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Verlyn Klinkenborg, Author & Essayist, Serving as 2005
Moseley Fellow at Pomona College |
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Verlyn Klinkenborg, acclaimed essayist and author, is
teaching an advanced writing course on the literary essay
for the spring 2005 semester as the Moseley Fellow in
Creative Writing at Pomona College. As part of his
appointment, he will continue a tradition of prominent
authors reading from their works at Pomona on March 24, at
7:30 p.m. The reading will be held in Crookshank Hall (Room
101), 140 West Sixth Street, Claremont.
The Moseley Fellowship is made possible through funding from
the Louisa and Francis Moseley Memorial Instruction Fund.
The Fund was created in 1985 from an estate gift from
Francis and Louisa Moseley. The donors expressed that the
gift should be used "to support efforts of the English
Department of the College to improve writing of students."
Klinkenborg, a member of the Pomona Class of 1974, is the
author of several well-received books including The Rural
Life (2003), The Last Fine Time (1991) and Making Hay
(1986). Reviewers often note his lyricism and unforgettable
glimpses of everyday American life, weather and nature. A
regular contributor to The New York Times, Linkenborg has
also written for The New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire, National
Geographic and Mother Jones.
From The New York Times, February 25, 2005:
“For the last two months, the local news in Southern
California has been about nothing but houses tumbling
downhill and highways blocked by mudslides, about yellow
tags and red tags and the threat of evacuation. But there's
another piece of news here, whether the sun shines or not.
It is the green of the hills. No one remembers this much
rain, and no one remembers this much green.
“‘Green’ is beginning to fail as a word. It begins to feel
unmeaning, a word you can imagine Caliban practicing on the
beach, trying out the sound of it over and over again. To
look at the hills and say the word ''green'' has become a
ridiculous act. The question is which green on what plant
and in what light and facing in which direction and are we
talking about new growth or old? The blue of the sky -- even
in the profligate light of Southern California -- is simple
in comparison.”
Klinkenborg comes from a family of Iowa farmers and lives on
a small farm in upstate New York. He earned his Ph.D. from
Princeton University.
For more information on the reading, which is part of the
Pomona College English Department Literary Series, call
(909) 607-2212. Recent Moseley Fellows have included
Salvador Carrasco, writer and director of the feature film
The Other Conquest, poet B.H. Fairchild, author of Early
Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest, and Janet Fitch,
author of White Oleander.
Pomona College, one of the nation’s premier liberal arts
colleges, provides its students with a challenging
curriculum in the humanities, natural sciences, social
sciences, and fine arts, and an unsurpassed environment for
intellectual inquiry and growth. Its hallmarks include small
classes, close relationships between students and faculty,
and a range of opportunities for student research. For more
information on Pomona Colleges, visit www.pomona.edu. |
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