Friman, Alice. “Latino Flavor.” [Poem.] Margie: The American Journal of Poetry 7 (2008): 162.
---. “Medea, Intent” and “Tybee Island.” [Poems.] Subtropics 7 (2009): 24-28.
---. “Taking Stock.” [Poem.] American Poets against the War. Ed. Christian K. Narkiewicz-Laine. Chicago: Metropolitan Arts, 2009. 89-90.
Lammon, Martin. "By the Numbers." [Poem.] Dos Passoes Review 5.1 (2008).
---. "A Romance." [Poem.] Connecticut Review 30.1 (2008).
---. "Commandments." [Poem.] Margie 7 (2008).
---. "My Wife and I Learn to Accept Our Clutter." [Poem.] The Southern Review 45.1 (2009).
---. "The Body Electric." [Creative Nonfiction Essay.] Zone 3 23.2 (2008).
Lopez, Esther. Rev. of American Narratives: Multiethnic Writing in the Age of Realism, by Molly Crumpton Winter. MELUS 30.3 (2008): 200-202.
Blazer, Alex E. "'blinded by the book': Between Metafictional Madness and Sublime Solitude in the Work of Paul Auster." The Louisville Conf. on Literature and Culture since 1900. U of Louisville, Louisville. 21 Feb. 2009. [Chaired "Auster" panel as well.]
Cavitt, Stephen. Panel Member. "From the Ground Up: Developing a Writers In The Schools Program at Your College." Assoc. of Writers & Writing Programs Conf. & Bookfair. Hilton, Chicago. 12 Feb. 2009.
Clark, Jan, Paul Basham, Katy Boatman, Erika Crosby, and John Lawler. "Infusing Civic Agency into our Communication Curricula." Georgia Communication Assoc., U of West Georgia, Carrollton. 20 Feb. 2009. [Drs. Clark, Vail, and Whitaker took students from the fall 2008 Rhetoric practicum course to the conference to present results and recommendations from civic agency projects.]
Daniel, Scott. "Divine Commedians: Flannery O'Connor's Contest with Dante Alighieri." February Lecture Series. Andalusia, Milledgeville. 1 Feb. 2009. [Spring 08 GCSU MA Graduate]
Dodson, Meredith. Panel Moderator. "Bushwhacking through the Wilderness with a Ballpoint, or Writing the First Novel." Assoc. of Writers & Writing Programs Conf. & Bookfair. Hilton, Chicago. 12 Feb. 2009.
Emmert, Ashley. Panel Member. "From the Ground Up: Developing a Writers In The Schools Program at Your College." Assoc. of Writers & Writing Programs Conf. & Bookfair. Hilton, Chicago. 12 Feb. 2009.
Friman, Alice. Poetry Reading and Classroom Presentations. Sam Houston State U, Huntsville, TX. 5 Feb. 2009.
Gee, Allen. Panel Chair and Moderator. "From the Ground Up: Developing a Writers In The Schools Program at Your College." Assoc. of Writers & Writing Programs Conf. & Bookfair. Hilton, Chicago. 12 Feb. 2009.
---. Interviewer. "A Reading & Conversation with Charles Baxter." Assoc. of Writers & Writing Programs Conf. & Bookfair. Hilton, Chicago. 14 Feb. 2009.
Gentry, Marshall Bruce. Lecture and Classroom Presentations. Sam Houston State Uy, Huntsville, TX. 5-6 Feb. 2009.
---. Co-Leader for two workshops. “Rhetorical Tricks in Flannery O'Connor's 'Good Country People'" and "Conversations among Partnersin Learning: Critical Approaches to Rhetoric in the Literature of Georgia and the South." Georgia State U, Atlanta. 21 Feb. 2009.
Lammon, Martin. Chair and Reader. "Arts & Letters 10th Anniversary: A Poetry Reading and Celebration." Assoc. of Writers & Writing Programs Conf. & Bookfair. Hilton, Chicago. 12 Feb. 2009.
---. Panel Moderator and Presenter. "Writing the World: Opportunities in the Peace Corps and Fellows/USA Graduate Assistantship Program." Assoc. of Writers & Writing Programs Conf. & Bookfair. Hilton, Chicago. 13 Feb. 2009.
---. Reading. Ohio University. 27 Oct. 2008.
---. Reading. Macon State College. 26 Jan. 2009.
McElmurray, Karen. Panel Member. "'Memory of Wounds': Memoirists Tell Truth, Lies, and Memory." Assoc. of Writers & Writing Programs Conf. & Bookfair. Hilton, Chicago. 12 Feb. 2009.
---. Panel Member. "Smart Girls: The Ambition Game." Assoc. of Writers & Writing Programs Conf. & Bookfair. Hilton, Chicago. 14 Feb. 2009.
---. Reading (with Sandra Meeks). A Capella Books, Atlanta. 27 Feb. 2009.
Teschner, John. Panel Member. "From the Ground Up: Developing a Writers In The Schools Program at Your College." Assoc. of Writers & Writing Programs Conf. & Bookfair. Hilton, Chicago. 12 Feb. 2009.
---. Panel Member. "Writing the World: Opportunities in the Peace Corps and Fellows/USA Graduate Assistantship Program." Assoc. of Writers & Writing Programs Conf. & Bookfair. Hilton, Chicago. 13 Feb. 2009.
Tocci, Carrie Anne. Panel Member. "'Memory of Wounds': Memoirists Tell Truth, Lies, and Memory." Assoc. of Writers & Writing Programs Conf. & Bookfair. Hilton, Chicago. 12 Feb. 2009.
Tucker, Nathan Jackson. Panel Chair and Moderator. "Gay Regionalism through the Eyes of Appalachia." Assoc. of Writers & Writing Programs Conf. & Bookfair. Hilton, Chicago. 12 Feb. 2009.
Vail, Mark. "Code(s) of Ethics: Teaching Ethical Persuasion in the Public Speaking Course." Georgia Communication Assoc., University of West Georgia, Carrollton. 21 Feb. 2009.
Friman, Alice. Judge for Regional High School Competition "Poetry Out Loud." Perry High School, Perry, GA, 21 Feb. 2009. The other two judges were GCSU MFA graduates Caroline Lewis and Christina Matthews.
Martin Lammon recently served as a panelist for the Georgia Council on the Arts Literary Panel and as a program review evaluator for the MFA program at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington.
Bienvenue, Paul R. and Robert E. Schmidt. "The Panami Press Books: Nelebel's Fairyland (1978); Strange Tale of Nursery Folk (1978); The Runaway Shadows; or, A Trick of Jack Frost's (1979); The Christmas Stocking (1980); Scenario and General Synopsis of "Prince Silverwings" (1982)." The Book Collector's Guide to L. Frank Baum and Oz. El Segundo, CA: March Hare, 2009. 271-77. [The Collector's Guide describes the Baum books published by The Panami Press, founded by Michael Riley.]
Department Book Fairs
Pearson textbook representative Michaelle Fields will host a Department Book Fair in Arts & Sciences 349 from 12:30-3:30PM on Wednesday, 4 March.
Bedford textbook representative Jillian Fouts will host a Department Book Fair in Arts & Sciences 349 from 12:30-4:30PM on Wednesday, 11 March.
Trailfest 09 and the Southern Literary Trail Events at GCSU in March 2009
Author foundations and house museums in towns across Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi are coordinating efforts to promote tourism across the region. Trailfest 09 is a series of events in March 2009 designed to draw attention to the establishment of the ongoing tourism effort called the Southern Literary Trail. The Flannery O’Connor Review and the Flannery O’Connor - Andalusia Foundation, Inc., are sponsors for events on the GCSU campus, and we have received grant support from the Georgia Humanities Council, the Knight Foundation, the Arts Unlimited committee at GCSU, and the GCSU Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity.
On Sunday, 8 March, Andrea Hollander Budy, Alice Friman, Laura Newbern, and Leah Norton will read poems from a new book edited by Budy, When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women. This event will be in the dining room at Andalusia at 3 p.m.
On Monday, 9 March, Evelyn C. White, the official biographer of Alice Walker, will introduce a film screening and visit two classes. During the day, White will visit Introduction to Women’s Studies (taught by Bragg and Lopez) as well as American Literature Since 1920 (taught by Gentry). Also on Monday, 9 March, White will appear at Peabody Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. to introduce a film (Visions of the Spirit: A Portrait of Alice Walker, by Elena Featherston) with remarks entitled “‘I Know What Money Is For’: Alice Walker and the Aftermath of The Color Purple.”
On Tuesday, 10 March, at 7:30 p.m., poet Andrea Hollander Budy (Lyon College) will read her poetry and give a talk on Flannery O’Connor. The reading/talk, entitled “Keeping Our Mouths Shut: A Poet Under the Influence,” will be held in Peabody Auditorium. Budy’s talk is this year’s Flannery O’Connor Memorial Lecture. (Budy will also visit Laura Newbern’s Poetry Workshop on Monday, 9 March.)
On Tuesday, 17 March, fiction writer Pete Dexter (National Book Award winner for the novel Paris Trout) and scholar Douglas Robillard, Jr. (Arkansas-Pine Bluff) will introduce a screening of the film Paris Trout at 2:30 p.m. in A&S Auditorium. Then, at 7 p.m., again in A&S Auditorium, Dexter (who is writing a book about growing up here in Milledgeville) and Robillard will discuss connections between Dexter’s works and the fiction of Flannery O’Connor in a joint lecture entitled “Rashomon in Milledgeville: Flannery O’Connor and Pete Dexter on the Stembridge Murders.” (Dexter and Robillard will also visit Gentry’s American Literature Since 1920 class on Wednesday, 18 March.)
About the Southern Literary Trail and Trailfest 09:
Author foundations and house museums in towns across Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi are coordinating efforts to promote tourism across the region. Trailfest 09 is a series of events in March 2009 designed to draw attention to the establishment of the ongoing tourism effort called the Southern Literary Trail. The Flannery O’Connor Review and the Flannery O’Connor - Andalusia Foundation, Inc., are sponsors for events on the GCSU campus, and we have received grant support from the Georgia Humanities Council, the Knight Foundation, the Arts Unlimited committee at GCSU, and the GCSU Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity.
Info/questions: Bruce Gentry, 478-445-6928 / bruce.gentry@gcsu.edu
See the Southern Literary Trail website at www.southernliterarytrail.org