JUNE 28th, 2008:
Young Writers Workshop Participant Reading
Cisne Auditorium, Pulliam Hall 34, 1:30 PM
Come hear our award-winning young writers read from their work!
As director, I'd like to offer huge thanks for the great job this year done by my dynamic and talented YWW Staff.
Big props to Josh Woods, Andy McFadyen-Ketchum, Jenna Bazzell, Azizat Danmole, Rachel Furey, Renee Evans, Kerry James Evans, Travis Mossotti, Rachna Sheth, Amie Whittemore, Alex Lumans, Abby Wheetley, and Jason Lee Brown.
Thanks, Pinckney Benedict, for your wisdom and support.
And thanks to our guests: the fabulous Matt Guenette and the inimitable Blair.
Special thanks goes to Pat Eckert and Kim Goforth of the Division of Continuing Education for all their logistical help.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Friday, June 27, 2008
Some Detroit Love for the Young Writers Workshop
Readings today at the Young Writers Workshop:
JUNE 27th, 2008:
SIUC Graduate Creative Writers Reading:
Rachel Furey, Azizat Danmole, Rachna Sheth & Amie Whittemore
Faner Hall 1005, 4-5 PM
Guest Reader/Performer: Blair
Faner Hall 1325 (Harry T. Moore Auditorium), 8 PM
Blair is a poet/singer-songwriter/performer/spoken word artist whose work, in the words of Metro Times "focuses on the hope that rises from the ashes of despair." Blair is a National Poetry Slam Champion (2002 Team Detroit) and Detroit Grand Slam Champion (2003). He's been named Best Solo Artist by Real Detroit Weekly Readers' Poll and has been written about in periodicals around the country and overseas including Performing Songwriter Magazine, Hour Detroit Magazine and The Bay Area Times.
Allison says: If Richie Havens, Walt Whitman, and Phillip Levine had a literary and musical love child, that offspring would sound like Blair.
Hear for yourself:
Blalr's My Space Page
JUNE 27th, 2008:
SIUC Graduate Creative Writers Reading:
Rachel Furey, Azizat Danmole, Rachna Sheth & Amie Whittemore
Faner Hall 1005, 4-5 PM
Guest Reader/Performer: Blair
Faner Hall 1325 (Harry T. Moore Auditorium), 8 PM
Blair is a poet/singer-songwriter/performer/spoken word artist whose work, in the words of Metro Times "focuses on the hope that rises from the ashes of despair." Blair is a National Poetry Slam Champion (2002 Team Detroit) and Detroit Grand Slam Champion (2003). He's been named Best Solo Artist by Real Detroit Weekly Readers' Poll and has been written about in periodicals around the country and overseas including Performing Songwriter Magazine, Hour Detroit Magazine and The Bay Area Times.
Allison says: If Richie Havens, Walt Whitman, and Phillip Levine had a literary and musical love child, that offspring would sound like Blair.
Hear for yourself:
Blalr's My Space Page
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Young Writers Workshop Reading Series: June 26, 2008
The Young Writers Workshop Reading Series continues with a visit from SIUC MFA alum Matt Guenette!
Matt will read at 8 pm in Faner Hall's Harry T. Moore Auditorium today. Here's a taste of Matt's poetry, the infamous poem "Sestina Aguilera."
Verse Daily
About Matt:
His first book, Sudden Anthem, won the 2007 American Poetry Journal Book Prize, and will be published by Dream Horse Press in Winter/Spring 2008. His chapbook, Hush of Something Endless, is available from Ropewalk Press.
More Matt Links:
Dream Horse Press
Ropewalk Press
Matt will read at 8 pm in Faner Hall's Harry T. Moore Auditorium today. Here's a taste of Matt's poetry, the infamous poem "Sestina Aguilera."
Verse Daily
About Matt:
His first book, Sudden Anthem, won the 2007 American Poetry Journal Book Prize, and will be published by Dream Horse Press in Winter/Spring 2008. His chapbook, Hush of Something Endless, is available from Ropewalk Press.
More Matt Links:
Dream Horse Press
Ropewalk Press
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Young Writers Workshop Reading Series: June 25, 2008
Here are the readings for June 25, 2008:
JUNE 25th, 2008:
SIUC Graduate Creative Writers Reading:
Jenna Bazzell, Kerry James Evans, Alex Lumans & Travis Mossotti
Faner Hall 1005, 4-5 PM
SIUC Faculty Reading: Allison Joseph (with grad student Will Tyler)
Faner Hall 1326, Harry T. Moore Auditorium, 8PM
JUNE 25th, 2008:
SIUC Graduate Creative Writers Reading:
Jenna Bazzell, Kerry James Evans, Alex Lumans & Travis Mossotti
Faner Hall 1005, 4-5 PM
SIUC Faculty Reading: Allison Joseph (with grad student Will Tyler)
Faner Hall 1326, Harry T. Moore Auditorium, 8PM
Young Writers Workshop begins today!
SIUC's Young Writers Workshop begins its tenth annual session today! Twenty-seven high school students from five different states will be on the SIUC campus from today through Saturday writing and talking writing with creative writing faculty and graduate students. Tonight, SIUC fiction faculty member Pinckney Benedict will read from his work at 8 pm in Faner's Harry T. Moore Auditorium. This reading is free and open to the public.
More about the fabulous Mr. Benedict:
Pinckney's Wikipedia entry
More about the fabulous Mr. Benedict:
Pinckney's Wikipedia entry
Friday, June 20, 2008
Congrats to Kathryn Kerr (MFA '00)!
Great news this afternoon from Kathryn Kerr (MFA '00, poetry). Her chapbook, Turtles All the Way Down, was a top ten finalist in the Finishing Line Press New Women's Voices Series. She has been offered a publication contract for the chapbook!
Congrats, KK!
About New Women's Voices and Finishing Line Press:
Finishing Line
Congrats, KK!
About New Women's Voices and Finishing Line Press:
Finishing Line
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Young Writers Workshop Reading Series
Here's the official news release about the Young Writers Workshop's annual Reading Series:
Free and Open to the Public
Free and Open to the Public
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Catching Up With Jim Harris (1990)
Just received this from Jim Harris--Jim was here before I came to SIUC!
"Hello Allison!
I'm an ancient alumnus of the SIU writing program (1990). Perhaps before it was a program. Just writing in support of your blog! Fantastic to see what's happening at my old school. I have fond memories of SIU where Rodney Jones was my mentor and I, of course, never wrote another poem after that. Ha! But I have written a couple novels since then.
If it's worth mentioning on your blog, I have a new novel out called, A Bottle of Rain, Livingston Press, University of West Alabama (September, 2007). It's my second novel and it's been nominated for a Pen USA award for writers west of the Mississippi. It's available in both hardback and trade paperback.
My first novel, Nowhere Near the Sea of Cortez, was published in 2001. It was a Small Press Review Pick that year.
I am currently hard at work on my third novel, As God Looked On. It's actually almost done. It's being edited by one of William Gay's previous editors (I believe I'm more proud of that than anything so far...)"
Thanks for the blog love, Jim!
"Hello Allison!
I'm an ancient alumnus of the SIU writing program (1990). Perhaps before it was a program. Just writing in support of your blog! Fantastic to see what's happening at my old school. I have fond memories of SIU where Rodney Jones was my mentor and I, of course, never wrote another poem after that. Ha! But I have written a couple novels since then.
If it's worth mentioning on your blog, I have a new novel out called, A Bottle of Rain, Livingston Press, University of West Alabama (September, 2007). It's my second novel and it's been nominated for a Pen USA award for writers west of the Mississippi. It's available in both hardback and trade paperback.
My first novel, Nowhere Near the Sea of Cortez, was published in 2001. It was a Small Press Review Pick that year.
I am currently hard at work on my third novel, As God Looked On. It's actually almost done. It's being edited by one of William Gay's previous editors (I believe I'm more proud of that than anything so far...)"
Thanks for the blog love, Jim!
Monday, June 16, 2008
Poemspotting: Kathryn Kerr
New poems by Kathryn Kerr (MFA '00, poetry) appear in the literary journal Blueline,a literary magazine dedicated to the spirit of the Adirondacks. The poems are " I've Done Enough Burning" and "The Best Poem I've Seen:"
Find out more about Blueline here:
Blueline
Find out more about Blueline here:
Blueline
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Catching Up With James Miller (MFA'07)
The irrepressible James Miller (MFA '07, poetry) has some funky good news to share, delivered as only he can:
I finagled a few more publications in the new Blackbird, replete with a cant-ish introduction, nice words (even though they called the poems "postmodern"; slang for smarmy to me), but still, I'm ecstatic to be in the same issue as Norman Dubie and Claudia Emerson.
And I won a Tennessee Williams Scholarship to Sewanee for the summer (figure I'll dress like Big Daddy/Matlock). I've been going to and fro between the ATL and Delta, teaching classes, planting corn and playing the off gig in my favorite places, juke joints. WBAD, the soul station I always wrote about, is back up and running. Thank Yahweh and Tyrone Davis.
Congrats, James!
Link to the Blackbird poems by James:
James in Blackbird
I finagled a few more publications in the new Blackbird, replete with a cant-ish introduction, nice words (even though they called the poems "postmodern"; slang for smarmy to me), but still, I'm ecstatic to be in the same issue as Norman Dubie and Claudia Emerson.
And I won a Tennessee Williams Scholarship to Sewanee for the summer (figure I'll dress like Big Daddy/Matlock). I've been going to and fro between the ATL and Delta, teaching classes, planting corn and playing the off gig in my favorite places, juke joints. WBAD, the soul station I always wrote about, is back up and running. Thank Yahweh and Tyrone Davis.
Congrats, James!
Link to the Blackbird poems by James:
James in Blackbird
Thursday, June 12, 2008
What Time Is It? Young Writers Time!
The Young Writers Workshop, SIUC's creative writing workshop for teens age 15-18, is back again for another summer! With the workshop comes a series of poetry and prose readings by SIUC faculty, graduate students and guest writers. You are cordially invited to attend any of the readings below, as they are free and open to the public.
10th Anniversary of the Young Writers Workshop Summer 2008 Reading Series
All Readings are Free and Open to the Public
JUNE 24th, 2008:
SIUC Faculty Reading: Pinckney Benedict
Faner 1326, Harry T. Moore Auditorium, 8 PM
JUNE 25th, 2008:
SIUC Graduate Creative Writers Reading:
Jenna Bazzell, Kerry James Evans, Alex Lumans & Travis Mossotti
Faner Hall 1005, 4-5 PM
SIUC Faculty Reading: Allison Joseph
Faner Hall 1326, Harry T. Moore Auditorium, 8PM
JUNE 26th, 2008:
SIUC Graduate Creative Writers Reading:
Renee Evans, Josh Woods, Abby Wheetley & Andy McFadyen-Ketchum
Faner Hall 1005, 4-5 PM
Guest Reader: Matt Guenette
Faner Hall 1326, Harry T. Moore Auditorium, 8 PM
JUNE 27th, 2008:
SIUC Graduate Creative Writers Reading:
Rachel Furey, Azizat Danmole, Rachna Sheth & Amie Whittemore
Faner Hall 1005, 4-5 PM
Guest Reader/Performer: Blair
Faner Hall 1325 (Harry T. Moore Auditorium), 8 PM
JUNE 28th, 2008:
Young Writers Workshop Participant Reading
Cisne Auditorium, Pulliam Hall 34, 1:30 PM
About our guest readers:
Matt Guenette is a 1999 graduate of the SIUC MFA program. He is the author of the poetry collections A Hush of Something Endless, a chapbook from Ropewalk Press, and Sudden Anthem, the 2007 winner of the American Poetry Journal Book Prize (Dream Horse Press). He lives, writes and teaches in Madison, Wisconsin.
More about Matt:
Matt's Blog
Blair is a poet/singer-songwriter/performer/spoken word artist whose work, in the words of Metro Times "focuses on the hope that rises from the ashes of despair." Blair is a National Poetry Slam Champion (2002 Team Detroit) and Detroit Grand Slam Champion (2003). He's been named Best Solo Artist by Real Detroit Weekly Readers' Poll and has been written about in periodicals around the country and overseas including Performing Songwriter Magazine, Hour Detroit Magazine and The Bay Area Times.
Blair's My Space Page
10th Anniversary of the Young Writers Workshop Summer 2008 Reading Series
All Readings are Free and Open to the Public
JUNE 24th, 2008:
SIUC Faculty Reading: Pinckney Benedict
Faner 1326, Harry T. Moore Auditorium, 8 PM
JUNE 25th, 2008:
SIUC Graduate Creative Writers Reading:
Jenna Bazzell, Kerry James Evans, Alex Lumans & Travis Mossotti
Faner Hall 1005, 4-5 PM
SIUC Faculty Reading: Allison Joseph
Faner Hall 1326, Harry T. Moore Auditorium, 8PM
JUNE 26th, 2008:
SIUC Graduate Creative Writers Reading:
Renee Evans, Josh Woods, Abby Wheetley & Andy McFadyen-Ketchum
Faner Hall 1005, 4-5 PM
Guest Reader: Matt Guenette
Faner Hall 1326, Harry T. Moore Auditorium, 8 PM
JUNE 27th, 2008:
SIUC Graduate Creative Writers Reading:
Rachel Furey, Azizat Danmole, Rachna Sheth & Amie Whittemore
Faner Hall 1005, 4-5 PM
Guest Reader/Performer: Blair
Faner Hall 1325 (Harry T. Moore Auditorium), 8 PM
JUNE 28th, 2008:
Young Writers Workshop Participant Reading
Cisne Auditorium, Pulliam Hall 34, 1:30 PM
About our guest readers:
Matt Guenette is a 1999 graduate of the SIUC MFA program. He is the author of the poetry collections A Hush of Something Endless, a chapbook from Ropewalk Press, and Sudden Anthem, the 2007 winner of the American Poetry Journal Book Prize (Dream Horse Press). He lives, writes and teaches in Madison, Wisconsin.
More about Matt:
Matt's Blog
Blair is a poet/singer-songwriter/performer/spoken word artist whose work, in the words of Metro Times "focuses on the hope that rises from the ashes of despair." Blair is a National Poetry Slam Champion (2002 Team Detroit) and Detroit Grand Slam Champion (2003). He's been named Best Solo Artist by Real Detroit Weekly Readers' Poll and has been written about in periodicals around the country and overseas including Performing Songwriter Magazine, Hour Detroit Magazine and The Bay Area Times.
Blair's My Space Page
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Poem and Storyspotting: Jurmu and Brown
Work by Jason Lee Brown (MFA '08) and Deb Jurmu (MFA '06) appears in the new issue of Natural Bridge, the literary journal published by the English Department of the University of Missouri St. Louis.
Deb's story "Breath of the Wok" and Jason's poem "Why Mr. President Loves Soap Bubbles" appear in the Spring 2008 issue (Number 19).
for more about Natural Bridge:
Natural Bridge
Deb's story "Breath of the Wok" and Jason's poem "Why Mr. President Loves Soap Bubbles" appear in the Spring 2008 issue (Number 19).
for more about Natural Bridge:
Natural Bridge
Saturday, June 07, 2008
Poemspotting: Whittemore Edition
"First," a new poem by Amie Whittemore (second year, poetry), appears in the End of Winter 2008 issue of Poetry Midwest:
Poetry Midwest
Amie's on page 12.
Poetry Midwest
Amie's on page 12.
Friday, June 06, 2008
Catching Up With Douglas Haynes (MFA '02):
Just got this e-mail from Douglas Haynes (MFA '02, poetry):
"I landed my first tenure-track creative writing position this spring at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, and I owe so much to all of you for making such an opportunity possible for me. I'll be teaching advanced creative nonfiction courses, intro. creative writing, some modern Amer. lit., and supervising MA creative writing projects. I'm relishing the prospect of the 3-2 course load I'll have after teaching 4 courses a semester this year at New England College. I'm hoping to get much more writing done."
Congrats on the new job, Douglas!
"I landed my first tenure-track creative writing position this spring at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, and I owe so much to all of you for making such an opportunity possible for me. I'll be teaching advanced creative nonfiction courses, intro. creative writing, some modern Amer. lit., and supervising MA creative writing projects. I'm relishing the prospect of the 3-2 course load I'll have after teaching 4 courses a semester this year at New England College. I'm hoping to get much more writing done."
Congrats on the new job, Douglas!
Thursday, June 05, 2008
Crab Orchard Review featured in the July issue of the Writer
A profile of Crab Orchard Review appears in the July issue of the Writer.
The profile is only available in the print issue of the magazine, but here's the table of contents for the issue containing this profile:
The Writer
The profile is only available in the print issue of the magazine, but here's the table of contents for the issue containing this profile:
The Writer
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Poemspotting: Michael Meyerhofer (MFA '06)
"Samsara," a poem by Michael Meyerhofer, appears in the new "A Moveable Feast" issue of River Styx. This issue of the venerable St. Louis-based journal is a tasty exploration of food as subject, complete with recipes.
More about River Styx at
River Styx Web Site
More about River Styx at
River Styx Web Site
Poemspotting: Allison Joseph
New poems by SIUC poetry faculty member can be found at Mezzo Cammin, a journal of formal poetry by women, and at Hotmetalpress.net:
Mezzo Cammin:
Mezzo Cammin
Hotmetapress.net:
Hotmetalpress.net
Mezzo Cammin:
Mezzo Cammin
Hotmetapress.net:
Hotmetalpress.net
Monday, June 02, 2008
Young Writers Workshop National Contest Winners
Thanks to current MFA students Josh (J Dillon) Woods and Kerry James Evans for selecting the winners of the Younkin-Rivera Prizes for Young Writers. Both students will be attending this year's Young Writers Workshop, SIUC's annual creative writing workshop for writers age 15-18. Details here:
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SIUC News
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