The Naropa University Summer Writing Program (initiated in the Summer of 1974 and the impetus for the creation of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics) begins again this summer on June 11.
“In a creative writing program like no other, students, poets, fiction writers, musicians, editors, translators, Buddhist teachers, performance artists, and more meet for three transformative weeks on Naropa’s campus in Boulder, Colorado.
Here, we invoke and continue the “Outrider” lineage — a legacy of revolutionary scholarship and counter-poetics that exists alongside but in healthy resistance to the norms of academic mainstream culture. This is not a traditional summer writing program. Rather, it’s an ongoing experiment in creative freedom.”
As in past years, the program is split up into several week-long themes:
Week One – “for a stranger poetics :: trans-disciplinary practices
Week Two – “(eco) mourning / memory / ritual”
Week Three – “counter-urgency :: writing/performance/ social practice”
For more details (details on how to register) and the on-line catalog – see here
