Fall 2008 - Spring 2009
Writers in Performance Schedule
Please
put these dates on your calendar today.
Whether you write fiction, non-fiction or poetry, this outstanding series is for you. Featured authors read from and discuss their work, followed by Q & A, refreshments and opportunities for book signing. All events are free and open to the public.
OCTOBER 16TH ROGER JONES
7:00 PM LSC-MONTGOMERY
Roger Jones grew up in East Texas and California, with pit stops in Oklahoma and Iowa. He holds a BA and a MA from Sam Houston State University. He received a Ph.D. from Oklahoma State University, where he graduated "with distinction.” He is recipient of the 1980 Texas Review Poetry Chapbook Prize for his collection Remembering
New London, and the 1993 Texas Review Southern/Southwestern Breakthrough Series Book Award for Strata. He has published over 200 poems, articles, essays, interviews in our country’s most prestigious journals. He was recipient of the Academy of American Poets Prize, and has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize. As one of the faculty for the MFA Program, he is the faculty advisor for Persona, the Texas State University student literary periodical. Sigma Tau Delta awarded Jones with their 2008 Outstanding Professor of the Year Award.
NOVEMBER 20TH BRUCE MCGINNIS
7:00 PM LSC-MONTGOMERY
Bruce McGinnis is writer in residence at Amarillo College where he has taught English for 37 years. His novels include The
Fence, Sweet Cane, Reflections in Dark Glass: The Life and Times of John Wesley
Hardin and most recently Dog Dreams: The Comanche
and the Wolf on the Llano Estacado. An avid collector and researcher of cowboy gear from the Civil War to the present, he is presently working on a non-fiction book about the life and work of famous Matador saddle maker H.H. Schweitzer.
DECEMBER 4TH
ANNUAL EMILY DICKINSON BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
PANEL OF SCHOLARS & POETS 4:00 PM LSC-MONTGOMERY The 2008 Panel topic will be Emily Dickinson as The 1st American Metaphysical Poet. The discussion will be lead by Dr.
Paul Christensen, Texas A&M University Professor and Poet. He will be joined with Dr.
Timothy Morris, noted Emily Dickinson scholar and Professor from The University of Texas at Arlington and Susan
Bright, distinguished publisher, poet and editor.
A GATHERING OF POETS 7:00 PM THE CORNER PUB Twenty published poets and the panelist will read their favorite Emily Dickinson poem and one of their own poems followed by an open reading of members of the audience’s favorite of Emily’s work. The books of the invited poets will be available for purchase and signing. Cutting of Emily’s birthday cake will be the finale.
FEBURARY 19TH LARRY HEINEMANN
Close Quarters, his award-winning first novel, has been called the seminal work to come out the Vietnam War. Paco’s Story, his second novel, received the National Book Award for fiction and the Carl Sandburg Literary Arts Award for fiction, among others. Cooler by the Lake was published 1992. Black Virgin Mountain: A Return to Vietnam, a memoir and the third book of his Vietnam trilogy, was published in 2005. Heinemann's short stories and non-fiction have appeared in Atlantic
Monthly, GRAPHIS, Harper’s, Penthouse, Playboy, and Tri-Quarterly magazines, as well as the Vietnam Writers Association Journal
of Arts and Letters (Hanoi), and numerous anthologies including The
Other Side of Heaven, Writing Between the Lines, Vietnam Anthology, Best of
the Tri-Quarterly, Lesebuch der Wilden Manner (Germany), and most recently The
Vintage Book of War Stories. His fiction has been translated into Dutch, German, French, Spanish, and Vietnamese. The novelist has received literature fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2002-03 Heinemann was granted a Fulbright Scholarship to research Vietnamese folklore, legends, and mythology at Hue University.
MARCH 26TH
THE BLANTON PROJECT: ART & POETRY
7:00 PM LSC-MONTGOMERY
Professor
Kurt Heinzelman will lead a reading of ekphrastic poetry and display of the art from the permanent collection of The University of Texas Blanton Art Museum. Kurt Heinzelman is the former Executive Curator at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center where he curated several nationally acclaimed exhibitions, Heinzelman co-founded the award-winning journal, The
Poetry Miscellany; currently, he is Advisory Editor for the Bat
City Review and editor-in-chief of Texas Studies
in Literature and Language. As a poet he has been a multiple nominee for the Pushcart Prize, and his work was selected for the Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards Anthology. His two books of poetry, The Halfway Tree (2000) and Black Butterflies (2004) were both finalists for the Natalie Ornish Award as best poetry book of the year, and in 2005 he was elected to the Texas Institute of Letters. Heinzelman has also written widely on both British Romanticism and Cultural Economics and has translated a variety of poetry from French, Spanish, German, Italian, and Latin. He is the general editor of The
Covarrubias Circle (2004) and Make it New: The Rise
of Modernism (2003). His book The Economics of the
Imagination (1980) was a Choice "Outstanding Academic Book of the Year." photo: Eric Beggs
There will be six distinguished poets reading their ekphrastic poems as well as other poems from the exhibit as slides of the artwork are displayed.
APRIL 23RD WILLIAM WENTHE
7:00 PM LSC-MONTGOMERY
William
Wenthe’s books of poems are Not Till We Are Lost (LSU Press, 2004), which won the Best Book of Poetry Prize from the Texas Institute of Letters; and Birds
of Hoboken (Orchises Press 1995; reprinted 2003). He has received poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Texas Commission on the Arts; his poems have been published in numerous journals, including Poetry, The Paris Review, The Georgia Review, TriQuarterly, The Southern Review, Orion, Chelsea, Tin House, Shenandoah, Ontario Review. His poetry has been highly praised and reviewed in Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and the receipt of two Pushcart Prizes. A verse play of his was set to music by composer Steven Paxton and was produced as a musical drama, Bellini’s War, at Texas Tech University, where he teaches creative writing and modern poetry.
ANNUAL WALT WHITMAN BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
(FIRST WEEK OF MAY, EXACT DATE UNSET)
4:00 PM PANEL OF WHITMAN SCHOLARS LSC-MONTGOMERY
7:00 PM A GATHERING OF POETS THE CORNER PUB (ON THE SQUARE IN CONROE)
For more information, contact Dave Parsons (936) 524-6537.
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