Boone, NC
W: 828-262-2337
H: 828-297-4350
bathantjr@appstate.edu
Travel Regions: Statewide
Joseph Bathanti (M.A., University of Pittsburgh, M.F.A., Warren Wilson College), Professor of Creative Writing at Appalachian State University, is the author of four books of poems: Communion Partners, Anson County, The Feast of All Saints, and This Metal, which was nominated for the National Book Award and won the 1997 Oscar Arnold Young Award given annually by the Poetry Council of North Carolina. His first novel, East Liberty, won the 2001 Carolina Novel Award. He is the 2002 recipient of NCHCÕs Linda Flowers Prize.
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Demystifying Poetry: A Reading
Reading from his own work, Mr. Bathanti will discuss the process of composition and revision, where stories come from, striking the necessary balance between aesthetic distance and intimacy, and reading other poets. Also, Mr. Bathanti will examine issues of getting started and maintaining the habit of writing, what Flannery O'Connor called "the habit of being."
The Turf of Hankering
The title of this presentation is taken from one of Mr. Bathanti's essays. This work traces his journey, literally and spiritually, from growing up in a large, northern city to becoming, over the course of 20 years, a citizen of rural South. Mr. Bathanti reads from his essay, looking at the phenomenon of "place" and ideology in a writer's life and that time-honored, often comical, conflict between "Yankees" and "Southerners."
Autobiography: Writing About Yourself
In this session, Mr. Bathanti examines, through his own published work and
other texts, strategies of "telling" that have come to be known
as autobiographical. The focus of this presentation in on how the
"I" eye connects a writer to experiences. He explores how and where
"truth" and imagination intersect to create transformation, universality,
and what William Gass calls being "jointly human."
Requirements for Programs: lectern, microphone
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