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Robert Bly, Nationally Recognized Poet Robert Bly has had an illustrious career. At Harvard he was part of a famous group of writers, who were undergraduates at that time. They included Donald Hall, Adrienne Rich, Kenneth Koch, John Ashbery, Harold Brodky, George Plimpton, and John Hawkes.

Bly graduated in 1950. Beginning in 1954, he spent two years at the University of Iowa at the Writers Workshop. He was involved there with W. D. Snodgrass, Donald Justice, and other notable writers. In 1956 he received a Fulbright grant to translate Norwegian poetry into English in Norway. While he was there, he discovered the work of a number of major poets whose force was not yet present in the United States. Among these writers were Pablo Neruda, Cesar Vallejo, Gunnar Ekelof, Georg Trakl and Harry Martinson. Bly won the National Book Award for The Light Around the Body. During the 1970's, he published eleven books of poetry, essays, and translations. During the 1980's, he published Loving a Woman in Two Worlds, The Wingéd Life: Selected Poems and Prose of Thoreau, The Man in the Black Coat Turns, and A Little Book on the Human Shadow. His work Iron John: A Book About Men has been an international bestseller. It has been translated into many languages.

Robert Bly has conducted workshops for men with James Hillman and others. He has presented workshops for men and women with Marion Woodman. Robert Bly, wife Ruth, and storyteller Gioia Timpanelli have held seminars on European fairy tales. In the early 1990s, Bly edited The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart, an anthology of poems from the men's work with James Hillman and Michael Meade. Since then he has edited The Darkness Around Us Is Deep: Selected Poems of William Stafford, and The Soul Is Here for Its Own Joy, which is a collection of sacred poetry from many cultures.

His recent books of poetry, What Have I Ever Lost by Dying and Collected Prose Poems and Meditations on the Insatiable Soul, were published by Harper Collins. Bly's second large prose book, The Sibling Society, was published by Addison-Wesley in hardcover and by Vintage in paperback. His collection, Morning Poems was published by Harper Collins. Bly recently published The Maiden King: The Reunion of Masculine and Feminine (Henry Holt). It was developed in collaboration with Marion Woodman. Scribners has published Best American Poetry 1999 that Robert Bly edited Other recent publications have included the following: Eating the Honey of Words (Harper Flamingo), translations of Ghalib (Harper Flamingo), and The Lightning Should Have Fallen on Ghalib with Sunil Dutta (Ecco Press). See http://www.robertbly.com/biography.html

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Talent Agents

Heather Collier- Talent Agent Ms. Collier has been a veteran in the talent management field. She began her career in Chicago, after graduating from Northwestern University with a degree in Radio/TV/Film. Right out of college, she was hired as a runway agent for Elite Chicago where she learned the ins and outs of representing models for editorials, catalogues, and commercial print. She made the transition from modeling agent to talent agent when she accepted a position as an agent for young people for Stewart Talent, which was also owned by Elite Chicago.

Heather represented children ages newborn to 18 for print and on camera work. She moved to Manhattan and began working in the theatrical department at Abrams Artists Agency, representing adult actors and actresses for film, television, and theater. During her time at Abrams, Heather not only handled the careers of well-established actors and actresses, but she was active in signing and developing new talent. Ms. Collier then moved to Charleston, SC., where she continued working in film projects. She helped find investors for an independent film “Almost Salinas” starring John Mahoney produced by Strata Productions based in Chicago, IL.

In Charleston, Heather met producer Peter Wentworth, a filmmaker with eight independent features to his credit, including the Academy Award nominee Metropolitan. Heather and Peter started Slant 6, a film development/production company. Heather received a call from Abrams Artist’s LA office. She packed her bags and spent a few months in LA. When she returned to South Carolina, she picked up where she left off and continued to work with Peter Wentworth and Slant 6. After the events of 9/11, Heather took a job in tourism, working for a destination management company. That led to a job at the South Carolina Aquarium. Most recently, Heather decided to make Austin her new home. She is committed to helping actors develop their careers. http://www.colliertalent.com/about.htm

Tara Coet Felmly, Talent Agent, Auditioning for the Camera & Breaking Into the Business-Tara Coet Felmly, UMHB Performance Studies and Business Alumna, has been an Austin and Dallas talent agent. She has founded the T. Coet Talent Agency, now Legacy Talent, in Austin and has worked as a talent agent for the youth division of the Kim Dawson Agency in Dallas. As a director, actor, writer, producer, and talent agent, Felmly has spent most of her life involved in the entertainment industry. She has inherited a passion for the business from her actor father. Her daughters, Kendra and Noell, are professional actors. Felmly's husband, Fred, has served the business side of the agency. T Coet and Kim Dawson Talent have been cast in many commercials, industrials, television series and films.

Tara has conducted a workshop on Breaking Into the Business in Brindley at UMHB. Tara has worked in the entertainment business daily as a a talent agency owner and agent, who has represented actors for commercials, voice over, television, and film. Her actors have had principal roles in nationally known projects including, "The Great Debaters," "W," "Kings of Appletown," "Prison Break," "Friday Night Lights," "Major Movie Star"... and countless others.

Tara Coet Felmly comes regularly to UMHB to meet and greet talent. Through one of her workshops at UMHB she "discovered" UMHB's Will Johnson, who was then a Performance Studies student and now is an alumnus. As one of Tara's talent, Will has worked in the role of Thomas in "Friday Night Lights" and has played Scott in the soon to be released "Bandslam" that has starred Vanessa Hudgens and Alyson Mychalka. He is currently employed by the Disney Corp. as a performer. Tara has developed many other outstanding young talent, like Will.

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