Topic: literary arts
Video: Traditional storytelling workshop strengthens Native arts
20 May 2009
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
This spring, Master Storyteller Ed Edmo and Lewis & Clark’s Indigenous Ways of Knowing Program (IWOK) collaborated to offer a traditional storytelling workshop. Get the latest Flash Player to see this player. [Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh this page] document.getElementById("player1").style.display = ""; var s1 = new SWFObject("http://media.lclark.edu/newsroom/wp-content/plugins/flv-embed/flvplayer.swf","player1","400","242","7"); s1.addParam("allowfullscreen","true"); s1.addVariable("height","242"); s1.addVariable("width","400"); s1.addVariable("file","/media/workshop/workshop.flv"); s1.addVariable("image","/media/workshop/workshop.jpg"); s1.addVariable("fsbuttonlink","http://media.lclark.edu/newsroom/wp-content/plugins/flv-embed/fullscreen.php?f=/media/workshop/workshop.flv%26r=http://media.lclark.edu/newsroom/2009/05/20/video-traditional-storytelling-workshop-strengthens-native-arts/"); s1.write("player1"); The participants, ranging in age [...]
Podcast: Poetry students write with an eye toward audience
20 April 2009
- Engaging our World
- Living Portland
Click to view poems 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 [...]
Podcast: Professor Szybist earns national acclaim for poetry
6 February 2009
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
The winter has been kind to Assistant Professor of English Mary Szybist. December brought news of a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA); February began with Poet Laureate Kay Ryan hand-selecting Szybist for one of two Witter Bynner Fellowships in Poetry from the Library of Congress. In just the past few [...]
Slideshow: Tracing the history of bookbinding in Special Collections exhibit
30 September 2008
- Advancing Knowledge
(Portland, Ore.)—Despite the proverb, judging a book by its cover can illuminate the rich creative and cultural history in the art of bookbinding, as demonstrated by an exhibition at Aubrey R. Watzek Library. The exhibit examines 500 years of bookbinding history, from the era of vellum through contemporary handmade books, revealing some of the lesser-known [...]
Oregon Writing Project offers new strategies for K-12 teachers
4 August 2008
- Advancing Knowledge
- Living Portland
(Portland, Ore.)—Throughout the Portland metropolitan area this summer, K-12 school teachers are gaining vital skills and strategies in curriculum camps administered by the Oregon Writing Project (OWP), a collaboration between Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling and area schools. “Writing is the gateway to success in school and beyond—it’s the currency of the [...]
Poet Laureate’s archive placed with Lewis & Clark
28 April 2008
- Engaging our World
- Living Portland
(Portland, Ore.)—The family of poet William Stafford has generously given his papers to Lewis & Clark College, where they will be in the care of Special Collections at the Aubrey R. Watzek Library. Stafford, who passed away in 1993, was Oregon’s poet laureate from 1975 to 1990, and a professor at Lewis & Clark for [...]
Writing teacher honored for contributions to Oregon literary community
4 December 2007
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
(Portland, Ore.)— Like the mystic Cascades, rugged coastline and placid high desert, the Stafford name is an enduring part of the Oregon landscape. Kim Stafford, director of the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis & Clark, was honored by Literary Arts for his work cultivating the state’s literary community. Stafford, an associate professor, began his teaching career [...]
Merchant’s poetry of affinity earns Oregon Book Award nomination
26 November 2007
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
(Portland, Ore.)—Amid national and international strife, at a time when cultural divisions and personal differences dominate the public consciousness, Paul Merchant’s Some Business of Affinity offers perspectives about the human experience that supersede those boundaries. Nominated for an Oregon Book Award, Merchant’s collection of poems, translations, and collaborations with visual artists explores the stories of [...]