Special Events Sponsored and/or Recommended by the Department of English
All events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.
Literary Review Reading
Thursday, May 1, 2008
4:00pm Miller 4th Floor Lobby
The editors of the 2007-2008 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.
Refreshments will be served. Please contact Megan Cahn at 503-768-7405 for further information.
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Sunday, May 11, 2008
8:00am Miller 4th Floor Lobby
Graduating seniors, their families, and the English Department Faculty are invited to attend a breakfast honoring our graduates before commencement.
RSVP with number of attendees to cahn@lclark.edu by May 1st.
_____________________________________________________________ PAST EVENTSSenior Fiction Reading
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
7:00pm Manor House, Armstrong Lounge
Students 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.
Refreshments will be served. Please contact Megan Cahn at 503-768-7405 for further information.
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Thursday, April 17, 2008
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.
Refreshments will be served. Please contact Megan Cahn at 503-768-7405 for further information.
_____________________________________________________________ First Annual Shorts Film Festival
Thursday, April 17, 2008
5:00-7:00 pm Council Chambers
The all new Lewis & Clark Film Club cordially invites you to...
The First Annual Shorts Film Festival!
With short films selected and presented by visiting professor of English Travis Feldman, following the theme of "Sound and Color."
Bring a date or come late. Stay the whole time or sit in for a few minutes. There will be homemade cookies, movie trivia questions, free original Film Club t-shirt giveaways and raffle, popcorn, drinks and good film!
Free! Contact Sanne Stienstra at sanne@lclark.edu for details.
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Lyell Asher Lecture
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
4:30pm Miller 102
"Gertrude's Shoes: Hamlet and the World as Stage"
Refreshments will be served. Please contact Megan Cahn at 503-768-7405 for further information.
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 What Can You Do With an English Major?
Alumni-Student Career Networking Event
Thursday, April 10, 2008
7:00pm Miller 210
Are you unsure about what you want to do after you graduate? Interested in learning about potential careers for English majors?
Come to an Alumni Job talk with graduates of the LC English Department. The evening will include a panel discussion and a question and answer period followed by a reception.
All current and past students are invited to attend. Please RSVP to Megan Cahn at cahn@lclark.edu by April 7th.
Speakers:
Antonia Giedwoyn '00- Web Producer KGW.com
Elizabeth Gottfried '85- Copy Editor for Hanna Anderson Corp.
Kate Requardt '05- Human Resources Student at WSU-Vancouver
Dave Paull '71- KTRO Radio News
Ben Waterhouse '06- Willamette Week (will have info about internships with WW)
Eve Callahan- Vice President, Lane Public Relations
Ashley Todd '06- Teacher
Kasey Cordell '00- Portland Monthly Magazine (will have info about internships with Portland Monthly)
Jeremy Skinner '00- Archives, Lewis & Clark College
Doug Levin- Freelance Writer
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 Joanna Klink Poetry Reading
Friday, April 4, 2008
3:00pm Aubrey Watzek Library, Pamplin Room
CIRCADIAN, Joanna Klink’s second book, offers beautifully crafted poems that are set in a variety of different physical and emotional locations, and that take as their guiding vision circadian clocks. These internal clocks influence rhythms of sleeping and waking: the opening and closing of flowers, the speed at which the heart pumps blood, the migratory cycles of birds.
In CIRCADIAN Klink uses rhythm and lyricism to explore both inner and outer landscapes. At once mysterious and illuminating, her poems tie human life to the systems and cadences of nature, often blurring the lines between self and world. With love poems and wintry prayers, Klink traces patterns of alertness and shared life, patterns that speak to the flickering circuit between breath and the clouds, that bind each beating heart to the pull of the tides.
Joanna Klink teaches poetry at the University of Montana. She is the author of one previous book, They Are Sleeping, and her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Denver Quarterly, Harvard Review, and other journals. A recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award in 2003, she lives in Missoula.
Co-Sponsored by the Aubrey Watzek Library Poetry Series
Refreshments will be served. Please contact Megan Cahn at 503-768-7405 for further information.
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 Blanford Parker Poetry Lecture
Monday, March 31, 2008
7:00pm Manor House, Armstrong Lounge
"From Slender Reed to Bristling Mars: Comments on the Virgilian Rota."
Blanford Parker's main interests are poetry, theories of poetry, prosody, and the history of ideas with a concern for philosophy and theology. He has written on British poetry and prose of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century, Milton, Romantic poetry, Frost, the pastoral, and genre theory. His publications include, The Pastoral and the European Genre System (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003), "The Situation of Eighteenth- century Studies," in The Age of Johnson (2002), "Frost and the Meditative Lyric," in R. Faggen (ed) The Cambridge Companion to Robert Frost (2001), and The Triumph of Augustan Poetics (Cambridge University Press, 1998).
Refreshments will be served. Please contact Megan Cahn at 503-768-7405 for further information.
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 English Department ICE CREAM SOCIAL
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
3:30-5:30pm Miller 4th Floor Lobby
Current and prospective English students, majors and minors are invited to join the English Department faculty for an afternoon get-together. This is a wonderful opportunity for you to speak with your professors before Fall class registration begins.
Pauls Toutonghi will share one of his short stories and there will be an informal discussion about the English major and curriculum to help you prepare for registration and graduation.
Ice cream sundaes will be served. Please contact Megan Cahn at 503-768-7405 for further information.
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 Herman Asarnow Poetry Reading
Thursday, February 28, 2008
7:00pm Manor House, Armstrong Lounge
Herman Asarnow—poet, essayist, and translator— is the author of Glass-Bottom Boat (Higganum Hill Books, 2007), a collection of his recent poetry. Asarnow’s poems have appeared in such venues as The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, Beloit Poetry Journal, Meridian, Tar River Poetry, Southern Humanities Review, and West Branch. His essays can be found in North Dakota Quarterly, High Plains Literary Review, Iron Horse Quarterly, and Portland Magazine. And his translations of the poetry of Noni Benegas, one of Spain’s leading contemporary poets, have been published in Marlboro Review and Meridian. In 2005, he was awarded a month’s residency at Ragdale, the artists’ retreat north of Chicago. A native of Newark, New Jersey, Asarnow studied at Trinity College, Connecticut, and at the University Denver, first in its Creative Writing Program, where he earned an M.A. in poetry, then in its English Department, from which he received his doctorate, writing on the poetry and career of Alexander Pope. Asarnow has taught at the University of Portland, where he is Professor of English and Chair, since 1979.
Co-Sponsored by the Aubrey Watzek Library Poetry Series
Refreshments will be served. Please contact Megan Cahn at 503-768-7405 for further information.
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 Jamaica Kincaid Dicussion and Presentation
Monday, February 25, 2008
English 206 Discussion: 3:30-5:30pm, Miller 105
An Evening With Jamaica Kincaid: 7:00pm, Agnes Flanagan Chapel
Both An Evening With Jamaica Kincaid and the discussion are free and open to the public.
Please visit the An Evening With Jamaica Kincaid for details.
Co-Sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs
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 Sam Witt Poetry Reading
Thursday, February 21, 2008
7:00pm Manor House, Armstrong Lounge
Sam Witt will read from his new book, Sunflower Brother, and also from his first book, Everlasting Quail. Additionally, he will read from a new manuscript he is working on.
Sam Witt was born in Wimbledon, England, but spent most of his time growing up in North Carolina and Virginia. After graduation from the University of Virginia and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he lived and worked as a free-lance journalist in San Francisco for several years, publishing in such magazines as Computerworld, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Wired. His first book of poetry, Everlasting Quail, won the Katherine Nason Bakeless First Book Prize in 2000, sponsored by Breadloaf. Everlasting Quail was published by UPNE the following year, and he received a Fulbright Fellowship to live and write in Saint Petersburg, Russia for a year. Witt has participated in poetry festivals at Druskininkai and Vilnius at the invitation of the Lithuanian government; he has been a resident at the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference and at Yaddo; his poems have been published in Virginia Quarterly, Harvard Review, Georgia Review, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Fence, New England Review, among other journals, and in the anthologies The New Young American Poets and The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries. Witt has taught at the University of Iowa, Harvard University, and the University of Missouri Kansas-City, where he is currently serving as the Visiting Assistant Professor in Poetry for the year. His second book, Sunflower Brother, won the Cleveland State University Press Open Book competition for 2006, and was published in 2007. Witt will be teaching at Whitman College for the 2007-2008 academic year.
Co-Sponsored by the Aubrey Watzek Library Poetry Series
Refreshments will be served. Please contact Megan Cahn at 503-768-7405 for further information.
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 Lewis & Clark College Poetry Symposium "What's the Use of Poetry?"
Featuring: Marjorie Perloff, Lyn Hejinian and Joan Retallack
Saturday, February 9, 2008
1-5pm, Smith Hall
What's the use of poetry in the midst of the anxiety and promise of our times? This conference will pose some unusual conceptual and poetic answers to this question. We invite you to join two poets and a critic as they attend to experiments with language and form--the "radical artifice" of contemporary poetries--in search of what it means to live in the complexity of today's world.
The symposium is free and open to the public.
Please visit the 2008 Poetry Symposium Website for the symposium schedule and information about our speakers.
Co-Sponsored by the Kinsman Foundation
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 Marvin Bell Poetry Reading
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
7:00pm Manor House, Armstrong Lounge
Marvin Bell has been called "an insider who thinks like an outsider," and his writing has been called "ambitious without pretension." He was for many years Flannery O'Connor Professor of Letters at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and served two terms as the state of Iowa's first Poet Laureate. He now teaches for the brief-residency MFA based in Oregon at Pacific University and splits the year between Iowa City, Iowa, and Port Townsend, Washington. He regularly performs with the bassist Glen Moore of the jazz group Oregon. He has collaborated with composers and dancers, as well as musicians, and is the creator of a form known as the "dead man poem,” for which he is both famous and infamous. The most recent of his nineteen collections of poetry and essays are Iris of Creation, The Book of the Dead Man, Ardor, Nightworks: Poems 1962-2000, Rampant, and his latest collection, Mars Being Red.
Co-Sponsored by the Aubrey Watzek Library Poetry Series
Refreshments will be served. Please contact Megan Cahn at 503-768-7405 for further information.
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 Pamplin Society Lecture: J. Hillis Miller
Monday, September 24, 2007
7:30pm Council Chambers
An annual lecture series sponsored by the Pamplin Society brings American literary critic J. Hillis Miller to campus. Miller will also attend Kurt Fosso's English 450 Senior Seminar course. Miller who has been called the most significant North American Literary critic of the 20th century, is the the fourth recipient of the Modern Language Association's lifetime achievement award. Best known as one of the "Yale School" of literary critics who pioneered American "deconstruction," Miller is renowned for his pioneering contributions to literary criticism and theory. He is the author of dozens of books on Victorian and modern literature, including, The Linguistic Moment, The Ethics of Reading, Versions of Pygmalion, Topographies, and most recently, Others and On Literature. Two recent books celebrate Miller's contributions during his 50-year career: Provocations to Reading: J. Hillis Miller and the Democracy to Come, and The J. Hillis Miller Reader.
Co-Sponsored by the Department of English.
For details, please contact Alison Walcott at awalcott@lclark.edu.
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 Paul Merchant's Book Warming
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
3:30pm Lewis & Clark College Bookstore
Paul Merchant will read from his new translation of Greek poet Yannis Ristos' 1979 one-line pieces Monochords (Trask House Books & Five Seasons Press).
Yannis Ristos (1909-1990) is considered one of the four great Greek poets of the Twentieth Century and winner of the Lenin Peace Prize in 1975. Monochords are the three-hundred and thirty-six one-line poems written by Ristos during one month in the summer of 1979. As Paul describes in his introduction to his translation of the Monochords, they "can be read as miniature encapsulations by a master of the art of brevity...Or they can be viewed, as [Ristos] encourages us to do in the last monochord, as keys to his whole work, his lexicon of images and ideas. Unassuming, quiet, poised, like the person who made them, they linger in the mind."
Paul Merchant is a poet in his own right and has been Director of the William Stafford Archives since 1996.
Please contact the Lewis & Clark College Bookstore at 503-768-7885 for further information.
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 John Farrell Reading
Thursday, October 18, 2007
7:00pm Manor House, Armstrong Lounge
"What Was Psychoanalysis"
John Farrell is the author of Paranoia and Modernity: Cervantes to Rousseau, which explores the "dominance of the paranoid character as an image of the human being in modern western culture." Farrell, a Professor of Literature at Claremont McKenna College, teaches courses on Renaissance and Modern Poetry, Critical Theory, and Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Fiction.
Refreshments will be served. Please contact Megan Cahn at 503-768-7405 for further information.
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 THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Great Gatsby Reading
Monday, Oct. 29 and Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2007
7:30pm Manor House, Armstrong Lounge
Students in John Callahan's English 323 course read The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald in its entirety. Stop by to listen or read a passage; either way it will be two wonderful evenings to immerse yourself in the Jazz Age of Long Island.
Refreshments will be served. Please contact Megan Cahn at 503-768-7405 for further information.
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 Pauls Toutonghi Short Story Reading
Thursday, November 1, 2007
7:00pm Manor House, Armstrong Lounge
"Thomas Hardy's Heart"
In 2004, Darin Strauss (Chang and Eng, The Real McCoy) selected "Thomas Hardy's Heart" as the winner of One Story magazine's annual short fiction prize. The story was subsequently shortlisted for The 2005 Best American Nonrequired Reading. As Strauss said: "The story is challenging, heartfelt, interesting -- and funny, too."
Pauls Toutonghi received his MFA and PhD from Cornell University. He teaches in the English Department at Lewis and Clark College. Random House published his first novel, Red Weather, in 2006. About Red Weather, The Cleveland Plain Dealer wrote: "If I could stand in the Cuyahoga County juvenile courthouse and give one book to each of the more than 8,000 youngsters commanded to appear each year, it would be Red Weather...It rolls along with David Sedaris-flavored drollness; it's a flat-out pleasure to read."
Refreshments will be served. Please contact Megan Cahn at 503-768-7405 for further information.
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 Portland Monthly Magazine Internship Info Session
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
3:00pm Miller 103
Kasey Cordell ('00), associate editor for Portland Monthly Magazine will talk to students about internship opportunities at the magazine and the importance of getting professional experience now.
Kasey Cordell graduated from LC in 2000 with a BA in Psychology. She went on to pursue an MA in Irish Studies at Queens University Belfast (2002) and an MA in Journalism at the University of Colorado (2005). Cordell has worked for several newspapers and magazines, including running a women's climbing magazine and a stint at National Geographic Adventure in NYC. Currently Cordell is an associate editor for Portland Monthly Magazine.
Please contact Megan Cahn at 503-768-7405 for further information.
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 Johnny Stallings presents
"One Man Lear"
Monday, November 12, 2007
7:00pm Smith Hall
Johnny Stallings' one-man performance of King Lear is a no-frills version that will amaze and fascinate. Without trivial things like sets, props, costumes, and other actors cluttering up the stage, you'll find your brain forced to concentrate on nothing but the words themselves, which--according to Johnny--is not such a bad thing: "It's arguably the best poetry in any language," he says reverently. Johnny's disheveled quirkiness is charming, but don't let it deceive you. It takes great skill to make Shakespeare this approachable, and above all else, his grasp of the language is impeccable. Stallings glosses over sections of King Lear with summary asides, and handles the dialogue scenes by simply moving to different parts of the room, distinguishing the different characters with only the smallest variations in posture and tone. The result should be clumsy and awkward, but the precision of his line readings, combined with his quirky sense of humor, makes it fluid.
Last year his performance was standing room only. Don't be left in the wings this year.
Refreshments will be served. Please contact Megan Cahn at 503-768-7405 for further information.
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 Lawson Inada Poetry Reading
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
7:30pm Council Chambers
“Sentimental Journey”: A Concert of Poetry with Jazz Lawson Fusao Inada, Oregon poet laureate, with Portland-based musicians
Lawson Fusao Inada will read his work in a program exploring the theme of finding new ways home from the internment camps of World War II. In its combination of poetry and jazz, this event captures the way Inada’s memories of hearing jazz in the camps influenced his life and writing. Inada’s many publications include Before the War and Legends from Camp, which received the American Book Award in 1992. Inada will be joined by Portland-based musicians Larry Nobori (alto sax and clarinet), Rick Homer (trumpet and melophone), Andre St. James (acoustic bass), Nola Bogle (vocals), and Gordon Lee (piano).
Inada will be available to sign books during the program intermission.
Co-sponsored by the Department of English and the Aubrey Watzek Library Poetry Series.
For details, please contact Kim Brodkin at kbrodkin@lclark.edu.
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 John Callahan's Book Warming
Thursday, November 15, 2007
3:30pm Lewis & Clark College Bookstore
A Man You Could Love
From the forests of the Pacific Northwest to the power corridors of Washington, D.C., this powerful novel stretches across the tumult of the 1960s to the disputed 2000 presidential election as it chronicles the life of a crusading politician and, in the process, the coming of age and loss of innocence of a generation. A Man You Could Love follows the lives of Gabe Bontempo, a savvy political strategist, and Mick Whelan, a young, idealistic candidate from Oregon. Together they weather decades of political upheaval from the civil rights and Vietnam era into the 1990s, while facing personal crises of their own. This ambitious, absorbing first novel offers a fresh look at Washington politics, the thrills and surprises of the campaign trail, and the ongoing complexities of war, as well as a touching tribute to friendship and families--the ones you are born into and those you find along the way.
John Callahan is the Morgan S. Odell professor of humanities at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. As literary executor for Ralph Ellison, he edited the manuscripts of Ellison's unfinished second novel into Juneteenth to widespread critical acclaim and also edited Ellison's Collected Essays and Flying Home and Other Stories. Callahan is known nationally for his work in American and African American literature and has also been active politically, running for U.S. Congress and as Senator Eugene McCarthy's vice presidential candidate in Oregon. A Man You Could Love is his first novel.
Please contact the Lewis & Clark College Bookstore at 503-768-74885 for further information.
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 Leroy Searle Lecture
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
7:00pm Miller 105
"William Blake and the Idea of Poetic Vision"
Professor Leroy Searle teaches in the English Department at the University of Washington. Searle has published a number of articles on Blake and has worked with University of Washington graduate students, including Visiting Assistant Professor Travis Feldman, to publish The Four Zoas by Blake online. Leroy Searle's work in the field of Literary Criticism has resulted in such work as Critical Theory Since 1965, completed in partnership with Dr. Hazard Adams. Dr. Searle's research also focuses on Textual Reading and Theory, which he often integrates with his knowledge of computers, programming and hypertext languages. In addition to his academic study, Dr. Searle is heavily involved in music. His arrangements and performances are a bright addition to the University's campus. Upcoming publications of Dr. Searle's will include Voice Text and Hypertext: Emerging Practices, Visual Intelligence: Collected Essays on Photography, and Critical Theory Since Plato, Third Edition, with Hazard Adams.
Co-sponsored by Exploration and Discovery.
For details, please contact Megan Cahn at cahn@lclark.edu.
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 William Blake's 250th Birthday Bash
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Candles! Candles! burning bright/ 250, what a sight!
In honor of William Blake's 250th birthday, the Lewis and Clark Department of English is hosting the Blake Birthday Bash- a day full of Blake-centered events.
2:30-3:30pm- Watzek Library- Display of Blake's works and reception
3:30-5:30pm- Miller 105- Colloquium on Blake's Life and Works with presentations by LC students, faculty, and a University of Washington doctoral candidate
7:00-8:00pm- Miller 105- Keynote Address by LeRoy Searle, professor of English at the University of Washington and an authority on Blake
8-9:30pm- Miller 105- Open Mic Readings of Blake's Works & Displays of Book Arts, Comics, Zines as well as birthday cake, and possibly a pińata.
For details, please contact Megan Cahn at cahn@lclark.edu.
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To discover more about local literary events, visit the following sites:
Readings at Reed College
Powells Bookstore Calendar of Events
Readings at Annie Bloom's Books
Mountain Writers' Calendar of Events
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