Creative Writing Award Winners Read, VLP Magazine Unveiled April 26
April 24, 2012 by English
A message from Vermillion Literary Project faculty adviser Marcella Remund:
Please join us this Thursday evening, April 26, 7 p.m. in the MUC (Muenster University Center) Pit Lounge for the presentation of the English
Department Creative Writing awards. Some of this year's award winners
will be reading their work. The presentation will be followed by the
unveiling of the 2012 VLP magazine, "Kick it into Low Gear" (fingers
crossed that it gets here in time!!), with some of this year's
contributors to the magazine also reading their work. The evening will
be MC'd by this year's VLP Editor-in-Chief, Dan Swanson. Hope to see you
all there!
Marcella Remund
USD Students Travel to Blackfriars Theatre in Staunton, Virginia
April 23, 2012 by English
Everyone, here is a video-story of Assistant Professor Darlene Farabee's trip with her students over spring break to the renowned Blackfriars Theatre in Staunton, Virginia, where they saw Renaissance plays, including the works of Shakespeare, of course. The video-story features students Sammi Geppert, Thai Hoang, and Bethanne Sherard. Technology fellow Morgan Ellefson put together the video-story.
Corroborations 2012 Reception & Reading April 20
April 20, 2012 by English
A message from English Department chair John Dudley:
Dear English faculty and students,
Please note that there will be a reception and reading featuring English majors, graduate students, and faculty today at 4:30 in I.D. Weeks Library. Here is the event announcement:
“Corroborations 2012” is on display in the University Libraries’ 2nd floor Exhibition Cases. This exhibit pairs USD visual arts and poetry majors in order to create new collaborative work and to both broaden acceptance and appreciation. A campus reception for all spring semester University Libraries exhibitions is scheduled for 4:30 – 6:00 p.m. on Friday, April 20, at the University Libraries. Poetry will be read at the reception.
Presentation "Langston Hughes's Snapshots of Haiti" April 23
April 19, 2012 by English
Sarah Ehlers, PhD candidate from the University of Michigan, will present, “Langston Hughes's Snapshots of Haiti: Photography and the Formation of Radical Poetics” this coming Monday, April 23, at 4 p.m. in Beacom 208. This event is free and open to everyone. Join us!
English Dept. Colloqium April 19
April 18, 2012 by English
This colloquium, scheduled for 4 p.m. on Thursday 19, in Farber Hall (Old Main) features two speakers on 19th-century British literature; Valerie Kolbinger will present, “‘When you say that I killed George Talboys, you say the truth’: Misreading in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret” and Stephanie Marcellus will present, “Remaking the Rural Home: Feargus O’Connor’s The Northern Star and Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South.”
Vermillion Writing Marathon April 21
April 17, 2012 by English
Vermillion Writing Marathon SATURDAY, April 21, 1 p.m. - 5 p.m., Muenster University Writing Center, room 216, University of South Dakota: Get in a writing groove! Write with other writers in small groups while exploring Vermillion. We start out in MUC 216 on the USD campus and move to other parts of Vermillion, rain or shine. Bring tools with which to write (pen, paper, and/or laptop computer); bring cash in case your group stops at a coffee shop or café. Wear comfortable walking shoes and/or be prepared to drive; dress appropriately for the weather. This event is free and open to the general public. Marathon conducted by Michelle Rogge Gannon, Writing Center Director and Dakota Writing Project Director. Co-sponsored by the South Dakota Humanities Council, the Writing Center, and the Dakota Writing Project.
VLP Poetry Slam with Gage Wallace March 29
March 22, 2012 by English
Please join the Vermillion Literary Project for the monthly reading & poetry slam, on Thursday, March 29, 7 p.m. in the MUC Pit Lounge (Muenster University Center, Vermillion campus). Our featured guest reader/performer will be Gage Wallace. Gage is a performance poet and actor out of Omaha. As an actor, Gage has worked with a variety of companies across the Midwest, including co-writing and starring in the Minneapolis Fringe hit Red Hamlet. As a poet, Gage has opened for some of the biggest names in spoken word. Last October, he competed at the Individual World Poetry Slam representing Omaha as Omaha's City Slam Champ. Gage has released one chapbook, Scribbles, as well as a full-length spoken word CD, The Heart Is Your Landlord. Gage teaches poetry in high schools across the city as a teaching artist with the Nebraska Writer's Collective. Gage's performance will be followed by a poetry slam open to anyone - slam poets should bring 3 original poems, and prizes will be awarded.
Note - this will be our LAST slam of the school year. Next month, April 26, at 7 p.m., in the MUC Pit Lounge, we will be hosting a reception and reading for those whose work was accepted in this year's VLP Magazine. Everyone is invited to come and hear these talented writers read from their work included in the magazine. You can also purchase copies of the 2012 VLP Magazine at that time.
Workshop for English Majors March 29
March 19, 2012 by English
The Academic & Career Planning Center and the English Department will present the following workshop for English majors and others next week:
What Can I Do With My English Major?
Thursday, March 29
3:30-5 p.m.
MUC 216
Topics will include the following:
- Panel discussion with English alumni on your options after graduation
- Internship & Job Search possibilities
- Building a Résumé
- Writing Cover Letters
- Preparing Graduate School Statements of Purpose
If you need to leave early or come late, that’s no problem. Please mark this on your calendars, and I’ll see you there!
Readings with Zachary Schomburg and Heather Christie April 5
March 16, 2012 by English
Poets Heather Christle and Zachary Schomburg will be joining us for the final event in this year's USD Visiting Writers Reading Series. This event is sponsored by the Department of English and the South Dakota Humanities Council, in celebration of National Poetry Month.
Christle and Schomburg are among two of the most exciting young poets on the contemporary American poetry scene, and you won't want to miss them!
Q&A Panel Presentation: Thursday, April 5, 2:00 p.m., Muenster University Center 216
Poetry Reading: Thursday, April 5, 4:00 p.m., Recital Hall, National Music Museum
Heather Christle is the author of What Is Amazing (Wesleyan University Press, 2012), The Trees The Trees (Octopus Books, 2011), and The Difficult Farm (Octopus Books, 2009). Her poems have appeared in publications including The Believer, Boston Review, Gulf Coast, and The New Yorker. She has taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and at Emory University, where she was the 2009-2011 Poetry Writing Fellow. She is the Web Editor for jubilat and frequently a writer in residence at the Juniper Summer Writing Institute. A native of Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, she lives in Western Massachusetts.
Zachary Schomburg is the author of Fjords (Black Ocean 2012), Scary, No Scary (Black Ocean 2009), The Man Suit (Black Ocean 2007), and a forthcoming book, The Book of Joshua. He is involved with Octopus Books and he lives in Portland, Oregon.
Check out the event's FaceBook page here, including sample poems by Christle and Schomburg, as well as links to their Tumblr pages:
http://www.facebook.com/events/237495116349754/
Playreading: KING JOHN March 18
March 13, 2012 by English
KING JOHN
By William Shakespeare
Sunday 18 March 2012 7 p.m.
Email for location (see details below).
From Professor Darlene Farabee: I am hosting this playreading on Sunday evening partly because Professor Barbara Traister will be visiting from Lehigh University (and giving a lecture the next day). She plans to attend the playreading and this was one of her suggestions of plays she would be particularly interested in. Also, nice to read a history play now, since we’ll be reading Henry V fairly soon after (in April). King John is an early play, both for Shakespeare writing it –and also as an history of an early king of England (reigned 1199-1216). John was son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. It might be one you haven’t read before.
If you are able to come to the reading, email me by noon on Friday and I’ll cast the play on Saturday morning.
Darlene Farabee, darlene.farabee-AT-usd-DOT-edu
Reading featuring Ira Sukrungruang and Katie Riegel March 15
March 12, 2012 by English
Thursday, March 15, 7pm
The English Department’s Visiting Writer Series presents
A reading by Ira Sukrungruang (fiction and creative non-fiction) and Katie Riegel (poetry)
Muenster University Center 216/216A
"Anonymous, Prolific Early Modern Writer" March 19
March 11, 2012 by English
Monday, March 19, 3 p.m.
Professor Barbara Traister from Lehigh University will present the USD English Department colloquium lecture on 19 March, entitled, "Anonymous, Prolific Early Modern Writer." Neuharth Media Center.
CORIOLANUS playreading rescheduled for 13 March 2012
March 11, 2012 by English
A message from Professor Darlene Farabee:
Subject: Playreading; Coriolanus rescheduled
CORIOLANUS
By William Shakespeare
7.30pm Tuesday 13 March 2012
I postponed the Coriolanus reading from last Thursday and am going to hold it on the Tuesday evening after break. I hope this timing will be better for people (who might be more caught up after the spring break). Please respond by Monday morning early, March 12th, and I will cast the play in the afternoon and send out the cast list. If you had responded for the earlier call, please re-commit to the new time if you can make it; I won't assume you are signed up, except I do already have Leroy Meyer and Ed Allen down as able to make the new time. Ralph Fiennes won't be able to make it, unfortunately.
If you are looking forward in your schedule to other playreadings, I plan to have Shakespeare's King John on Sunday 18 March (when Professor Barbara Traister will be visiting from Lehigh University to give an English Department colloquium lecture on 19 March, "Anonymous, Prolific Early Modern Writer" ). And 10 April Tuesday seems a likely date for Henry V (when Robert Haddad will be visiting). I'll send out proper casting notices for those as the time draws nearer. --Darlene Farabee, darlene.farabee-AT-usd-DOT-edu .
Fiction Reading: Jilian Weise Feb. 17
February 17, 2012 by English
Jillian Weise, an assistant professor and a creative writer from Clemson University in South Carolina, will read some of her fiction on Friday, February 17, at 4 p.m. in Farber Hall on the University of South Dakota-Vermillion campus. Everyone is welcome.
Weise's publications include three books, a novel called The Colony (Counterpoint/Soft Skull Press, 2010), a collection of poems called The Amputee's Guide to Sex (Soft Skull Press, 2007), and a chapbook, Translating the Body (All Nations Press, 2006). She has also published poems and stories in numerous journals, such as Pax America, The Antioch Review, New Orleans Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, The Missouri Review, Mississippi Review, Pleiades, Tin House, The Atlantic Monthly, Red Rock Review, and Michigan Quarterly Review.
Fiction Reading with Fred Arroyo Feb. 15
February 09, 2012 by English
Writer and Assistant Professor Fred Arroyo from Whittier College in California will read some of his fiction at 4 p.m. Wednesday, February 15, in the Muenster University Center 211/211A. This event is free and open to all. Join us.
Professor Arroyo's published works include two books, Western Avenue and Other Fictions (University of Arizona Press, 2012) and The Region of Lost Names: A Novel (University of Arizona Press, 2008); short stories in literary journals such as The Platte Valley Review, Grasslands Review, Quercus Review, Pinyon, and Crab Orchard Review: A Journal of Creative Works; and essays, poems, reviews, and interviews published in a variety of journals. He is currently an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in English, in the Department of English Language and Literature at Whittier College in Whittier, California.
