/24-7PressRelease/ - LITTLETON, MA, April 27, 2007 - Wilderness House Literary Retreat continues its tradition by presenting "Lunch with Bob Clawson" on May 19 2007, 11a.m. till 3 p.m. cost $20.
A casual chat over lunch with poet Bob Clawson. Wilderness House is an exceptional location in which to talk about reading, writing and life over lunch. Come, listen, chat and feast. Open reading to follow.
Bob Clawson was Anne Sexton's friend and associate for the last ten years of her life. He often helped her edit drafts of her work. He also directed the musical group, "Anne Sexton and Her Kind," which toured the country for three years.
Bob Clawson is a writer, editor, teacher, fisherman, and cook. His formal education includes a rural two-room schoolhouse, Kenyon College, Harvard, and Yale. He has visited 32 of the United States, and has been to France, Italy, Canada, Mexico, Greece, and to several island nations such as Britain, Jamaica, Cuba, Ireland, and Nantucket.
Poetry captured Clawson at Kenyon College, where he studied with John Crowe Ransom and Irving Feldman. He spent a long career in advertising where he was a writer, editor, and creative director. His time for reading poetry dwindled, but, in his words, "...it followed like a brindled hound,/just ribs and tongue and tail."
Fifteen years ago, he left business. For the next seven years, he wrote a self-syndicated golf column that eventually reached over 100 newspapers, but it became, "Too much like work: 56-hour weeks." In the mid-nineties, a friend asked Clawson to teach poetry to 4th graders. This triggered a powerful urge to write poetry, not just occasional drafts, but serious work. He wrote from 1996 to 1998 and studied with Bruce Weigl, Fred Marchant, Gail Mazur, Stephen Dunn, Heather McHugh, and Thomas Lux, before sending work to poetry journals.
In 1997he published his first book, Nightbreak. It went through three printings. He has published in many fine journals including The Southern Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Poet Lore, Yankee, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Lancet (a weekly British medical journal), and the Shit Creek Review, among others.
The event will take place at Wilderness House, Littleton Massachusetts May 19 2007, 11a.m. till 3 p.m. Cost $20
Weather permitting a barbecue will be served
History - Wilderness House is a 7-bedroom cabin built in the early 20th century as a sportsman retreat by a large wealthy family. Situated deep within several hundred acres of forest, Wilderness House sits on the second highest point in Littleton MA with an unobstructed view of the Wapack Range and, on a clear day, Mt. Monadnock some 40 miles distant in New Hampshire. A series of trails lead from the cabin atop Wilderness Hill through this primitive preserve to a private dock nestled in a secluded corner of Littleton's Long Lake.
Wilderness House has hosted such notables as poet Robert Creeley, poet and biographer Lois Ames, mystery writer Hallie Ephron and fiction editor C. Michael Curtis.
See http://www.wildernesshouse.org for more information and background
About Wilderness House
Wilderness House is accessible by car from Rt. 2 and Rt. 495 as well as commuter rail (the Fitchburg line) at the Littleton/495 station. Wilderness House is an easy mile walk from the station.
Wilderness House is a project of the Littleton Rotary Club. Join us for an open reading of poetry etc. afterwards.
Wilderness House - business office
145 Foster Street, Littleton MA 01460
Contacts Steve Glines (978-633-6460) info@wildernesshouse.org
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