2 Private Writing Workshops (Prose or Poetry)


Item Number: 12157

Time Left: CLOSED

Value: $250

Online Close: Mar 30, 2014 11:59 PM EDT

Bid History: 2 bids - Item Sold!

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Two private writing workshops - poetry or prose - for 1 hour each session at a place to be decided. Elena Alexanderis a poet and writer.Ms. Alexander was Special Lecturer, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), 2003-2010, and adjunct, Rutgers,Newark, 2005-2008.Though primarily a writer of poems, hybrid prose, and fiction, Ms. Alexander authored and editedFootnotes: Six Choreographers Inscribe the Page, (G+B Arts International/Routledge, 1998), part of the series, Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture. During the 1990s, she was guest lecturer and panelist, the Ewald Scholars Symposium, Sweet Briar College; panelist and reader, New York Universitys Poetry & Collaboration/NYC Poetry Talks; panelist, New York Foundation for the Arts, Culture Counts: A Cultural Blueprint for New York City. In 2002, she sat on a granting panel, Jerome Foundation,St. Paul,MN.Her short story, Sic Transit, received Honorable Mention,Prize Stories, The O. Henry Awards, The Best of 1997. Her poem, How the Lurking, (2002), was chosen by a consortium of four arts organizations, in response to 9/11, made into a poster, and displayed on walls inManhattanand the boroughs. Her work has appeared in anthologies published by Henry Holt, New York University Press, Penguin, and Serpents Tail, and various literary magazines. Selections of Ms. Alexanders poetry and prose have been translated into Serbo-Croation and Slovenian.Three of her poems appear inBOMB, spring, 2013. She is currently at work on the hybrid prose text,The Dead Artists Artist Wife.



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Elena Alexander