On March 4, Aaron Poochigian presented "Maidens and Marriages in the Songs of Sappho." 6:00 pm, Scharbauer Hall 1008. Attending Moorhead State University from 1991 to 1996, Poochigian studied under the poets Tim Murphy, Dave Mason and Alan Sullivan. After earning his PhD in Classics from the University of Minnesota in 2006, he held positions at the University of Utah and Roanoke College; he now lives and writes in Brooklyn, New York. He has recently completed translations, with introduction and notes, of Sappho’s poems and fragments for Penguin Classics. His translations of Aeschylus, Aratus and Apollonius of Rhodes will appear in the Norton Anthology of Greek Literature in Translation (forthcoming), and Johns Hopkins University Press will put out his edition of Aratus’s astronomical poem, The Phaenomena in May 2010. His original poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Arion, The Dark Horse, Poetry Magazine and Smartish Pace.
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"Career Night for English and Writing Majors" was held on Wednesday, March 3, 2010 (Scarbauer 1007, 7:00 p.m.) The evening included a presentation by Matthew L. Riordan, from TCU Career Services, about career paths for English and Writing Majors, followed by presentations from recent TCU Alumni: Jack Bullion (TCU 2002) Instruction Librarian, Gibson D. Lewis Health Science Library, UNT Health Science Center, Fort Worth; and Martha Belden (TCU 2003) Project Editor, Physicians’ Education Resources, Dallas.
The Creative Writing Awards ceremony on 2/25 celebrated student writing and featured the visiting writer, Robin Romm (author of The Mother Garden and The Mercy Papers), who read from her work. Thanks to Alex Lemon and David Kuhne for organizing the event.
Fall 2009
Dr. Beverly Moss (The Ohio State University) will present "'Phenomenal Women': Collaborative Literacies and Community Texts in Alternative 'Sista' Spaces" on Thursday, 12/3 at 7 pm, Dee J. Kelly Alumni Center (Justin Boardroom). Flyer >>
The Bryson Literary Society and Texas Creative Underground will be hosting the next Issue Release Party / Collaborative Arts Event this Friday 12/4 at 8 pm in Moudy 320S.
Come hear contributors read from the new issue of eleven40seven.
Come see live collaborative performances of musicians, dancers, writer, and visual artists. Come bask in the art exhibit.
Come get your very own free copy of the Fall 2009 issue of eleven40seven.
Come for the snacks.
Enter your work for the Creative Writing Contests, due by Friday 11/14/09. Over 20 categories—each has a cash prize! General Information and Requirements >>
Dr. Clay Spinuzzi (University of Texas at Austin) will present “How Not to Write Fiction: Style and Evidence in Qualitative Research Studies” on Friday, 11/6 at 7 pm, Dee J. Kelly Alumni Center (Justin Boardroom). Flyer >>
Dr. Seth Kahn (West Chester U.) will present "(Re)Politicizing the Writing Process: Exhortation and Cautionary Tale" on Tuesday 10/27 at 7 pm at the Dee J. Kelly Alumni Center (Cox C). This event is free and open to the public. Flyer >>
BLUU, Ballroom C is headquarters for The National Day of Writing this Tuesday (10/20), with events throughout the day:
@ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm —Displays will be exhibited from Department of English, The College of Education, The Center for Writing, and the Writing Associates program about TCU writing programs and writing support, including one-one-one tutorials provided by The Center for Writing.
@ 12:30 - 1:50 pm —"Writing on Authorship: Bureacracies, Letters, and Literary and Academic Marketplaces," a scholarly panel featuring Dr. Anne Frey, Dr. Theresa Gaul, and Dr. Sarah Robbins of the Department of English, discussing her recently published or upcoming scholarly book: British State Romanticism: Authorship, Agency, and Bureaucratic Nationalism; Letters and Cultural Transformations in the United States, 1760-1860; and Nellie Arnott's Writings on Angola, 1905-1913: Missionary Narratives Linking Africa and America (respectively).
@ 7:00 - 8:30 pm — Fiction readings by several TCU Students and Glen Pourciau, short story writer and author of Invite (winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award) whose stories have also appeared in the New England Review, Ontario Review, Mississippi Review, and Best of the Web 2009.
Contribute your work to The National Gallery of Writing, a virtual space where people who perhaps have never thought of themselves as writers can post one thing they have written that is important to them.
The Sept. 2009 issue of the TCU Rhetoric and Composition Alumni Society Newsletter is now available. Read >>
Dr. Cheryl Glenn (Penn State U.) will present "When Rhetoric and Feminism Work Together: The Possibilities" on Monday 10/5 at 7 pm at the Dee J. Kelly Alumni Center (Justin Boardroom). This event is free and open to the public. Flyer >>
On Saturday 9/26, Dallas iMedia Youth Channel and our TCU Creative Writing Awards will benefit from a weekend-long celebration of Slam Bang Theater, featuring a documentary screening, cable television marathon, 60’s dance band, and other events throughout the days. More>
On Thursday 9/24, Capt. Shannon Meehan and Dr. Roger Thompson (TCU PhD in English,'99) will be on hand for a reading and discussion of their collaboration on Meehan's memoir, Beyond Duty: Life on the Front Line in Iraq. Free and open to the public, the event begins at 7 pm at the Kelly Alumni Center. More>
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Sarah McNeely published "Beyond the Drawing Room: The Musical Lives of Victorian Women" in recent issue of Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 5.2 (Summer 2009).
On 8/8, Dr. Linda Hughes appeared on BBC radio to discuss Tennyson's Ulysses as part of a program celebrating the 200th anniversary of the poet. More>
The Trinity Shakespeare Festival at TCU runs June 11-28, with performances of Twelfth Night and Romeo & Juliet. Details at http://www.trinityshakes.org/
Alex Lemon's Hallelujah Blackout was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize, and his poems "I Love You Big Brother," "My Fallow Human Beans," and "Heat" will be published in Pleiades. An excerpt from his forthcoming memoir, Happy, will be published in the fall issue of Tin House.
Dr. Richard Leos Enos has been selected as a Piper Professor of 2009. The Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation (San Antonio, TX) recognizes outstanding achievement in the teaching profession in Texas colleges and universities.
Congratulations to Dr. Theresa Gaul, who was named the Women's Studies Program's Wise Woman of 2009, an annual teaching award that recognizes faculty contributions both inside and outside of the classroom. more >>
Alex Lemon's essay "Heartdusting" was recently accepted to appear in the Fall 2009 of The Southern Review.
We welcome our new members of Sigma Tau Delta(English honor society), inducted on Thursday 4/30: Emily Cody, Alicia Frinak, Jamella Gow, Cathy Lynn Moody, Kelly Garcia, Dorenda Kesler, Ashley Tambunga, Kelli Trapnell,Rebecca Trefny, and Taylor Yarborough. Congratulations!
Faculty booksigning at the TCU Bookstore thisFriday, 5/8 (11:30-1:30 pm, Reading Room): works by Richard Leo Enos, Ann George, Charlotte Hogg, Linda Hughes, Alex Lemon, Joddy Murray, Karen Steele, and others.
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The Spring 2009 Issue Release Party for eleven40seven will be this Saturday 5/2 (8-10 pm, 141 Moudy N). Come for food, beverages, readings, and a first of a kind collaborative performance: "the Texas Creative Underground:breaking."
Dr. Ariane Balizet will present a lecture on Romeo and Juliet and Alex Lemon will give a poetry reading at St. Vincent College in Latrobe, PA on 4/22. more >>
Attend the Graduate School Workshop on Thursday 4/23 (12:30-1:30 pm, BB 106) to hear a panel of faculty and graduate students present on the GRE exam, application considerations, and other concerns.
Dr. Karen Steele will present "A Terrible Beauty? Women, Media, and the Irish Struggle for Independence" at the TCU Library's FacultySpeak on Friday 4/17 (7 pm, Library Conference Room).
Alex Lemon has six poems and six Yang Jian translations (with Wang Ping) in the newest issue of Artful Dodge, and his memoir was also selected to be one of the seven "Buzz Books" at the 2009 Book Expo of America this year in NYC.
The deadline for submissions for the Fourth Annual Festival of Undergraduate Scholarship and Creativity is Tuesday 3/24. More >>
Dr. Chantel Langlinais's poetry appears in the journal damselfly press.
Alex Lemon's poetry has recently appeared in Esquire, and his work will be published in the Yale Younger Poets Anthology and a Best Of series by the Academy of American Poets. Reviews of his book Hallelujah Blackout appear in recent issues of Virginia Quarterly Review and American Poet.
Visit Writer's Block, a compilation of works created last semester in ENGL 40233 (Writing for Publication), taught by Dr. Carrie Leverenz. Website >>
The Creative Writing Awards will be held on Tuesday, 3/3 (2009) at the Kelly Center. Poet Ray Gonzalez will read from his work. More >>
Alex Lemon has a poem and photograph in the January issue of Esquire, and Mark Doty has selected his poem “Mosquito” for inclusion in a Best Of series to be published by the Academy of American Poets.
2008
Portfolios for the First Annual Sandra Brown Excellence in Literary Fiction (ELF) Award are due by Friday 11/21. More >>
Green honors chair Laurel Brake of Birkbeck, University of London, will participate in a panel, “Media Then and Now: Print and Film in the 19th and 20th Centuries,” on Monday 11/17 and present “The Closure of Colindale: The Information Commons and Nineteenth Century Print Culture” on Wednesday 11/19. Both events begin at 6 pm at BLUU Chambers. More >>
Entries for the Creative Writing Contests are due by Friday 11/14. More >>
Celebrate descant's 50th Birthday at the Library on Wednesday 11/12. Readings from descant: Fifty Years will be held in the afternoon, and Texas Poets Laureate Larry Thomas and Alan Birkelbach will read from their work at 7:30 pm (Library Conference Room B29).
On Friday 11/7 (3 pm, Davis Room, BLUU) Dr. Kathryn Ledbetter will present "Encoding Beauty: Poetry and Women's Periodicals," a lecture on the relation of word and image in the mass medium of 19th-century women's periodicals.
Celebrate your freedom to read! Banned Books Week is 9/27-10/4. Dr. Theresa Gaul will participate on a Huck Finn discussion panel on 9/28. Read More >>
Dr. Richard Leo Enos, 2008 Chancellor's Award recipient for "Distinguished Achievement as a Creative Teacher and Scholar"
