Claude Clark: Inventing An
ar t fund, Nicole Ar t Sense, to preser ve and to
African Diasporoa," in Memphis, Tennessee, preceding
continue exhibiting her work. It is based in Haarlem,
the formal opening of an exhibition of 45 works by Mr.
The Netherlands.
Clark at Joysmith Galler y.
CLAUDE CLARK, a painter and printmaker, died
LAURA FOREMAN, director of dance at The New
April 21, 2001, at the age of 85. He was a guest at
School University in New York City and a visual ar tist,
Yaddo in 1953.
writer, and teacher, died June 15, 2001, in Manhattan.
Mr. Clark was born in Rockingham, Georgia, the
The cause was cancer. Ms. Foreman, 64, had been a
second eldest child in a family of 10. The family moved
guest at Yaddo in 1999.
in 1923 to Manyunk, Pennsylvania, outside Philadelphia,
A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Ms.
where Mr. Clark attended elementar y and high school.
Foreman conducted creativity and fitness workshops
A junior high ar t teacher, a Sunday school teacher, and
and worked as a modern dancer, choreographer, and
his pastor encouraged Mr. Clark to pursue his interest in
per formance ar tist. She formerly was director of
ar t. In high school, he did all of the ar twork for student
her own dance company and of the Choreographer's
events and contributed poems and essays for the
Theatre program at The New School.
school's student publication, The Wissahickon. Turned
Ms. Foreman's debut as a visual ar tist began with
down by his senior high instructor for a scholarship
"Roomwork," a 1981 large-scale, autobiographical
recommendation to an art school, Mr. Clark approached
installation presented at the landmark Monumental
the principal, who awarded him the scholarship to The
Show. She continued to exhibit installations of this
Pennsylvania School of Industrial Ar ts.
nature for a number of years. Later, she began a
From 1939 to 1942, Mr. Clark worked for the Works
series of small-scale sculptures that took the form
Progress Administration in the printmaking division and
of non-functional conceptual birdhouses called
"Birdhouse-as-Metaphor" that were shown in galleries
JULIUS GOLDSTEIN, a painter who was a guest at
and museums throughout the United States and Italy
Yaddo several times in the 1960s and 1970s, died
and she created five site-specific birdhouses that were
June 7, 2001, in Petwor th, England. He was 83.
commissioned by the JBR Foundation and sponsored
Mr. Goldstein was par t of an illustrious group of
by City Ar ts for the Twentieth Anniversar y of Ear th Day
ar tists, historians, and critics who joined the Hunter
in New York City. The site-specific works are permanent
College Ar t Depar tment faculty in the 1960s as the
installations in five vest pocket parks in New York City.
school moved to expand its ar t programs. Hunter
More recently, she had been concentrating on a cr yptic
subsequently honored him by naming him professor
surreal series of paintings of biomorphic forms, some
emeritus. He also ser ved as an associate professor
of which were coupled with formulaic text. Ms. Foreman's
in studio ar t at the Brooklyn Museum Ar t School and
visual ar t works have been featured in numerous
the "Y" Ar t Center.
publications, museums, and galleries. Her works are in
Colleagues at Hunter College remembered Mr.
many private and public collections.
Goldstein as a dedicated ar tist and teacher, an ardent
A work by Ms. Foreman provided the cover ar t for
baseball and movie fan , and as a man of "irreverent wit."
the ACTS Foundation 8th Edition of Havens for Creatives,
an international ar ts colony resource book. She also
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON, a writer of nonfiction
published a collection of short stories, Close Encounters.
who rose to prominence in 1978 with a book she wrote
about her 12 years as a Jehovah's Witness, died April
ROBERT E. GARIS, 75, a noted critic of dance,
24, 2002, in New York City at age 67. The cause was
literature, music, and film, died Januar y 26, 2001, at
chronic obstructive pulmonar y disease. Ms. Harrison
his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, after a long
was at Yaddo in 1980, 1981, 1983, 1987, and 1988.
illness. He was a guest ar tist at Yaddo four times, in
Ms. Harrison considered her decision at age 22 to
1957, 1958, 1960, and 1967.
leave the Jehovah's Witnesses the turning point in her
Mr. Garis, the Katharine Lee Bates Professor of
life and career. She was conver ted to the faith by her
English emeritus at Wellesley College, was best known
mother when she was 9 and went door-to-door carr ying
in recent years for his ballet criticism, published in a
its message. At 19, she went to live and work at its
variety of journals, star ting in the 1960s, and culminat-
world headquar ters, the Watchtower Bible and Tract
ing in his book Following Balanchine (1995) completed
Society in Brooklyn Heights, New York. After three
with the suppor t of a Guggenheim Fellowship. But
years there, she renounced her faith and left. Her book
his work covered a diverse range of ar t and ar tists he
Visions of Glor y: A Histor y and a Memor y of Jehovah's
admired in music, literature, film, and ballet.
Witnesses, mixed her autobiography with detailed
Born in Hawley, Pennsylvania, he attended public
historical research, por traying the religion as racist,
schools in Allentown and received his BA from
sexist, and totalitarian, but also noting members'
Muhlenberg College in 1945. In 1956, he received his
kindnesses to one another, their care for the elderly,
PhD in English literature from Har vard University after
and their courage in the face of persecution.
a decade which included a year as a Fulbright Scholar
After leaving the Jehovah's Witnesses, Ms. Harrison
in England, teaching fellowships at Har vard, and five
moved to the East Village and worked as a secretar y
years of writing a monthly column of record notes for
at a publishing house and at the American Committee
The Nation. In the 1960s, he became a reviewer of
on Africa. There, she met W. Dale Harrison, whom she
fiction and literar y criticism for The Hudson Review and
married. He took a job with CARE, and they lived in
contributed film criticism to Commentar y and ballet
Libya, India, and Guatemala. They returned to Brooklyn
criticism to Par tisan Review. His first book, The
with their two children and her first book, Unlearning
Dickens Theater (1965), was hailed as a landmark in
the Lie: Sexism in School, grew out of her children's
Dickens criticism.
experience with effor ts to quell sexism at their school.
Remembered for his strongly-felt judgments, Mr.
Ms. Harrison was an early writer for Ms. Magazine
Garis challenged others to speak their minds and was
and contributed to many other national magazines and
a popular professor, depar tment head, and dean at
newspapers. Often described as a gifted inter viewer,
Wellesley for more than 40 years. At the time of his death,
she was known for her humor and strong opinions. Her
Mr. Garis was at work on a book-length account of
other books included Italian Days, an impressionistic
Orson Welles' career, por tions of which were published
and literar y travel book about Italy that won the
in Raritan Quar terly.
American Book Award, and a novel, Foreign Bodies.
JUNE JORDAN, a poet who was in residence at Yaddo
58-piece show of Mr. Landau's work that toured the
in 1979 and 1981, died June 14, 2002, at her home in
United States.
Berkeley, California, of breast cancer. She was 65.
His life and ar t changed after he was drafted to
Ms. Jordan was the author or editor of 28 books,
fight in the Mediterranean during World War II. He later
essay collections, and novels for children, and the
explained that he returned from the war with a pro-
libretto for the 1995 John Adams opera "I Was Looking
foundly pessimistic sense of human capabilities that
at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky." In her work, she
colored his work throughout the rest of his life. He was
often was an advocate for the poor, for women, and for
par ticularly affected by the Holocaust. His work came
the disenfranchised. At the University of California,
to express the limitless possibilities of the heights
Berkeley, where she was a professor of African-American
and depths humans could reach. Many of his most
Studies, she founded Poetry for the People, which teaches
impor tant and famous works are on permanent display
undergraduates how to take poetry to community groups
at such museums and galleries as the Philadelphia
as a form of political empowerment.
Museum of Ar t, the Museum of Modern Ar t in New York
Born in Harlem to Jamaican immigrants, Ms. Jordan
City, and in the epic stained glass windows of Reform
credited her father for helping her find her identity as a
Congregation Keneseth Israel Synagogue in Elkins Park,
writer even though she admitted he often beat her when
she was a child and referred to her as "he" because
In the 1950s, Mr. Landau began teaching, first
he had wanted a boy. She said her father forced her to
ser ving on the faculty of the Philadelphia College of Ar t
memorize Shakespeare and gave her books by Paul
and then as a professor at the Pratt Institute in New
Lawrence Dunbar to read.
York City from 1957 to 1980. The Jacob Landau Legacy
The Jordan family eventually moved to Brooklyn,
Preser vation Trust has been established to promote
where Ms. Jordan was the only black student at
the continued visibility of Mr. Landau's ar t. It is based
Midwood High School. Then she won a scholarship to
in Lansdale, Pennsylvania.
Nor thfield School for Girls in Massachusetts. While a
student at Barnard College, she met Michael Meyer, a
NORA SAYRE, a film critic and essayist best known
white student, and they married. In her book of essays,
for her commentar y on the cultural effects of the cold
Civil Wars, Ms. Jordan wrote of the difficulties of inter-
war, died August 8, 2001, in Manhattan. She was 68;
racial marriage. Following the couple's divorce in 1966,
the cause was emphysema. Ms. Sayre was a guest at
she worked as a freelance writer and researcher and
Yaddo seven times between 1976 and 1998.
writer for Mobilization for Youth in New York City while
Ms. Sayre was born in Bermuda, attended the Putney
raising her son largely on her own. In 1967, she started
School in Vermont, and graduated cum laude from
teaching at City College and two years later she
Radcliffe College in 1954. As the daughter of writers with
published a children's book, Who Look at Me?
New York and Hollywood connections, she witnessed
A new book of political essays by Ms. Jordan,
the struggle to maintain individual political independence
Some of Us Did Not Die, is scheduled to be released
during America's anti-Communist fer vor in the 1950s.
this fall by Basic Civitas. The title of the book is from
Her father, Joel Sayre, was a staff writer and war
a poem she wrote in which she speaks of her battle
correspondent for The New Yorker and an occasional
with breast cancer and about the September 11
Hollywood screenwriter (he wrote "Annie Oakley" and
terrorist attacks.
was a co-writer on "Gunga Din"). Her mother, Ger trude
Lynahan Sayre, was a repor ter for The New York World.
JACOB LANDAU, an internationally noted ar tist and
Moving to Europe in the mid-1950s, she met members
illustrator, died November 24, 2001, at the age of 85.
of the American community in exile—targets of Hollywood
He lived in Roosevelt, New Jersey. He was a Yaddo
blacklisting and the United States' anti-Communist
guest ar tist in 1964.
campaign—and the self-described apolitical student who
As a boy in his native Philadelphia, Mr. Landau
grew up in a liberated family suddenly became more
began drawing scenes from ever yday life that captured
politically aware. She began to write for publication.
his imagination. He first caught public attention when at
In the early 1960s, after landing a job writing book
age 17 he submitted a collection of illustrations based
reviews for The New Statesman, Ms. Sayre returned to
on Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book to the Scholastic
the United States. She served as New York correspondent
magazine drawing competition. He later wrote that the
for The New Statesman from 1965 until 1970. Her
illustrations were so good the contest judges demanded
first book, a collection of pieces titled Sixties Going on
proof his drawings weren't copied from an accomplished
Seventies—covering ever ything from student strikes and
ar tist. The following year, Scholastic sponsored a
yippies to the 1972 Democratic and Republican conven-
tions—led to a job in 1973 review-
began personal per formances in a
ing movies for The New York Times.
style he labeled "recontexting
In 1975, she left the Times and for
objects," that moved from his living
the next seven years worked as a
room into theaters, streets, and
freelancer, writing for The Times
parks. Later, he branched out to
Book Review, The Nation, The
film and videos, offering his inter-
Morris the Cat, Yaddo's unofficial
Progressive, and Esquire, among
pretation of classical texts. His
mascot for nearly 20 years, died in
other publications.
work was quick-paced and known
July of undetermined causes.
Ms. Sayre's second book,
for its physical presence.
Adopted by the Yaddo staff—
Running Time: Films of the Cold
Eventually, he took his ar t on
particularly the buildings and grounds
War, published in 1982, analyzed
world tour, literally as well as
crew—following the death of his
the effect of the anti-Communist
textually, offering snapshots, or
mother, Mabel, the Tabby was slow
crusade on Hollywood filmmaking
"living paintings," of Paris, Cairo,
to warm up to his new family.
in the 1950s. Convinced the
Tokyo, St. Petersburg, and other
Maintenance worker Edmund "Sonny"
countr y's anti-Communist move-
cities in major museums throughout
Ovitt, Jr., who had a special bond
ment preceded and continued long
the United States and Europe as
with the cat, said it was several
after the era of Senator Joseph R.
well as in small experimental
months before Morris would allow
McCar thy, she explored the period
theaters. He won many awards—
anyone to come near him. And he
deeper in her next book, Previous
including a Prix de Rome, a
remained aloof to most people,
Convictions: A Journey Through the
Guggenheim Fellowship, and an Obie.
although he prowled the grounds
1950s, published in 1995. On the
Mr. Sherman once said he
and studios regularly and was
Wing: A Young American Abroad,
considered ever ything he did a form
known to drop his guard occasionally
published two months before Ms.
of writing, and acknowledged a
for a good snack or a rubbing under
Sayre's death, was finished at
fascination with Carson McCullers.
Yaddo. It was a memoir about her
In the mid-1960s, he arrived unan-
years in Europe when she met
nounced at Ms. McCullers' home
Elizabeth Jane Howard (future wife
and ended up living with her and
of Kingsley Amis), James Thurber, A. J. Liebling, Walker
reading to her in the last year of her life.
Evans, Cyril Connolly, Henr y Green, Graham Greene, and
Charlie and Oona Chaplin.
JOHN PAUL THOMAS, a painter who was one of
In 1981, Ms. Sayre became a visiting lecturer in
Hawaii's most esteemed ar tists, died September 5,
Columbia University's writing program. She was awarded
2001, in Honolulu at the age of 74. He was a guest at
a 1975-76 Guggenheim Fellowship and received a
Yaddo in 1954.
National Endowment for the Ar ts grant in 1978. She
Mr. Thomas was a native of Alabama, ser ved in
covered ever y presidential political convention from the
the U.S. Navy during World War II, and received a BA
time she returned to the United States from Europe in
degree from the New School and an MA degree in fine
the early 1960s and continued to write fulltime until she
ar ts from New York University. His paintings were
entered the hospital.
exhibited nationally and internationally in more than 200
Friends of Ms. Sayre are working to create an endowed
solo and group exhibitions in museums, universities,
residency at Yaddo in her memor y. Those wishing to
and ar t galleries, such as the Whitney Museum of
contribute to the fund may send gifts payable to The
American Ar t, the San Francisco Legion of Honor, the
Corporation of Yaddo, Box 395, Saratoga Springs, NY
Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC, the American
12866, Attn: Nora Sayre Endowed Residency Fund.
Librar y in Bucharest, Romania, Galleria Schneider in
Rome, and the Contemporar y Museum in Honolulu. His
STUART SHERMAN, an experimental per formance
work is represented in museums across the countr y.
ar tist and playwright who also worked in film, video,
The recipient of numerous awards, grants, and
sculpture, and other visual ar ts, died September 14,
scholarships, including a National Endowment for the
2001, in San Francisco, of AIDS. A Yaddo guest ar tist
Ar ts grant, Mr. Thomas was a noted figure in Hawaii's
in 1996, he was 55.
cultural life. His last commission was for an oil paint-
Mr. Sherman was born in Providence, Rhode Island,
ing, "The Spirit of Washington Place," in celebration of
and attended Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
the 150th anniversar y of the residence of Queen
Early in his career, he wrote stories and poems and
Lili uokalani, last monarch of Hawaii. Washington Place
worked as an actor in New York City with companies run
is currently used as Hawaii's governor's mansion.
by Charles Ludlam and Richard Foreman. In 1975, he
Mr. Thomas had been a visiting professor of ar t at
six major universities, including the University of
Ms. Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi, and
Washington in Seattle, where he held the Ames Walker
lived there nearly her entire life. She lived in the Jackson
Professorship Chair. In 1965, he moved to Hawaii to
home her father built in the 1920s. She attended
teach ar t at the University of Hawaii. He established a
Mississippi University for Women, later graduating from
studio on the Kona Coast of Hawaii Island in 1970 and
the University of Wisconsin and doing postgraduate
lived there until his death.
work at Columbia University in New York. Early in her
career, she worked for newspapers and radio stations
SIDNEY TILLIM, an ar t critic and painter of historical
and ser ved as publicity agent for President Franklin
scenes, died August 16, 2001, in New York City of
Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration. It was
complications following surger y. He was 76. Mr. Tillim
while traveling Mississippi for the WPA that she took
was in residence at Yaddo in 1961.
her celebrated photographs, pictures that showed the
In 1965, Mr. Tillim joined Ar tforum magazine, where
pride she witnessed even among the poorest people
he was a writer and editor mostly concerned with
in the state.
representational and figurative painting.
A self-described "natural obser ver," Ms. Welty often
Mr. Tillim began showing still-life paintings in the
said she considered fiction her most productive tool
early 1960s and then began working on large illustrative
for analyzing human personality, believing that it is
paintings of historical scenes, such as "John Adams
human nature to talk, to tell stories based on personal
Accepting the Retainer to Defend British Solders
experience, gossip, and current events.
Accused in the Boston Massacre." His last signed work
was a watercolor, "The Departure of the Prince of Wales,"
finished June 15, 2001.
Mr. Tillim taught art at Parsons School of Design, the
School of Visual Ar ts, Pratt Institute, and Bennington
A memorial fund has been established in
remembrance of Grace Hood, Yaddo writer Ann
Hood's 5-year-old daughter who passed away
EUDORA WELTY, an acclaimed writer known for her
suddenly in April from a virulent strep infection.
depictions of small-town Mississippi life and a favorite
The Gracie Annabelle Fund for the Ar ts will be
among critics and fellow writers, died July 23, 2001,
administered through the Rhode Island Foundation,
in Mississippi at the age of 92. Ms. Welty had been
One Station Place, Providence, Rhode Island 02903.
a guest ar tist at Yaddo in 1941 and 1963 and was a
Proceeds from the donor advised fund will be used
former member of The Corporation of Yaddo.
to suppor t ar ts programs. For information about
Ms. Welty, author of Losing Battles, Delta Wedding,
the Gracie Annabelle Fund for the Ar ts, write to the
and The Optimist's Daughter—for which she won the
Foundation or telephone 401.274.4564.
Pulitzer Prize in 1973—also was an accomplished
The Yaddo family offers condolences to Ann
photographer who produced an emotionally charged
Hood, her husband Lorne A. Adrain, and Grace's
series of photographs showing the pover ty of
sister, Ariane, and brother, Sam.
Depression-era Mississippi. Her memoir, One Writer's
Beginnings, inspired Mar y Chapin Carpenter to write the
song and children's book Haley Came to Jackson and
two of her books—The Robber Bridegroom and The
Ponder Hear t—were made into Broadway plays. Her
first stor y collection, A Cur tain of Green, contained two
of her most famous works, "A Worn Path" and "Why I
Live at the P.O." However, she often referred to the
1949 collection of interrelated stories set in the fictional
town of Morgana, Mississippi, The Golden Apples, as
her favorite book among her own works.
In 1998, the Librar y of America published a two-
volume compilation of Ms. Welty's works, the first time
an entire edition had been devoted to a living writer.
Mississippi University for Women gave her its first
honorar y degree that same year. She was inducted into
the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls,
New York, in 2000, and had received dozens of honors
in the United States and abroad.
Paul Auster, editor, I Thought My Father Was God: And Other
True Tales from NPR's National Story Project, Holt, September,
2001; a poetr y reading, Dia Center for the Ar ts, New York,
New York, October 13, 2001; translation from French,
Following is a list of recent accomplishments of Yaddo
"A Dozen Surrealist Poems," Conjunctions, Spring, 2002.
guest ar tists and corporate members. Please note thatwe depend in most cases on information provided by
Milton Avery, a solo exhibition, "The Nude and Other
others and that items listed in the Yaddo Ar tists'
Subjects/A Retrospective View: 1929–1963," Riva Yares
Calendar are excluded from "Recent Works."
Galler y, Scottsdale, Arizona, Februar y 2 – March 4, 2002.
Helene Aylon, installations: "My Bridal Chamber," District of
Marilyn Abildskov, poetr y: "In Iowa," Alaska Quar terly Review,
Columbia Jewish Community Center Ann Loeb Bronfman
Summer/ Fall, 2001; prose work: "Kisetsuka," Four th
Galler y, Washington, D.C., May 20 – September 2, 2001,
Genre, Spring, 2001, "Skin That Leads to Private Par ts,"
and "My Notebooks," Brandeis University Women's Studies
Puer to del Sol, Spring, 2001, "Of the First," Drunken Boat,
Research Center, Waltham, Massachusetts, September 6 –
Winter, 2001, "Confessions of an Ar tful Kind," Black Warrior
October 21, 2001.
Review, 2001, and "The Men in My Countr y," Quar terly
Peter Balakian, a poetr y collection, June-Tree: New and
West, Fall, 2001; essays in anthologies: "The Occurrence,"
Selected Poems 1974-2000, HarperCollins, March, 2001.
Unsavvy Traveler, Seal Press, 2001, and "Eggs," Andre
Mary Jo Bang, poetr y collection: Louise in Love, Grove Press,
Dubus: A Tribute, Xavier University Press, 2001.
March, 2001; featured guest: "Festival Within: Best
Joan Acocella, a nonfiction work, Willa Cather and the Politics of
American Poetr y 2001," sponsored by Teenspeak Inc.,
Criticism, Vintage Books (paperback edition), December, 2001.
Huntington, New York, September 29–30, 2001.
Iris Adler, a solo exhibition, "Tales: Fair y, Tall, Folk, Myth, etc.,"
Ron Baron, a group exhibition, "Interval: New Art for a New Space,"
Aron Packer Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, March 22 – April 27, 2002.
Sculpture Center, New York, New York, September 23 –
Elizabeth Alexander, a poetr y collection, Antebellum Dream
October 28, 2001.
Book, Graywolf Press, September, 2001; a poem, "Bill
Dorothy Barresi, poetr y, 5 AM, Issue #15, 2001.
Strayhorn Writes ‘Lush Life,'" Ploughshares, Spring, 2002.
Andrea Barrett, a collection of stories and novellas, Ser vants of
Mara Alper, a screening of a video poem, "To Erzulie," Zebra
the Map, W.W. Nor ton, Januar y, 2002.
Poetr y Festival, Berlin, Germany.
David Loren Bass, solo exhibitions: "Experiential Watercolors:
Julia Alvarez, fiction, "Anita's Diary," Conjunctions, Spring, 2002;
Mexico and Guatemala, 2001–02," Bass Fine Art, Santa Fe,
a television film adaptation of her historical novel In the
New Mexico, Februar y 13 – March 15, 2002, and "Morocco
Time of the Butter flies, Showtime, October 7, 2001.
Experienced," paintings, drawings and monotypes, David Loren
Jonathan Ames, an essay collection, My Less Than Secret Life,
Bass Galler y, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 14–30, 2001.
Avalon, July, 2002.
Deborah Beblo, a group exhibition, "Uncomfor table," Ruby
A. Manette Ansay, a memoir, Limbo: A Memoir, Morrow,
Galler y, Brooklyn, New York, May 10–26, 2002.
October, 2001.
Fred Becker, a solo exhibition, "A Retrospective of Prints and
Kim Anno and Anne Carson, limited edition publication, The
Drawings, 1934 to 1999," Susan Teller Galler y, New York,
Mirror of Simple Souls, St. Benedict's Press, 2001.
New York, April 6 – May 4, 2002.
Polly Apfelbaum, a group exhibition, "Painting Matter," James
Robin Behn, a poetr y collection, Horizon Note, University of
Cohan Galler y, New York New York, May 2 – June 1, 2002; a
Wisconsin Press, October, 2001.
commissioned work, "Big Bubbles," for the group exhibition
Mary Behrens, a group exhibition, "Smile," Here, New York,
"As Painting: Division and Displacement," Wexner Center for
New York, May 23 – June 30, 2001.
the Ar ts, Columbus, Ohio, May 12 – August 12, 2001.
Andrea Belag, a solo exhibition, "Recent Gouaches," Bill
Tom Aprile, solo exhibitions: "Floor Pieces and Drawings,"
Maynes Galler y, New York, New York, April 4 – May 4, 2002.
Bethany Lutheran College Ylvisaker Fine Arts Center, Mankato,
Thomas Beller, editor, a collection of stories and essays, Before
Minnesota, Januar y 18 – Februar y 22, 2002, and sculpture
and After: Stories from New York, Nor ton, Februar y, 2002.
and paintings, ISIS Galler y, University of Notre Dame, Notre
Dame, Indiana, September 23 – October 27, 2001.
Saul Bellow, a stor y collection, Collected Stories, Viking,
November, 2001.
Geraldine Aron, play opening, "My Brilliant Divorce," The Druid
Theatre, Galway, Ireland, November 28, 2001.
Elizabeth Benedict, a novel, Almost, Houghton Mifflin Company,
August, 2001.
Alberta Arthurs, co-editor with Glenn Wallach, an essay collection,
Crossroads: Ar t and Religion in American Life, New Press,
Martin Benjamin, curator for "Clips," Ar ts Atrium Galler y, Union
College, Schenectady, New York, February 14 – March 21, 2002.
Sarah Arvio, a poetr y collection, Visits from the Seventh, Knopf,
Jill Bialosky, a poetr y collection, Subterranean, Knopf,
Februar y, 2002.
December, 2001.
John Ashbery, translation from French, seven poems by Pierre
Lorna Bieber, a group exhibition: "A Thousand Hounds," Paine
Mar tor y, Conjunctions, Spring, 2002.
Webber Gallery, New York, New York, January 17 – March 29,
2002, Nor ton Museum of Ar t, and West Palm Beach, Florida,
Samuel Astrachan, a novel, Winston, Le bois d'Orion;
April 25 – September 1, 2002; publications: photography
September, 2001.
York, New York, June 6 – August 15, 2002, "Women Ar tists:
Cat-inspired Tale Now a Cartoon
Their Work and Influence 1950s–70s," Gallery Paule Anglim,
San Francisco, California, January 9 – February 2, 2002, and
est-selling author Amy Tan's children's tale
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium, April 21 – May 26, 2001;
B based on her own pet has been turned into a
ar twork reproduced, "Femme Maison, 1945–47" and
daily car toon show. Sagwa, The Chinese Siamese
"Femme Maison 1946–47," Fence, Spring/Summer, 2001.
Cat, set in feudal China, debuted on PBS stations
Paul Bowles, a stor y collection, The Stories of Paul Bowles,
last fall. Ms. Tan's book by the same name was
Ecco, October, 2001.
inspired by a dream she had shor tly after learning
Michael Boyd, group exhibition, "Anti-Gravity," Rober t Pardo
her beloved cat, Sagwa, was ill and wasn't expected
Galler y, New York, New York, Februar y 15 – March 27, 2002.
to live more than a month. She wrote a stor y about
Daniel Brewbaker, a world premiere of a commissioned piano
the cat the morning after her dream and read it to
concer to, "Ode to To Kalon," the Napa Valley Symphony,
her pet, who recovered to live four more years, to
Robert Mondavi Winery, Napa Valley, California, March 9, 2001.
the age of 21. A friend of Ms. Tan's, illustrator
Quita Brodhead, solo exhibitions commemorating her 100th
Gretchen Schields, persuaded her to turn the stor y
bir thday: "Quita Brodhead: Celebrating a Centur y," Hollis
Taggar t Galleries, New York, New York, March 5–31, 2001,
into a book and collaborated on the publication. The
and "Quita Brodhead: Paintings 1920–2001," Pennsylvania
car toon Sagwa, The Chinese Siamese Cat, includes
Academy of Fine Ar ts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 29 –
music, folk tales, and children telling their own
July 22, 2001; exhibition celebrating the ar tist's 101 years,
family stories. The show even has its own Web site,
"The European Years, 1950–1965," The Philip and Muriel
Berman Museum of Ar t at Ursinus College, Collegeville,
Pennsylvania, July 25 – August 30, 2002.
Sylvia Brownrigg, a novel, Pages for You, Farrar, Strauss &
included in A Thousand Hounds, the Presence of Dogs in
Giroux, April, 2001.
Photography, edited by Miles Bar th and Ray Merrit, Taschen,
Jane Brox, an essay, "After wards," The Georgia Review:
and in the final edition of Sulfur, edited by Clayton Eshleman,
Selected Essays, 1947–1996, Winter 2001/Spring 2002.
Joseph Bruchac, a children's book, The Skeleton Man,
Isabel Bigelow, a solo exhibition, "Floating World," Reynolds
HarperCollins, September, 2001.
Galler y, Richmond, Virginia, April 19 – May 31, 2002.
Julia Budenz, a poem, "The Hymn of Intertextuality," Rhino, 2001.
Star Black, a solo exhibition, "Collages," Canio's Galler y, Sag
Judy Budnitz, a work of fiction, "Did the Sun Shine Before You
Harbor, New York, June 14 – July 9, 2001.
Were Born?," Fence, Spring/Summer, 2001.
Nell Blaine, a solo exhibition, "Bouquets," Tibor De Nagy
Trine Bumiller, a three-person exhibition, "Luminous Nature,"
Galler y, New York, New York, Februar y 14 – March 16, 2002.
Robischon Galler y, Denver, Colorado, Januar y 12 – Februar y
Harold Blumenfeld, a compact disk, Mythologies, with liner
notes for the title work—a setting of poems by Derek
Kathe Burkhart, a novella in French translation, The Double
Walcot—by William Gass, Albany Records, June, 2001.
Standard, Hachette Litteratures, September, 2001.
Michael Blumenthal, a memoir, All My Mothers and Fathers:
Luca Buvoli, a multimedia work in collaboration with composer
A Memoir, HarperCollins, March, 2002.
Jeffrey Lependor f, Queens Museum of Ar t, New York, New
Dennis Bock, a novel, The Ash Garden, Alfred A. Knopf,
York, Februar y 22 – May 27, 2001.
September, 2001.
Joseph Caldwell, a novel, Bread for the Baker's Child,
Don Bogen, a poem, "The Objects," Colorado Review, Spring, 2001.
Sarabande Books, Inc., Januar y, 2002.
Bruce Bond, a poetr y collection, The Throats of Narcissus,
Hortense Calisher, a novel, Sunday Jews, Harcour t, May, 2002.
University of Arkansas Press, May, 2001; a poem,
Jane Calvin, solo exhibitions: "Discontinuum: Photographs by
"Dementia Praecox," Colorado Review, Spring, 2001.
Jane Calvin," The Tweed Museum of Ar t, Duluth, Minnesota,
Millicent Borges, anthology contributor: Boomer Girls: Poems
August 13 – October 6, 2002, and "Jane Calvin Photographs,"
by Women from the Baby Boom Generation, University of
The Ulrich Museum of Ar t, Wichita, Kansas, November 3,
Iowa Press, 2002, and To Honor a Teacher: Students Pay
2000 – Januar y 2, 2002; group exhibitions: "Image
Tribute to Their Most Influential Mentors, Andrews McMeel
Manipulated, " T.W. Wood Gallery, Vermont College, Montpelier,
Publishing, 1999; recent poetr y: Interim, International Poetr y
Vermont, October 16 – November 18, 2001, and "Contextual:
Review: Hispanic Edition, Paris/Atlantic Review, Karamu,
Chicago Ar tists & Text," Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago,
Sycamore Review, and Witness.
Illinois, April 14 – June 17, 2001.
Louise Bourgeois, solo exhibitions: "The Puritan," Galerie
Peter Cameron, a novel, City of Your Final Destination, Farrar,
Fahnemann, Berlin, Germany, September 8 – October 13, 2001,
Straus & Giroux, May, 2002; a short fiction piece, "Beginning
Cheim & Read, New York, New York, November 20, 2001 –
with the Letter," New England Review, Winter, 2002.
Januar y 5, 2002, and The State Hermitage Museum, St.
Petersburg, Russia, October 9, 2001 – Januar y 13, 2002;
group exhibitions: "Penetration," Marianne Boesky Gallery, New
Rachel Cantor, short stories: "I Know Who You Are," Greensboro
Jacob Collins, a solo exhibition: "Plein-air Sketches," Spanierman
Review, Spring, 2002; "Hello, I'm Cora," New England Review,
Galler y, New York, New York, May 16 – June 1, 2002; a
Summer, 2002; "Do You Know This Child?," Gargoyle, Summer,
group exhibition, "New York Realists Now," Galerie Alber t
2002; and "Rose No One," Chelsea, Summer, 2002.
Benamou, Paris, France, March 29 – May 15, 2001.
Nick Carbo, a poem, "You Are the Earth and All That Earth Implies,"
Marc-Antonio Consoli, a concer t per formance, May 16, 2001,
The Nor th American Review, Januar y/Februar y, 2001.
Frederick Loewe Theatre, New York University, New York,
Squeak Carnwath, a solo exhibition, "Life Line: Recent
Paintings," John Berggruen Galler y, San Francisco,
Nicole Cooley, three poems, "Testimony: The Invisible World,"
California, April 30 – June 2, 2001.
"Archival: Diorama," and "Archival: In the Reading Room,"
The Virginia Quar terly Review, Autumn, 2001.
Bill Carpenter, a novel, The Wooden Nickel, Little, Brown &
Company, March, 2002.
Peter Cooley, two poems, "Villanelle" and "Television," New
England Review, Winter, 2002.
Roslyn Carrington, a novel, Ever y Bitter Thing Sweet, Dafina,
August, 2001.
Barbara Cooper, a solo exhibition, "Beyond the Surface," sculpture,
Elmhurst Ar t Museum, Elmhurst, Illinois, Januar y 24 –
Anne Carson, a poem, "Stanzas, Sexes, Seductions," The
May 12, 2002.
New Yorker, December 3, 2001; limited edition publication,
with Kim Anno, The Mirror of Simple Souls, St. Benedict's
Raul Correa, a novel, I Don't Know But I've Been Told,
Press, 2001.
HarperCollins, April, 2002.
Raymond Carver, an essay, "John Gardner: Writer and Teacher,"
Corriveau, a novel, Housewrights, Penguin, July, 2002.
The Georgia Review: Selected Essays, 1947-1996, Winter
Gheorghe Costinescu, a retrospective of his music and per for-
2001/Spring 2002.
mance ar t—including the world premiere of Why Do You Wail,
Luis Castro, a two-person exhibition, sculpture, Cour thouse
O Forest Trees?, for soprano and piano, and the American
Gallery, Lake George, New York, November 17 – December 14,
premiere of Pantomime, for chamber orchestra—The Ensemble
2001; a group exhibition, "Sensing the Forest," Wave Hill
Sospeso, The Miller Theater at Columbia University, New
Glyndor Galler y, Bronx, New York, September 16 – November
York, New York, April 6, 2002.
Jack Coulehan, a poem, "Reverence for Life," Bellevue Literar y
Emily Cheng, a group exhibition, 5th Annual Loft Pioneer Show, The
Review, Spring, 2002.
Puffin Room, New York, New York, March 17 – April 22, 2001.
Malcolm Cowley, an essay, "Hemingway's Wound—And Its
Sasha Chermayeff, a solo exhibition, "New Work," Global Ar t
Consequences for American Literature," The Georgia Review:
Source, Kusnacht, Switzerland, May, 2001.
Selected Essays, 1947–1996, Winter 2001/Spring 2002.
Kelly Cherry, a poetr y collection, Rising Venus, Louisiana State
Kathleen Lawless Cox, a novel: Maeve, East Hall Press,
University, April, 2002.
September, 2000; essays: "Where Does It Come From, this
Food for the Spirit?," presented at the 28th Annual
Marilyn Chin, a poetr y collection, Rhapsody in Plain Yellow,
Mississippi Valley Writers' Conference, Augustana College,
Nor ton, Januar y, 2002.
Rock Island, Illinois, June 4, 2001, and "God-bothering,"
Lawrence Chua, an essay in the monograph Rural Studio:
presented at The Moline Club Independent Scholars'
Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency, Princeton
Evening, Moline, Illinois, October 4, 2001; a solo exhibition:
Architectural Press, January, 2002, and the foreword for Beat
watercolors and oil pastels, "The Dream Well," Bettendor f
Takeshi Vs. Takeshi Kitano, by Casio Ave, Kaya, Summer, 2002.
Librar y, Bettendor f, Iowa, May 1–31, 2001.
Tom Cipullo, a per formance, a featured pianist for the Friends
Peter Cramer and Jack Waters, a screening, Amidst Summer's
& Enemies of New Music "Late Summer Music" program for
Night, Le Petit Versailles Garden, New York, New York,
a per formance of the composer's Late Summer, Cami Hall,
August 24, 2002.
New York New York, September 14, 2001.
Paul Creston, a per formance, "Prelude and Dance," Quar tetto
Gerald Cohen, a premiere, Maariv, for cantor and vocal ensemble
Gelato, XXIII Festival de Musica de Camara, San Miguel de
with clarinet and piano, Shaarei Tikvah Congregation,
Allende, Mexico, August 9, 2001.
Scarsdale, New York, April 30, 2002; world premiere record-
Susan Crile, a solo exhibition, James Graham & Sons, New
ings of vocal and chamber music, Generations: Music of
York, New York, September 13 – October 6, 2001.
Gerald Cohen, Composers Recording Inc., 2001.
David Crumb, a New York premiere, Quar tet for Piano and
Robert Cohen, a short story collection, The Varieties of Romantic
Strings, Parnassus, Kosciuszko Foundation, New York, New
Experience, Scribner, Februar y, 2002; an essay, "Adam
York, May 1, 2001.
Zagajewski: An Introduction," New England Review, Winter, 2002.
Deborah Cummins, a poetry collection, Beyond the Reach, BKMK
Thomas Colbert, a solo exhibition, "Lenses/Other Works," The
Press, June, 2002; poetry, Gettysburg Review, Summer, 2001.
Brooklyn Brewery, Brooklyn, New York, May 17 – June 15, 2002.
Michael Cunningham, a poetr y reading, "In a Time of Crisis,"
Henri Cole, poems: "Pillowcase with Praying Mantis," The New
presented by the Poetr y Society of America in alliance with
Yorker, Januar y 21, 2002, "Self-Por trait in a Gold Kimono,"
others to benefit the American Red Cross, Cooper Union
The New Yorker, December 10, 2001; "Kyushu Hydrangea,"
Great Hall, New York, New York, October 22, 2001; a reading
The New Yorker, August 13, 2001, and "Myself with Cats,"
and discussion, par t of the Lannan Foundation "Readings &
The New Yorker, September 17, 2001.
Conversations" series, The Lensic Per forming Ar ts Center,
Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 14, 2001.
Neil Curry, a play, "An Audience with Margaret Feli," Swarthmore
Denise Duhamel, a poem, "The Zen of Alice," Ploughshares,
Hall, Cumbria, England, June, 2002; a poetr y collection,
Spring, 2002.
Tidelines, Reminder Press, Januar y, 2001; a non-fiction
Stephen Dunn, a reading, in conjunction with the New York
work, Norman Nicholson, Nor thern Lights, June, 2001.
State Writers Institute, University at Albany Per forming Ar ts
Rosemary Daniell, an essay collection, Confessions of a
Center, Albany, New York, October 18, 2001.
(Female) Chauvinist, Hill Street Press, 2001.
Robert Dunn, a novel, Pink Cadillac: A Musical Novel, Coral
Nancy Davidson, a two-person exhibition, Howard Yezerski
Press, Januar y, 2002.
Galler y, Boston, Massachusetts, Februar y 2–26, 2002.
Jessica Dunne, solo exhibitions: "Paintings and Aquatints," The
Peter Davison, a poetr y reading, The Librar y of Congress Poetr y
Art Museum of Los Gatos, Los Gatos, California, January 10 –
and Literature Center, March 8, 2001.
March 2, 2002; and "New Paintings," Commonweal, Bolinas,
Nicholas Dawidoff, a biography, The Fly Swatter: How My
California, November 13, 2001 – Januar y 4, 2002.
Grandfather Made His Way in the World, Pantheon, May, 2002.
Grace F. Edwards, two novels, Do Or Die, Doubleday &
David Del Tredici, world premieres: a song cycle, Lament for
Company, August, 2000 (paperback edition Bantam Books,
the Death of a Bullfighter, with soprano Hila Plitmann and
Incorporated, June, 2001), and In the Shadow of the
text by Joshua Beckman, commissioned by The Abby
Peacock, iUniverse.com, Inc., September, 2000.
Whiteside Foundation, Weill Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York,
Jennifer Egan, a novel, Look At Me, Doubleday/Talese,
New York, December 4, 2001, and Gay Life, a song cycle for
September, 2001.
baritone and orchestra, with Michael Tilson Thomas conduct-
Janice Eidus, a reading, with Jonathan Ames, Congregation
ing baritone William Sharp and the San Francisco Symphony,
Ansche Chesad, New York, New York, July 9, 2001.
San Francisco, California, May 3, 2001; a CD, Secret
Louise Erdrich, an essay, "Skunk Dreams," The Georgia Review:
Music—A Songbook, songs setting the poetr y of Colette
Selected Essays, 1947-1996, Winter 2001/Spring 2002.
Inez, Rumi, Michael Klein, Jaime Manrique, and John Kelly,
Composers Recordings, Inc., 2001; a per formance: Brother:
Louisa Ermelino, a novel, The Sisters Malone, Simon &
Songs My Mother Never Taught Me, in collaboration with
Schuster, June, 2002; a new edition of a novel, Joey Dee
John Kelly, P.S. 122 Per formance Space, New York, New
Gets Wise, DTV, Germany, Januar y, 2001; a reading, from
York, May 17–26, 2001.
The Black Madonna, Rizzoli Bookstore, New York, New York,
March 1, 2001.
Robert De Niro, Sr., a group exhibition, "Select Contemporar y
and Modern Works," Hackett Freedman Galler y at the San
James Esber, group exhibitions: "Skank," Plus Ultra, Brooklyn.
Francisco International Ar t Exposition, San Francisco,
New York, May 4 – June 3, 2001, and "Smile," Here, New
California, Januar y 18–21, 2002.
York, New York, May 23 – June 30, 2001.
Carl Dennis, a poetr y collection: Practical Gods, Penguin,
Jeffrey Eugenides, a novel, Middlesex, Farrar, Straus & Giroux,
October, 2001; three poems: Salmagundi, Spring-Summer,
September, 2002.
2001; a poem: "Proof," Colorado Review, Spring, 2001.
David Evanier, stories: "Mother," Southwest Review, Volume
Laura Didyk, two poems, "The Wheels' Steely Motion" and "My
85, Number 4, 2000; "The Man Who Gave Up Women," The
Body Repeats Itself," New Orleans Review, Fall/Winter, 2001.
Saint Ann's Review, Summer/Fall, 2001; and "Danny and
Me," TriQuar terly, Summer, 2001.
Tamar Diesendruck, a New York premiere, Coming to Terms in
the Tower of Babel, Parnassus, Kosciuszko Foundation, New
Kathy Fagan, a poetr y collection, The Charm, Zoo Press,
York, New York, May 1, 2001.
Barbara Dimmick, a novel, Hear t-Side Up, Graywolf, May, 2002.
Jules Feiffer, a children's book, I'm Not Bobby!, Hyperion/di
Capua, September, 2001.
Stephen Dixon, a novel, I., McSweeney Books, Februar y, 2002;
fiction: "2.," Stor yQuar terly 37, 2001; and "A Candle,"
Joel Feigin, world premieres: Festive Over ture, Academy
Colorado Review, Summer, 2001.
Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Ziva conducting, Kremlin,
Niznij-Novogorod, Russua, Januar y 30, 2000, and Tapestr y,
Patricia Dobler, three poems, "Unheimlich," "Rich and Poor,"
Lotte Lehmann Concer t Hall, University of California, Santa
and "This Gift," 5 AM, Issue 16, 2002.
Barbara, California, March 2, 2000 (also presented at Weill
Stephen Dobyns, five poems, The Virginia Quar terly Review,
Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York, New York, Februar y
Summer, 2002; a special supplement, "Although in the thick
7, 2001); per formances: Four teen Canonic Variations By J.S.
of a journey" & Other Poems, The American Poetr y Review,
Bach, Janus Duo, Kammermuzielszaal, Leuven, Belgium,
March/April, 2001.
March 10, 2000, and Carol Woods Retirement Community,
Susan Donnelly, a poetr y collection, Transit, Iris Press,
Chapel Hill, Nor th Carolina, Februar y 23, 2000, Meditations
October, 2001.
from Dogen Nos. 3 & 4, with Paul Berkowitz on piano, Lotte
Helen Duberstein, novels: A Thousand Wives Dancing, Xlibris
Lehmann Concer t Hall, University of California, Santa
Corporation, August, 2001, Roma, McGraw Publishing
Barbara, California, April 21, 2000, and Four Mediations
Company, 2001.
from Dogen, Ashe County Ar ts Civic Center, Blowing Rock,
Nor th Carolina, April 15, 2000, Presbyterian Church,
Joseph Duemer, two poems, "Afternoon: Radio Noise" and
Burlington, Nor th Carolina, April 21, 2000, and touring Japan
"Egotism: A Meditation Penciled on the Back Fly Leaf of Tom
with Tozan (Thomas) Hardison on piano, June – August, 2000.
Clark's Biography of Charles Olson," American Poetr y
Review, November/December, 2001.
Merrill Feitell, a shor t stor y, Glimmer Train, Fall, 2001.
Franklin Feldman, a solo exhibition, "Works on Paper,"
carborundum etchings, mezzotints, aquatints, and drawings,
The Academy Building, Salisbur y, Connecticut, September
ownside UP, a documentar y by Yaddo film-
30 – October 14, 2001.
D maker Nancy Kelly that tells the story of
John Felstiner, a poem, "The Runners in the Luxembourg
how a contemporar y ar t museum saved her small
Gardens," The Paris Review, Spring, 2002.
Massachusetts hometown, premiered earlier this
Simon Fill, a play, "Night Visits," published by Smith and Kraus
year on PBS stations nationwide. The film traces
with Actors Theatre of Louisville, September, 2001; a
the histor y of MASS MoCA, America's largest
rehearsed reading of "Post Punk Life," Second Stage
Theatre, New York, New York, Januar y 22, 2002.
contemporar y ar t museum, and the working-class
town of Nor th Adams that decided its only hope for
William Finnegan, a non-fiction ar ticle, "Letter From Bolivia:
Leasing the Rain," The New Yorker, April 8, 2002.
sur vival was within the world of contemporar y ar t.
Downside UP documents the transformation of
Richard Foerster, a poetr y collection, Double Going, BOA
Editions, Ltd., Januar y, 2002.
Nor th Adams, star ting in 1998, when MASS MoCA
was under construction and 80% of downtown
Patricia Tobacco Forrester, a solo exhibition, "New
Watercolors," Addison/Ripley Fine Ar t, Washington, D.C.,
Nor th Adams' buildings were vacant, to the opening
March 2 – April 6, 2002.
of the museum in 1999, and then the incremental
Mary Frank, a solo exhibition, paintings, sculpture, and works
and dramatic improvements in the downtown and
on paper, "Mar y Frank Then and Now," Elena Zang Galler y,
the subtle changes in the spirit of the region.
Woodstock, New York, April 27 – May 22, 2002.
Jonathan Franzen, a novel, The Corrections, Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, September, 2001; a fiction piece, "End of the Line,"
Nature," Lehman College Ar t Galler y, Bronx, New York,
The New Yorker, June 11, 2001.
September 30, 1999 – Januar y 12, 2000; a dance/sculp-
Suzan Frecon, a solo exhibition, paintings, Lawrence Markey,
ture collaboration, with Christine Bennett Dance Company,
New York, New York, March 17 – April 28, 2001.
"Boston Moves," Emerson Majestic Theater, Boston,
Massachusetts, Januar y 7–8, 2000.
Lynn Freed, a novel, House of Women, Little, Brown &
Company, Februar y, 2002.
Peter Garfield, a solo exhibition, "Objects With Potential,"
Feigen Contemporar y, New York, New York, Januar y 19 –
Joshua Fried, 16 per formances of "Headset Sextet," Here Ar ts
March 2, 2002.
Center, New York, New York, Januar y – April, 2001.
William H. Gass, an essay collection, Tests of Time: Essays,
Leah Kornfeld Friedman, a staged reading of Coney Island
Knopf, March, 2002.
Baby, written and per formed by Ms. Friedman, WOW Café
Theatre, New York, New York, May 9–11, 2002.
Raymond Ghirardo and Megan Roberts, a video installation,
"Cone Field," Galler y 31 Visual Studies Workshop,
Alice Friman, poetr y: "At the Holocaust Museum," Nor th
Rochester, New York, August 29 – September 29, 2001.
American Review, March/April, 2001; "Mrs. Beasley's
Supper," "Winter Trees," and "Stuck in Paradise," Boulevard,
Margaret Gibson, a poem, "Hymn to Night," New England
Spring, 2001; and "In the Summer of Cathedrals and Titian
Review, Winter, 2001.
Reds," The Georgia Review, Summer, 2001.
Margaretta Gilboy, a solo exhibition, works on paper, "Thread
Carol Frost, an essay, "Frost's Way of Speaking, New England
of Life," Delaware Center for Contemporar y Ar t, Wilmington,
Review, Winter, 2002.
Delaware, April 5–29, 2001.
Alice Fulton, two poetr y collections, Felt, W.W. Nor ton & Co.,
Gary Gildner, a stor y, "Leaving," The Nor th American Review,
December, 2000, and Powers of Congress (paperback edition),
Januar y/Februar y, 2002.
Sarabande Books, Inc., October, 2001.
John Gilgun, poems: "Their Day Off in Eternity," The Nor th
Coco Fusco, a collection of essays, interviews, performance scripts,
American Review, September-October, 2001; "How Love
and fotonovelas, The Bodies That Were Not Ours and Other
Entered My Life," The Nor th American Review, March/April,
Writings, Routledge in collaboration with inIVA, October, 2001.
2001; and "Dormouse," The Nor th American Review,
Januar y/Februar y, 2001, and 5 AM, Issue #15, 2001.
Joe Fyfe, a solo exhibition, Jay Grimm, New York, New York,
June 14 – July 12, 2002.
Jack Gilhooley, a full production of the play "Phoenix Park,"
August 2–4, 2002, and a staged reading of "Shooters," July
David Galef, a shor t stor y collection, Laugh Track, University
12, 2002, both at The Players Theatre, Sarasota, Florida,
Press of Mississippi, March, 2002.
and a reading of "The Baseball Plays," Ar t Center Sarasota,
Barbara Gallucci, a group exhibition, "Inter val: New Ar t for a
Sarasota, Florida, April 5 and 7, 2002.
New Space," Sculpture Center, New York, New York,
Gail Gilliland, a shor t stor y collection, The Demon of Longing,
September 23 – October 28, 2001.
Carnegie Mellon University Press, December, 2001.
Beth Galston, group exhibitions: "Terrain: Sculpture Today,"
Institute of Contemporar y Ar t at Maine College of Ar t,
Por tland, Maine, March 9 – April 24, 2002, and "In View of
Gina Gionfriddo, play premiere: "U.S. Drag," Here, New York,
Allan Gurganus, a collection of four novellas, The Practical
New York, June, 2001; staged reading: "Guinevere," The
Hear t, Knopf, October, 2001.
O'Neill Playwright Conference, New London, Connecticut,
Philip Guston, a solo exhibition, prints, Susan Sheehan Galler y,
New York, New York, April 25 – July 13, 2002.
Joan Giordano, solo exhibitions: "Paper Dimensions," H.
Naomi Guttman, poetr y: "Accident at Windsor Station,"
Pelham Cur tis Galler y, New Canaan Librar y, New Canaan,
Rattapallax 4, Fall, 2000; "Ultrasounds," Publishing Online's
Connecticut, April 28 – July 8, 2002, and "Unnatural
Poetr y Month Calendar, April, 2001; "Breather" and "Ward,"
Connections," Delaware Valley Ar ts Alliance, Narrowsburg,
River Styx #60, Summer, 2001; and "Real Living" and
New York, May 17 – June 7, 2002.
"August Song," GSU Review, Fall, 2001.
Steve Giovinco, digital photography solo exhibitions: California
Marilyn Hacker, a poem, "Days of 1999," Ploughshares,
Museum of Photography, Januar y 16 – April 7, 2001,
Spring, 2002.
Fotogallerie Wien Museum, Vienna, Austria, November,
Rachel Hadas, a poetr y collection, Indelible, Wesleyan
2001, and Apex Ar t, Columbus, Ohio, March, 2001.
University, October, 2001.
Abby Goell, an ar t studio tour of six Tribeca ar tists, 92nd Street
Donald Hall, a poetr y collection, The Painted Bed, Houghton
Y, New York, New York, October, 2001.
Mifflin, April, 2002.
Janet Goldner, solo exhibitions: "Can We Heal?," Art Resources
Jane Hammond, solo exhibitions: "The John Ashbery Collaboration,
Transfer, New York, New York, March 27 – May 1, 2002, and
1993–2001," Cleveland Center for Contemporar y Ar t,
The Ar t Lot, Brooklyn, New York, May 20 – September 8,
Cleveland, Ohio, December 14, 2001 – March 3, 2002, and
2002; group exhibitions: "Women's Works," Arsenal Galler y,
The Contemporar y Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 29 –
New York, New York, March 2 – 29, 2001, and 5th Annual
June 2, 2002; "From Avatar to Zed," Galerie Lelong, New
Loft Pioneer Show, The Puffin Room, New York, New York,
York, New York, September 29 – October 27, 2001.
March 17 – April 22, 2001; an outdoor installation, PS 122
Donald Harington, a novel, Thirteen Albatrosses, Holt, April 2002.
Galler y, New York, New York, April 26 – May 20, 2001.
Caroline Hastie, a solo exhibition, "Face Up," Newhouse Center
Ray Gonzalez, a shor t stor y collection, The Ghost of John
for Contemporar y Ar t, Staten Island, New York, October 14 –
Wayne and Other Stories, University of Arizona, October,
November 11, 2001; a group exhibition: Rome Ar ts,
2001; two poems, "Retrieval" and "Stopping Along the Rio
Brooklyn, New York, May 26 – June 17, 2001.
Grande Nor th of Hatch, New Mexico," New Letters, Volume
67, Number 4, 2001; a reading, Ruminator Books, St. Paul,
Mary Hazzard, two poems included in the anthology We Used to
Minnesota, December 3, 2001.
Be Wives: Divorce Unveiled through Poetr y, edited by Jane
Butkin Roth, Daniel & Daniel Publishers, June, 2002.
Melissa Gould, group exhibitions: "New Prints 2001—Summer,"
International Print Center, New York, New York, May 15 –
Steve Heller, an essay, "The Elephant Gang," New Letters,
August 3, 2001, and "After the Diagram," White Box Galler y,
Volume 67, Number 4, 2001.
New York, New York, May – June, 2001.
Patricia Highsmith, a stor y collection, The Selected Stories of
Philip Gourevitch, a non-fiction work, A Cold Case, Farrar,
Patricia Highsmith, W.W. Nor ton Company, Inc., September,
Straus & Giroux, July 2001; an ar ticle, "PROFILES/Debt and
2001; reissue of a novel, A Suspension of Mercy, W.W.
the Salesman: Hard luck made him a for tune—for a while,"
Nor ton & Co., Inc., August, 2001.
The New Yorker, July 30, 2001.
Oscar Hijuelos, a novel, A Simple Habana Melody: From When
Elliott Green, solo exhibitions: paintings, drawings, and digital
the World was Good, HarperCollins, June, 2002.
animations, "Touched, Poked and Probed: A Sur vey of Works
Jane Hirshfield, two poems, "One Life Is Spend, the Other
from 1993 to the Present," Center for Visual Ar t and
Spends Us" and "Walking This Morning Dreamless," The
Culture, University of Connecticut, Stamford, Connecticut,
American Poetr y Review, March/April, 2001.
December 29, 2001 – Januar y 12, 2002, and University of
Tony Hoagland and Richard McCann, a reading, Fine Ar ts Work
Connecticut Atrium Galler y, Storrs, Connecticut, Januar y 23
Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts, October 20, 2001.
– Februar y 23, 2002; paintings, Postmasters Galler y, New
York, New York, October 13 – November 10, 2001.
A.M. Homes, a stor y collection, Things You Should Know,
HarperCollins, September, 2002.
Alvin Greenberg, a shor t stor y, "Time Was," Stor yQuar terly
37, 2001.
Marie Howe, a seminar and reading, State University of New
York, New York State Writers Institute, University at Albany,
Sharon Greytak, a documentar y screening, Losing It, The
Albany, New York, March 20, 2002.
Independent Feature Project & The Film Society of Lincoln
Center, The Walter Reade Theater, New York, New York,
Edward Hower, a novel, Shadows and Elephants, Leapfrog Press,
June 14, 2001.
Januar y, 2002; a stor y, "Night Owl," Epoch, Winter, 2002.
Julie Gross, a group exhibition, "Color Aid," Meteaphor
David Huddle, a novel, La Tour Dreams of the Wolf Girl,
Contemporar y Ar t, Brooklyn, New York, November 7 –
Houghton Mifflin, Januar y, 2002; a poem, "The Penguin
December 15, 2001; a three-person exhibition, "New
Sonatas," Green Mountains Review, Volume XIV, No. 2,
Paintings," Kenise Barnes Fine Ar t, Larchmont, New York,
2002; three poems, "Big Chair," "Unfinished Ballet," and
June 2 – 30, 2001.
"Natural Pedagogy," 5 AM, Issue 16, 2002.
Check It Out
Susana Jacobson, a group exhibition, "Focal Points: Graduate
ecent updates to the Yaddo Web site—
Faculty Exhibition," Charles Addams Galler y, University of
Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Ar ts, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, Februar y 18 – March 1, 2002.
• It now is possible to fill out a residency applica-
Julia Jacquette, a two-person exhibition, paintings, "Making
tion form on-line and to download the application
Visible the Invisible," Schick Ar t Galler y, Skidmore College,
form separately from the application information
Saratoga Springs, New York, November 8 – December 16, 2001.
pages. The application still must be submitted by
Mark Jarman, six prose poems, "Epistle," The American Poetr y
mail with appropriate work samples and other
Review, March/April, 2001.
Amy Jenkins, a solo exhibition, video installations and pho-
tographs, "Shelter for Daydreaming," Julia Friedman Galler y,
• Beginning with the Summer 2001 issue, the
Peoria, Illinois, October 19 – December 1, 2001; a group
Yaddo News is being archived on the Web site.
exhibition, "Domestic Disturbance," Salina Ar t Center,
Those who wish may now receive the Yaddo News
Salina, Kansas, August 25 – November 4, 2001.
and/or the Yaddo Ar tists' Calendar via e-mail
Donald Justice, a poem, "School Letting Out," The New Yorker,
rather than by standard mail.
May 13, 2002.
• Many new ar tists have been added to the
Katherine Kadish, two-person exhibitions: "Paintings and
Monotypes," Agama Galler y, New York, New York, May 29 –
"Ar tists' Links" page, which provides direct links
July 31, 2002, and "Works by Katherine Kadish and Jackie
from the Yaddo Web site to the Web sites of
Bar tley," De Pree Galler y, Holland, Michigan, Februar y 19 –
ar tists who have been guests at Yaddo, and there
March 23, 2001.
are new entries on the "Yaddo On Site" page,
Rachel Kadish, a stor y, "The Argument," Zoetrope: All-Stor y,
which features public works of ar t created by
Summer, 2002.
ar tists who have worked at Yaddo.
Tamiko Kawata, site-specific installations: "Passing Life—Three
To request e-mail copies of publications, or if
Falls," Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, New York, June 14 –
23, 2001, and "Wavelets," The Carriage House at the Islip
you wish to be added to the "Ar tists' Links" or
Ar t Museum, East Islip, New York, June 2 – July 29, 2001;
"Yaddo On Site" pages, visit the Yaddo Web site
group exhibition: "Air, Space & Water Museum," Herear t,
or contact Lesley Leduc in the Yaddo office (e-mail
New York, New York, Fall, 2001.
Peter Kayafas, exhibitions: "Two Views of Cuba: Photographs by
Lou Jones and Peter Kayafas," DeCordova Museum and
Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts, Januar y 19 –
Andrew Hudgins, a reading, Saratoga Springs Public Librar y,
March 17, 2002; and "Gotham: Photographs of New York,"
Saratoga Springs, New York, April 14, 2002.
Fitchburg Ar t Museum, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Januar y
Mary-Beth Hughes, a novel, Wavemaker II, Atlantic Monthly,
27 – March 24, 2002
Februar y, 2002.
Tatana Kellner, a solo exhibition, "Transformations: Photographs
Betsy Hulick, A Fable for Beginners or, Only the Buttons Are
by Tatana Kellner," Samek Art Gallery, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania,
Real…, Botchkarevoi Press, 2000.
September 1 – October 21, 2001.
Leigh Hyams, solo exhibitions: mixed media works on paper,
John Kelly, a per formance: Brother: Songs My Mother Never
"Cachoeiras e Santuarios," Paco Imperial Center for
Taught Me, in collaboration with David Del Tredici, P.S. 122
Contemporar y Ar t, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2 – August 12,
Per formance Space, New York, New York, May 17–26, 2001;
2001, and new work, "Wild Water falls and Gardens,"
an autobiography: John Kelly, with an introduction by Philip
Meridian Galler y, San Francisco, California, November 8 –
Yenawine and ar t direction by J. Abbott Miller, 2wice Ar ts
December 15, 2001.
Foundation in association with Aper ture, November, 2001.
Colette Inez, a chapbook: Colette Inez—Greatest Hits, Pudding
Jesse Lee Kercheval, two poems, "Clocks" and "The Hotel
House Publications, 2001; an essay: "Confessional Poet?
Where My Family Used to Stay," 5 AM, Issue #16, 2002.
Not Me," included in the anthology After Confession: Poetr y
Jascha Kessler, translator: Our Bearings at Sea, by Otto Orban,
as Autobiography, Graywolf Press, Fall, 2001; inter view:
Xlibris Corporation, August, 2001, Tataga's Children, by
"Family Matters," Kevin Waltzer, Bridge, Chicago, Fall, 2000;
Grozdana Olujic, Xlibris Corporation, December, 2000, and
poetry: Ploughshares, Western Humanities Review, Parnassus,
Traveling Light: Selected Poems of Kirsti Simonsuuri, Xlibris
Poetr y in Review, Pembroke, Rattapallax, and Rattle, 2001.
Corporation, August, 2001; an essay: "Forever Lo," The
Elizabeth Inness-Brown, a novel, Burning Marguerite, Knopf,
Reading Room/2, 2000; a collection of plays: Christmas
Februar y, 2002.
Carols & Other Plays, Xlibris Corporation, Februar y, 2000.
Nanci Kincaid, a novel, Verbena, Algonquin/Ravenel, May, 2002.
Chuck Kinder, a novel,
Paul LaFarge, a novel,
Honeymooners: A
Haussmann, or the
Cautionar y Tale, Farrar,
Distinction, Farrar, Straus &
Straus and Giroux,
Giroux, September, 2001.
Ann Lauterbach, a poetr y col-
Hans Koning, two novels,
lection, If In Time: Selected
Zeeland, or Elective
Poems 1975-2000; Penguin,
Concurrences, and The
April, 2001; and a poem,
Affair, both NewSouth
Books, October, 2001.
Spring/Summer, 2002 .
Harriet Korman, a group
Jacob Lawrence, a solo exhi-
exhibition, "New Year
bition, "Paintings, Drawings,
New York New Work,"
and Prints from 1937-1998,"
Lennon Weinberg Inc.,
DC Moore Galler y, New York,
New York, New York,
New York, December 12,
Januar y 19 – Februar y
2001 – Januar y 26, 2002.
John Leggett, a biography, A
Ellen Kozak, solo exhibi-
Daring Young Man: A Biography
tions: "Reflections on a
of William Saroyan, Alfred A.
Ricardo Pasos, recipient of a Plumstock Endowed Residency at Yaddo,
River," The Hudson River
Knopf, November, 2002.
works on the final chapters of a new novel in West House.
Museum, Yonkers, New
Eric Gabriel Lehman, a novel,
York, October 12 , 2001
Summer's House, St. Mar tin's Press, Inc., March, 2000.
– Januar y 5, 2002, "Recent Paintings," Ar t Resources
Phillis Levin, a poetr y collection: Mercur y, Penguin Poets,
Transfer, New York, New York, March, 2001, and "Recent
April, 2001; editor: The Penguin Book of Sonnet, Penguin,
Paintings," Katharina Rich Perlow Galler y, New York, New
August, 2001.
York, October 6 – November 1, 2001; prints with an essay
Marion Lerner-Levine, a solo exhibition, prints and paintings, Prince
included in Proof in Print: A Community of Printmaking
Street Gallery, New York, New York, April 30 – May 18, 2002.
Studios, published by Boston Public Librar y, Februar y, 2001.
Alfred Leslie, a group exhibition, "Focal Points: Graduate Faculty
Nicole Krauss, a novel, Man Walks Into a Room, Doubleday,
Exhibition," Charles Addams Gallery, University of Pennsylvania
Graduate School of Fine Ar ts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
Margo Kren, solo exhibitions: acr ylic collage paintings "Snooks
Februar y 18 – March 1, 2002.
Jazz," The Waiting Room Galler y, New Orleans, Louisiana,
Phyllis Levin, a poetry collection, Mercury, Penguin, April, 2001.
April 13 – June 8, 2002, and "Drawings & Prints," Galler y
181, College of Design, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa,
Lyn Lifshin, two poems, "That June 30" and "That June," 5 AM,
Februar y 14 – March 8, 2001; a two-person exhibition,
Issue #16, 2002.
"Cultural Heritage," Sarratt Galler y at Vanderbilt University,
Deena Linett, a two-person exhibition: with Aimee Picard, featuring
Nashville, Tennessee, Februar y 19 – March 14, 2002.
work from Ms. Linett's poetr y collection Rare Ear ths,
Heidi Kumao, a group exhibition, "Arrested Development:
"Intersections: A Collaboration in Textiles," August House
Contemporar y Contemplations on Adolescence and Youth,"
Studio, Chicago, Illinois, May 3 – May 26, 2002, with a
Castle Galler y, The College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle,
reading by Ms. Linett on May 19; shor t stories: "The Key,"
New York, Februar y 3 – March 31, 2002.
The Texas Review, Summer, 2001, and "Prayer Flags,"
Vermont Literar y Review, 2000.
Julia Kunin, solo exhibitions: "Rot Wildleder," Deutsches Leder
Museum, Offenbach, Germany, 2001, and "Lephalopoden,"
Romulus Linney, a book of plays, Adaptations for the American
Bellevuesaal, Wiesbaden, Germany, 2000; group exhibitions:
Stage: Cather, Chekhov, Gaines, Ibsen, Strindberg, Tolstoy,
"The Grammar of Ornament," Memphis College of Ar t,
Trask, and Wilde, Smith & Kraus, Januar y, 2002; an essay,
Memphis, Tennessee, 2001, and "The Dog & Pony Show,"
"Revising Plays," Stor yQuar terly 37, 2001.
The Workspace, New York, New York, 2000.
Robin Lippincott, a novel, Our Arcadia: An American Watercolor,
Stanley Kunitz, a poetry reading, "In a Time of Crisis," presented
Viking, June, 2001.
by the Poetr y Society of America in alliance with others to
Margot Livesey, a novel, Eva Moves the Furniture, Henr y Holt,
benefit the American Red Cross, Cooper Union Great Hall,
September, 2001.
New York, New York, October 22, 2001; a seminar and reading,
Jeannette Louie, a group exhibition, The Marie Walsh Sharpe
State University of New York, New York State Writers Institute,
Ar t Foundation, New York, New York, April 19–20, 2002.
University at Albany, Albany, New York, March 20, 2002.
Ben Marcus, a novel, Notable American Women, Vintage,
James Howard Kunstler, a non-fiction work, The City in Mind:
March, 2002.
Notes on the Urban Condition, Free Press, Januar y, 2001.
Grace Markman, a group exhibition, drawings, "The Gift Show,"
Diana Kurz, a solo exhibition, "Paintings," Trenton City
Mastel & Mastel Gallery, New York, New York, November 30 –
Museum, Trenton, New Jersey, June 22 – July 28, 2002.
December 30, 2000.
Kathryn Maris, poetry, "Language, I Have Wanted," Ploughshares,
New York, April 19 – May 19, 2001; group exhibition: "The
Spring, 2001, and "Door," Fence, Fall/Winter, 2002.
Tipping Point," Locks galler y, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
Ingram Marshall, recordings, Kingdom Come, with the American
Januar y 12 – Februar y 23, 2002.
Composers Orchestra, Theater of Voices, and Kronos
Brenda Miller, a memoir in essay form: Season of the Body:
Quar tet, Nonesuch, July, 2001; Dark Waters, with Libby Van
Essays, Sarabande Books, April, 2002; an essay, "A
Cleve on English horn and oboe d'amore, New Albion, June,
Thousand Buddhas," The Georgia Review: Selected Essays,
2001; and Ikon, New World, May, 2000.
1947-1996, Winter 2001/Spring 2002.
Doug Martin, a solo exhibition, Charles Cowles Galler y, New
Greg Miller, a poetr y collection, Rib Cage, University of Chicago,
York, New York, July 11 – August 16, 2002.
November, 2001.
Jorge Martin, a world premiere, Wand'ring Steps and Slow for
Valerie Miner, a memoir, The Low Road: A Scottish Family
piano solo, per formed by Jeanne Golan, for whom the work
Memoir, Michigan State University Press, September, 2001.
was written, Weill Hall, New York, New York, October 1,
Susan Minot, a poetr y collection, Poems 4 A.M., Knopf, May,
2001, also per formed by Ms. Golan at Fleisher Collection,
2002; a novella, Rapture, Knopf, Januar y, 2002.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 7, 2001.
Roger Mitchell, poetr y, 5 AM, Issue #15, 2001.
Babette Martino, an exhibition, "New Exhibits: Contemporar y
James Montford, a multi-site group installation exhibition,
Landscapes," Hoyt Institute of Fine Ar ts, New Castle,
"Crossing the Line," Queens Museum of Ar t, New York,
Pennsylvania, April 2 – May 10 , 2002.
New York, June 24 – October 7, 2001.
Hilary Masters, a shor t stor y, "Harriet Munro: The Untold
Rick Moody, a memoir, The Black Veil: A Memoir with Digressions,
Stor y," The Virginia Quar terly Review, Autumn, 2001.
Little, Brown, May, 2002; a poem, "Nychthemeron,"
Cleopatra Mathis, a poetr y collection, What To Tip the
Conjunctions, Spring, 2002.
Boatman?, Sheep Meadow Press, March, 2001.
Walter Mosley, novels: Bad Boy Brawly Brown, July, 2002, and
C.M. Mayo, editor: special issue of Tameme, "Sun and
Fearless Jones, June, 2001, both Little Brown & Company.
Moon/Sol y Luna;" poetr y entries: Natural Bridge and
Bharati Mukherjee, a novel, Desirable Daughters,
Permafrost; creative nonfiction entries: Brevity Four th Genre
Hyperion/Theia, March, 2002.
and Nor th American Review.
Paul Muldoon, a poetr y collection, Poems 1968–1998, Farrar,
Lisa McBride, a group exhibition, "Stor y," Galler y Korea, New
Straus & Giroux, April, 2001; poems, "News Headlines from
York, New York, April 3 – 24, 2001.
the Home Noble Farm," The New Yorker, October 29, 2001,
Richard McCann and Tony Hoagland, a reading, Fine Ar ts Work
and "The Loaf," The New York Review, June 27, 2002.
Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts, October 20, 2001.
Joan Murray, a poetr y collection, Beacon, April, 2002.
Carson McCullers, a fiction collection edited by Carlos L. Dews,
Davia Nelson, presentation of radio stories from NPR's "Lost
Carson McCullers: Complete Novels, Librar y of America,
and Found Sound," The Museum of Television & Radio,
September, 2001.
Beverly Hills, California, October 19, 2001.
Heather McGowan, a novel, Schooling, Doubleday, June, 2001.
Diane Nerwen, a video documentar y screening, In the Blood,
Terry McMillan, subject of a television biography, "Intimate
New York Video Festival, Lincoln Center, New York, New York,
Portrait: Terry McMillan," ET on Lifetime Television, premiered
July 15 and 18, 2001.
March 16, 2001.
Elizabeth Neuffer, a non-fiction work, The Key to My Neighbor's
Kat Meads, two shor t fiction collections: Not Waving, University
House: Searching for Justice in Rwanda and Bosnia, St.
of West Alabama Livingston Press, October, 2001, and
Mar tin's/Picador, November, 2001.
Stress in America, March Street Press, December, 2001.
Itty Neuhaus, publication of a catalogue from a summer
Shari Mendelson, a group exhibition, "aether," untitled (space),
exhibition and residency at Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York,
New Haven, Connecticut, April 6 – May 12, 2001.
September, 2001.
Judy Mensch, a printmakers' group exhibition, "The Print:
Henry Niese, a nonfiction book, The Man Who Knew the
Image and Process," Creative Ar ts Workshop, New Haven,
Medicine: The Teachings of Bill Eagle Feather, Bear &
Connecticut, March 6–31, 2000.
Company, November, 2002.
Thom Merrick, a group exhibition, "Tutto Bene," works from
Timothy Nolan, a solo exhibition, "Link," Newspace, Los
the private collection of Olivier Mosset, Halle de I'Ecal,
Angeles, California, October 16 – November 24, 2001.
Lausanne, Switzerland, March 27 – April 19, 2002.
Sigrid Nunez, novels: Discretion, Ballantine, March, 2002, and
Deena Metzger, a nonfiction work: Entering the Ghost River:
For Rouenna, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, November, 2001.
Meditations on the Theor y and Practice of Healing, Hand to
Dennis Nurske, a book-length verse, The Rules of Paradise,
Hand Press, September, 2002; a novel: The Other Hand,
Four Way Books, December, 2001; two poems, "It" and "The
Red Hen Press, 2001
Wilson Avenue Kings," The Virginia Quarterly Review, Autumn,
Melissa Meyer, solo exhibitions: "Watercolors," Elizabeth Harris
2001; two poems, "My Father's Closet" and "Rosal,"
Galler y, New York, New York, Februar y 7 – March 9, 2002,
American Poetr y Review, November/December, 2001.
and "New Paintings," Elizabeth Harris Galler y, New York,
Michael Oatman, installation: "Idol," Williams College Museum
of Ar t, Williamstown, Massachusetts, April, 2001 – March,
2002; co-curator: "Factor y Direct," an exhibition pairing
Grace Paley, a poem, "September," from Begin Again: Collected
Yaddo Writer Recreates Frontier
Poems, Ruminator Review, Fall, 2001.
Xan Palay, a solo exhibition, The Sculpture Center, Cleveland,
addo writer Linda Peavy and her par tner and
Ohio, March 23 – April 20, 2001.
Y co-author, Ursula Smith, served as senior
Jonathan Parker, a solo exhibition, "New Work,"
historical consultants for The Frontier House, a six-
Braunstein/Quay Galler y, San Francisco, California,
hour PBS mini-series that followed three modern
September 4–29, 2001.
families as they experienced American frontier life
Dennis Paul and Lynn Small, a multimedia presentation,
as it was in The Montana Territor y of 1883. The
"Letters of Foundation," The Jewish Federation of Greater
show premiered nationwide on PBS channels last
Los Angeles Bell Galler y, Los Angeles, California, December,
spring and now is repeating on many stations. Ms.
2000 – July, 2001.
Peavy and Ms. Smith also were featured in a 30-
Molly Peacock, a poetr y collection, Cornucopia: New and
minute documentar y, The Making of Frontier House,
Selected Poems, W.W. Nor ton & Company, August, 2002.
and are co-authors, with the show's producer,
Victor Pelevin, a shor t stor y collection translated from the
Simon Shaw, of a companion book for the series.
Russian by Andrew Bromfield, 4 By Pelevin, New
In May and June, Ms. Peavy and Ms. Smith made a
Directions/Bibelot, September, 2001.
series of presentations, entitled "From Here to
Edward Pennant, a reading: Center for Book Ar ts, New York,
Posterity: Montana Homesteading Histor y via PBS
New York, May, 2001; poetr y: Rattapallax, August, 2001,
Heliotrope Magazine, Spring, 2001; Paterson Literar y
Frontier House," at various sites in Montana. The
Review, 2001, and Long Island Quar terly, Winter, 2001.
public programs were designed to honor pioneer
Jennifer Pepper, exhibitions: "Recent Drawings & Sculpture,"
families and local, county, and state historical
Fulton Street Galler y, Troy, New York, July 20 – August 4,
societies and libraries whose preser vation of family
2001, Mill Cove Galler y, Castletownbere, County Cork,
records and photographs made it possible for the
Ireland, July 29 – August 4, 2001.
historians to help make the experience of the
Robert Peters, poetr y: "Bette Davis Ages and Dies," Heel Tap
Frontier House families as authentic as possible.
39–40, 2001, "Churning Butter" and six other works,
Thunder Sandwich 11 on-line magazine, 2001, "Marlene
Dietrich," Heel Tap 38, 2001, "Pig Family Game," Chick for a
ar tists with 15 local manufacturers in an exhibition of ar tists
Day, edited by Fiona Giles, Simon and Schuster, 2000.
working in industr y, The Ar ts Center of the Capital Region,
Judy Pfaff, a solo exhibition: Savannah College of Ar t and
Troy, New York, Spring, 2002.
Design, Savannah, Georgia, Januar y 14 – March 11, 2002;
Geoffrey G. O'Brien, nine poems, "Man Called Aerodynamics" and
a group exhibition, "Doppelgangers: A Collection of Work by
others, American Poetry Review, November/December, 2001.
Well-known Ar tists in the Enter tainment Industr y," Red
Aric Obrosey, group exhibitions: "Alterations," James Graham &
Galler y, Savannah College of Ar t and Design, Savannah,
Sons, New York, New York, June 21 – August 30, 2001, and
Georgia, October 9, 2001 – Januar y 9, 2002.
"Uncommon Threads: Contemporar y Ar tists and Clothing,
Caryl Phillips, an essay collection, A New World Order, Vintage,
Herber t F. Johnson Museum of Ar t, Cornell University, Ithaca,
May, 2002; a reading, in conjunction with the New York State
New York, March 31 – June 30, 2001;
Writers Institute, University at Albany Per forming Ar ts Center,
Chris Offutt, a memoir, No Heroes; A Memoir of Coming Home,
Albany, New York, October 25, 2001.
Simon & Schuster, April, 2002.
Robert Phillips, editor, New Selected Poems of Marya
Julia Older, two poetr y books: City in the Sky, Oyster River
Zaturenska, Syracuse University Press, September, 2001.
Press, December, 2001, and The Ossabaw Book of Hours,
Diane Pieri, a group exhibition, "Non-Objective Painting and
Oyster River Press, December, 2001; poems in two antholo-
Sculpture," The City Representative's Office of Arts and Culture,
gies: "In Limbo," Key West, A Collection, Whitefish Press,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Februar y 19 – May 31, 2002.
December, 2001, and "Combinations," Teen Reflections,
Elizabeth Poliner, a shor t stor y, "Doubles," The Laurel Review,
Harper Collins, March, 2002; various readings in New
Summer, 2001.
Hampshire and Massachusetts, April, 2002.
Randy Polumbo, solo exhibition, sculpture, "Food Chain," DoDo,
Nancy Olivier, a group exhibition, "Color Aid," Meteaphor
New York, New York, Januar y 17 – March 15, 2002.
Contemporar y Ar t, Brooklyn, New York, November 7 –
December 15, 2001.
William Pope.L, a group exhibition, "Wallow," The Project, New
York, New York, July 10 – August 18, 2002.
Ed Orchester, a poetr y collection, The Land of Cockaigne,
Stor y Line, April, 2001.
Elsie Dinsmore Popkin, solo exhibitions: "Recent Work,"
Ar tworks Galler y, Winston-Salem, Nor th Carolina, March 19 –
Neil Orloff, a cover photograph, Colorado Review, Summer, 2001.
April 20, 2002, and "New Works in Pastel," Uptown Galler y,
Susan Osgood, a two-person exhibition, "Presence: Paintings,
New York, New York, March 7 – 30, 2002.
Prints & Drawings," Amy E. Tarrant Gallery at the Flynn Center
Richard Posner, a site-specific installation, "The Gate of
for the Per forming Ar ts, Burlington, Vermont, Januar y 12 –
Heaven," Berlin, Germany, Summer, 2000.
March 9, 2001.
Caroline Preston, a novel, Lucy Crocker 2.0, Simon & Schuster,
College, New York, New York, December 10, 2001 – Januar y
hardcover edition April, 2000, paperback edition May, 2001.
12, 2002, and "Paper works," The New York Law School,
Martin Puryear, a 12-year retrospective exhibition, "Mar tin
New York, New York. October 4 – November 16, 2001.
Pur year," Virginia Museum of Fine Ar ts, Richmond, Virginia,
Len Roberts, nine poems, "Dear Hayden" and others, The
March 6 – May 27, 2001, the Miami Ar t Museum, Miami,
American Poetr y Review, March/April, 2001.
Florida, June 22 – August 26, 2001, the University of
Megan Roberts and Raymond Ghirardo, a video installation,
California Berkeley Ar t Museum and Pacific Film Archive,
"Cone Field," Galler y 31 Visual Studies Workshop,
Berkeley, California, September 12 – December 30, 2001,
Rochester, New York, August 29 – September 29, 2001.
and the Seattle Ar t Museum, Seattle, Washington,
Abby Robinson, two-person exhibition: "World Views," Sidney
Januar y 17 – April 21, 2002.
Mishkin Galler y, Baruch College, New York, New York,
Liz Whitney Quisgard, solo exhibitions: paintings and wall hang-
October 2-23, 2001; group exhibition: "In an Exuberant and
ings, "Tzurah V' Mivneh: Pattern and Structure," The Ann
Profuse Manner ," Bose Pacia Modern Galler y, New York, New
Loeb Bronfman Gallery, District of Columbia Jewish
York, June 14 – July 28, 2001.
Community Center, Washington, D.C., July 9 – September 9,
Christopher Romer, solo exhibitions: "Floaters and Charmers,"
2002; paintings, sculpture, and wall hangings, "Structures
Bemis Center for Contemporar y Ar ts, Omaha, Nebraska,
and Patterns," James Chapel Theological Seminar y, New
September-November, 2000, and "Sur face Tension:
York New York, October 26 – December 7, 2001.
Sculptures by Christopher Romer," Chicago Cultural Center,
Mario Puzo, a novel (completed by Carol Gino after Mr. Puzo's
Chicago, Illinois, March 31 – May 27, 2001.
death in 1999), The Family, ReganBooks, October, 2001.
Ned Rorem, a talk on American song, in conjunction with an
Lawrence Raab, a poem, "In Dreams," The New Yorker,
Eos Orchestra "America Singing Songs" concer t, with
August 6, 2001.
Jonathan Sheffer conducting, Ethical Culture Society, New
Anna Rabinowitz, a book-length acrostic poem, Darkling: A
York, New York, Februar y 21, 2002; a prose collection, A
Poem, Tupelo Press, October, 2001.
Ned Rorem Reader, with an introduction by J.D. McClatchy,
Colleen Randall, a solo exhibition, "New Paintings: 1999–2001,"
Yale University Press, October, 2001.
Jaffe-Friede & Strauss Galleries, Hopkins Center, Dar tmouth
Jennifer Rose, editor, a poetr y collection, Old Direction of
College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 6 – December
Heaven, Truman State University Press, Februar y, 2000.
Philip Roth, a collection of letters with other writers and essays,
Rita Ransohoff, a non-fiction book, Fear and Envy: Why Men
Shop Talk: A Writer and His Colleagues and Their Work,
Need to Control and Dominate Women, Painted Leaf Press,
Houghton Mifflin, September, 2001.
October, 2001.
A.M. Rousseau, a solo exhibition, photographs, "Interior Light,"
Judith Raphael, a group exhibition, "Gesture," Lyonswier Packer
De Frog Galler y, Houston, Texas, May – June, 2001.
Galler y, New York, New York, April 6–28, 2001.
Mary Ruefle, a poetr y collection, Among the Musk Ox People,
Wendy Rawlings, a shor t stor y collection, Come Back Irish,
Carnegie-Mellon University, March, 2002; poetr y,
Ohio State University, November, 2001.
"Proscenium Arch" and other poems, The American Poetr y
David Ray, a poetr y collection, One Thousand Years: Poems
Review, July/August, 2002.
About the Holocaust, Holy Cow! Press, August, 2002.
Thad Rutkowski, a shor t stor y, "Tetched," Spinning
Sue Rees, solo exhibitions: "Shaft and Rooms," Davis & Hall
Jenny #5, 2001.
Galler y, Hudson, New York, June 30 – July 28, 2001; and
Peter Sacks, a reading and discussion, par t of the Lannan
"Windows on the Ar ts," R.W. Wise Goldsmiths, Lenox,
Foundation "Readings & Conversations" series, The
Massachusetts, August 1 – October, 2001.
Lensic Per forming Ar ts Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico,
Carlos Reyes, translator: Poemas de la Isla/Island Poems, by
November 8, 2001.
Josefina de la Torre, Eastern Washington University Press,
Irving Sandler, a lecture, "Recalling de Kooning, Klein &
April, 2000, and Puer tas Abier tas/Open Doors, by Edwin
Guston," New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and
Madrid, Quito, Ecuador—Eskeletra, Second Edition, 2001.
Sculpture, New York, New York, November 28, 2001.
George Rickey, a solo exhibition, "Maquette to Monumental,"
Stephen Sandy, a long poem, Sur face Impressions, Louisiana
Scott White Contemporar y Ar t, La Jolla, California,
State University Press, April, 2002; a CD, poems read by the
Januar y 11 – Februar y 16, 2002.
poet with music written and performed by Gokcen Ergene, Nadir
Nancy Rielle, a group exhibition, "Humaniod," Frederieke
Naqvi, Vuk Mitevski, and Nicole Pope, Timex, Dishwasher
Taylor Galler y, New York, New York, December 6, 2001 –
Studio, Januar y, 2002; a poem, "Serial," Words for Images:
Januar y 12, 2002.
A Galler y of Poems, Yale University Ar t Galler y, 2001.
Martin Ries, a solo exhibition, "Homages, Conjunctions and
Jonathan Santlofer, a novel, The Death Ar tist, Morrow,
Juxtapositions," The Karpeles Manuscript Museum,
September, 2002.
Newburgh, New York, July 6 – August 25, 2002.
Sapphire, poetr y readings: "In a Time of Crisis," presented by
Elizabeth Riley, a solo exhibition, "Stor y," Galler y Korea, New
the Poetr y Society of America in alliance with others to bene-
York, New York, March 15 – April 6, 2001; group exhibitions:
fit the American Red Cross, Cooper Union Great Hall, New
"Out of the Shadows," MMC Galler y, Mar ymount Manhattan
York, New York, October 22, 2001; and The Librar y of
Congress, March 29, 2001.
Thomas Sayers-Ellis, fea-
Ezra Shales, a group exhibi-
tured guest, "Festival
tion, "Looking for Mr. Fluxus:
Within: Best American
In the Footsteps of George
Poetr y 2001," spon-
Maciunas," Ar t In General,
sored by Teenspeak Inc.,
New York, New York, October
Huntington, New York,
9 – December 22, 2001.
September 29–30,
Harvey Shapiro, a poetr y col-
lection, How Charlie Shavers
Nora Sayre, a memoir, On
Died and Other Poems,
the Wing: A Young
Wesleyan University, July,
American Abroad, June,
Don Share, a poetr y collec-
Barnet Schecter, a narra-
tion, Union, Zoo
tive histor y, The Battle
Press/University of Nebraska
for New York: The City at
Press, April, 2002.
the Hear t of the
Virginia Sharkey, a three-
person exhibition, "wood;
Walker and Company,
wonder," paintings, Gamel
October, 2002.
Fraser Galler y, Mendocino,
Painter Jinnie Seo
Heidi Jon Schmidt, a shor t
California, October 13 –
stor y collection,
December 23, 2001.
Darling?, Picador USA, August, 2001.
Allen Shawn, a biography, Arnold Schoenberg's Journey, Farrar,
Tobias Schneebaum, a non-fiction work, Secret Places: My Life
Straus & Giroux, Januar y, 2002.
in New York and New Guinea, University of Wisconsin Press,
David Shields, an essay collection, Enough About You: Adventures
September, 2000.
in Autobiography, Simon & Schuster, May, 2002; a non-fiction
Ben Schrank, a novel, Consent, Random House, March, 2002.
book, Baseball is Just Baseball: The Understated Ichiro, TNI
Arlene Schulman, author and photographer for a non-fiction
Books, August, 2001.
work, 23rd Precinct: The Job, Soho, August, 2001.
Jody Shields, a novel (paperback edition), The Fig Eater, Back
Grace Schulman, a poetr y collection, Days of Wonder: New and
Bay Books, Februar y, 2001.
Selected Poems, Houghton Mifflin, Februar y, 2002; poetr y,
Jason Shinder, numerous readings in several states from his
"In the Foreground," DoubleTake special edition dedicated to
poetr y collection Among Women (Graywolf Press, hardcover
the events of September 11, 2001.
Februar y, 1996, paperback April, 2001).
Susan Schwalb, exhibitions: "Ordinate/Coordinate," Kenise
Susan Shreve, children's novels: Trout and Me, Knopf, August,
Barnes Fine Ar t, Larchmont, New York, March 2 – April 13,
2002, and Blister, Scholastic/Levine, September, 2001.
2002; "Ar t Miami," Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami
Suzan Shutan, exhibitions: a collaborative installation with James
Beach, California, Januar y 4–8, 2002; Cer vini Hass Galler y,
Montford, Manchester Community College, Manchester,
Scottsdale, Arizona, Januar y 10 – Februar y 2, 2002; and
Connecticut, April, 2002, and Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School
Rober t Steele Galler y, New York, New York, Januar y 10 –
of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, July – August, 2001.
Februar y 9, 2002.
Fran Siegel, solo exhibitions: Margaret Thatcher Projects, New
Lynne Sharon Schwartz, a poetr y reading to celebrate the
York, New York, May, 2001, "Alterations," Graham Galler y,
Provincetown Fine Ar ts Work Center, Barnes & Noble-Union
New York, New York, July, 2001, and "Imprints, Punctures &
Square, New York, New York, October 26, 2001.
Other Pointed Maneuverings," University of Rhode Island,
Lore Segal, an essay, "Prince Charles and My Mother," The
Kingston, Rhode Island, Januar y, 2002; site-specific installa-
Journal, Autumn/Winter, 2001.
tions: Ar t Resource Transfer, New York, New York, Februar y,
Jinnie Seo, solo exhibitions: Garam Ar t Galler y, Seoul, Korea,
2002, and Museum Sztuki, in collaboration with a Polish
May 16–29, 2001, and Gallery Huundai, Window Gallery, Seoul,
ar tist and physicist, Lodz, Poland, May, 2002.
Korea, October, 2001; group exhibitions: The Marie Walsh
Eleni Sikelianos, a poem, "Sleep, Sleepwalker," Conjunctions,
Sharpe Ar t Foundation, New York, New York, April 19–20,
2002, and Chosun Galler y, Seoul, Korea, September, 2001.
Monique Simon, an excerpt from a novel-in-stories collection,
Ruth Knafo Setton, poetr y, "In the Blue Room," The Nor th
Caribbean Beat magazine, November/December, 2001.
American Review, November – December, 2001.
Mark Singer, an ar ticle, "Home is Here: Life in the Largest
Lisa Sewell, a poem, "Letter from a Haunted Room," American
Arab-American Community," The New Yorker, October 15, 2001.
Poetr y Review, November/December, 2001.
Hal Sirowitz, a poem, "The Absence of Light," Ploughshares,
Carol Shadford, group exhibitions: "Second Sight," video
Spring, 2002.
installation, Hunter College Times Square Galler y, New York,
New York, Februar y 27 – April 20, 2002, and "Ar tists in the
Marketplace/AIM 21," The Bronx Museum of Ar t, New York,
New York, July 12 – October 14, 2001.
Robert Slutzky, a group exhibition, "Focal Points: Graduate
Jan Swafford, a world premiere of a commissioned work,
Faculty Exhibition," Charles Addams Galler y, University of
Adirondack Interlude, with the composer conducting,
Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Ar ts, Philadelphia,
Skidmore College Orchestra, Skidmore College, Saratoga
Pennsylvania, Februar y 18 – March 1, 2002.
Springs, New York, April 28, 2002.
Lynn Small and Dennis Paul, a multimedia presentation,
Gladys Swan, a solo exhibition, paintings, "Interior/Exterior—
"Letters of Foundation," The Jewish Federation of Greater
The Colors of Experience," Boone County Historical Society
Los Angeles Bell Galler y, Los Angeles, California, December,
Museum, Columbia Missouri, April 22 – June 10, 2001; a
2000 – July, 2001.
shor t fiction collection, News From the Volcano, Missouri
Press, August, 2000; work included in Green Mountains
W.D. Snodgrass, a book of poetry commentary, De/Compositions:
Review, Volume XIV, No. 2, 2002, Sewanee Review, Spring,
101 Good Poems Gone Wrong, Graywolf Press, June, 2001.
Summer, Fall, 2001, and Writers' Forum, Volume 27, 2001.
Katherine Soniat, a poem, "Black Boat," New Orleans Review,
Brian Swann, a poem, "St. Theresa Says," The Nor th American
Fall/Winter, 2001; "The Fire Setters: A Sequence" added to
Review, Januar y/Februar y, 2002.
the Web del Sol/Literar y Review On-Line Chapbook Series,
August 20, 2002.
Robert Sward, a poetr y collection: Rosicrucian in the
Basement, Black Moss Press, October, 2001; a collection of
Jane South, a two-person exhibition, Spencer Brownstone Gallery,
poems and drawings, Three Dogs and A Parrot, Small Poetr y
New York, New York, December 1, 2001 – January 19, 2002.
Press, June, 2001; and a chapbook of 12 poems, "Sex & TV
Debra Spark, a novel, The Ghost of Bridgetown, Graywolf Press,
with Aunt Miriam," Web Del Sol, 2001.
September, 2001.
Deborah Tall, contributor to an essay collection, The Lighthouse
Elizabeth Spencer, a short story collection, The Southern Woman:
Keeper: Essays on the Poetr y of Eleanor Ross Taylor, Hobar t
New and Selected Fiction, Modern Librar y, July, 2001.
and William Smith College Press, 2001.
Peter Spielberg, a shor t stor y collection, The Noctambulists
Louise Talma, a per formance of her work, Lament, Da Capo
and Other Fictions, Florida State University Press, Tallahassee,
Chamber Players, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New
Florida, October, 2001.
York, New York, April 17, 2002.
Elizabeth Spires, a children's book, The Big Meow, Candlewick,
Jeff Talman, a sonic/video installation ("This Voice Anywhere")
April, 2002.
in a group exhibition, "ID/entity: Por traits in the 21st
Marilyn Stablein, a reading and discussion, Saratoga Springs
Centur y," MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
Public Librar y, Saratoga Springs, New York, March 21, 2002.
October 2–31, 2001.
Martha Stephens, a non-fiction book, The Treatment: The Stor y
Fiona Templeton, readings: from her new epic, The Medead,
of Those Who Died in the Cincinnati Radiation Tests, Duke
and a recent poetr y collection, The Kentler International
University Press, March, 2002.
Drawing Space, Brooklyn, New York, April 28, 2002, and from
The Medead, New York Theatre Workshop, March 19, 2001.
Gerald Stern, a poetr y collection, American Sonnets, Nor ton,
April 2002; 13 poems, "All I Did for Him" and others,
Denyse Thomasos, group exhibitions: "Quiet As It's Kept,"
American Poetr y Review, November/December, 2001.
Christine Konig Galerie, Vienna, Austria, May – July, 2000;
and "New Year New York New Work," Lennon Weinberg Inc.,
Elisabeth Stevens, a fiction collection, Cherr y Pie and Other
New York, New York, Januar y 19 – Februar y 16, 2002.
Stories, Lite Circle Books, 2001, and a poetr y collection,
Household Words: Ar t and Poetr y, Three Conditions Press,
William Trowbridge, a poetr y chapbook, The Four Seasons, Red
Dragonfly Press, December, 2001.
Clyfford Still, subject of an ar ticle, "The Idea of Order in the Ar t
Anne Truitt, a group exhibition "As Painting: Division and
of Clyfford Still," Ar t in America, December, 2001.
Displacement," Wexner Center for the Ar ts, Columbus, Ohio,
May 12 – August 12, 2001.
Terry Stokes, poetr y, 5 AM, Issue #15, 2001.
Sam Truitt, poetry, from "FALLTIME," Fence, Spring/Summer, 2002.
Robert Storr, a group exhibition: "Focal Points: Graduate Faculty
Exhibition," Charles Addams Gallery, University of Pennsylvania
Lewis Turco, a poetr y exhibition, with printmaker George
Graduate School of Fine Ar ts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
O'Connell, "Collaboration: Prints and Texts," Tyler Ar t
Februar y 18 – March 1, 2002; an ar ticle, "Gerhard Richter:
Galler y, State University of New York at Oswego, New York,
The Day Is Long," Ar t in America, Januar y, 2002; curator for
November 9 – December 9, 2001.
the exhibition "Gerhard Richter: For ty Years of Painting,"
Jean Valentine, editor of an essay collection, The Lighthouse
Museum of Modern Ar t, New York, New York, Februar y 14 –
Keeper: Essays on the Poetr y of Eleanor Ross Taylor, Hobar t
March 21, 2002, and later at the Ar t Institute of Chicago,
and William Smith College Press, 2001; a poetr y collection,
the San Francisco Museum of Modern Ar t, the Hirshhorn
The Cradle of Real Life, University Press of New England,
Museum in Washington, D.C., and the High Museum of Ar t in
Februar y, 2000; a poem, "Once in the Nights," Colorado
Atlanta, Georgia.
Review, Spring, 2001.
Marc J. Straus, a poetr y collection, Symmetr y, Nor thwestern
Mona Van Duyn, a poetr y collection, Selected Poems, Knopf,
University Press, June, 2000.
April, 2002.
Altoon Sultan, a solo exhibition, "Recent Paintings," Tibor de
Timothy Van Laar, co-author (with Leonard Diepeveen) of a
Nagy Gallery, New York, New York, March 15 – April 21, 2001.
non-fiction work, Ar t With a Difference: Looking at Difficult
and Unfamiliar Ar t, Mayfield Publishing Company, 2001.
Reetika Vazirani, poems: "Widows: A Section of the Law
Beth Wesson, a solo exhibition, "A Small Vacation," Newhouse
Books," Ploughshares, Spring, 2002, and "Hamlet out in the
Center for Contemporar y Ar t, Staten Island, New York,
Night," Colorado Review, Spring, 2001.
Januar y 6 – Februar y 10, 2002.
Patricia Volk, a memoir, Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant
Susan Wheeler, a poetr y collection, Source Codes, SALT
Family, Knopf, October, 2001.
Publishing, May, 2001.
Karen Volkman, a poetr y collection, Spar, University of Iowa
Edmund White, editor, Loss Within Loss: Ar tists in the Age of
Press, April, 2002.
AIDS, University of Wisconsin Press, Februar y, 2001.
Laura Von Rosk, a solo exhibition, Visual Ar ts Galler y,
David Wojahn, a poetr y collection, Spirit Cabinet, University of
Adirondack Community College, Queensbur y, New York,
Pittsburgh, March, 2002; poetr y, 5 AM, Issue #15, 2001.
Januar y 21 – Februar y 14, 2002.
Elizabeth Wong, world premiere of a play, "China Doll,"
Diane Wakoski, a poetr y collection, The Butcher's Apron, Black
Nor thwest Asian American Theatre, Seattle, Washington,
Sparrow Press, December, 2000.
October 26, 2001.
Wendy Walker, curator, "Read Hook: Reading in a Strong Light,"
John E. Woods, a translation of Flights of Love: Stories, by
Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, New York,
Bernhard Schlink, Pantheon, October, 2001.
March 24, 2002.
Alexi Worth, a group exhibition, "Focal Points: Graduate Faculty
David Foster Wallace, a fiction piece, "Another Pioneer,"
Exhibition," Charles Addams Galler y, University of
Colorado Review, Summer, 2001.
Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Ar ts, Philadelphia,
Stewart Wallace, a New York premiere, "Gorilla in a Cage," the
Pennsylvania, Februar y 18 – March 1, 2002.
National Symphony, with percussionist Evelyn Glennie as
Angela Wyman, two-person exhibition, "Eyewash," paintings,
soloist, Carnegie Hall, New York, New York, October 12, 2001.
Figureworks, Brooklyn, New York, January 4 – February 4, 2002.
Rosanna Warren, contributor to an essay collection, The
Youngna Ahn, a solo exhibition, Korean Cultural Ser vice,
Lighthouse Keeper: Essays on the Poetr y of Eleanor Ross
Republic of Korea Embassy, Washington, D.C., July 18 –
Taylor, Hobar t and William Smith College Press, 2001.
August 10, 2001.
Jack Waters and Peter Cramer, a screening, Amidst Summer's
Harriet Zinnes, a poetr y collection: Plunge, with a cover illustra-
Night, Le Petit Versailles Garden, New York, New York,
tion by the author, Wild Honey Press, 2001; poetr y: "Full
August 24, 2002.
Fathom Five by Jackson Pollock," Colorado Review, Spring,
Mary Yukari Waters, a shor t stor y, "Egg-Face," Zoetrope,
2002, and "Intimacy," "Pilgrimage," "Over," and "They Leave
Winter, 2001.
Their Homes," The American Poetry Review, May/June, 2001.
Michael Waters, a poetr y collection: Par thenopi: New and
Barbara Zucker, co-curator, a traveling retrospective exhibition,
Selected Poems, BOA Editions, Ltd., November, 2000; edi-
"The Mating Habits of Lines: Sketchbooks and Notebooks of
tor: Contemporar y American Poetr y, Houghton Mifflin,
Ree Mor ton (1936–1977)," Ar t in General, New York, New
August, 2000, and Selected Poems by A. Poulin, Jr., BOA
York, March 20 – May 4, 2002.
Editions, Ltd., August, 2001.
Leslie Wayne, an exhibition, "Breaking and Entering," recent
paintings, Galerie Brigdahn und Kaimer, Dusseldor f,
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The Corporation of Yaddo is classified as a 501 (c) (3) tax
Frank Webster, a solo exhibition, "Sprawl," Sara Meltzer
exempt organization by the Internal Revenue Ser vice and all
Galler y, New York, New York, March 21 – April 20, 2002.
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Annette Weintraub, exhibitions: 5th Graz Biennial of Media and
obtained by writing to New York State, Office of Charities
Architecture, Graz, Austria, November, 2001, "New Ar t for
Regulation, Albany, New York 12231, or The Corporation of
Wall and Web," ICP/International Center of Photography, New
York, New York, April, 2001, "Silent Motion," Picker Galler y,
Kingston, and Colville Place Galler y, London, England, May –
July, 2001, and "Cinema Online," International Film Festival
Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Feburar y, 2001.
Barbara Weissberger, a group exhibition, "Return to the Battle
of the Ironclads," HEREart, New York, New York, February 2 –
March 9, 2002.
Mac Wells, a solo exhibition, "Paintings and Watercolors," Ar t
Sites, Greenpor t, New York, July 15 – August 13, 2000.
Barry Werth, an excerpt from The Scarlett Professor, Newton
Ar vin: A literar y Life Shattered by Scandal (Doubleday, May,
2001), Smith Alumnae Quar terly, Fall, 2001.
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