Pam Bernard
Part Time BFAMFA - Warren Wilson College
AB - Harvard University
Contact
pamelabernard@nhia.edu
http://www.pambernard.com
Teaching Philosophy
I teach writing to the individual, to the student’s potential for personal growth. I teach that every experience—every poem read, every work of art observed—finds its rightful place in our unique humanness, which necessitates these notions: If we don’t tell our stories, who will? If our personal responses to the world go unexplored, unrecorded, our collective experience is diminished. Art nurtures and sustains only if we apply our selves to the process. This is the task, this is the joy.
Publication History
Across the Dark: poems - 2004
My Own Hundred Doors: poems - 1998
Blood Garden: an elegy for Raymond - forthcoming 2010
Distinctions & Awards
National Endowement for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Writing - 1998 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Creative Writing, twice awarded - 1999, 2003 Nimrod’s Pablo Neruda Award in Poetry - Grolier Poetry Prize - 1997 Nadya Eisenberg Award - 2004
