My Story
Anita Clearfield Anita’s creative project at the 2013 Retreat involved working individually with four different writers at the ranch. She said of the opportunity: All of these partnerships influenced the process and the products, making for more layered and nuanced work, culminating in videos that were different than anything any one of us could do alone. I’m grateful that AROHO gave us the original opportunity to find each...
A Lighthouse (Reading) on the Beach
[ezcol_2third][/ezcol_2third] On Tuesday, October 14th, 2014, AROHO and our fabulous partners at Red Hen Press came together with a full crowd of friends and arts enthusiasts for a reading at the Annenberg Community Beach House featuring To the Lighthouse winners, Genevieve Kaplan, Jessica Piazza, and Leia Penina Wilson. The room was packed, the energy high, and the poetry at once riveting and uplifting, playful and powerful....
Anna Maria Hong Awarded 2014 Clarissa Dalloway Prize
“H & G,” a fantastical and fantastic re-imagining of the story of Hansel and Gretel by Anna Maria Hong, is the winner of AROHO’s inaugural Clarissa Dalloway “everything but poetry” Book Prize. Finalist Judge Kate Gale wrote: “H & G represents the AROHO story. Big myth collides with all of our personal narratives: the witch, the oven, the fire. As women, we write our way out of that story...
Julie Marie Wade Awarded 2014 To the Lighthouse Prize
“SIX,” Julie Marie Wade’s breathtaking manuscript, is the winner of AROHO’s 2014 To the Lighthouse Poetry Publication Prize. Finalist Judge C.D. Wright wrote: “I chose SIX not in spite of but because of its discursiveness, its willingness to wander through the poem with technique at hand, but also a permit to allow both substantive and ephemeral material to wander into the field of the poem and...
A. E. Stallings, 2015 To the Lighthouse Finalist Judge
AROHO is proud to announce 2015 To the Lighthouse Finalist Judge, poet and translator A. E. Stallings. A. E. (Alicia) Stallings studied classics in Athens, Georgia and has lived since 1999 in Athens, Greece. She has published three books of poetry, Archaic Smile (1999), which won the Richard Wilbur Award; Hapax (2000); and Olives (2012). Her new verse translation of Lucretius (in rhyming fourteeners!), The Nature of Things, is...
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