Lost Orchard II

<p>Lost Orchard: Prose and Poetry from the Kirkland College Community (SUNY Press 2014)</p><p>featured a diverse collection of poems short stories novel excerpts creative nonfiction</p><p>and one-act plays by the Kirkland community. The work was well-received and requests</p><p>for a Lost Orchard II now come to fruition with work exploring the impact of the short-</p><p>lived Kirkland College and the authors who came out of that innovative institution.</p><p>Lost Orchard II: Nonfiction from the Kirkland College Community brings together</p><p>essays on subjects as wide-ranging as aging loss parenting feminism place the Kirkland</p><p>experience and interviews with members of the Kirkland College Community. Kirkland</p><p>College in Clinton New York was the last private women's college created in the United</p><p>States before it was assumed by its coordinate college Hamilton College. Kirkland fostered</p><p>independent learning and creativity with academic disciplines such as American studies</p><p>visual arts dance and history of science. It also offered one of the first undergraduate</p><p>creative writing majors at a four-year college. Preserving Kirkland's daring educational</p><p>experience this collection echoes the second wave of the feminist era at its finest.</p><p><br></p><p>Although short-lived Kirkland had an outsized impact upon Hamilton College its</p><p>alumnae and undergraduate writing programs across the country. Many Kirkland</p><p>alumnae who graduated from 1971 to 1978 have gone on to careers in professional</p><p>writing</p>