monday, march 24, 1980
daily nebraskan
page 13
Native American poets discover
few problems getting published
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By f atti Wieser
Editor's Note: This is the final article in a three-part
series on local women authors.
One of the few problems Native American poet Gail
Tremblay has with publishers is poem content, she said.
Tremblay explained that some publishers did not want to
publish poems 'whose primary substance was Native
American.
However, she said she had no other particular problems
with getting published.
She had to work-hard learning to write and acquiring
skills, she said. Once that was done, she added, she had
very few difficulties.
Influenced by Theodore Roethke, Erraly Dickinson,
Scott Momaday and many others, Tremblay said probably
the most impressionable thing that happened to her was
'growing up Native American, hearing the different
stories and legends.
Some of her poems carry Native American themes,
she said, although she writes about all kinds of things.
Born in Buffalo, N.Y the 34-year-old poet has been
living in Omaha for three years.
She said her involvement in writing began because "I
just couldn't not write. Tremblay said she has written for
a long time but became serious about writing when she
was about 17 years old.
She has a master's degree in Creative Writing with a
specialty in poetry from the University of Oregon and
has studied at the University of New Hampshire, she
said.
No system
Tremblay said she had no real system to her writing
but just got up and wrote, adding it was often the first
thing she did in the morning.
She said a lack of time stopped her from writing as
much as shed like to,
A collection of poems, by Tremblay, entitled Night
Gives Old Woman the Word was published in December,
1979, by a limited Gallery'.
Tremblay said the collection is doing "pretty well."
A manuscript of 40 poems, Talking to the Grand
fathers, is expected to come out in June, 1980, the poet
said. She said it is part of an anthology, A nnex 21.
Tremblay said she has written some poems about
Nebraska'1uiidWQurthins'ltriat have happened singe she's
been here,
"In terms of places to publish and contacts, it's
(Nebraska) been very good for me as a writer," she said.
The poet said she has published poems in several
journals and teaches one course each semester at UNO's
Writer's Workshop. Hie course this semester centers on
fiction theory,
Tremblay also works full time at the Goodrich Pro
gram in Omaha,
Publishing difficult
Megan Terry, 47, has had 37 plays, one non -fiction
book and five articles published.
Terry said the problem she faced with being a play
wright was 'it's hard to get published.
She said she writes about women in prison, the status
of women, spouseand child abuse, my self and my family,
among other subjects.
One of her plays, Viet Rock: A Folk War Movie, is a
commentary on the Vietnamese war. In 1966, it ran for
62 Manhattan performances.
The People vs. Ranchman is a Terry play about an
accused rapist and is described by Time Magazine as "a
simplistic attack on American blood lust,' in the Nov. 8,
1968 issue.
A native of Seattle Wash, the playwright said she has
been in Omaha since 1970. .
Terry said she received certificates in directing, design
and acting from the Banff School of Fine Arts and has a
bachelor's of education from the University of
Washington.
A recipient of the Stanley Drama award in 1965, the
Office of Advanced Drama Research award in 1965, and
the Obie award in 19.70, Terry was also a Rockefeller
grantee in 1968 and a Guggenheim fellow in 1978.
In 1977, Terry was the playwrighUn -residence at the
Omaha Magic Theatre and a member of the performing
arts panel for the Nebraska State Council fo Arts.
Terry's book, Couplings and Groupings, was published
by Pantheon Books in 1972 and is about marriage, sex
customs and Interpersonal relations.
Workshop 'will offer
future-shaping ideas
Rather than throwing up our hands and accepting what
may seem to be a formidable future, Dr. Thomas J. Sork,
assistant professor in UNL's Department of Adult and
Continuing Education, .advocates shaping the future to
our liking.
"We don't simply have to prepare for its coming," said
Sork, who began teaching a workshop in "educational
futuristics" last summer and plans to offer it again during
the first fiverweek summer session this year.
In the workshop, students wUl explore the philosophi
cal foundations of futurism, methods to study it, futures
literature and the application of the futures perspective in
both school-based and non-school educational systems,
Sork said.
"There are a host of alternative futures possible for
us," said Sork, He said he believes commercialization of
the minicomputer, video-disc and player technology, will
become so widespread as to change drastically the way
people acquire an education.
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