PAUMANOK POETRY AWARD SERIES

Wanda Phipps
September 30, 2010
Ward Hall Great Room
11AM

Wanda Phipps is a poet, journalist, dramaturg, translator as well as a singer/songwriter.

Wanda Phipps was born in Washington, D.C. and studied theater and English literature at Barnard College of Columbia University in New York City, acting at American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, CA, and poetry at Naropa Institute in Boulder, CO.

She is the author of Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems, the chapbooks Lunch Poems, Your Last Illusion or Break Up Sonnets, After the Mishap, and the CD-Rom Zither Mood. She is also the co-author of Shanar: Dedication Ritual of a Buryat Shaman in Siberia. Her poems have been published over 100 times in journals such as Agni, Exquisite Corpse, The World, Hanging Loose, Sensitive Skin, Long Shot, and the webzines How2: Contemporary Innovative Writing by Women, POETIC VOICES, milkmag, Jack, $lavery: Cyberzine of the Arts, The East Village, Shampoo and Brooklyn Review Online.

Keith Flynn
October 21, 2010
Ward Hall Great Room
11 AM

Keith Flynn was born August 4, 1962. He studied at Mars Hill College and the University of North Carolina at Asheville (UNCA) where he studied Creative Writing and Political Science.

Flynn is the author of four collections of poetry: The Talking Drum (1991), The Book of Monsters (1994), The Lost Sea (2000), and The Golden Ratio (2007). His poems have appeared in hundreds of magazines, journals, and anthologies in the United States and Europe, including The Carolina Quarterly, The Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, The Cuirt Journal (Ireland), Earth and Soul: The Kostroma Anthology (Russia), The 20th Century Anthology of NC Poets, Poetry Wales, Takahe (New Zealand), Margie, Shenandoah, Quarterly Review (Singapore), Rattle, and The Southern Poetry Review.

He has been nominated six times for the Pushcart Prize, was awarded the Paumanok Poetry Prize in 1996, and has given thousands of performances from his work across North America and abroad. In 2005 and 2006, Flynn served as the Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet for North Carolina, working to promote the cultural importance of poetry in his home state. He is also the founder and editor of The Asheville Poetry Review, a literary journal established in 1994, that has published over 1,500 writers from 22 countries.

Annete Opalczynski Paumanok Award Winner 2009 November 18, 2010 Ward Hall Great Room 11 AM
Annette Opalczynski lives in New Castle, Delaware. In 1992, she earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the American University. Her awards include two fellowship grants for poetry from the Delaware Division for the Arts. Annette’s poems have been published in The North American Review, The Paterson Literary Review, The Sun, and Oberon Magazine.

Spring 2011

Atar Hadari
2009 Paumanok Poetry Award
Runnerup
February 24, 2011
Ward Hall Great Room
11 AM

Atar Hadari was born in Israel, raised in England, and won a scholarship to study poetry and playwrighting with Derek Walcott at Boston University. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Partisan Review, First Things, Poetry East, Bomb. Image, The Daily Express, Times Literary Supplement, and the Poetry Society’s Poetry Review, which awarded him a New Poets feature. His translations of the Hebrew national poet, Songs from Bialik: Selected Poems from Hayim Nahman Bialik, were short listed for the American Literary Translator’s Association Award, 2001, abd his sequence of poems about the Biblical King David won the University of Strathclyde’s inaugural poetry prize. In 2007, his poems won the Tricinium prize, the New England Poetry Club’s Daniel Varoujan Award, and the Ellen LaForge Prize from Grolier’s poetry bookstore at Harvard. His nineteen-page translation of the Hebrew poem, “Lives of the Dead” by Hanoch Levin appeared in the May 2009 issue of POETRY magazine.

Holly Scalera
2009 Paumanok Poetry Award
Runnerup
March 24, 2011
Ward Hall Great Room
11 AM

Holly Scalera was born in the catbird seat of a 1957 Volkswagen Beetle during an ice storm. Her father was a firefighter and her mother an ex-hand model. She grew up with a bulldog and a tortuous older brother who taught her everything she needed to know about being tough in the world. She won her first writing contest in second grade for a poem about a ghost. She is the mother of Ruby and Jackson and is married to the managing editor of The Thunderbird News. She lives in a pink house in South Orange, NJ.

Sharon Fain
2009 Paumanok Poetry Award
Runnerup
April 14, 2011
Ward Hall Great Room
11 AM

Sharon Fain is the 2009 winner of the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize. Her work has appeared in Nimrod, Poetry East, The Literary Review, Midwest Quarterly, Southern Humanities Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Crab Orchard Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, and other publications. She is the author of Telling the Story Another Way, winner of the 2003 Pudding House Press Chapbook Prize. She is retired from City College of San Francisco where she taught child development and counseled at-risk students. Grandchildren fill her days with joy.

The Visiting Writers Program warmly thanks the Farmingdale Student Government Association, Hubert Keen, President, and the English/Humanities Department faculty for their continued support. Special thanks go to the Academy of American Poets which sponsors the Raynor Wallace Award for Poetry. More special thanks go to the Department of Communications at Farmingdale State University.

English Awards Day Featured Speaker TBA April 28, 2011 Ward Hall Great Room 11 AM

Fall 2010

Spring 2011