Shadows along the Waccamaw
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| Dan Albergotti, Self-Portrait as Shadow on Skeletal Shed, 2008. |
Dan Albergotti reads five poems in and around his current home of Conway, South Carolina, in locations that include the Waccamaw River and nearby Pawley's Island. For Albergotti, the natural world allows explorations of beauty, love, serendipity, and death. His poems also examine the "emotional landscape of denial" that marked his childhood and youth.
"Shadows along the Waccamaw" is part of the Poets in Place series, a Research Collaboration in the Humanities initiative funded through Emory University’s Presidential Woodruff Fund, in collaboration with the Office of the Provost. Series producers are Natasha Trethewey and Allen Tullos.
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| "The Mystery of the Great Blue Heron." Poem text. |
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| Dan Albergotti reads the poem "The Boatloads." Poem text. |
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| Dan Albergotti reads the poem "Accidents Happen with Clockwork Regularity." Poem text. |
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| Dan Albergotti reads the poem "Vestibule." Poem text. |
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| Dan Albergotti reads the poem "Stones and Shadows." Poem text. |
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Born in Orangeburg, South Carolina, Dan Albergotti lived in St. Matthews until age four, when his family moved to Florence. Albergotti currently directs the creative writing program at Coastal Carolina University in Conway. He earned a B.A. and M.A. from Clemson University in 1986 and 1988, a Ph.D. in Literature at the University of South Carolina in 1995, and a M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2002. His first full-length collection of poems, The Boatloads, was published by BOA Editions in 2008 and was awarded the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in various print and online journals, including Mid-American Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Greensboro Review, Backwards City Review, and Southeast Review.
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Interview with Natasha Trethewey:
In these excerpts from an interview conducted in Atlanta, Georgia, on 30 August, 2008, Dan Albergotti talks with Natasha Trethewey about the new internet journal Waccamaw, his experiences growing up in Florence, South Carolina (including the influence of family, religion, and racism), the poem "Vestibule" from his book The Boatloads, the role of place in his poetry, and how he relates to the idea of the "Southern writer."
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Published Work in Print:
Albergotti, Dan. The Boatloads. Rochester: BOA Editions, 2008.
Links and Online Publications:
Albergotti, Dan. "Among the Things He Does Not Deserve", The Writer's Almanac, 24 May 2009.
http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2009/05/24
Author portfolio at Southern Artistry
http://www.southernartistry.org/Dan_Albergotti
Beaven, Craig. "Review of The Boatloads", Blackbird, Spring 2009.
http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v8n1/nonfiction/beaven_c/albergotti_page.shtml
Spears, Brian. "A Questioning Faith: Review of The Boatloads", The Rumpus, 12 February 2009. http://therumpus.net/2009/02/a-questioning-faith/
BOA Editions Author Page
http://www.boaeditions.org/authors/albergotti/
From the Fishouse: An Audio Archive of Emerging Poets
http://www.fishousepoems.org/archives/dan_albergotti/
Interview at The Black Telephone blog by Michelle McEwen
http://theblacktelephone.blogspot.com/2009/05/poetry-chain-gang-part-7-w-dan.html
Interview about The Boatloads at First Book Interviews blog by Keith Montesano
http://firstbookinterviews.blogspot.com/2009/04/19-dan-albergotti.html
Interview and reading on The Jane Crown Poetry Show
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/The-Jane-Crown-Show/2009/05/31/Dan-Albergotti
Interview and reading on The Joe Milford Poetry Show
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Joe-Milford-Show/2009/09/12/Dan-Albergotti
Interview at Town Creek Poetry
http://www.towncreekpoetry.com/FALL08/DA_INTERVIEW.htm
Interview about "Vestibule" at How a Poem Happens blog by Brian Brodeur
http://howapoemhappens.blogspot.com/2009/03/dan-albergotti.html
"Coming to the End of His Triumph: A Retrospective on Jack Gilbert" from Poets.org
(Academy of American Poets)
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19350
"Among the Things He Does Not Deserve" from Poets.org
(Academy of American Poets)
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20078
"December 25, 2005" from DIAGRAM
http://www.webdelsol.com/DIAGRAM/6_6/albergotti.html
"Things to Do in the Belly of the Whale" from The Writer's Almanac (with audio)
http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2008/06/05
"Turning Back" from Verse Daily
http://www.versedaily.org/2008/turningback.shtml
"Surprising the Gods" from Verse Daily
http://www.versedaily.org/2007/surprisinggods.shtml
"Days Spent in One of the Other Worlds" from Blackbird (with audio)
http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v4n2/poetry/albergotti_d/days.htm
"Sunday Morning Argument" from Town Creek Poetry
http://www.towncreekpoetry.com/SPR08/ALBERGOTTI_SUNDAY.htm
"The Death of Polonius" from Town Creek Poetry
http://www.towncreekpoetry.com/SPR08/ALBERGOTTI_POLONIUS.htm
"Book of the Father" from Backwards City Review
http://homepage.mac.com/languageismycopilot/backwardscitydotnet/review/02issue/albergotti.html
"Years and Years and Years Later" from The Greensboro Review
http://www.greensbororeview.org/fall-2005/years-and-years-and-years-later.html
"Bad Language" from The Southeast Review
http://www.southeastreview.org/print/21-2-albergotti.pdf
Waccamaw
Dan Albergotti is the Editor of this journal of contemporary literature.
http://www.waccamawjournal.com/
