Soul Mountain Retreat
The Soul Mountain Retreat is a writer's colony in East Haddam, Connecticut, USA.
History
The retreat was established in 2004 with a grant from the University of Connecticut College of Liberal Arts and Sciences{{cite web |url=http://www.iowasource.com/books/2008_07_soul.html |title=Soul Mountain Retreat: A Place for Poets |website=www.iowasource.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090830014151/http://www.iowasource.com/books/2008_07_soul.html |archive-date=2009-08-30}} by the writer and former Connecticut poet laureate Marilyn Nelson. The idea for creating the retreat grew out of the Cave Canem workshops.{{Cite magazine | url=https://www.pw.org/content/qampa_eady_sees_cave_canem_success | title=Q&A: Eady Sees Cave Canem Success | author=Thomas Sayers Ellis| magazine=Poets & Writers Magazine | date=November 2006 | url-access=registration}}
Soul Mountain offers fellowships to "emerging and established poets"{{Cite magazine | url=https://www.pw.org/content/soul_mountain_retreat_poetic_utopia_rural_connecticut | title=Soul Mountain Retreat: A Poetic Utopia in Rural Connecticut | magazine=Poets & Writers Magazine | date=March 2007 | author=Thomas Sayers Ellis}} with an emphasis on supporting writers belonging to traditionally underrepresented racial or cultural groups.{{cite web |url=http://www.soulmountainretreat.org/our_history.html |title=Our History |accessdate=2012-05-06 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728043353/http://www.soulmountainretreat.org/our_history.html |archivedate=2011-07-28 }} Soul Mountain history
The non-profit organization has established partnerships with African Continuum Theater Company, Cave Canem, Kundiman, the University of Connecticut, Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Past Fellows
Past fellows have included Samiya Bashir, Sherwin Bitsui, Kwame Dawes, LeAnne Howe, Tara Betts, Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhran,{{Cite web | title=Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán {{!}} Directory of Writers {{!}} Poets & Writers | url=http://www.pw.org/content/ahimsa_timoteo_bodhr%C3%A1n | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927174947/http://www.pw.org/content/ahimsa_timoteo_bodhr%C3%A1n | access-date=2024-12-25 | archive-date=2012-09-27}} Allison Hedge Coke, Harryette Mullen, Bushra Rehman, and Afaa M. Weaver.{{Cite web|url=http://www.soulmountainretreat.org/Alumni.html|title = Alumni | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224154657/http://www.soulmountainretreat.org/Alumni.html | archive-date=2012-02-24}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.soulmountainretreat.org Official website of Soul Mountain Retreat]
- {{Cite web | url=http://www.iowasource.com/books/2008_07_soul.html | title=Soul Mountain Retreat: A Place for Poets | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090830014151/http://www.iowasource.com/books/2008_07_soul.html | archive-date=2009-08-30 | author=Tony Ellis | website=The Iowa Source}}
- [http://www.transartists.org/air/soul-mountain-retreat Soul Mountain page at] TransArtists residency guide
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Category:American artist groups and collectives
Category:Buildings and structures in Middlesex County, Connecticut
Category:East Haddam, Connecticut