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Barillas Colloquium, Nov 6, "LGBTQ Literature of the Midwest"

Professor William Barillas will present “LGBTQ Literature of the Midwest."

It will be Friday November 6, 2:30-3:30pm, 117 Wimberly Hall.

This is our first Colloquium of the 2009-2010 William J. and Yvonne Hyde English Colloquium Series.

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This particular colloquium is co-sponsored by the English Department, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; the UW-L Pride Center; and Rainbow Unity.

Visiting Poet: Amaud Jamaul Johnson

November 4th  5:30PM
UW-L Cleary Center

Winner of the Dorset Prize for Red Summer, Johnson writes of race riots that swept the United States in the summer of 1919.  He examines lynching, domestic violence, and love in haunting, passionate poems marked by a tender lyrical quality inspired by the blues, underscored by music so unsettling it leaves the voices and names of the dead lingering in the ear. (Tupelo Press)                             

"These lyrical poems offer insight into the summer of 1919, when nearly 100 African-Americans were publicly executed (14 of them were soldiers who served in World War I), even as they illuminate the lives of African-American men today."--Heather Lee Schroeder

"Johnson's Red Summer startles and impresses with its sheer range of vision, at one moment giving us a hushed, confessional poem, at another a poem of public, political consciousness… Johnson's poems remind us that the human record is at last a mixed one: violence, shame, betrayal, and fear, but also joy, courage, love and, yes, hope."-Carl Phillips
                                                                    
A native of Compton, California, Johnson received his BA in English from Howard University and a MPS in African American Studies from Cornell University.  A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford, he is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin—Madison.

Hosted by the UW-L English Department and funded through support of a UW-L College of Liberal Studies Visiting Artist of Color Grant.

Hart Colloquium, May 1

"Making a Mockery of Mimicry, and the Character of Intertextuality in Salman Rushdie’s Shame"

David Hart
UW-L English Department

Friday May 1
Room 207, Wimberly Hall
2:30-3:30pm

 

 

All are welcome to attend.

Brought to you by the UW–L English Department’s 2008–2009 William J. and Yvonne Hyde Colloquium Series

Guest Author: Robin Hemley 4/21

Author of Do Over!: in which a 48-year-old father of three returns to kindergarten, summer camp, the prom, and other embarrassments comes to campus April 21, 2009. Check out his presentation in the Cleary Alumni Center at 5pm.

Mary Wang Presentation, 3/27

Mary Wang, author of Turning Bricks Into Jade: Critical Incidents for Mutual Understanding Among Chinese and Americans, will visit on March 27th. 

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Watsky Event, 3/5

Thursday, March 5th, 2008
7pm in Valhalla CC

A college student and undisputed backtalk champion, George Watsky has already achieved so much in his young career. He is not afraid to bring up subjects such as politics, class hierarchies, and schoolyard etiquette. Watsky won the Youth Speaks Poetry Grand Slam Finals in March 2006 with a perfect score. Later that year, he won Robert Redford's Sundance Summit Award for poetry on climate change. In 2007, he was on the sixth season of Russell Simmons presents Def Poetry on HBO.

This event is sponsored by the Campus Activities Board and the English Club. Tickets go on sale February 12, 2009. It's free for UW-L students who present their IDs. The event costs $3 for faculty and staff and $5 for general public.

Eschenbaum Colloquium, 3/6

Natalie K. Eschenbaum will present

Outrageous Grossness: A Taste of Robert Herrick
Friday, March 6,
Room 207, Wimberly Hall,
2:30-3:30pm

Brought to you by the UW-L English Department's 2008-2009 William J and Yvonne Hyde Colloquium Series.

All invited to attend.

Speak! 2009

Don't forget to come to English Club's open mic night. Professors and students are encouraged to read poetry and stories, even play music or show off other talents!

This happens the first Wednesday of every month. The first one of 2009 will be February 4th, followed by March 4th, and finally April 1st. Meet us in the Cellar in the basement of Cartwright from 8pm to 10pm. Grab a late dinner while you’re there. We look forward to seeing you.

--The English Club

Barillas Colloquium, 2/6

William Barillas and Band will present a literary and musical tribute to Buddy Holly, "Not Fade Away: Buddy Holly 50 Years Later."

Friday, February 6, 2009, 2:30-3:30pm
260 Graff Main Hall (Auditorium)

All are welcome to attend.

Creative Writing Event, 12/2

In case you didn’t read all about it in the Campus Connexion, there is to be a creative writing event this evening, Dec. 2, in Cleary Center at 7:00 p.m.  Students from all creative writing classes are reading from their best work of the semester, and we have some outstanding writers.  There will be poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction.  To entice you further, there will be hot cider and cookies.  Matt, Bill, and I would love to welcome many of you!

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Carla Graham