Philip Schultz II: Interview at Churchill School

Philip Schultz is an American poet, and the founder/director of The Writers Studio, (www.writerstudio.com), a private school for fiction and poetry based in New York City. He is the author of several books of poetry, most recently, The God of Loneliness (2010), a major collection of the poet's works, and Failure (2007) co-winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. His work has been published in The New Yorker, Partisan Review, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Slate, among other magazines, and he is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in Poetry to Israel and a 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry. His memoir, My Dyslexia, was released by W. W. Norton & Company in September 2011. Philip Schultz lives in East Hampton, NY with his wife, sculptor Monica Banks and their two sons, Elias and August.
Sally E. Shaywitz, M.D. is the Audrey G. Ratner Professor in Learning Development at Yale University and Co-Director of the Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity. (http://dyslexia.yale.edu/) She is the author of over 250 scientific articles, chapters and books, including Overcoming Dyslexia (Knopf, 2003) which details critical scientific findings in dyslexia and how to translate this scientific knowledge into policy and clinical practice. Her awards include election to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences; an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Williams College and the Townsend Harris Medal of the City College of New York. She currently serves on the National Board of the Institute for Educational Sciences of the US Department of Education and served on the National Reading Panel and the Committee to Prevent Reading Difficulties in Young Children of the National Research Council.

Bennett A. Shaywitz, M.D. is the Charles and Helen Schwab Professor in Dyslexia and Learning Development and Co-Director of the Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity. (http://dyslexia.yale.edu/) at Yale University. The author of over 300 scientific papers, he has identified a neural signature for dyslexia, making a previously hidden disability visible, and for the first time demonstrating the brain basis for the accommodation of extra time needed by dyslexic readers on high-stakes standardized tests. His honors include election to membership in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He is also the recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Washington University.

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[jonathandenwood]

What a great interview. Philp Schultz really open up the to his own personal experiences connected to his dyslexia and how it effected his childhood and his professional career.

[IzzyIsou]

What's the music at the beginning?