Past Event
Tuesday, 28 April 2009, 7 p.m.
Students in Pauls Toutonghi’s Advanced Fiction Writing courses will read from the short stories they wrote and developed during the semester.
WHERE: Manor House Armstrong Lounge
COST: Free
CONTACT: Dyann Alkire, Department of English, 503-768-7405
Past Event
Tuesday, 21 April 2009, 7 p.m.
Bringing their work out of the classroom and into the public realm, advanced poetry students will share their poems in a reading on campus on Tuesday, April 21. The culmination of an extensive writing and revision process, the public reading will feature 12 students who have worked closely with Assistant Professor of English Mary Szybist.
WHERE: Manor House Armstrong Lounge
COST: Free
CONTACT: Department of English, 503-768-7405
Past Event
Thursday, 16 April 2009, 3 p.m.
John Isles is the author of Inverse Sky (Iowa, 2008) and Ark (Iowa, 2003) and coeditor of the Baltics section of New European Poets. He received an award from the Los Angeles Review in 2004 and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2005. His poems have appeared in such journals as American Letters & Commentary, the Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, and Pleiades.
Kristen Hanlon’s chapbook, Proximity Talks, was published by Noemi Press in 2005. Her poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Puerto del Sol, VOLT, and New Orleans Review, among others. She is a past recipient of the James D. Phelan Literary Award from the San Francisco Foundation/Intersection for the Arts. From 2002-2007 she edited XANTIPPE, an annual print journal for poems, poetics, interviews and reviews of small press/university press titles; it continues as a webzine.
WHERE: Watzek Library, Pamplin Room
COST: Free
CONTACT: Dyann Alkire, administrative assistant for the English department, 503-768-7405
Past Event
Thursday, 2 April 2009, 7:30 p.m.
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. He has written for Raritan, the New Republic, the New York Times Magazine, the Nation, and Harper’s where he is a contributing editor. Mark Edmundson is NEH/Daniels Family Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Virginia.
WHERE: Templeton Campus Center Council Chambers
COST: Free
CONTACT: Dyann Alkire, administrative assistant for the English department, 503-768-7405
Past Event
Thursday, 5 March 2009, 7 p.m.
D. A. Powell’s books of poetry include Tea, Lunch, and Cocktails. The latter was a finalist for the PEN West, Lambda, Publishers’ Triangle and National Book Critics Circle Awards. Chronic, his fourth US collection, was published in February 2009.
The New York Times wrote of Powell’s work, “No accessible poet of his generation is half as original, and no poet as original is this accessible.” Among his many honors, Powell has received a Paul Engle Fellowship from the James Michener Center, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and the Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America. His work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including New England Review, the Washington Post, Poetry, the Norton anthology Hybrid Forms, and Best American Poetry 2008.
The event will take place in the Manor House, Armstrong Lounge. Refreshments will be served. Please contact Dyann Alkire at 503-768-7405 for further information.
Past Event
Thursday, 19 February 2009, 7 p.m.
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.
Dunn’s work is also the focus of an exhibit at Watzek Library, presenting a range of versions of Geek Love, displaying the varied visual and textual presentations of the work and Dunn’s other writings.
This free event will be held in the Armstrong Lounge, Manor House.
Past Event
Thursday, 29 January 2009, 7 p.m.
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. Hartigan’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Free Verse, Quarterly West, TinFish, Gulf Coast, New Orleans Review, Insurance, LVNG, the Antioch Review, Northwest Review, as well as a number of other magazines and an anthology. She cofounded and edited Spectaculum, a magazine devoted to long poems and series, for several years. A graduate of Reed College and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Hartigan has lived primarily on the West coast and Hawai’i, and now works and lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and son.
This event is free and open to the public. It will take place at the Manor House, Armstrong Lounge.
Past Event
Tuesday, 9 December 2008, 3:30 p.m.
In honor of the 400th birthday of poet John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674), best known for his poem Paradise Lost, the Department of English will host David Biespiel, the editor of Poetry Northwest and author of Wild Civility. Biespiel will deliver a lecture and provide commentary on reading Milton’s work. There will also be an image slide show, faculty and student readings, and a birthday cake.
Past Event
Friday, 5 December 2008, 3 p.m.
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. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, Slate, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Bomb, Prairie Schooner, the Boston Review, the Grolier Poetry Prize Annual and elsewhere. He has been awarded fellowships from the McKnight, Jerome and Bush Foundations, the Corporation of Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. Conway is also the poetry editor of Post Road.
Past Event
Tuesday, 2 December 2008, 3:30 p.m.
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. This idea is a curious one coming from one of our “arch-deconstructionist” critics, one of the leaders of a “movement” much devoted to critiquing the traditional metaphysics of presence typified by Plato’s doctrine of Forms. In what sense might this Platonic realm or script “exist” for a deconstructonist like Miller? Professors Kurt Fosso and Jerry Harp will present several possible answers along with examples of their relevance to the reading and meaning of literary texts.