n June, VSC was lucky to have two additional writers visit on residency for a week, actor/writer/activist Alan Cumming and poet/musician/editor Matt Hart. They joined a wickedly talented group to conclude a great night’s resident reading on June 23, 2015. Alan shared an essay he worked on while VSC and Matt read a series of recent poems.
Alan Cumming is a Tony and Olivier award winning theatre actor (Cabaret, Hamlet, Threepenny Opera, Design for Living, Macbeth, etc), National Board of Review winner and Independent Spirit Award nominated film actor (Goldeneye, Emma, X2:X Men United, The Anniversary Party, etc), and a Golden Globe, Emmy and SAG award nominated television actor (Sex and the City, the L Word, The Good Wife, etc), as well as an author and activist. Alan trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. In addition, he is an Independent Spirit award-winning producer and National Board of Review winning director, has sung at Carnegie Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, the London Palladium and the Sydney Opera House, and received humanitarian awards from AMFAR, Human Rights Campaign, the Matthew Shepard Foundation, GLAAD and the Trevor Project, to name but a few.
Matt Hart is the author of six full-length poetry collections, including Debacle Debacle, Sermons and Lectures Both Blank and Relentless, and Wolf Face, as well as 10 poetry chapbooks. He is the Co-Founder/Editor/Publisher of the acclaimed literary journal Forklift Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety and is an Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. His poetry has been published widely in journals including the Columbia Poetry Review, Ploughshares, jubilat, Diode, Eleven Eleven, Redivider, Smartish Pace, Washington Square Review, Sixth Finch, The Harvard Review, to name but a few. Matt is the winner of a Pushcart Prize and an Individual Artist Grant for Poetry from the Shifting Foundation. He earned his MFA from Warren Wilson College and is a member of the band Travel.
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