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Hudson Valley Literature
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 premiere 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, NY.
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 thelife 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 Hisory 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 forty years and included
the publication of more than forty 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 twenty 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 twenty 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), Chechov (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 is LitKicks page on Ed Sanders as well.
http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/page.jsp?what=EdSanders
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