Thursday, April 06, 2006
Great State Writer Exchange pairs USI, ISU writers
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USI and Indiana State University are sharing their talented writers through the Great State Writer Exchange, a program sponsored by USI’s College of Liberal Arts and Society for the Arts and Humanities, and the ISU English Department and Creative Writing Program. In April, Ron Mitchell, instructor in English and managing editor of Southern Indiana Review, took students to ISU to read their work: Halvor Aakhus, Brittney Scott, and Jordan Cory read poetry, while Chris Dickens read fiction. Doug Martin, ISU assistant professor of English, along with three of his students, will deliver a Great State Writer Exchange reading at 3 p.m. Tuesday, April 11, in Kleymeyer Hall. One of those students is a USI graduate. Christy Effinger graduated from USI in 2005 with an English degree. She is now a graduate student at Indiana State University, where she teaches freshman composition as a teaching assistant. ISU undergraduate students Josh Sluter and Kyley Hedges also will read their work. Martin has had his poetry and fiction published widely, including Third Coast, Nimrod, New Delta Review, Mudfish, Sleepingfish, the New York Quarterly, and elimae. A former poetry editor of Mid-American Review and Cimarron Review, as well as a Theodore Morrison Scholar in Poetry at the Breadloaf Writer's Conference, Martin is the author of Walt Whitman's Mimetic Prosody (Edwin Mellen 2004) and currently the editor of Snowgate Press. The reading is free and open to the public. |
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