For those of who are or will be in the Vermillion area on these dates, these events may interest you. . . . .

March 3, 4:00:

Ken Waldman, Alaska's Fiddling Poet, will be giving a poetry reading/musical performance on Thursday, March 3, at 4:00 p.m. in Farber Hall (Old Main) on the USD campus. 

Waldman, a former college professor and a nineteen-year Alaska resident, has had more than 400 poems and stories published in national journals, including several appearances in SOUTH DAKOTA REVIEW.  Waldman has worked full time for a decade as Alaska's Fiddling Poet.  His two full-length poetry collections are published by West End Press and
distributed by University of New Mexico Press. His three CDs have received widespread airplay.  Though he still performs solo on occasion, he sometimes teams with other musicians when he headlines such venues as Freight and Salvage in Berkeley, Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis, or for festival or concert series appearances.  Waldman's visit to Vermillion is made possible by a grant from the South Dakota Humanities
Council.


March 16, 4:00:

Jeanne Emmons, author of a volume of poetry titled ROOTBOUND, and a Professor of English at Briar Cliff University, will be giving a poetry reading on Wednesday, March 16, at 4:00 p.m. in Farber Hall (Old Main), on the USD campus.  Emmons' visit is made possible by I.D. Weeks Library and a grant from the South Dakota Humanities Council.
posted by Michelle Rogge Gannon at 8:32 AM

Write your own poems at workshops led by professional writers Lee Ann Roripaugh, Sarah McKinstry-Brown, and Matt Mason, attend a noontime reading with Roripaugh and McKinstry-Brown, and enjoy yourself at a final event, the VLP Poetry Slam in the evening, featuring Matt Mason! It's the Vermillion Literary Project Poetry Festival! A good time will be had by all.

To get details and to register, see http://www.usd.edu/~projlit/poetryfestival.html.
posted by Michelle Rogge Gannon at 1:18 PM

Read carefully, creative writers. . . .

DEADLINE MARCH 1,2005

BARBARA STEVENS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP

$300, $200, $100  offered by SOUTH DAKOTA STATE POETRY SOCIETY, Inc        

For South Dakota high school seniors and students not over age 23 who are attending/will attend a trade school, college or university in South Dakota.

Each entry will consist of five original poems on any subject,  no longer than one page each. Send two typed copies of each poem (only one poem per sheet)

On one copy, in upper left corner, type:

Student's name
Complete mailing address
Age as of March 1, 2005

The second copy must have nothing except the poem.

You may send poetry which has been entered in other contests or which has been published only in high school, college or other local publications.

The prizes-first, second, third will go as scholarships to the winners.

DEADLINE: Mail by March 1, 2005   
       

Mail to: Emma Dimit
        2656 N. 56th St. 235G
        Mesa AZ. 85215-1309

Some of the winners’ poems will be published in PASQUE PETALS with copyrights reverting to the poets. South Dakota State Poetry Society may include all or parts of winning poems in publicity items submitted to South Dakota news media.  Publicity will be completed within 60 days of announcement of the winners.

For further information write to:
       

David Evans, S D Poet Laureate
        English Department
        South Dakota State University
        Brookings,  SD   57007
        (evanspl@brookings.net)

                      
posted by Michelle Rogge Gannon at 4:27 PM