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MARVIN BELL PETER V.T. KAHLE MELANIE WORKHOVEN

MARVIN BELL's poetry has been part of the conversation for four decades.  He is the creator of what are known as the “Dead Man” and “Dead Man Resurrected” poems, and has been called “an insider who thinks like an outsider” and “ambitious without pretension.”

He is the author of eighteen books, including Rampant (2004), Nightworks: Poems 1962-2000 (2000), The Book of the Dead Man, A Marvin Bell Reader, Poetry for a Midsummer's Night, A Probable Volume of Dreams (winner of the Lamont Award),  Stars Which See, Stars Which Do Not See (a National Book Award finalist) and, with William Stafford, a book of poetry written as correspondence.  In addition, he has contributed to The Pen and The Key: 50th Anniversary Anthology of Pacific Northwest Writers (2005).

In 2005, he retired after forty years on the faculty of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.  Mr. Bell leads an annual Urban Teachers Workshop for America SCORES, collaborates with composers, musicians, filmmakers and dancers, and teaches for two low-residency MFA programs housed in the Northwest.  His literary honors include awards from the Academy of American Poets, the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Poetry Review, fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA, and Senior Fulbright appointments to Yugoslavia and Australia.  From 2000 to 2004, Mr. Bell served as Iowa's first poet laureate.  He lives in Iowa City Iowa, and Port Townsend, Washington.

OTHER BOOKS BY MARVIN BELL

Rampant (2004)

Nightworks: Poems 1962-2000 (2000)

Poetry for a Midsummer's Night (1998)

Wednesday: Selected Poems 1966-1977 (1998)

Ardor (The Book of the Dead Man, Vol. 2) (1997)

The Book of the Dead Man (Vol. 1) (1994)

A Marvin Bell Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose (1994)

Iris of Creation (1990)

New and Selected Poems (1987)

Drawn by Stones, by Earth, by Things that Have Been in the Fire (1984)

Old Snow Just Melting: Essays and Interviews (1983)

Seques: A Correspondence in Poetry (with William Stafford) (1983)

These Green-Going-to-Yellow (1981)

Stars Which See, Stars Which Do Not See ((1977)

Residue of Song (1974)

The Escape into You (1971)

A Probable Volume of Dreams (1969)

Things We Dreamt We Died For (1966)


PETER KAHLE'S first book in this series, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream: A Prose Narrative, was honored as a finalist in the national Small Press Book Awards (juvenile/young adult fiction).  His next, Shakespeare's The Tempest: A Prose Narrative, was chosen as a national finalist for the Independent Publishers Book Awards.

Mr. Kahle, a graduate of Michigan State University, also studied writing at the University of Washington.  He taught high school, has been an architectural stained glass artist, a lacrosse referee and has directed amateur theatre productions.  He is a past president of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association, and currently serves as an advisor to the board of directors.  A founding member of the Collective Wheee!, he says he is more of a Shakespeare enthusiast than a scholar, and enjoys making the plays accessible by speaking at schools and libraries about topics that include writing, Shakespeare and the performing and literary arts.  Kahle also writes adult literary fiction.

Born in Washington state, he has two sons and lives in Seattle with his wife.

BOOKS BY PETER KAHLE

Naked at the Podium: The Writer's Guide to Successful Readings (2001)

(with Melanie Workhoven)

Shakespeare's The Tempest: A Prose Narrative (1999)

Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night'sDream: A Prose Narrative (1997)


MELANIE WORKHOVEN
Originally from the Midwest, she attended Northwestern University, majoring in Oral Interpretation. She studied improvisation at Paramount Studios, and voice with Mary Massey. She has been a radio personality, voiceover talent, copywriter, teacher and acting coach. Theatrical background includes the stage, major motion pictures and network television. Ms. Workhoven is a personal acting coach and conducts actor's workshops, as well as writer's workshops especially designed to teach drama and acting strategies to writers seeking to hone their presentation and public reading skills.


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