Jason Shinder named Poet Laureate for the Town of Provincetown

Mr. Shinder is the Director of the YMCA National Writer’s Voice, and the Writing Program at Sundance Institute, and is a core faculty member of the Graduate Writing Seminars at Bennington College. A former fellow of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, he was a professional dancer and amateur skier. He will be Poet in Residence at the Paris Workshops in France for part of the summer of 2006.

Jason Shinder’s poetry books include Among Women, Every Room We Ever Slept In (a NY Public Library Notable Book) and the forthcoming chapbook. Uncertain Hours. His other books include Tales From The Couch: Writers on Therapy, Best American Movie Writing, and, most recently, The Poem That Changed America: “Howl” Fifty Years Later. His forthcoming books include Hollywood Poets: Moviemakers on Their Favorite Poems, Eternal Delight: Stanley Kunitz and the Life of Poetry , and True Minds: The Letters Of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. He lives and works in Provincetown & New York.

Last year was the first time that the Cultural Council organized a Poet Laureate for the town and it was Stanley Kunitz.