The 2004 Poetry Center Summer Residencies
at The School of the Art Institute
Residency Dates: July 16, 2004 - August 13, 2004

June 24, 2004

The Poetry Center is happy to announce the recipients of two one month summer poetry residencies in downtown Chicago.


MISTY HARPER
Misty Harper grew up in Southern Georgia and received a B.S. in Science, Technology, and Culture from Georgia Institute of Technology. For the past two years, she's lived in Bloomington, Indiana, where she is pursuing an MFA in Indiana University's Creative Writing Program. She won Willow Springs' 2003 Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award, the National Society of Arts and Letters' 2003 Estell Carter 2nd Place Award, and Swink's Emerging Writer in Poetry Award. Her poems have been published in Hotel Amerika, Swink and Willow Springs.


KATRINA VANDENBERG
Katrina Vandenberg's first book of poems Atlas, will be published by Milkweed Editions in the fall of 2004. She has an MFA from the University of Arkansas, and her poems have also appeared in The American Scholar, The Iowa Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Poetry Northwest, and other magazines. She is a former Fulbright fellow in creative writing, a hemophilia-AIDS activist, and the current visiting writing at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She lives with her husband, fiction writer John Reimringer, in St. Paul.


Thanks to all who applied for a residency. It goes without saying that we received many impressive applications for the residencies from all over the country. The Poetry Center will take applications for the summer 2005 Residencies in early 2005.

Thanks to judges John Rezek and Calvin Forbes who undertook the task of reviewing and scoring the submissions, received from all over the nation, using a blind jury process. The judges reviewed only the poetry submitted by the applicants and were not given access to any personal information about the applicants. Click here to review the application guidelines.

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 School of the Art Institute of Chicago web page