Everyone is invited to attend the Vermillion Literary Project's Poetry Slam, scheduled for Thursday, May 20th at 7 p.m., at the Coffee Shop Gallery, 24 W. Main Street, downtown Vermillion. A poetry slam is a competition for poets; for more information, visit http://www.usd.edu/~projlit/vlpslam.cfm . Poets, bring at least three poems if you plan to slam. Prizes will be awarded!

Please note that we are holding this slam one week earlier than usual (May 20th) to avoid Memorial Day weekend. This will also be our last poetry slam with Craig Arnold as our slam master.
posted by Michelle Rogge Gannon at 5:18 PM

Congratulations to the following scholarship and award winners:

Margaret B. Sanger Scholarships:

Bobbi Olson
Amanda Sides
Trevor Cole
Michelle Dahl
Amber Drevecky
Krystal Kirwan
Andrea Maddox
Kate Anderson
Laura Jones
Carmen Graber
Lisha VonEhwegen
Erin Solko
Adam Fischer
Jennifer Pohlman
Amanda Hofer
Maureen Koenig
Alexandra Albrecht
Jessica Larson
Amber Wegehaupt
Sara Kniffen
Adriane Raba

Sigurd & Vivian D. Anderson Scholarships:

Lucy Connealy
Wayen Venhuizen

Alvina & Robert Hall Scholarships:

Rebekah Mulder
Teramie Jerred

English Department Memorial Endowment Awards:

Renee Della Fave
Theo Bohn
Tom Klett

Dorothy Baisch Selz Memorial Scholarships:

Erin Kaufman
Jeremy Christensen

John G. Dow Award:

Melissa Houghton

Elizabeth Shreves Awards:

Courtney Huse-Wika
Amber Wilde
Jennifer Zimmerman

Archer B. Gilfillan Awards:

Beverly Brown
Courtney Huse-Wika
Melissa Houghton
Joel Waters
Erin Kaufman
Tiffany Jaspers
Coulter Ouradnik
Jake Mailander

Gertrude B. Gunderson Award:

Homer White Lance

Gladys J. Hasse Poetry Prizes:

Jennifer Bielen

Betty Beasom Crew Scholarships:

Kari Hammer
Ryan Allen
Cecilia Ragaini
Renee Richards

Elbert W. & Marjorie Harrington Book Award:

Renee Foughty

posted by Anonymous at 2:25 PM

Patti DiMond will have three articles, one on James Welch, one on Wendy Rose, and one on Janet Campbell Hale, published in the Encyclopedia of Ethnic American Literature.

Nancy Zuercher and Michelle Rogge Gannon will co-direct the Dakota Writing Project Summer Institute in June. This institute's participants are teachers from kindergarten through college, in a variety of disciplines, from all over the state. Planned events include a visit from Philadelphia Writing Project teacher Shirley Brown, a writing marathon, and demonstrations by former DWP SI participants.

Norma Wilson will speak about her book "One Room Country School: South Dakota Stories" at the annual meeting of the Rural School Historical Society on June 6.
Norma will speak on "Literary Responses to Spirit Mound" at the Lewis and Clark Festival, to be held at the W.H. Over Museum on August 25.

posted by Anonymous at 2:22 PM