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--- copyright BARBARA BLATNERBARBARA BLATNER To SU-PO, 11th Century Chinese Poet even through this translation, I hear your music, your measure, see you dancing home drunk, drunken spider, in the arms of your friends or navigating swift-turning mountains on the Yangtze River. your intelligence drinks like a dog at the river, flinging water. all I know of you are a few words on a page, but you are closer to me than you remember
BARBARA BLATNER is a playwright, poet and composer. Her verse play for Epiphany, NO STAR SHINES SHARPER, was produced for stage and radio by the Mystic Theatre Company in 2004.
Work staged in Boston's New Theatre's NeWorks series includes YEARS of SKY (Honorable Mention, Nina Shengold's Actors and Writers Short Play Contest), BETTY AND MORTIE (a musical), and MARILYN MONROE in the DESERT. CLEARinG and WHITE ASHES were finalists in the O'Neill International Playwrights contest, POSTURES was staged by the Capital Repertory Company, and the FAIR was produced by the Albany Playwrights' Workshop which Ms. Blatner founded and where she worked as director, writer and composer under a CETA grant for four seasons. Compositions include songs for the 1989 Boston Shakespeare Company's Irish Plays season, a piano score for the Merrimack Repertory Company's Young Artists at Play ALICE in WONDERLAND, and an instrumental score for New Theatre's 1996 premiere of Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro's PABLO AND CLEOPATRA.
Barbara's chapbook of poems, the POPE in SPACE, was published by Intertext Press in 1986; poems, fiction and reviews have appeared in Heliotrope, Shampoo, House Organ, Poetry Northwest, The New York Quarterly, Lift, Apalachee Quarterly, 13th Moon, and others.
BARBARA BLATNER received a Doctor of Arts in English from the State University of New York at Albany, an M.a. in Creative Writing from Boston University, and a B.a. in Music from Vassar College.
Please contact the Farber Literary Agency (212. 861.7075) for information on producing Barbara's plays.
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