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For Immediate Release
October 27, 2009
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David Mihalyov
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Emeritus Poet William Heyen to Receive The Arts & Cultural Council of Greater Rochester’s Literary Artist of the Year Award
And A Poetics of Hiroshima Selected For ’10 Chautauqua Program
Brockport, NY – Brockport poet William Heyen, PhD, professor of English/poet-in-residence emeritus at The College at Brockport, has been selected to receive the 2009 Arts & Cultural Council of Greater Rochester Award as Literary Artist of the Year. The award will be presented at a luncheon to be held November 19 at the Hyatt Regency in Rochester. It recognizes an individual artist who has made a significant contribution to the arts in the community.
In addition, Heyen’s latest book of poetry, A Poetics of Hiroshima, is among the nine books selected for the 2010 author’s lecture series at The Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle (CLSC).
Next July 22, Heyen will read from and sign copies of A Poetics of Hiroshima, and will hold a seminar in creative writing at the Chautauqua Writers Center.
"(Heyen is) a remarkable poet in whom the visionary and the unblinkingly historical are dramatically meshed. He writes with the wild, radiant audacity of the visionary; yet his eye and ear are sharp, unsparing," wrote Joyce Carol Oates of A Poetics of Hiroshima.
About William Heyen
A former Senior Fulbright lecturer in American literature in Germany, Heyen has won Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, American Academy & Institute of Arts & Letters, and other awards. His work has appeared in the Atlantic, the New Yorker, Harper's, and in hundreds of other magazines and anthologies. He edited September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond, and is the author of some 25 books including Crazy Horse in Stillness (winner of the Small Press Book Award) and Shoah Train: Poems (a Finalist for the National Book Award).
About The Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester (www.artsrochester.org/)
The Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester is the umbrella service organization and industry association for arts and culture in the ten-county greater Rochester region. Its mission is to develop, promote and strengthen the cultural industry. The Arts & Cultural Council directly serves the cultural community - artists and cultural organizations - as well as the community at large. The Arts Council is a funder, an advocate, a service provider, a convener, a resource for research and technical assistance, and a planner, implementing initiatives and strategies across the 10-county area.
About The Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle
Part of the Chautauqua Institution and founded in 1878, The Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle is the oldest continuous book club in America has enrolled more than half a million readers. CLSC book selections are used by reading groups around the world.
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