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.
Past Event
12 through 14 November 2008
This two-day event, bringing together leading academics from across the country, will focus on why people migrate, how it affects culture and identity, and the socio-political issues tied to migration. The annual Multicultural Symposium, in its fifth year, is designed to help the community explore the personal and public face of race, culture and ethnicity in a local, national, and global context.
Events will take place at various times, in different locations within Templeton Campus Center. Consult the symposium website for details.
Past Event
Friday, 7 November 2008, 4 p.m.
Mark Sarvas’s debut novel, Harry, Revised, has been published by Bloomsbury and will appear in a dozen languages around the world. He is the host of the acclaimed litblog “The Elegant Variation” (a Forbes Magazine Best of the Web pick and Guardian Top 10 Literary Blog) and a member of the National Book Critics Circle. His criticism has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Threepenny Review and elsewhere.
Sarvas will read from his novel on Friday, Nov. 7 at 4:00 p.m. in the Aubrey Watzek Library, Pamplin Room.
Past Event
27 through 28 October 2008
Hazard Adams will visit campus October 27-28 for two events. Adams is professor emeritus of comparative literature, University of Washington, and founder and honorary senior fellow of the School of Criticism and Theory. His Critical Theory since Plato has served as a standard text in the field for more than three decades.
On Monday, October 27, at 7:30 p.m. he will deliver a lecture on Blake’s Annotations to Wordsworth in Miller Center for the Humanities, room 105. On Tuesday, October 28, at 3:30 p.m. he will read from his newest publications, The Offense of Poetry and Academic Child, in the Lewis & Clark College Bookstore. Copies of his books will be available for purchase and can be autographed.
Past Event
Monday, 13 October 2008, 7 p.m.
J.W. Marshall and Christine Deaval, co-owners of Seattle’s Open Books, one of only two all-poetry bookstores in the nation, will read from their original works on Monday, October 13, at 7:00 p.m. in the Manor House, Armstrong Lounge.
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. His poetry has appeared in Alaska Quarterly, Cranky, Field, Golden Handcuffs Review, LitRag, Poetry, and other magazines.
Deavel is the author of “Box of Little Spruce,” a chapbook published in 2005 by LitRag Press. Her work has appeared in Fence, Golden Handcuffs Review, The Iowa Review, Volt, and other magazines. In 2009, her piece “Of the Bird’s Wing There Are Tracts of Feathers” will be included in an anthology of artists and writers, to be published by the University of Washington Press.
Past Event
Thursday, 18 September 2008, 7 p.m.
Matt Wagner will appear on September 18 at 7:00 p.m. in Miller 105.
With an extensive career in comics, Matt Wagner introduced one of comicdom’s most respected creator-owned characters—the mastermind assassin, Grendel. Best known for this epic creation and his other, more personal, allegory, Mage, Wagner has also worked on a variety of established characters. His more recent efforts in this vein have included writing the Dr. Mid-nite mini-series for DC Comics and serving as the regular cover artist on the Kevin Smith-penned relaunch of Green Arrow.
This year sees the 25th anniversary of Grendel, and Wagner is hard at work on a variety of projects to commemorate this significant milestone. His appearance is co-sponsored by the Department of English and Watzek Library Special Collections.
Past Event
Tuesday, 15 April 2008, 4:30 p.m.
Associate Professor of English Lyell Asher, an expert in Renaissance English Literature and Shakespeare, will deliver a lecture titled, “Gertrude’s Shoes: Hamlet and the World as Stage,” in Miller Center for Humanities, room 102.
Refreshments will be served.
