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FEATURED ARTIST
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FEATURED FACULTY
Al Young
California Poet Laureate Emeritus
2010 OSAI Creative Writing Instructor
The Oklahoma Arts Institute is pleased to welcome back Al Young to Quartz Mountain! Mr. Young taught poetry at the 2008 Oklahoma Fall Arts Institute, and he will return as the 2010 OSAI creative writing instructor. Young’s inspiring and inclusive teaching style received rave reviews from OFAI participants, and we know this year’s OSAI students will love learning from this award-winning writer.
Al Young is the author of more than 22 books, including Something About the Blues: An Unlikely Collection of Poetry, Coastal Nights and Inland Afternoons: Poems 2001-2006, The Sound of Dreams Remembered: Poems 1990-2000, and Heaven: Poems 1957-1990. Widely anthologized and translated, his work has carried him throughout the world (Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the whole of the United States), and earned him praise from Jane Hirshfield, Yusef Komunyakaa, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and The New York Times. In addition to NEA, Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships, Young is the recipient of two Pushcart Prizes, two American Books Awards, the PEN/Library of Congress Award for Short Fiction, and the PEN/USA Award for Non-Fiction. A beloved teacher, Young has taught writing, literature, and creativity at Stanford, the University of California at Santa Cruz, San José State University, and the University of Michigan. In 2005, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed him poet laureate of California.
For more information about Al Young, please visit http://alyoung.org/index.php/biograhphy/.
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