http://www.humanities.org Humanities Washington a non-profit public foundation provides the people of Washington State. en-us http://www.humanities.org/images/logos/HW_Logo_Color.gif http://www.humanities.org Humanities Washington Logo All materials protected by the Creative Commons Copyrights Tue, 4 Mar 2008 08:00:00 PST tdscripts.com Podcast Generator info@humanities.org (Humanities Washington) 1 Humanities Washington is a non-profit organization and public foundation dedicated to enriching the cultural lives of Washingtonians through humanities programming. Humanities Washington info@humanities.org Humanities Washington Author Jess Walter reads his poem "Reflections on the Moral Imperative of Debt Relief for Third World Countries" and his short story "Cold" at Humanities Washington's Bedtime Stories in Seattle, Washington on October 19, 2007. Jess Walter is the author of four novels, including "The Zero", a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Pen USA Fiction Award and winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award. His previous novel, "Citizen Vince", was a Washington Post best book of the year and winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best novel. Tue, 4 Mar 2008 08:00:00 PST Humanities Washington Jess Walter reads at Bedtime Stories 2007 19:53 Jess, Walter, bedtime, stories, humanities, literature, the zero, citizen vince Humanities Washington Author Jana Harris reads her short story "Stone Lambs: Franklin "Lucky" Tubbs Recalls July 1887" at Humanities Washington's Bedtime Stories in Seattle, Washington on October 19, 2007. A poet, novelist, short story writer, and essayist, Jana Harris’s award-winning books include "Manhattan as a Second Language, Poems" ( Harper and Row) and "Oh How Can I Keep On Singing? Voices of Pioneer Women, Poems" (Ontario Press, Princeton), both Pulitzer Prize nominees. "Oh How Can I Keep On Singing?" was a Washington State Governor’s Writers Award winner, a PEN West Center Award finalist. Her seventh book of poems, "The Dust of Everyday Life", an epic concerning the lives of forgotten Northwest pioneers, (Sasquatch) won the 1998 Andres Berger Award. Jana is a member of the National Book Critics Circle, PEN, Poetry Society of America, and AWP. Tue, 4 Mar 2008 08:00:00 PST Humanities Washington Jana Harris reads at Bedtime Stories 2007 23:25 Jana, Harris, bedtime, stories, humanities, literature, Oh how can I keep on singing, manhattan as a second language, the dust of everyday life Humanities Washington Author Kathleen Alcala reads her short story "The Light on the Midway" at Humanities Washington's Bedtime Stories in Seattle, Washington on October 19, 2007. Kathleen Alcalá is the author of four works of fiction and the recent collection of essays, "The Desert Remembers My Name – On Family and Writing" from the University of Arizona Press. Her work has received the Western States Book Award, the Governor's Writers Award, a Pacific Northwest Bookseller's Award, and a Washington State Book Award. A co-founder and contributing editor to "The Raven Chronicles", Kathleen currently serves on the board of Richard Hugo House and teaches Creative Writing in the Low Residency MFA Program on Whidbey Island. Tue, 4 Mar 2008 08:00:00 PST Humanities Washington Kathleen Alcala reads at Bedtime Stories 2007 11:31 Kathleen, Alcala, bedtime, stories, humanities, literature, The Desert Remembers My Name, The Raven Chronicles Humanities Washington Author Charles Johnson reads his short story "The Cynic" at Humanities Washington's Bedtime Stories in Seattle, Washington on October 19, 2007. Charles Johnson is the author of several novels including "Faith and the Good Thing", "Oxherding Tale", "Dreamer" and "Middle Passage". He recently published a collection of short stories entitled "Dr. King’s Refrigerator and Other Bedtime Stories", five of which were composed for this event. A 1998 MacArthur fellow, Dr. Johnson received the 1990 National Book Award and the Washington State Governor’s Award for Literature in 1983 and 1989. In 2002, he received the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Dr. Johnson holds the endowed S. Wilson and Grace M. Pollock Professorship of Creative Writing at the University of Washington, where he teaches fiction. Tue, 4 Mar 2008 08:00:00 PST Humanities Washington Charles Johnson reads at Bedtime Stories 2007 22:05 Charles, Johnson, bedtime, stories, humanities, literature, The Desert Remembers My Name, The Raven Chronicles