The 2005 Poetry Center Summer Residencies
at The School of the Art Institute

Moira Linehan & Ellen Wehle Selected at the 2005 Residency Recipients
Residency Dates: July 17, 2005 - August 14, 2005

June 17, 2005


MOIRA LINEHAN
Moira Linehan, after careers as an English teacher and an administrator in high tech and academic settings, now writes full-time and leads writing workshops. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Alaska Quarterly Review, Crab Orchard Review, Indiana Review, Notre Dame Review, Poetry, Poetry East, and TriQuarterly. Twice her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She holds a MFA in Writing from Vermont College and has had residencies at the Millay Colony for the arts and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She Lives in Winchester, MA.


ELLEN WEHLE
Ellen Wehle earned an MFA in poetry from Florida International University, and has taught literature, creative writing, and media analysis at various colleges. In 2002 she quit her advertising job ("a leap into space") in order to write full time. Publications include New England Review, The New Republic, Christian Science Monitor, US Catholic, FIELD, Slate, Blue Mesa Review, The Southern Review, The Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, Poetry International, and journals in Europe, Canada, and Australia. Poems were nominated this year for four Pushcart Prizes and featured at Poetry Daily; her manuscript, Spiral Staircase, placed second at BOA. Ellen lives in Winthrop, MA, with her husband and two stepchildren, where she walks the beach watching the oil tankers. She writes, she says, "In order to more fully claim my life."



Click to learn about last year's summer poets MISTY HARPER and KATRINA VANDENBERG.

The Poetry Center and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago is pleased to announce that it will award two poetry residencies in the heart of Chicago's vibrant downtown. Two poets selected from a national application pool will be awarded month-long poetry residencies with housing. These residencies are open to poets who have published no more than one book of poetry, not including self-published work. These month-long residencies are intended to assist poets in preparing a manuscript of poetry at an emerging stage of their careers. Resident poets are expected to spend uninterrupted time working independently. In addition, the selected poets will be invited to give a reading at The Poetry Center as part of the 2005-2006 Reading Series** and to submit several poems, one of which will be published as part of The Poetry Center's Broadside Series.

In addition to housing, each poet will receive a $1,000 stipend. Poets are responsible for their own travel and meal expenses.

Accommodations will be provided at The School of the Art Institute's new residency tower, located in the Loop at 162 North State Street, which is walking distance from Lake Michigan, museums, including the Art Institute where poets will receive free admission, and other attractions. The spacious studio apartments feature kitchens and private baths.

Visit the following URL for more information and a virtual tour of the studio apartments: www.artic.edu/saic/sitetours/virtualtour/root/162_n_state/index.html

ABOUT THE POETRY CENTER
Founded by Paul Carroll in 1974, the award-winning Poetry Center of Chicago is an independent not-for-profit arts organization that works to build audiences for poetry through readings, a broadside (art print) series and a poets-in-the-schools program called Hands on Stanzas.

ABOUT THE SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE
Recognized as an innovator in the arts since its inception more than 100 years ago, and internationally esteemed as a school of art and design, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago offers a comprehensive college education centered in the visual and related arts. The SAIC Master of Fine Arts in Writing program is for writers in all genres, as well as for artists who work with image and text.

** The Poetry Center will cover travel expenses for the 2005-2006 Reading Series events


CLICK HERE FOR THE APPLICATION & GUIDELINES (PDF download)

Or, e-mail info@poetrycenter.org to request an application.