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• W2079142938 abstract "Prairie Warblers & Bohemian WaxwingsA Keynote Address* Edward Hirsch (bio) Callaloo Salutes Texas Writers views Texas writing in the largest and most inclusive spirit possible, which is the same spirit that Charles Rowell brings to Black writing throughout the world. Texas is a vast, open, hospitable place. Because of its size, its climate, and its vastly different topography, it has the greatest variety of birdlife of any state in the union. Five hundred and forty species of birds have been found in Texas. There is a meeting between East and West, a strong southern influence, a great upward sweep of birds from Mexico. There are a lot of colorful indigenous birds, a cross-section of migratory birds, a tremendous number of what birders call “accidentals.” What is true of the natural world is also true in the unnatural or literary one. There is a bewildering variety of writers in Texas. All different types have managed to survive and flourish in these unlikely surroundings. There may even be 540 different species. Charles Rowell begins his Salute by noting that Creative Writing is thriving in Texas. This is noteworthy because the term “Creative Writing” is convenient fodder, and Creative Writing Programs are often attacked for cranking out too many young writers. What is not often recognized is that Creative Writing helps foster democracy in our literature. Creative Writing programs throw open the academy doors (“Unscrew the locks from the doors!,” Walt Whitman famously urged, “Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!”) and invite to the table many different types of people from widely different backgrounds and regions. Texas writers come in all shapes, sizes, and colors. And it is still possible to study literature in these programs, too. I came to feel strongly about the possibilities for Creative Writing Programs during my seventeen years at the University of Houston. I visited for one semester in 1984, then went back to Detroit where I was teaching at Wayne State University, and then joined the program as a full-time member in 1985. The Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston was founded by the poets Cynthia Macdonald and Stanley Plumly. A year later Donald Barthelme joined the program in Fiction and it was off and running. By the way, Tracy Daugherty’s splendid new biography of Barthelme, entitled Hiding Man, makes clear how deeply the Barthelme family was rooted in Texas in general and in Houston in particular. His father was a well-known architect devoted to international modernism, and Donald himself started out as a writer as an undergraduate at the University of Houston, which may be one of the reasons the program meant so much to him. He was a world-class [End Page 340] worrier. To give one small example: one morning Donald called me at 5 a.m. from New York, where he spent part of each year. The phone startled me awake and I must have answered in a panic. “The program burns and you’re asleep,” Donald said, launching into a conversation about our faculty. I switched on the light. The idea, I gathered, was that you were supposed to be available to worry about the program morning and night. I found in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston the literary life I’d been seeking without knowing it, the community I was looking for. We didn’t have a director in those days, and so we met every Tuesday for lunch to run the program. The administrators were Sally Johnson and Kathy Killian. Cynthia Macdonald and Donald Barthelme were the elders. The rest of the group included Philip Lopate, Rosellen Brown, Ntozake Shange, and Mary and Jim Robison. We were joined in the fall by Richard Howard and in the spring by Adam Zagajewski. I can still close my eyes and see us all clamoring around the table. This was for me what a writing community was supposed to be. It could only have been built in Houston, I believe, for there is no other place in the country where a Creative Writing Program has mixed with a community so fully. This is particularly true because of the support of Inprint, directed..." @default.
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