Friday, September 12, 2003
RopeWalk Reading Series beginning September 25
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University of Southern Indiana’s fall 2003 RopeWalk Reading Series will begin September 25. Each program will start at 7 p.m. in Kleymeyer Hall in the Liberal Arts Center on the USI campus and will be followed by a book signing. The schedule follows: September 25 - Patricia Aakhus Aakhus, a USI instructor in English and humanities, is the author of contemporary fiction and essays as well as numerous books and papers on the history and mythology of ancient Ireland, including the novels, The Voyage of Mael Duin's Curragh, Daughter of the Boyne, and The Sorrows of Tara. She recently presented an invited paper, "Gates of Helios and an Irish Celestial Machine," at the Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena Conference at Oxford University in England. October 16 - Pat Carr Carr has published 12 books of criticism, archaeology, and fiction, including The Women in the Mirror, winner of the prestigious Iowa Fiction Award, and Mimbres Mythology, a seminal study in prehistoric Southwestern Pueblo Indian myths. She also has written more than 100 short stories that have appeared in a variety of publications, including The Southern Review, Yale Review, and Best American Short Stories. Her most recent novel, If We Must Die, was a finalist in the Pen Book Awards, 2003. November 3 - Gary Gildner Gildner's published books include Blue Like the Heavens: New and Selected Poems; a novel, The Second Bridge: A Week in South Dakota; Where We Are Now, a memoir; and the prize-winning poetry collection, The Bunker in the Parsley Fields. He has been writer-in-residence at Reed College, Davidson College, and Michigan State University, and lives and writes on a ranch in Idaho's Clearwater Mountains. Gildner was a member of the RopeWalk faculty in 2002. Presented by USI’s School of Liberal Arts, readings in the series are free and open to the public. The RopeWalk Reading Series is made possible through the support of RopeWalk Writers Retreat, the Southern Indiana Review, USI Society for Arts & Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, Indiana Arts Commission, and USI Student Writers’ Union. For more information, call Jim McGarrah, USI instructor in English, 812/464-1735. RopeWalk Writers Retreat is an annual program of University of Southern Indiana. |
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