Silvine Farnell
ABOUT THE POET
Born and raised in Baltimore, Silvine graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1963, and went on to graduate school in medieval studies at Yale. She dropped out before the end of her first year and moved to the Lower East Side of New York City. After a couple of years as a hippie, she discovered a calling to share poetry with others, and returned to grad school in English literature at the City University of New York, completing a Ph.D. there in 1975. She taught for a few years at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania; when her department decided not to support her for tenure, she moved to MIU. There she had the luck to have Tim Truby, director and acting coach, as a colleague; he convinced her that it was a sin to ask anyone to write a paper about a poem until they had prepared it for performance. Teaching people to dive deeper into poetry by preparing it for performance has been her passion ever since. In 1994, she and her husband left MIU, pushed away by what seemed to them a growing rigidity and dogmatism, and moved to Boulder, Colorado. For what she is attempting to do in Boulder, see her website, www.deeperintopoetry.com.
PUBLISHED IN THIS ENDURING GIFT
