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April 6, 2006 -- Acclaimed poet Alice Fulton will be in residence at the University of Virginia the week of April 10 as the 2005-2006 Rea Visiting Writer in Poetry. As part of her residency, Fulton will give a reading of her work on Thursday, April 13, at 8 p.m. in the U.Va. Bookstore. The reading is free and open to the public.
Fulton’s most recent book of poems is “Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems.” Her book “Felt” (2001) received the Rebekah Johnson Bobbit National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress and also was selected by the Los Angeles Times as one of the Best Books of 2001. Her other works include “Sensual Math” (1995), “Powers of Congress” (1990) and “Palladium,” winner of the 1985 National Poetry Series and the 1987 Society of Midland Authors Award. Fulton’s work has been included in five editions of The Best American Poetry series and in “The Best of the Best American Poetry, 1988-1997.”
Fulton’s work has been adapted several times for musical and theatrical productions. Anthony Cornicello’s setting of four Fulton poems, called “…turns and turns into the night,” premiered at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City in February 2001. William Bolcom’s setting of “How to Swing Those Obbligatos Around” was first performed by singer Marilyn Horne at Carnegie Hall’s Centennial Celebration. “Turbulence: A Romance,” a song cycle with lyrics by Fulton and music by Bolcom, debuted at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in 1997.
Fulton has received fellowships form the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Michigan Society of Fellows and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, R.I. She currently serves as the Ann S. Bowers Professor of English at Cornell University.
The Rea Visiting Writer program, of the Creative Writing program in U.Va.’s Department of English, is sponsored by Michael M. and Elizabeth Rea and the Dungannon Foundation.
For more information about Fulton’s upcoming visit or the Rea Visiting Writer program, please contact Lisa Russ Spaar, director of the Creative Writing program, at (434)924-6675.
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