The Writers Studio Reading Series celebrates the release of MY DYSLEXIA by PHILIP SCHULTZ
Pulitzer Prize winner & Founder/Director of The Writers studio on FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2011 at 7:00 PM.
Churchill School and Center, 301 East 29th Street, NYC
Featuring a reading by Philip Schultz, followed by an interview led by Dr. Sally E. Shaywitz (Co-Director, Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity and author of Overcoming Dyslexia) and Dr. Bennett Shaywitz (Co-Director, Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity)
Introduced by Glenn Crowin, Churchill School and Center
Book-signing and reception
According the Dyslexia Research Institute, ten to fifteen percent of the United States population has dyslexia. In his memoir My Dyslexia (W. W. Norton & Company; September 6, 2011; $21.95 hardcover), Philip Schultz - one of America's most prominent poets and the author of seven collections of poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize winning Failure - tells his journey from "dumb kid" to writer, teacher, and father.
A story of triumph over seemingly insurmountable challenges, the book demonstrates why someone who battled so hard for so long with the written language would choose to dedicate his life to shaping it into musical lines. More than a memoir, it is an honest and moving account of living with an often-misunderstood learning disability - and rising far above it to become a Pulitzer Prize winning poet and the director of one of the best independent writing schools in the country.
Philip Schultz is an American poet, and the founder/director of The Writers Studio, a private school for fiction and poetry based in New York City. He is the author of several books of poetry, including The God of Loneliness (2010), a major collection of the poet's works; Failure (2007) co-winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry; Living in the Past (2004); and The Holy Worm of Praise (2002), all published by Harcourt. He is also the author of Deep Within the Ravine (Viking 1984), which was the Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets; Like Wings (Viking 1978, winner of an American Academy & Institute of Arts and Letters Award as well as a National Book Award nomination); and the poetry chapbook, My Guardian Angel Stein (1986). His work has been published in The New Yorker, Partisan Review, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Slate, among other magazines, and he is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in Poetry to Israel and a 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry. He has also received, among others, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry (1981), a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry (1985), as well as the Levinson Prize from Poetry magazine. His memoir, My Dyslexia, was released by W. W. Norton & Company in September 2011. Philip Schultz lives in East Hampton, NY with his wife, sculptor Monica Banks and their two sons, Elias and August.
The Writers Studio is an independent writing school which was founded 25 years ago by poet Philip Schultz, 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner in Poetry. It offers ongoing 10-week workshops in fiction and poetry for beginning and advanced students in New York, San Francisco, Tucson (Arizona), Amsterdam (The Netherlands), and online. It also includes a Kids Write program, which provides free creative writing workshops to high-school students in Brooklyn. Its reading series, established in 2002, has welcomed writers such as Anne Beattie,
Michael Cunningham, Jennifer Egan, A.M. Homes,
Etgar Keret, Jayne
Anne Phillips, Robert Pinsky, Marie Ponsot, Gary Shteyngart, Gerald Stern, Monique Truong, Colson Whitehead, as well as The Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, Pequod Magazine, Pushcart Press, The Yale Review, and Poets of the New Century, among many others.
www.writerstudio.com
