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Friday, February 21, 2003
VLP Annual Poetry FestivalThe Vermillion Literary Project (VLP) is getting ready to hold its annual poetry festival, scheduled for Thursday, February 27th. You, your students, and others you know who might be interested are welcome to participate in all or any of the events. Lee Ann Roripaugh and Nebraska “slam” poet Matt Mason will hold poetry workshops during the festival (registration required for the workshops). Lee Ann and Matt will also do a noontime reading, and there will be a community open-mic reading and poetry slam in the evening, with Matt acting as slam master for the poetry slam. To register and find out more information, visit here. Thursday, February 20, 2003
Jan Hausmann will be presenting a paper “A Musical Reading of In Our Time” at the American Literature Association Conference at Boston in May. Her presentation will be part of a panel on Hemingway and Intertextuality moderated by Robert Trogdon and Hilary Justice.
Michelle Rogge Gannon and Nancy Zuercher will present “Running a Writing Marathon Prairie Style” at the National Writing Project (NWP) Rural Sites Retreat, March 1 in Tucson, Arizona. Their presentation will share the story of the Dakota Writing Project’s Fall 2002 Writing Marathon and also involve participants in a mini-writing marathon. The workshop builds on Nancy and Michelle’s collective experience of running two writing marathons, NWP’s writing marathon in Baltimore (2001), and Natalie Goldberg’s chapter in Writing Down the Bones.
NCTE has named Nancy Zuercher as judge for the 2003 Promising Young Writers program. The program aims “to stimulate and recognize students’ writing talents… among eighth grade students.”
Ed Allen’s “Penny Ante,” an article on gambling which was originally published in GQ, has been reprinted in The Greatest Gambling Stories Ever Told, edited by Paul Lyons.
Ed has also been awarded a Technology Enrichment Grant by the CIDD (Center for Instructional Design and Delivery), for the purpose of adapting WebCT for his playwriting class. The award comes with a $500 grant for books and software.
Patti DiMond will present her paper “Resisting Assimilation and Remaining Indian: Survival in James Welch’s Heartsong of Charging Elk” at the Southwest Texas Popular Culture Association in Albuquerque, New Mexico on February 14th.
Patti will also be presenting a paper entitled “Climbing into a New World: The Poetry of Wendy Rose” as part of a panel discussion with Dr. Norma Wilson, Victor Singingeagle, and Cecilia Ragaini at the American Culture Association on April 16th in New Orleans.
Norma Wilson and her husband Jerry Wilson presented a reading at the Sioux Falls Public Library on January 16, 2003. Each also conducted a writing workshop that afternoon at Memorial and Whittier Middle Schools. Their presentations were part of the Y Writer’s Voice, sponsored by the Sioux Falls YMCA and the South Dakota Arts Council.
Norma will meet with the South Dakota Center for the Book Board of Advisors on February 22-23, 2003 in Gregory, South Dakota
Emily Haddad presented “Eating Economically: Food and Imperial Espionage in Kipling’s Kim (1900)” at the 118th MLA convention in New York on December 27, 2002. Her presentation was part of the panel Eating Out East: Food and Empire at the End of the Nineteenth Century.
Emily also presented “Domestic Commonality and National Difference: Women’s Identity in Felicia Hemans’s Records of Woman” for Special Session of Representations of Domesticity in Women’s Poetry at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association’s Convention 2002 in Baltimore, Maryland on November 15.
Tom Gasque is the guest editor of the 2003 volume of Onoma, the official journal of the International Congress of Onomastic Sciences. The theme of the 2003 issue is “Names in North America,” and Tom is receive and editing papers on all aspects and naming in the U.S. and Canada. The paper that he read at the 2001 Names Institute in New York City has recently been published in the Conference Proceedings: “Placenames in the Lewis and Clark Journals.” A Garland of Names: Selected Papers of the Fortieth Names Institute. Ed. Wayne H. Finke and Leonard R. N. Ashley. East Rockaway, NY: Cummings & Hathaway, 2003. 53-59.
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