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Tory Dent |
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An interview and reading with New York Poet Tory Dent. Grace Cavalieri
hosts this one hour program of transformation. |
R.T. Smith |
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Fatalities: A poem for 9/11 |
James Reidel |
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Ex-Libris Weldon Kees: Silver Poets of the 16th Century leads to a
meditation on the life of Weldon Kees. |
Robert Kendall |
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A Day In The Life: Epistemological sit-ups and perception stretches. |
John
Kinsella |
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You and I—blackout: Cambridge, mushrooms, anarchy, and teetotalling, all
in the final installment of John Kinsella's autobiographical series. |
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Tory Dent
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 Tory Dent
is the author of
HIV, Mon Amour (Sheep Meadow Press, 1999), which won the
1999 James Laughlin Award and is a finalist for the National Book
Critics Circle Award; and
What Silence Equals (Persea Books, 1993). Her honors include
grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Money for
Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund; The Rona Jaffe Foundation
Writer�s Award; and three PEN American Center Grants for Writers
with AIDS. Her poetry has appeared in periodicals such as Agni,
Antioch Review, Kalliope, Kenyon Review,
Paris Review, Partisan Review, Pequod,
Ploughshares, Fence, and others, as well as the
anthologies
Life Sentences (1994),
The Exact Change Yearbook (1995),
In the Company of my Solitude (1995), and
Things Shaped in Passing (1997). An essay entitled "The
Deferred Dream," an excerpt from her memoir-in-progress, Many
Rivers to Cross, appeared in the collection
Bearing Life: Women�s Writings on Childlessness (ed.
Rochelle Ratner, The Feminist Press, 2001). Tory Dent has also
written art criticism for magazines including Arts, Flash
Art, and Parachute, as well as catalogue essays for art
exhibitions. She lives in New York City and Maine. |
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Tory Dent on The Poet and The Poem |
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Grace Cavalieri talks with Tory Dent
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Tory Dent with husband Sean
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The second program in a six-part series is a remote interview/ reading
with poet Tory Dent who is dying of (living with) AIDS. Tory Dent was
named a "Witter Bynner Fellow in Poetry" by the Library of Congress. The
program is technically excellent and not distracting as a phone
conversation. This is the most inspiring powerful program one could
hear. Tory is a brilliant poet and a strong spirit. She speaks of the
creative process under the most restrictive of human conditions. She
talks about the disease and her view of the dilemma in this country.
This is not at all a sad show; in fact it is alive with wisdom and
strength. Tory has two books in print:
What Silence Equals, and
HIV, Mon Amour. She reads several poems from each and
discusses her ability and persistence to write, even under the present
conditions.
Listen to the program
(requires
Real Player)
Producer: Grace Cavalieri, Forest Woods Media
Productions, Inc.
 Grace
Cavalieri is the author of eleven books of poetry, most
recently
Cuffed Frays (Argonne Hotel Press, 2001), and numerous
produced plays, including
Pinecrest Rest Haven
(Word Works, 1998), which premiered at the Common Basis Theatre in New
York, 2001. She has also written texts and lyrics for opera, stage, and
film. Producer/host of public radio's "The Poet and the Poem" weekly
from 1977 to 1997, presenting 2000 poets to the nation, she now produces
the series annually from the Library of Congress via NPR satellite. The
recipient of awards that include the PEN Fiction Award, The Allen
Ginsberg Poetry Award, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Silver Medal as well as others which honor her "significant contribution
to poetry" and distinguish her as an exceptional woman, she is part of
the poetry faculty at St. Mary's College of Southern Maryland and
teaches workshops nationwide. She and her husband, sculptor Kenneth
Flynn, live in West Virginia. They have four grown daughters.
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