FOUR-DAY WORKSHOP AT WVU
West Virginia Writers’ Workshop. Four days of workshops, panel discussions, readings and lectures. July 17-July 20, 2008. Faculty includes Mark Brazaitis, Denise Duhamel, Brian Henry, and Sheri Reynolds. Also Nick Carbo, James Harms, John Hoppenthaler, Renee K. Nicholson and Jane Varley. Click here for information.
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Almost Tomorrow by Ray Nargis (Raven Productions) has edged its way into the top 10 contemporary bestsellers at poetryfoundation.org.
Nargis’ poems are plainspoken.
An excerpt:
When I am old I’ll have a dog named Sam Peckinpaw
And some summer’s morning I’ll lock up the house
And old Sam and I will walk over to see to see one of my sons
Even if he lives two states away.
When I am old I’ll tell people exactly what I think of them
And surprisingly, most of the time it really will be good stuff.
When I am old I won’t have a TV
And I won’t have a radio
And I won’t have a computer or a clock or a phone in the house.
I won’t read books and I won’t read magazines
And I won’t read newspapers and maybe, finally
I’ll learn something just watching the birds and the weather.
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Also:
Public lecture by Philip J. Deloria: “A Generation of Pain: Thoughts on Writing Race and Gender; Identity and Subjectivity; and Family History/Family Memoir” … 7:30 p.m., Thursday, June 5, 2008, 130 Colson Hall, WVU downtown campus … free and open to the public … This lecture will kick off a June 5-8 seminar called “Exploring the Family Drama: Race, Gender, Memory, and Narrative” … The seminar reservation deadline has passed, but for more information, contact the WVU Department of English at (304) 293-3107 or click here for online information.
