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Elmaz Abinader

Dorothy Allison

Steve Almond

Natalie Angier

Gloria Anzaldúa

Mary Jo Bang

Russell Banks

Richard Bausch

Charles Baxter

Eavan Boland

Molly McCully Brown

Sean Mclain Brown

NoViolet Bulawayo

Joseph Bruchac

Bonnie Jo Campbell

Dr. Rafael Campo

Marco Candida

Jimmy Castellanos

Katharine Coles

Gregory Corso

Jennine Capó Crucet

Kate Daniels

Devra Davis

Annie Dawid

Susan Deer Cloud

Junot Díaz

Thomas Disch

Michael Dorris

Geoff Dyer

Louise Erdrich

Martín Espada

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Nick Flynn

Alexandra Fuller

Mary Gaitskill

Nicholas Galanin

Roxane Gay

Carol Gilligan

Allen Ginsberg

David Grann

Alexandra Grant

Brian Greene

Alison Hawthorne Deming

Hal Herzog

Adam Hochschild

Allison Leigh Holt

Dr. Frank Huyler

Marlon James

Tania James

Gish Jen

Charles Johnson

Maxine Hong Kingston

Chuck Klosterman

Amoussa Koriko

Peter Kuper

Sarah Leavitt

Ed Bok Lee

Timothy Liu

Layli Long Solder

Barry Lopez

Jessica Lott

Robin Magowan

Lauren Markham

Brian Maxwell

Thomas McGrath

Brenda Miller

Leslie Adrienne Miller

Czeslaw Milosz

Ted Mooney

Stuart Moulthrop

Bharati Mukherjee

Carol Muske-Dukes

Marilyn Nelson

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Kathleen Norris

Sharon Olds

Tillie Olsen

Peter Orlovsky

Jacqueline Osherow

Miriam Patchen

Carl Phillips

Robert Pinsky

Aaron Poochigian

Kenneth Rexroth

Kim Stanley Robinson

Salman Rushdie

Oliver Sacks

Lorenzo Serna

Fan Shen

Jeff Shotts

Gary Shteyngart

Matthew Sienkiewicz

Torril Stokkan

Mark Turcotte

Russell Scott Valentino

Mai Der Vang

Nance Van Winckel

Jane Varley

Ed Vega

Branca Vilela

Colson Whitehead

Terry Tempest Williams

Greg Williamson

Larry Woiwode

Mario Ybarra, Jr.

Ofelia Zepeda

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Presentation: Cecelia Condit | UND Writers Conference Digital Collection | The University of North Dakota...parentNode ...... We have to negotiate everything ...... I'm the Director of the Museum here ...258
Reading: Gary Snyder and Michael McClure | UND Writers Conference Digital Collection | The University of North Dakota...parentNode ...... [Attaches microphone] Can you hear me now? Should I make it tighter? Shall I say a few words about what we're going to do? Michael and I are, are sharing the platform tonight, because it has been our experience in the past, with other poets and other situations, that it's more fun ...... And the way we're going to do it is this: I'm going to start out by reading about twenty-five minutes, what was it, twenty-two and a half ...576
Reading: Frank X. Walker | UND Writers Conference Digital Collection | The University of North Dakota...parentNode ...... Kim Donehower ...... Kim Donehower: Hi, everyone ...206
Reading: Stuart Dybek | UND Writers Conference Digital Collection | The University of North Dakota...parentNode ......there early if there are spaces left to read for that ...... Our noon panel tomorrow will be \"The Body Politic,\" which will be right here, back in the ballroom, moderated by our colleague in the English Department, Adam Kitzes, and will include Miller Williams, Timothy Liu, and Stuart Dybek ...220
Panel: Beyond the Page | UND Writers Conference Digital Collection | The University of North Dakota...parentNode ...... At two, we will have a screening of select films by Cecelia Condit in the Lecture Bowl ...... Let's see at four, Mark Amerika will be reading here ...374
Reading: Mark Doty | UND Writers Conference Digital Collection | The University of North Dakota...parentNode ...... there will be \"A Great Conversation with Jane Smiley\" at the Chester Fritz Auditorium ...... Not here ...180
Reading: Pam Houston | UND Writers Conference Digital Collection | The University of North Dakota...parentNode ...... Heidi Czerweic: ...... there will be another open mic community reading in the River Valley Room ...271
Presentation: Deena Larsen | UND Writers Conference Digital Collection | The University of North Dakota...parentNode ......And, we hope that you will join us for the other events scheduled for today ...... At 6pm in the lecture bowl, we'll be screening Memento, and at 8pm, at the Chester Fritz Auditorium, will be a conversation with presidential lecturer Art Speigleman ...459
Reading: Diane Glancy | UND Writers Conference Digital Collection | The University of North Dakota...parentNode ...... She's been here, and those of you that heard the panel this noon heard some of her style, which is brisk, and no nonsense, and it doesn't lighten the point ...... And, I had an idea for this introduction, since I can't do a factual lengthy one, and we don't want a factual lengthy one in any case, but just tell you this, first of all, for facts, her books are out there so that you can see them, several of them ...226
Panel: Beyond the Screen | UND Writers Conference Digital Collection | The University of North Dakota...parentNode ...... If you are going to take pictures, please do so within the first ten minutes or so ...... At four, Nick Montfort will be reading here, and at six selected video shorts by Nick Montfort will be in the Lecture Bowl, and finally tonight at 8 p ...315
Reading: Tim O'Brien | UND Writers Conference Digital Collection | The University of North Dakota...parentNode ...... Bob King: Welcome to the 26th Annual University of North Dakota Writers Conference, \"States of the Art ...... I want to welcome all of you ...208
Voices of the Valley, Vol. I | UND Writers Conference Digital Collection | The University of North Dakota...parentNode ......A special thanks to Art Grove, Monica Perkerwicz, Duane Kargel, Delpha Berg, Casey Whitman, Raymond Sevigny, Priscilla Stroh, Bill and Ruth Hill, Gene Lautenschlager, Paul Howard, Anna Marie, Clarence Olson, Ralph Waterman, Lavonne Brown, Valley Memorial Homes, The Community/Knight Foundation, and Crystal Alberts and the University of North Dakota Writers Conference ...... Open Spaces are for Ghosts, by Laurel Perez ...740
Voices of the Valley, Vol. II | UND Writers Conference Digital Collection | The University of North Dakota...parentNode ...... First and foremost, we would like to thank Nicole ...... For all those who shared their stories with ...462
Reading: William H. Gass | UND Writers Conference Digital Collection | The University of North Dakota...parentNode ...... I think they were looking for a native North Dakotan on the faculty, and I'm one of the few of them ...... I know we have one thing in common ...229
Reading: Sam Pickering | UND Writers Conference Digital Collection | The University of North Dakota...parentNode ......Sam Pickering from the Dead Poet's Society, but he's also a family man, a father of three, and he's prolific in other ways as well ...... He's written at least [audience laughter] written at least nineteen books and has somewhere over 200 or so magazine and journal articles at last count ...247
Reading: Alison Hawthorne Deming | UND Writers Conference Digital Collection | The University of North Dakota...parentNode ...... Richard Crawford: This whole week ......little bit higher than that? I had, I have my wife sitting back here, and she's, she's always the person who tells me whether I can be heard or not ...356
Reading: Pattiann Rogers | UND Writers Conference Digital Collection | The University of North Dakota...parentNode ......sustain the Conference, we're asking you at become part of the part of the history of doing that and to contribute or consider contributing 35 dollars for 35 years ...... If you want to contribute more, we would gladly accept it ...280
Presentation: Nick Montfort | UND Writers Conference Digital Collection | The University of North Dakota...parentNode ...... There's a sign that says UND Writers Conference, so, free parking ...... Also, there are still spaces available in the workshops on Saturday, so if you're interested in poetry, or fiction, or a children's workshop, just show up at noon on Saturday here with copies of your work and you can workshop with our visiting authors, or with volunteers actually ...239
Reading: Lee Ann Roripaugh | UND Writers Conference Digital Collection | The University of North Dakota...parentNode ...... And remember tomorrow morning from—or at 10:00, there will be and open mic community reading in the River Valley Room ...... You'll notice blue evaluation forms are on some of the seats—or there might be some on seats near you; if you wouldn't mind filling one out we'd greatly appreciate it ...184
Reading: James Merrill | UND Writers Conference Digital Collection | The University of North Dakota...parentNode ...... Introducer: A few years ago, I went to the bookstore to buy a book that I had seen reviewed in the New York Review of Books and was pleasantly surprised to discover that the book was in stock ......\" Twenty lines into that poem, entranced by the exquisiteness of the rendering of detail, intrigued by the scope of the projected poem, and enthralled by the sureness of the poet's voice, I became convinced I was reading a poem by a master poet, who had found the appropriate vehicle to express a personal vision in more comprehensive terms than a poet has found for many a year ...224
Panel: Poetry and 100 Years | UND Writers Conference Digital Collection | The University of North Dakota...parentNode ...... Michael Anderegg: Welcome to the Friday Panel, the fourth and final panel of this Fourteenth Annual Writers Conference ...... Our panelists today are James Merrill and Richard Howard ...319
Reading: Mark Doty | UND Writers Conference Digital Collection | The University of North Dakota...parentNode ...... Welcome everyone to the three o'clock reading, which is Mark Doty ...... And, as I read through Mark Doty's work in consideration of the Writers Conference theme, what I was especially touched by was his wonderful sense of experiencing the sacred in ways which are accessible to everyone ...163
Reading: Julia Whitty | UND Writers Conference Digital Collection | The University of North Dakota...parentNode ...... been making nature documentaries for over twenty years ...... Humans and the animal world are portrayed as interrelated and interdependent, and often it is humankind's drive for technological or personal superiority that is a counteractive force against the world wildlife and natural resources ...227
Reading: Mark Amerika | UND Writers Conference Digital Collection | The University of North Dakota...parentNode ......, we have a film screening in the Lecture Bowl ...... Also, as many of you know, we've been doing this for now 41 years, but what you may not know is that we don't have an endowment ...228
Voices of the Valley, Vol. III | UND Writers Conference Digital Collection | The University of North Dakota...parentNode ...... Your creative talents are truly stunning, and you've made this ......This year we had monetary sponsors from both local business and ...783

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Crystal Alberts

Associate Professor of English

Director, UND Writers Conference

276 Centennial Drive
110 Merrifield Hall, Stop 7209
Grand Forks, ND 58202

701/777-2393