Lost Orchard II: Nonfiction from the Kirkland College Community

Lost Orchard: Prose and Poetry from the Kirkland College Community (SUNY Press, 2014)featured a diverse collection of...
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Author: Isabel Weinger Nielsen
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Lost Orchard II: Nonfiction from the Kirkland College Community by Weinger Nielsen, Isabel

Lost Orchard II: Nonfiction from the Kirkland College Community

$40.38

Lost Orchard II: Nonfiction from the Kirkland College Community

$40.38
Author: Isabel Weinger Nielsen
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Lost Orchard: Prose and Poetry from the Kirkland College Community (SUNY Press, 2014)

featured a diverse collection of poems, short stories, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction,

and one-act plays by the Kirkland community. The work was well-received, and requests

for a Lost Orchard II now come to fruition, with work exploring the impact of the short-

lived Kirkland College and the authors who came out of that innovative institution.

Lost Orchard II: Nonfiction from the Kirkland College Community brings together

essays on subjects as wide-ranging as aging, loss, parenting, feminism, place, the Kirkland

experience, and interviews with members of the Kirkland College Community. Kirkland

College in Clinton, New York, was the last private women's college created in the United

States before it was assumed by its coordinate college, Hamilton College. Kirkland fostered

independent learning and creativity, with academic disciplines such as American studies,

visual arts, dance, and history of science. It also offered one of the first undergraduate

creative writing majors at a four-year college. Preserving Kirkland's daring educational

experience, this collection echoes the second wave of the feminist era at its finest.


Although short-lived, Kirkland had an outsized impact upon Hamilton College, its

alumnae, and undergraduate writing programs across the country. Many Kirkland

alumnae, who graduated from 1971 to 1978, have gone on to careers in professional

writing,

Author: Isabel Weinger Nielsen
Publisher: National League of American Pen Women, Inc.
Published: 09/01/2021
Pages: 316
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9781950251018

About the Author
Weinger Nielsen, Isabel: - Editor Isabel Weinger Nielsen, K'76, attended Kirkland College for its creative writing program and has since worked as a book indexer, editor, freelance photographer, and administrative assistant at Norwich University. Isabel was married to playwright and poet Lars Nielsen '77, an honorary Kirkie, who died in June 2018, and has two wonderful sons, Ari and Noah. Jo Pitkin, K'78, Nancy Avery Dafoe, K'74, and Elizabeth Horwitt, K'73, are associate editors.

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