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Literature of the Hudson River Valley Links
Introductions and Overviews
The Desmond Fish Library has compiled a list of many Hudson
Valley authors with biographical information.
http://hhr.highlands.com/litlinks.html
Centers/Workshops/Roundtables
"The Hudson Valley Writers' Center, Inc. is a not-for-profit
organization founded in 1988 with a mission to promote the appreciation
of literary excellence and to stimulate and nurture the creation of
literary works in all sectors of the population."
http://www.writerscenter.org/hvwc.html
The Hudson Valley Writers Guild links page.
http://www.sage.edu/hvwg/
"The Writers Institute is one of America's
premier sites for celebrating the art of the written word …
providing the broadest possible educational base for students
of writing, access to some of our greatest living authors for
serious readers of literature, enthusiastic audiences in
excellent venues for visiting writers and important cultural
initiatives for the general public."
http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/
Festivals and Events:
The Woodstock Poetry Festival celebrates the spoken word in a
town that has attained worldwide recognition as an arts colony,
home to musicians, painters, poets, sculptors, actors, and other
artists since 1901.
http://www.woodstockpoetryfestival.com/
"The Chronogram is a Mid-Hudson magazine
of events and ideas, publishing material that nourishes
the creative life of our region and in the world, and to
demonstrate a paradigm of that creativity in action"
and keeps a calendar of literary and other events.
http://www.chronogram.com/
Journals:
"The Half Moon Review, the premier online literary
journal of the best contemporary writing from the Hudson Valley
region of New York."
http://www.halfmoonreview.com/
"The Museum of American Poetics is a unique amalgamate of
poets, students, teachers, scholars, editors, publishers, literary centers,
and Web designers."
http://www.poetspath.com/
Publishing Houses:
"Black Dome Press specializes in high quality books on the history,
art, culture, folklore and folk art of upstate New York -- the Hudson Valley,
Catskill Mountains, Shawangunks, Albany Capital Region and Saratoga --
the lands of Rip Van Winkle, John Burroughs, Thomas Cole & the Hudson
River School of landscape painting."
http://www.blackdomepress.com/index.html
Hope Farm Press claims to be "simply the largest selection of New
York State current and Colonial history, genealogy, transportation, Native
American, railroads, canals, steamboats, folklore, nature and regional interest books -
Adirondacks, Catskills, Hudson River Valley, Mohawk River Valley, Finger Lakes,
Central and Western New York - for sale anywhere."
http://www.hopefarm.com/
"McPherson & Company is an independent literary and arts
publishing company operated out of Kingston, New York, and specializes in
four areas: contemporary fiction, great "lost" literary works from
earlier in the century, non-fiction books dealing with contemporary art, film,
aesthetics, and related cultural issues, and, finally, translations of a few
distinguished authors of 20th-century Italian fiction."
http://www.mcphersonco.com/
"Purple Mountain Press and Harbor Hill specialize in books about
Westchester County, the Adirondacks, and the Mohawk and Champlain Valleys as well
as the Catskills and the Hudson Valley. Together the presses have issued more than
150 titles about New York state in the fields of history, natural history,
folklore, travel, outdoor sports, and the arts."
http://www.catskill.net/purple/
"The SUNY Press publishes scholarly and trade books in support
of the State University of New York’s commitments to teaching, research, and
public service. With an editorial board made up of SUNY faculty from throughout
the state, SUNY Press has a large catalog, featuring authors from around the world."
http://www.sunypress.edu/index.asp?site=True
Station Hill Press is an "independent book publisher of
innovative works offering human alternatives in a broad range of areas, with special
interest in literature (contemporary poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and thought),
non-Western disciplines, alternative health (including Oriental medicine),
mind/body therapies, spiritual possibilities (Tibetan Buddhism, Dzogchen, etc.),
cooking (e.g., organic, lactose-free), etc."
http://www.stationhill.org/
Hudson Valley Authors:
A number of classic and contemporary authors have been identified
with the Hudson River Valley over the years.
T. Coraghessan Boyle:
T. Coraghessan Boyle may be best known as the author of The Road to
Wellsville, but another work, World's End," explores the
history of the region in which I was born and raised, the area near
Peekskill, New York, in Northern Westchester County on the east
shore of the Hudson River."
http://www.tcboyle.com/public_htm/tcboyle.html
John Burroughs:
John Burroughs was the east-coast naturalist of the Catskills on
par with the legendary John Muir of California. This is a site
maintained by the John Burroughs Association that includes
a short biography, a bird index, and information on the John Boroughs
Sanctuary in West Park, N.Y.
http://www.johnburroughs.org/
The Catskill Archive’s page on John Burroughs contains biographical
information as well as articles and selected writings.
http://www.catskillarchive.com/jb/jb.htm
James Fenimore Cooper:
"The James Fenimore Cooper Society is dedicated to
promoting the study of the life and works of James Fenimore Cooper
(1789-1851), encouraging the enjoyment of his 32 novels, and
appreciation of his ideas, and providing useful information
to students, scholars, and readers."
http://www.oneonta.edu/external/cooper/
Washington Irving:
This site contains background information on Washington Irving,
author of Deitrich Knickerbocker’s History of New York,
provided by Historic Hudson Valley from Sunnyside Cottage –
Irving’s Hudson Valley villa.
http://www.hudsonvalley.org/education/Background/abt_irving/abt_irving.html
Herman Melville:
Herman Melville is another of the authors associated with the Hudson River
Valley, although he lived just northeast of the Valley itself, in the
Berkshire Mountains. "Arrowhead is now a house museum interpreting
the life of the Melville family in the Berkshires. It is owned
and operated by the Berkshire County Historical Society,
a non-profit corporation."
http://www.mobydick.org/
Edith Wharton:
"In her long career, which stretched over 40 years and included the
publication of more than 40 books, Edith Wharton (1862-1937) portrayed a
fascinating segment of the American experience." This is the online
version of the National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition: Edith Wharton’s
World: Portraits of People and Places.
http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/wharton/
"The Edith Wharton Society offers Wharton scholars and
other interested persons an opportunity to share in the study and
appreciation of the life and works of this author. Through
annual meetings, sessions, special conferences, and its journal,
The Edith Wharton Review,
the Society provides a forum for Wharton studies."
http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/wharton/
"Edith Wharton Restoration, Inc. (EWR)
was founded in 1980 to preserve and restore The Mount,
the Berkshires estate of Edith Wharton, and to establish
it as a cultural and educational center. EWR dedicates The
Mount to the study and promotion of Edith Wharton's work in
literature, gardening and the design arts and to the recognition
and celebration of women of achievement."
http://www.edithwharton.org/
Hudson Valley Poets:
John Ashbery:
John Ashbery is the author of 20 books of poetry, and is
currently the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr., professor of languages
and literature at Bard College.
http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=242
Robert Kelly:
Robert Kelly has authored over 60 books of verse and prose,
including Scorpions (1967), Kill the Messenger (1985),
and Cat Scratch Fever (1990).
http://www.mcphersonco.com/authors/rkelly.html
Tad Richards:
"Tad Richards has written over 20 novels, screenplays and nonfiction
books. His poetry has appeared in magazines and anthologies, and his songs
have been recorded by a number of artists. He has been with the Marist
English Department for well over a decade and is president and artistic
director of Opus 40, in Saugerties, NY."
http://www.marist.edu/humanities/english/tad.html
This link is to Tad’s web site.
http://pages.prodigy.net/tadrichards/
Ed Sanders:
Ed Sanders, now living in Woodstock, achieved fame in the
countercultural world of the 1960s as poet, magazine founder,
and leading force of the Fugs. His poetry volumes include
Investigative Poetry (1975), Chekhov (1995),
1968: A History in Verse, and Thirsting for Peace
in a Raging Century, Selected Poems 1961-1985.
http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/sanders.html
This LitKicks page is on Ed Sanders as well.
http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/page.jsp?what=EdSanders
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