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Saturday, August 31, 2002
The first meeting of the Vermillion Literary Project will be held Friday, September 20, at 4 p.m. in Dakota Hall 201 (the USD Writing Center) on the USD campus. All interested students are invited to attend.
The Vermillion Literary Project is a USD student organization that publishes an annual magazine and promotes literary events. Students of any major, undergraduate or graduate, are invited to join the VLP. Friday, August 30, 2002
Lee Roripaugh traveled to Columbus, Ohio, in May to sit on the Ohio Arts Council Literature Advisory Panel, and gave workshops and a reading on June 20 as part of the Dakota Writing Project's Poetry Day. She was one of four fiction writers selected to read at MMLA's creative writing session in Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 7-9, and was also recently invited to CSU-Fresno to participate in a multicultural poetry symposium sponsored by the Chicano Writer's Association, and an evening reading on November 1. Other featured symposium presenters and evening readers will include Quincy Troupe and Gary Soto, and the evening reading will be given in honor of poet Phil Levine.
Michelle Rogge Gannon attended the National Writing Project's 2002 Rural Institute in Burlington, Vermont from July 27th to August 2nd. Hosted by the local writing project at the University of Vermont, this institute featured teachers from rural sites in Michigan, Arizona, Nebraska, California, Vermont, Georgia, Louisiana, West Virginia, and, of course, South Dakota. Highlights of the institute included demonstrations by the teachers with lots of hands-on writing activities, the teachers' participation in a poetry slam, a brief visit to the Bread Loaf School of English in Middlebury, and a writing marathon that interwove writing with stops at the Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream factory, the Cold Hollow Cider Mill, and the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe (yes, the family that inspired The Sound of Music).
Play by USD English major Harmon performed at USD Sept. 6-7
An opportunity early in the semester to see a play by a USD English major: BILLIONS SERVED by Elliot T. Harmon (Part of Elliot's Honors thesis that is currently underway) Actors: Kari Hammer, Casey Horpedahl, Laura Nesson, David Wheeler, Jeremy Zell, and Elliot Harmon. Friday and Saturday, September 6 and 7, at 8 p.m. in the Arena Theatre (Fine Arts Bldg, USD campus-Vermillion). As Elliot said, "The cost is diddley" [free!]. Thursday, August 29, 2002
USD alumnus Harry Thompson publishes articles in regional journals
"History, Historicity, and the Western American Novel: Frederick Manfred's Scarlet Plume and the Dakota War of 1862," by Harry Thompson (Ph.D., USD '00), was published in Western American Literature 37 (2002): 50-82. His article "Meriwether Lewis and His Son: The Claim of Joseph Desomet Lewis and the Problem of History" was published in North Dakota History: Journal of the Northern Plains 60 (2000): 24-37. Thompson's dissertation, under the direction of Jennifer Jeffers, was a study of the epistemology of difference in the late twentieth-century British novel. He directs the research, conference, and publishing programs at Augustana's Center for Western Studies.
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