Lost Orchard II: Nonfiction from the Kirkland College Community

Lost Orchard: Prose and Poetry from the Kirkland College Community (SUNY Press 2014)featured a diverse collection of poems short stories novel excerpts creative nonfiction and one-act plays by the Kirkland community. The work was well-received and requestsfor a Lost Orchard II now come to fruition with work exploring the impact of the short-lived Kirkland College and the authors who came out of that innovative institution.Lost Orchard II: Nonfiction from the Kirkland College Community brings togetheressays on subjects as wide-ranging as aging loss parenting feminism place the Kirklandexperience and interviews with members of the Kirkland College Community. KirklandCollege in Clinton New York was the last private womens college created in the UnitedStates before it was assumed by its coordinate college Hamilton College. Kirkland fosteredindependent learning and creativity with academic disciplines such as American studies visual arts dance and history of science. It also offered one of the first undergraduatecreative writing majors at a four-year college. Preserving Kirklands daring educationalexperience this collection echoes the second wave of the feminist era at its finest.Although short-lived Kirkland had an outsized impact upon Hamilton College itsalumnae and undergraduate writing programs across the country. Many Kirklandalumnae who graduated from 1971 to 1978 have gone on to careers in professionalwriting