Come to hear award-winning writer Lee Ann Roripaugh read her poetry. This will be followed by a POETRY SLAM, a competition for poets. (Slam poets, bring at least three poems.)

Thursday, September 30th, 7 p.m.
Coffee Shop Gallery
24 W. Main Street, downtown Vermillion

Lee Ann Roripaugh's first volume of poetry, Beyond Heart Mountain, was selected by noted author and critic Ishmael Reed for the National Poetry Series and was also a finalist for the 2000 Asian American Literature Awards. Her second volume of poetry, Year of the Snake, was a winner in the 2003 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Awards. Roripaugh has published her work in numerous journals, including Ploughshares, North American Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, South Dakota Review, Puerto del Sol, Quarterly West, and Crab Orchard Review.  Roripaugh was also the recipient of a 2003 Artist Fellowship from the Archibald Bush Foundation. Other honors include an Academy of American Poets Prize, an AWP Intro Award, and the 1995 Randall Jarrell International Poetry Prize. Her poetry has also been selected for inclusion in various anthologies, including Poets of the New Century, Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation, and Contempora.

Sponsored by the Vermillion Literary Project, a USD student organization. For more information, visit www.usd.edu/~projlit or call 677-5229.
posted by Michelle Rogge Gannon at 11:10 AM

Renowned feminist literary scholar Susan Gubar of Indiana University will present a lecture at USD as part of the USD English Department Colloquium Series. Her lecture is entitled “The Once and Future History of Sex and Gender” from her book manuscript, In Rooms of Our Own. The lecture will take place at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, October 15, 2004, in the Conference Room of the Al Neuharth Media Center.

Susan Gubar is best known for her groundbreaking feminist literary study written with Sandra M. Gilbert, The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Yale UP, 1979). This work was nominated for The Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Gilbert and Gubar are also responsible for The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Tradition in English (Norton, 1985, revised 1996). While feminism has been the principal focus of her work (and widely anthologized), Susan Gubar has also written on race, Racechanges: White Skin, Black Face in American Culture (Oxford UP, 1997), and Holocaust Poetry after Auschwitz: Remembering What One Never Knew (Indiana UP, 2003).

Her lecture promises to be provocative. Please share this announcement with others who might be interested. --Skip Willman
posted by Michelle Rogge Gannon at 11:04 AM

USD students, you're invited to attend the first of the USD Writing Center's Wednesday evening workshops, scheduled for Wednesday, 9/8, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. in ID Weeks Library, room 205. Jill Tyler of Speech Communication will be conducting a workshop on "Selecting a Topic." No pre-registration is required, and the workshop is free.

The description of the first workshop follows:

Selecting a Topic (Wed. Sept. 8th): This session addresses the processes of selecting a topic appropriate for a given assignment.  Students experiment with a variety of ways in which to find and choose topics that are clearly defined, appropriate in length and breadth, and interesting to reader and writer alike.  Session conducted by Prof. Jill Tyler, Speech Communication.

posted by Michelle Rogge Gannon at 10:17 AM