In exchange for getting a day off from class, you will be required to attend at least one of these readings.
Wednesday: June 27: Faculty Reading, Harry T. Moore Auditorium (Faner 1326), 8PM: Pinckney Benedict
Pinckney Benedict joined the faculty at SIUC in 2006. He is the author of two collections of stories — Town Smokes and The Wrecking Yard — and Dogs of God, a novel. His short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in a number of magazines and anthologies, including Esquire, StoryQuarterly, Zoetrope: All-Story, Best New Stories from South, The O. Henry Award Collection, the Pushcart Prize series, and The Oxford Book of American Short Stories.
Thursday, June 28, Faner 1005, 4PM
Graduate Student Reading with MFA students Nathan Beck (fiction), Sara Burge (poetry), Rachna Sheth (fiction) and Renee Evans (fiction)
Thursday, June 28, Faner 1326 (Moore Aud), 8PM
Graduate Student/Faculty Reading with MFA students Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum (poetry), John Flaherty (fiction), Kerry James Evans (poetry) and YWW Director and Associate Professor of English Allison Joseph
Friday, June 29, Faner 1326 (Moore Aud.) 4 PM
Graduate Student Reading with MFA students Josh Woods (fiction), Helena Bell (poetry), Tracy Conerton (poetry), Mary Keck (fiction)
Friday, June 29, Faner 1326 (Moore Aud.) 8PM: Curtis L. Crisler
Curtis L. Crisler is a graduate of Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne and of the MFA Program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. During Curtis's time in Carbondale, he served as Assistant Director of the Young Writers Workshop. His first book of poems, Tough Boy Sonatas, was published this year by Front Street Press. He currently teaches in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
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I don't know how to start a new subject. This is in reference to the elephant poem of the last class:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki Blind_Men_and_an _El ephant Seems it was Saxe not Kipling who wrote the English version of the poem..also Rumi did a version...my favorite rendition so far is the cartoon involving the elephant droppings entitled an Elephant is Soft and Mushy. But interesting that even without that piece of background, we all found that poem interesting.
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