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Professor Mark Busby’s article, “The Slave Narrative from Frederick Douglass to William Styron’s The Confessions of Nat Turner to Nate Parker’s Birth of a Nation,” appears in the Texas College English Association’s 2017 Scholarship and Creativity Journal. Mark also attended the Texas/Southwest Popular Culture Association meeting in Albuquerque, NM, February 8-11 and read new poems and poems from his 2017 book Through Our Years.
Professor Robert T. Tally will give an invited talk titled “The Geocritical Moment” on February 16 at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. During Spring Break, Rob will be giving another invited talk titled “Topophrenic Reading: Literary Criticism after the Spatial Turn” at the University of Lund, Sweden.
A poem by Assistant Professor Cecily Parks titled “What If The Luminous” appears on the wall of the Texas State Galleries as part of the exhibit Glen Rose Formation, by Grammy-nominated artist Stuart Hyatt. The exhibit will be on view until March 4. Her poem is inspired by Mary McGrath Curry, who discovered the Cave Without a Name in Boerne, TX. A concert in the Cave Without a Name on Saturday, March 3 at 7 pm will feature audio recordings of Mary McGrath Curry reading the poem. https://txstgalleries.org/
Lecturer Ross Feeler’s short story, “The Noise of Departure,” will appear in the Potomac Review this fall. Ross also presented a paper entitled “We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Die: Memory as Narrative in Hemingway’s ‘Snows of Kilimanjaro’ and Silko’s ‘Lullaby’” at the Southwest Popular/American Culture conference in Albuquerque last weekend.
Coming Soon:
Teaching Assistant Wade Martin will host and emcee a poetry reading at the San Marcos Farmer’s Market at 120 E. San Antonio Street on February 24 from 10:30 am to 11:30 pm. The reading will feature Wade, Autumn Hayes, Kevin Adams, Faylita Hicks, and Elizabeth Bayou-Grace. Elizabeth and Cassandra Belle will also do a song swap. A.R. Rogers will write individualized spontaneous poems on manual typewriters after the reading.
On February 27 from noon-1 in the Open Theatre (2nd floor of Alkek Library), Wade Martin and Liz King will host “Lunch Poems @ Alkek.” The reading will feature James Thompson, Claudia Cardona, Dallas Klein, A.R. Rogers, and Katie Kistler. Undergraduate students will also read. For more information: http://guides.library.txstate.edu/lunchpoems.
On Thursday, March 1 at 7 pm, MFA alum Michael Noll will be launching his fantastic new book, The Writer’s Field Guide, and discussing the project with Bret Anthony Johnston at BookPeople in Austin. As BookPeople puts it, the book, “offers a refreshing approach to the craft of fiction writing. It takes a single page from forty contemporary novels and short stories, identifies techniques used by the writers, and presents approachable exercises and prompts that allow anyone to put those techniques to immediate use in their own work. Encompassing everything from micro (how to “write pretty”) to macro (how to “move through time space”), and even how to put all together on page one, this is a field guide for anyone who wants to start writing now.” Noll will sign copies after the discussion. BookPeople is located at 603 N. Lamar Blvd, Austin, TX 78703.