English
English News Archive
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Sunday, May 10, 2009
8:00am Miller 4th Floor LobbyGraduating seniors, their families, and the English Department Faculty are invited to attend a breakfast honoring our graduates before commencement.
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
7:00pm Manor House, Armstrong LoungeStudents in Pauls Toutonghi’s Advanced Fiction Writing courses will read from the short stories they wrote and developed during the semester. This event is always popular and crowded, so plan to arrive early for a seat.
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Monday, April 27, 2009
7:00pm Manor House, Armstrong LoungeThe editors of the 2008-2009 Lewis & Clark College Literary Review will choose selected contributors to the journal to read their works. Students, faculty, staff and community members are encouraged to submit their work to the Literary Review.
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009
7:00pm Manor House, Armstrong Lounge
Students in Mary Szybist’s Advanced Poetry Writing courses will read from the poetry they wrote and developed during the semester. A limited number of broadsides will be available to those in attendance. This event is always popular and crowded, so plan to arrive early for a seat. -
Thursday, April 16, 2009
3:00pm Pamplin Room
John Isles is the author of Inverse Sky (Iowa, 2008) and Ark (Iowa, 2003) and coeditor of the Baltics section of New European Poets. Kristen Hanlon’s chapbook, Proximity Talks, was published by Noemi Press in 2005. -
A prize winning scholar, Mark Edmundson has published a number of works of literary and cultural criticism including Teacher: The One Who Made the Difference, Why Read?, Nightmare on Main Street and Literature Against Philosophy, Plato to Derrida. -
Alumni Establish Jerry Baum Award for Outstanding Senior Paper
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D. A. Powell’s books of poetry include Tea (Wesleyan, 1998); Lunch (Wesleyan, 2000); and Cocktails (Graywolf, 2004). The latter was a finalist for the PEN West, Lambda, Publishers’ Triangle and National Book Critics Circle Awards. Chronic, his fourth US collection, will appear in February of 2009. -
Katherine Dunn is a Portland novelist and journalist. One Ring Circus, a collection of her essays on the sport of boxing will appear early in 2009. Dunn and photographer Jim Lommasson won the 2004 Lange-Taylor Documentary Prize for their collaboration on the book Shadow Boxers. Dunn’s third novel, Geek Love, was a finalist for the 1989 National Book Award.
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Endi Bogue Hartigan’s first book, One Sun Storm, was selected for the 2008 Colorado Prize for Poetry by final judge Martha Ronk and will be available in November, 2008. -
There will be a lecture by David Biespiel, the editor of Poetry Northwest and author of Wild Civility. He will provide a commentary on reading Milton’s work. There will also be an image slide show, faculty and student readings from the works of Milton, and a birthday cake.
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Mark Conway’s book of poetry ANY HOLY CITY won the Gerald Cable Book Award and was short-listed for this year’s PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry. -
In his recent book, ON LITERATURE (2002), J. Hillis Miller recounts his curious intuition, active in him since he was a young reader, that literary works precede their being written down; his perception or sense is that the text pre-exists in some Platonic realm.
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Johnny Stallings’ one-man performance of King Lear is a no-frills version that will amaze and fascinate. -
Mark Sarvas’s debut novel, HARRY, REVISED, has been published by Bloomsbury and will appear in a dozen languages around the world. -
Hazard Adams will read from his newest publications The Offense of Poetry and Academic Child. Copies of his books will be available for purchase and can be autographed.
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Hazard Adams will deliver a lecture on Blake’s Annotations to Wordsworth. -
J.W. Marshall is the author of “Meaning A Cloud,” published by Oberlin College Press in 2008, the result of his winning the 2007 Field Poetry Prize. Christine Deavel, co-owner of Open Books, a poetry-only bookstore in Seattle, is the author of “Box of Little Spruce,” a chapbook published in 2005 by LitRag Press. -
Matt Wagner has enjoyed a career in comics for over twenty years. Born and educated in Pennsylvania, his first published work was a short story that would introduce one of comicdom’s most respected creator-owned characters–the mastermind assassin, GRENDEL.
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