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Chris's Calendar
2007-2008 school year
Poet in Residence, Keith Country Day School
Jan 27, 2008 --
St. John's Cultural Center, St. Augustine FL, reading with Jane's
Stories Foundation.
Feb 28, 2008 --
Judging, Poetry Out Loud (National Endowment for the Arts and National Council of Teachers of
English), Northern Illinois region, Rockford College.
Mar 3, 2008 --
Writers' Workshop, Womanspace,
Rockford, IL, 6:30-9
April 7, 2008 -- for National Poetry Month,
Poets' Workshop, Womanspace, Rockford, IL, 6:30-9
April 16, 2008 -- Reading and signing, 6:30pm ,Latitude 33 Bookshop, 311 Ocean Avenue, Laguna Beach, CA, 949-494-5403.
April 18, 2008 -- Featured reading with open mic, Acres of Books, 240 Long Beach Blvd., Long Beach, CA, 562-437-6980.
May 18-24, 2008
The Process of Writing, The Clearing, Ellison Bay, Wisconsin.
Christine
will be leading the weeklong workshop held in the beautiful
setting of Door County.
May 29, 2008 --
Reading and signing, Neville Art Museum,
Green Bay, WI
Jun 6, 2008 --
Reading and discussion, Galena Book Club, Galena IL
October 24-31, 2008 -- Residency, Centrum, Port Townsend,
Washington
See the interview with Christine in Poet's Market, 2008,
pages 236-241.
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 Christine
Swanberg has
published several books of poetry: Tonight on This Late Road (Erie
St., 1984). Invisible String (Erie St., 1990), Bread Upon the Waters
(UW:Whitewater, 1990), Slow Miracle (Lake Shore, 1992), The
Tenderness of Memory (Plainview Press, 1995), The Red Lacquer Room
(Chiron Press, 2001) and Who Walks
Among the Trees with Charity (Wind, 2005). Her work appears in anthologies such as Knowing
Stones, Poems of Exotic Travel, I am Becoming the Woman I've Wanted,
Jane's Stories, Key West: An Anthology, Pride and Joy, and the
forthcoming Still Going Strong.
Swanberg has been an active
poet for nearly three decades and has published hundreds of poems in
journals such as The Beloit Poetry Journal, Spoon River Quaarterly,
Amelia, Chiron, Kansas Quarterly, Creative Woman, Earth's Daughters,
Mid-America Review, Powatan Review, Midnight Mind, Sow's Ear, Wind,
and others.
Swanberg's awards include a featured
reading at Seattle’s Frye Museum through Poetswest, first and
second place in Peninsula Pulse, first
place in Midwest Poetry Review, second place in
Nit and Wit, the
Connor Award for Fiction from Northern Illinois University, the YWCA
Leader Luncheon Award for the Arts, and the Womanspirit Award from
Womanspace. She received a merit scholarship to attend the post-graduate
seminar at Vermont College, where she worked with the late Lynda Hull.
In addition, several of her poems were selected by the Poetry
Center of Chicago for a juried readings.
She has edited Korone;
Confluence: A Legacy of Rock River Valley; Land Connections: Writers of
North Central Illinois, and is currently guest editor for Moon Journal.
She founded the Rock River Poetry
Contest and has judged many contests including
Pen Women and Illinois Emerging Writers. She has been a teacher for
over thirty years and has mentored young and adult writers. Recently she
taught in the Masters of Interdisciplinary Studies at National-Louis
University, and was
poet in residence for Midway Village. From 1995-1998, Swanberg was
a regular reader and workshop leader at the Women's Way Festival in
Austin, Texas.
Along with poetry, her
passions include singing with Womansong Chorale and Mendelssohn Chorale;
gardening; swimming; and traveling with Jeffrey, her co-adventurer
and husband of 33 years, with whom she has seen much of the world. She
strives to lead a somewhat simple life, true to the values of peace
and justice. The Swanbergs open their home and guest room to guests of
Rockford Urban Ministries and various writers who are visiting the area.
Available for reading, workshops, and
other presentations
Now retired from
teaching, Christine is available for readings, workshops, and
talks. She has given workshops at the Flathead Writers’ Conference in
Montana, A River Runs Through Us in Northern Illinois, Illinois Weslyan
Conference in Bloomington, Illinois, the McHenry Writers’ Conference,
and numerous word festivals and conferences in Seattle, Oregon, Wisconsin,
and Illinois. She has given readings at colleges, in bookstores, coffee
houses, and libraries throughout the United States and can be reached by
e-mail at pobiz[AT]core.com. (replace [AT] with @)
Jeff and Chris Swanberg
have an in-house studio, The Prints and Poet Studio, where poetry
and art gatherings sometimes happen. For more information, email pobiz@core.com.
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