While at MacDowell Eric Ekstrand collected work for a second book of poems. His first, Laodicea, was selected by Donald Revell for the Omnidawn 1st/2nd Book Prize.
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Eric Ekstrand
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Region: Winston-Salem, NC
MacDowell Fellowships: 2016
More:
www.ericekstrand.com
Studios
Veltin
Eric Ekstrand worked in the Veltin studio.
Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…