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Showing posts with label readings. Show all posts

Friday, September 25, 2015

Tanaya Winder Poetry Reading and Book Release: Words Like Love

UNM MFA alumna Tanaya Winder will host a poetry reading and book release at Bookworks (4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW) on Tuesday, September 29th, at 7:00pm.

In her debut collection, Words Like Love, poet Tanaya Winder sings the joys, glories, and laments of love. Love is defined by familial, cultural, platonic, and romantic bonds in these passionate and thoughtfully rendered poems. Winder’s voice resonates through the dark—and the light— on a quest to learn more about the most complex of subjects.

Words Like Love is her first full length poetry collection (West End Press, 2015).

Read more writing and find events @tanayawinder.wordpress.com and find her on Twitter @a_girl_on_fire.

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Faculty and Graduate Student Appearances for May 2013

48th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI. May 9-12, 2013.
Helen Damico. “Shade and Substance: Emma of Normandy in Eleventh-Century Documents.”
Jonathan Davis-Secord. “The Rhythmic Identity of Ælfric and Winchester.”
Jonathan Davis-Secord organized “The Benedictine Reform in Anglo-Saxon England.”
Anita Obermeier organized of four TEAMS sessions on teaching the Middle Ages:
   “Taking It Public: Programming, Pedagogy, and Outreach: A Roundtable”
   “Teaching Medieval Jews: A Roundtable”
   “Teaching the Medieval Survey”
   “Teaching the Black Death”
Nicholas Schwartz. “Wulfstan and the Old English Boethius: A (Partial) Reconsideration of the Textual Transmission of the ‘Three Orders’ in Anglo-Saxon England.” UNM Institute for Medieval Studies Graduate Student Prize Winner.
Nicholas Schwartz. Panelist in “Taking It Public: Programming, Pedagogy, and Outreach: A Roundtable”

Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. Lawrence, KS. May 28-June1, 2013.
Julie Williams. “This Land Belongs to All of Us: Disabilities Access and the Need for Nature.”

Greg Martin: Bosque Preparatory School: Commencement Address, May 24, 2013
Reading and Discussion. Stories for Boys. Ballard Branch. Seattle, WA. May 1, 2013.
Feature and Interview. Stories for Boys. KING5 TV Morning News Hour.  Seattle, WA. May 2, 2013.
Interview. Stories for Boys. NPR: KUOW’s Weekday Interview with Marcie Sillman. Seattle, WA. May 2, 2013.
Reading and Discussion. Stories for Boys. North Seattle Community College. Seattle, WA.  May 2, 2013.
Reading and Discussion. Stories for Boys. Capitol Hill Branch.  Seattle, WA.  May 2, 2013.
Reading and Discussion. Stories for Boys. Columbia Branch Seattle, WA.  May 3, 2013.
Reading and Discussion. Stories for Boys. Greenwood Branch.  Seattle, WA.  May 4, 2013.
Stories for Boys: Book-It Repertory Theatre Staged Readings.” Seattle Reads. Seattle, WA. May 4, 2013.
Reading and Discussion. Stories for Boys. Southwest Branch. Seattle, WA.  May 5, 2013.
Reading and Discussion. Stories for Boys. Northeast Branch. Seattle, WA.  May 5, 2013.
Interview.  Stories for Boys. PBS:  Well Read.  Seattle, WA. May 6, 2013.

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Faculty and Graduate Student Appearances for April 2013

British Women’s Writers Conference. Albuquerque, NM. April 4-6, 2013.
Erin Woltkamp. “The Diaries of Anne Lister: Authenticating the Individual Through Epistolary.”
Carolyn Woodward. “Jenny Collier and Anna Maria Garthwaite: Imagining The Cry as a Beautiful Silk Gown.”
Carolyn Woodward. Keynote Introduction for Devoney Looser.

American Comparative Literature Association. University of Toronto. April 4-7, 2013.
Justin Brock. “The Critical Voices from Joyous Gard: The Homosocial and the Feminine in the Stanzaic Morte Arthur.”

Eaton/Science Fiction Researchers Association of America Conference. Riverside, CA. April 11-14, 2013.
Daoine Bachran. “Beyond Black and White: North American Ethnic Science Fictions.”

Fifth Annual Cultural Studies Graduate Student Conference and Workshop. Albuquerque, NM. April 12-13, 2013.
Laura Perlichek. “It's a Man-Eat-Man World: The Postcolonial Implication of Cannibalism in Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho”

Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association
. Denver, CO. April 12-13, 2013.
Lisa Myers. “Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Representation of a Pagan Landscape.”

34th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum, Plymouth State University in Plymouth, NH, April 19-20, 2013.
Nicholas Schwartz, "Wulfstan and the Three Orders in Anglo-Saxon England."

American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA. April 27-May 1, 2013.
J. V. Jeffery, D. Hoover, and M.  Han. “Lexical Variation in Highly and Poorly Rated US Secondary Students’ Writing: Implications for the Common Core Writing Standards.”

Greg Martin. “Publishing Your Work and the Writing Process,” UNM School of Medicine: Medical Education Scholars Group. Albuquerque, NM. April 11, 2013.

Greg Martin. Reading and Discussion. Stories for Boys. Depaul University. Chicago, IL. April 25, 2013.

Monday, May 6, 2013

Faculty and Graduate Student February 2013 Appearances


South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Austin, TX. Feb. 21-23, 2013.

Calinda Shely. “An Ailing Body Politic: Gouty Gentlemen as Cultural Metaphor in Sarah Fielding’s The Countess of Dellwyn and Smollett’s The Adventures of Roderick Random.”

Carolyn Woodward “Jenny and the Silk Weavers.”

Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations, Albuquerque. Feb. 13-16, 2013.

Daoine Bachran. “From Recovery to Discovery: American Ethnic Science Fiction and (Re)inventing the Future.”

Vincent Basso. “The Devil, My Friend: Milton’s Satan as Anti-hero in Modern Comics.”

Ann D’Orazio. “Ancient Warriors, Insular Hands, and Monster Fights.”

Nichole Neff Gauntt. “Shark Representation in Nineteenth-Century Texts: into the Belly of the Beast.”

Scarlett Higgins. Session Chair. Poetry and Poetics (Critical)

Scarlett Higgins. “The Blaze and the Tyger: Vatic Poetry and Apocalyptic History in George Oppen’s Late Work.”

Matt Hofer. “‘Single / Notes / Sung’: Larry Eigner's Equilibria at the Margins.”

Monica Kowal. “Beyond the Hypothetical: Putting the “Real” in Real-World Application with Service-Learning in Technical and Professional Writing.”

Joe Serio. “Is What You See What You Get? Flip Wilson and the Civil Rights Movement.”

Stephanie Spong. “Should There Arise Any Objection to Candidness”: The Censor and Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven’s Globalized Body.”

Diane Thiel. Session Chair. Creative Writing (Poetry, Fiction)

Diane Thiel. “Poetry and Translation.”

Sharon Warner. “Not Too Long, Not Too Short, but Just Right: The Novella Workshop.”

Julie Williams. “Discourses of Hygiene and Homemaking in “Stiya: A Carlisle Indian Girl at Home.”

Greg Martin:
Interview and podcast. Late Night Library, Portland, OR. Feb 11, 2013.
Reading from Stories for Boys. Portland State University, Portland, OR.12 Feb 12, 2013.
Reading from Stories for Boys. Barnes & Noble, Bend, OR. Feb 8, 2013.

Carmen Nocentelli. “Empires of Love: Race, Sexuality, and the European-Asian Encounter.” School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, NM. Feb 20, 2013.

Monday, April 29, 2013

Greg Martin's Stories for Boys was chosen for SEATTLE READS

Greg Martin's latest book, Stories for Boys (Hawthorne Books, 2012) was chosen for SEATTLE READS and he's going to be busy in Seattle that whole time, May 1-5.  http://www.spl.org/audiences/adults/seattle-reads. Stories for Boys is The Seattle Public Library's Washington Center for the Book's 2013 featured work.

Stories for Boys was named a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. Greg Martin's first book Mountain City won the 2001 Washington State Book Award. He lived in Seattle and taught at Seattle University and North Seattle Community College. He currently teaches creative writing at UNM.

Also, please see: Seattle Times — a feature and interview about Stories for Boys and Seattle Reads:
http://seattletimes.com/html/books/2020882341_litlife29xml.html?prmid=4939

Thursday, March 28, 2013

‘My Favorite Poem’ project celebrates National Poetry Month

http://news.unm.edu/2013/03/my-favorite-poem-project-celebrates-national-poetry-month/
By Carolyn Gonzales, UNM Today, March 25, 2013

Acclaimed poet and for­mer U.S. Poet Lau­re­ate Rita Dove wrote, “By mak­ing us stop for a moment, poetry gives us an oppor­tu­nity to think about our­selves as human beings on this planet and what we mean to each other.”

In this same spirit, com­mu­nity mem­bers of Santa Fe and Albu­querque will gather to share poems they love dur­ing National Poetry Month in April. The read­ings are hosted by the UNM Eng­lish Depart­ment and the Insti­tute of Amer­i­can Indian Arts and are directed by award-winning poet and UNM pro­fes­sor Luci Tapa­honso. The read­ings begin at 6 p.m. on Fri­day evenings: UNM Zim­mer­man Library (Willard Room) on April 5 and in the Waters Room, also at Zim­mer­man on April 19, and at IAIA (CLE Com­mons) on April 12 and April 26. The events are free, open to the pub­lic and a recep­tion will follow.

The “My Favorite Poem” Project is based on for­mer US Poet Lau­re­ate Robert Pinsky’s ini­tia­tive in 1998 that was held in major cities and fea­tured thou­sands of read­ers from all walks of life includ­ing school chil­dren, busi­ness own­ers, civic lead­ers, teach­ers, col­lege stu­dents, spir­i­tual lead­ers, ranch­ers and media personalities.

Read­ers on April 5 (Willard Room) include Monte Vista stu­dents Lily Rosano-Mueller and Arden Bur­kett, Eng­lish Chair Gail Hous­ton, Asso­ciate Dean Phillip Gan­der­ton, Escuela del Sol stu­dent Samiyah Dezbah James, National Dance Insti­tute Direc­tor Rus­sell Baker, Eng­lish Lec­turer Kyle Fiore, UNM Accoun­tant Misty Dawn Ortiz, Dr. Doris Fields, Librar­ian Maria Teresa Mar­quez, Poet Deme­tria Mar­tinez. Nov­el­ist and IAIA Pro­fes­sor Evalina Zuni Lucero.

Read­ers on April 19 (Waters Room) include SIPI Pres­i­dent Dr. Sherry Alli­son, Colum­nist David Stein­berg, UNM Pub­li­cist Car­olyn Gon­za­les, MFA stu­dents Adam Nunez and Natalie Scen­ters– Zapico, UNM Libraries Dean Martha Bedard, UNM Book­store Events Coor­di­na­tor Lani Tay­lor, West End Pub­lisher John Craw­ford, and Asso­ciate Dean Kevin Mal­loy and NM Cen­ten­nial Poet Levi Romero.

Tapa­honso, who pre­vi­ously orga­nized Favorite Poem projects in Lawrence, Kan. and Tuc­son, Ariz., said that the read­ings reveal the impor­tance of poetry in our per­sonal his­to­ries and how shar­ing poems can strengthen a community’s sense of cul­ture and place. “We often turn to poetry in moments of ela­tion, grat­i­tude, loss or fear, and this is a won­der­ful oppor­tu­nity to share with oth­ers the ways in which par­tic­u­lar poems speak to us,” Tapa­honso said.

UNM Today Media Con­tact: Car­olyn Gon­za­les (505) 277‑5920; email: cgonzal@unm.edu
Posted in Academics, Faculty, Events, English BLOG

--Luci Tapahonso
Poet Laureate, Navajo Nation
Professor, Department of English

Monday, March 18, 2013

Andrea Penner reading When East Was North at UNM Bookstore April 10 at noon

Alumnus Andrea Penner writes to us from Flagstaff: I will be doing a UNM Bookstore Poetry Month reading on April 10th, at noon, in the UNM Bookstore. I will be reading from (and signing) my new book of poetry, When East Was North, as well as some new work. I hope you will be able to attend (and bring students!).

If you'd like to preview the book, you can find it on Amazon at this link: When East Was North,
http://www.amazon.com/When-North-Andrea-Millenson-Penner/dp/0988227967/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1363619593&sr=1-1&keywords=north+andrea+penner
published by Mercury Heartlink in 2012. You can also visit my blog In My Own Ink:  http://pennerink.blogspot.com/ if you're interested in some of my other writings, of late.

Andi says that Erin Penner (remember her, another alumni!) and husband Josh have been in the Peace Corps in Thailand for the last 15 months and you can read their blog at Red or Green? (http://redorgreeninthailand.blogspot.com/) in Thailand.

Friday, February 8, 2013

Faculty and Graduate Student November 2012 Appearances

Jesse Alemán. “Rebel: The Screening of Loreta Janeta Velazquez.” American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Nov 15-18.

Jesse Alemán. “Days of the (Un)Dead: Vampires, Zombies, and Other Horrifying Forms of Chicano/a Identity in Film.” El Centro de la Raza Brown Bag Series, University of New Mexico. November.

Marissa Greenberg. “Neuvomexicano Shakespeare: The Case of The Merchant of Santa Fe.” American Society for Theatre Research, Nashville, TN. November 1-4.

Natalie Kubasek. “Teatro on the Border: Re-Figuring Teatro Campesino as Transnational Avant-Garde.” Midwest Modern Language Association, Cincinnati OH. November 8-11.

Greg Martin. Readings from Stories for Boys. University of New Mexico. November 8.

Kathleen Washburn. “Lili’uokalani's Indigenous Modernity.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Research Triangle Park, NM. November 11.

Julie Williams. “Access for All? The New Nature Writing of Lucia Perillo,” Western Literature Association, Lubbock TX. November 7-10.

Monday, January 28, 2013

October Blog


Our Graduate students and Faculty have been very busy this past Autumn. Please see below for a brief list of their accomplishments.

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Boulder, CO. October 11-13
Katherine Alexander. Session Chair, The Brontë Sisters
Katherine Alexander. “Catherine Earnshaw's Unexpected Gift? Love, Possession, and Dispossession on the Moors.”
Annarose Fitzgerald. “Gentle Jesus and the Sauce Tureen: Naming the Divine in Mina Loy’s ‘Ova’ Poems.”
Marcella Garvey. “Marriage and the Crisis of Faith in Emily Brontë’s WutheringHeights.”
Feroza Framji Jussawalla. Session Chair, Comparative and Non-Western Critical Approaches to Non-European Literatures
Doaa Abdel Hamid Omran Mohamed. “Occidentalism as Ambivalence: A Modern Understanding of Islam.”
Erin Woltkamp. “Subversive Gestures: Hands as Tools for Rebellion in Anne Brontë’s Tenant of Wildfell Hall.”
Julie Williams. “Home Sweet (Dirty) Home: Discourses of Disease in Native American Boarding School Literature.”
Ying Xu. “A Chinese Serpent Prince or a Chinese Empress: Transculturation and Wong Chin Foo's Reconstruction of Chinese Women in Late Nineteenth-Century America.”

Modernist Studies Association, Las Vegas, NV. October 18-2
Matt Hofer. Panel Organizer, The New American Poetry and the West.
Matt Hofer. “ ‘Few / People are lost as I am’: Ed Dorn in the Great Basin-Plateau.” This work will also appear in his forthcoming expanded edition of Ed Dorn and Leroy Lucas's The Shoshoneans (UNM Press, fall 2013).
Matt Hofer. Panel Chair, Learning from Detroit.
Daniel Worden. Organizer of and Participant on the “Postmodern/Postwar: After the New Modernist Studies” Roundtable.

Greg Martin

Panel Discussion, The Lay of the Land: Memoir and Landscape; Readings from Stories for Boys. Montana Festival of the Book Missoula, MT. October 5.
Readings from Stories for Boys. Powell’s Books, Portland OR. October 11.
Readings from Stories for Boys with Kambri Crews; Workshop, Breaking the Conventions of Memoir: the Art of Speculation; Panel, One Big Happy Queer Family. Wordstock Book Festival, Portland, OR. October 13-14.
Readings from Stories for Boys. Village Books, Bellingham, WA. October 15.
Readings from Stories for Boys. Seattle Public Library, Seattle, WA. October 16.
Readings from Stories for Boys in conjunction with UMOCA’s exhibit Battleground States. Utah Book Festival, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art. October 17.

Jason Bengtson. “Digital Scavenger Hunt” and “Smart Links” Tech Expos, and “Are We Poised For a Digital Biblioclasm?” Round Table. South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association Conference, Lubbock, TX. October 13-17.

Justin Falk-Gee. “Deconstructing Differences in the Classroom.” The TYCA Southwest Conference, Las Cruces, NM. October 25-27.

Carmen Nocentelli. panel presentation, CL/CS Roundtable discussion, “What is Desire?” University of New Mexico. October 25.

Joe Serio. “Is What We See What We Get? Flip Wilson and the Civil Rights Movement.” 2nd Annual Tufts Graduate Humanities Conference: Mic Check: Resistance and Revolution, New York. October 26.

Friday, November 16, 2012

US Poet Laureate Is Keynote Reader for 15th Annual Taos Summer Writers' Conference

On Sunday, July 14th at 8 p.m., our newly installed U.S. poet laureate, Natasha Trethewey, will give the keynote reading for the 15th annual Taos Summer Writers' Conference (July 14-21, 2012).

Trethewey's reading is free and open to the public and will be followed by a book signing and reception.

Natasha Trethewey http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/natasha_trethewey/index.html
the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of three collections and a professor of creative writing at Emory University in Atlanta. Ms. Trethewey, 46, was born in Gulfport, Miss., and is the first Southerner to hold the post since Robert Penn Warren, the original laureate, and the first African-American since Rita Dove in 1993.

Friday, November 2, 2012

Two UNM English Alumna Reunite in Washington, DC

Two of the English Department’s recent graduates reunited for a poetry reading at Marymount University. In a moment of alumna networking, Leigh Johnson (PhD 2011) and Erika Sánchez (MFA 2010) were happy to work together again—this time in Washington DC. Erika gave an excerpted reading of her poetry manuscript at Marymount University in Arlington, VA, where Leigh is an Assistant Professor of Literature and Languages. The November 1, 2012 event was well attended by fifty students and faculty from the Marymount community. Students appreciated Erika's "frankness" in answering questions and her "beautiful grotesque" images.

Erika is a poet, feminist, and freelance writer living in Chicago. She is currently the sex and love advice columnist for Cosmopolitan for Latinas, a reader for Another Chicago Magazine, and a contributor for The Huffington Post, AlterNet, and NBC Latino, Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Pleiades, Drunken Boat, Witness, Anti-, Rhino, Hunger Mountain, Crab Orchard Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Copper Nickel, Southeast Review, and others. She has written book reviews for Kirkus Reviews and her nonfiction has been published in Jezebel and Ms. Magazine. She has appeared on American Public Media, the Jack Gravely Radio Show, and Huffington Post Live. She is working on her memoir and a poetry manuscript.

Leigh is in her second year as a tenure-track assistant professor at Marymount University. She teaches Early American Literature, American Multicultural Literature, composition, and gender studies to undergraduates. This semester, she's teaching the introduction to graduate studies course. Her article "Covert Wars in the Bedroom and Nation: Motherwork, Transnationalism, and Domestic Violence in Black Widow’s Wardrobe and Mother Tongue" is forthcoming from Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism.

Congratulations to both graduates on their continued success and sustained collegiality!

Thursday, November 1, 2012

September Faculty Conference Presentations and Readings

David Dunaway: "The Roots of Route 66." Open Space Celebration of Route 66 (East Mountains).
David Dunaway: "What I Learned From Interviewing Musicians." Plenary Address, Oral History Association, Cleveland.

Aeron Hunt: "'Discharged Honorable': Old Soldiers and the Ties of Debt in Bleak House" at the North American Victorian Studies Association conference in Madison, Wisconsin.

Todd Ruecker: “L2 Students’ Stances and Identities in Graduate Peer Review Interactions” at the Symposium on Second Language Writing at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.

Daniel Worden: "Oil and Corporate Personhood: Form and Style in Ida Tarbell's The History of the Standard Oil Company" at Petrocultures: Oil, Energy, Culture Conferences at the University of Alberta.

Gary Jackson Reading in Santa Fe Nov. 10

Collected Works Bookstore
Gabrielle Calvocoressi and Gary Jackson
Saturday, November 10, 4pm

Gary Jackson’s first collection is Missing You, Metropolis, (selected by Yusef Komunyakaa as winner of the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize). With humor and the serious collector’s delight, Gary Jackson imagines the comic-book worlds of Superman, Batman, and the X-Men alongside the veritable worlds of Kansas, racial isolation, and the gravesides of a sister and a friend.

An MFA graduate from the University of New Mexico, Jackson currently teaches full-time at Central New Mexico Community College in Albuquerque and at the Murray State University low-res MFA program in Murray, KY. He is a contributing editor at Catch Up: A journal of comics and literature, and has been a fierce lover of comics for over twenty years. Two poems:
http://www.fishousepoems.org/archives/gary_jackson/luke_cage_tells_it_like_it_is.shtml
http://www.fishousepoems.org/archives/gary_jackson/nightcrawler_buys_a_woman_a_drink.shtml

MUSE TIMES TWO Season 3 2012 Fall Poetry Series
202 Galisteo Street, Santa Fe                 505-988-4226

Monday, October 29, 2012

Creative Writing News

Faculty News:

Dan Mueller’s second collection of stories, Nights I Dreamed of Hubert Humphrey, has just been picked up by Outpost 19 Books. Outpost 19 is an independent publisher based in San Francisco and New York. Stay tuned for more updates. Until then, you could check out Outpost 19 at http://www.outpost19.com/

Student News:

Ty Bannerman’s essay “The Exhibition” is a finalist for Midway Journal’s “Monstrosities of the Midway,” and will be published in the October issue of Midway Journal. He has also recently become the Food Editor for the Weekly Alibi.

Mike Smith’s essay “Some Thoughts on LeeAnne” has been accepted for publication in the next issue of The Florida Review. Also, his essay “Start Breaking My Heart” has been accepted by the online journal Eunoia Review.

Nora Hickey’s poem “First Crush: Jane Austen” is forthcoming in the winter issue of Court Green.

Daniel Berger’s poem “Aliens in the Backyard” is forthcoming in the journal NewBorder Anthology: Criticism and Creation from the U.S./Mexico Border (newborder.org).

Alumni News:

Jennifer Simpson (JenniferSimpsonWriter.com)’s accomplishments include:

Publications:
“Mother’s Day Shouldn’t Be About Grief” essay on 40PlusWoman.com (May 12, 2012)
“intervals” poem published in A Year in Ink, Vol. 5 an anthology (2012)
“Mom’s Chicken Divan” essay on StyleSubstanceSoul.com (May 2011)
“Giving Voice to Your Prose” article in LP Creative Humans magazine (March 2010)
“Our House is Like Switzerland” short story published Bartelby Snopes (January 2010)

Readings:
Ongoing/Monthly: Host, Duke City DimeStories Monthly Open Mic for prose, Albuquerque, NM since February 2010
2012 April - L.A. Times Book Festival, Los Angeles, CA (DimeStories Showcase)
2011 September - Church of Beethoven, Albuquerque, NM
2011 February - DimeStories Anniversary Showcase, Albuquerque, NM
2010 December - The Encyclopedia Show (all about Bears), Albuquerque, NM
2010 April - L.A. Times Book Festival, Los Angeles, CA (DimeStories Showcase)

Awards:
2011 A Room Of Her Own Foundation Retreat Participant (partially funded and served as small group workshop leader)
2009 American Welding Society Image of Welding Award (for writing about women welders at: http://www.arc-zone.com/blog/carmenelectrode/category/new-rosies/)

Projects/Community Service/Activities:
- Director, DimeStories International (http://dimestories.org/)
- Founder, The I Write Because Project, Inspired by a writing prompt from Seattle writer Priscilla Long at the Taos Summer Writers Conference, she started this website, a collaborate creative writing project: http://theiwritebecauseproject.wordpress.com/about/
Consider this an open invitation to all UNMers to submit, and spread the word: She’s actively seeking a diversity of voices.
- Judge, New Mexico Press Women Zia Book Award for Non Fiction (2012)
- Bereavement Group Facilitator, Children’s Grief Center of Albuquerque (2009 to present)
- Board Member, University Heights Neighborhood Association (2010 to present)

Friday, October 12, 2012

Recent Faculty and Graduate student conferences and talks

We have been busy . . . late spring and summer 2012 conference and public talks activities by our faculty and graduate students.

April 2012
Lisa Myers was elected to the Executive Council of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association.
33rd Plymouth State Medieval and Renaissance Forum
Nick Schwartz, "Alfred the Great and Wulfstan, Archbishop of York: Towards a Connection"

May 2012
47th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo MI:
Anita Obermeier, “The Queering of Merlin in Shakespeare and Rowley’s Birth of Merlin”
Nicholas Schwartz, Session Chair: Teaching Beowulf in the High School Classroom

American Literature Association, San Francisco:
Diana Noreen Rivera, “Recovering Memorias Transfronterizas: Federico Ronstandt’s Borderman and the Remapping of Southern Arizona”
Julie Williams, “Romancing the Desert: Landscape and Ideology in Willa Cather’s ‘Death Comes for the Archbishop.’”

Rhetoric Society of America, Philadelphia:
Katherine M. Alexander, “Is the Rhetoric of Obamocracy Off Key?”
Dan Cryer, “‘A better chronometer': Time, Ethos & Ethics in Aldo Leopold's 'Smoky Gold’”
Paul Formisano, “Watershed Rhetorics: Resistance and Restoration in the Colorado River Basin”
Rachel Gearhart, “Constructing the Enemy: The Rhetorical Moves of Roosevelt’s ‘Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation’”
Melissa Huffman, “Capitalizing on Ambivalence: Enslavement Tropes in Nineteenth Century America Social Reform Discourses”
Michelle Hall Kells, “The ‘Chamizal Effect:’ Solastalgia and the Rhetoric of Place on the US/Mexico Border”
Deborah S. Paczynski, “Barack Obama’s Rhetorical Regression Toward the Future: The Tyranny of Tyrannizing Images”
Susan Romano, “Emergent and Divergent Latin American Historical Rhetoric: Meeting Reader Expectations for Coverage”

June 2012
Peter White taught in Austria in June for the AAECA Summer Program in which Austrian public school teachers learned about American education, language and culture in an intensive English only program. White taught the American Short Story and played the fiddle for dances at night
In June and July, White studied advanced violin making in Krakow Poland with his former teacher from 1980, Jan Pawlikowski

July 2012
Jason Bengtson, “The Evolution of the Web: from Static to Semantic in Three Big Steps.” Webcast presented to the North Carolina Chapter of the Special Library Association.
Greg Martin, Reading from Stories for Boys, Taos Summer Writers Conference and
Reading from Stories for Boys, SOMOS Reading Series, Harwood Art Gallery, Taos, NM
Peter White taught a course in American English to computer scientists in Vinnitsa, Ukraine

National Consortium of Writing Across Communities Summit, Santa Fe.
Dan Cryer, “Negotiating Scarcity: Starting a WAC Program on Social Capital”
Anna V. Knutson, “Digital Bridges: Multimodal Connections Across Communities”

International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK
Colleen Dunn, “Becoming Her Own Accuser: The Art of Courtly Love as a Commentary on Eleanor of Aquitaine”
Lisa Myers, “‘We be yemen of this foreste, under the grene wod tre’: Subversion in the Middle English Ballads of Robin Hood”
Anita Obermeier, “Sent Away, Sainted, or Self-Sainted: the Childless Queens Theutberga, Cunigunde, and Edith”

Council of Writing Program Administrators Annual Conference. Albuquerque, NM
Tiffany Bourelle, Cristyn Elder, and Chuck Paine served on the conference program committee.
Genesea Carter, “Cross-Institutional Collaborations: Peer Writing Groups and Writing Workshops”
Dan Cryer and Lindsey Ives, “Writing and Teaching Online—How Do We Assess and Maintain this Ever-Changing Environment?”
Beth Davila, “Multiple Perspectives on Directed Self-Placement in the Academy”
Cristyn Elder and Chuck Paine, “Broadening the Habits of Mind for WPAs and Students”
Annarose Fitzgerald, “I Didn’t Know This Was a Writing Class!: Fostering Connections Between Composition and Literature Approaches”
Christine Garcia, Danny Bogert, Natasha Jones, Genevieve Garcia de Mueller, “Why Mentorship Matters to Us: A Discussion of the Effects of (Under)Representation of Faculty of Color on Junior WPAs”
Lindsey Ives and Todd Ruecker, “Racism and Native Speakerism in the Writing Classroom”
Michelle Kells and Brian Hendrickson, “Accidental Tourists on the ‘Mother Road’: Route 66 and Other Metaphors for Navigating the Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing”
Chuck Paine, “Delbanco’s Plea: What Does a Defense of Liberal Arts Have to Do with Writing Programs?” and “A New Stage for the NSSE Writing Questions – CWPA’s Continued Involvement”
Todd Ruecker, “Preparing Instructors and TAs to Serve the Emerging Majority”
Leah Snyder and Lindsey Ives, “A Roundtable of Ejournal Editors: Digital Spaces that Support and Expand Writing Program Goals”

Conference of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction Writing SIG, Porto, Portugal
Jill V. Jeffery, & Polleck, J. N. “Adolescent authorial identity in a student-initiated writing group: Examining intersections between school-based and voluntary writing”
Wilcox, K., & Jeffery, J. V. “Authorial identity and agency in adolescent English language learners’ stances toward content-area writing”
David K Dunaway, Readings, A Route 66 Companion (University of Texas Press, 2012): Bookworks, Albuquerque; Collected Works, Santa Fe; Booksmith, San Francisco
Taught a workshop: “Broadcasting and Publishing Oral History,” for faculty and graduate students at the University of Sao Paulo

August 2012
Peter White won second place in old time fiddle at the Santa Fe Fiddle and Banjo Contest

Monday, October 8, 2012

Greg Martin publishes Stories for Boys, Reading on Nov. 8 at UNM

Greg Martin's second book, STORIES FOR BOYS, was published this fall by Hawthorne Books.

"STORIES FOR BOYS is a memoir and tells the story of my relationship with my father, who came out of the closet as a gay man after 39 years of marriage to my mother, and who came out to me after surviving a suicide attempt. The book also tells the story of how I came to share this change in the life of our family with my two young sons. I’m really grateful also that the book is now in its third printing and has been named a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection for Holiday 2012."

You can see more about STORIES FOR BOYS on Greg's website here: http://gregorymartinwrites.wordpress.com/

And on the website for Hawthorne Books: http://hawthornebooks.com/authors/greg-martin

The book is available at the UNM Bookstore, at Bookworks on Rio Grande, as well as on Amazon or Powells or Barnes & Noble. You can also purchase the book as an e-book, for the Kindle or the Nook.

Greg Martin will be giving a Reading, with a book signing to follow

November 8th

on the UNM Campus,

in Dane Smith Hall, in room 123,

at 7:00 PM.

Parking is close and convenient at the Yale Parking Garage, just a half block north of Lomas on Yale.

Greg's Upcoming Readings:
I just got back from a trip up to Missoula to give a reading and be on a panel about the memoir at the Montana Festival of the Book, and this week I’ll be reading at Powell’s in Portland, then the Wordstock Book Festival this weekend, and next week, I’ll be reading in Bellingham and Seattle and Salt Lake as part of the Utah Festival of the Book. If you know folks in those towns, and want to pass along that I’ll be up there, you can see the specifics of those readings on the appearances page of my website here: http://gregorymartinwrites.wordpress.com/appearances/

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Greg Martin & Amy Beeder Read at Bookworks

Sunday, September 30, 2012
3:00pm

Gregory Martin is the author of the memoir, Stories for Boys, published in Fall 2012 by Hawthorne Books. Barnes & Noble has named Stories for Boys a Discover Great New Writers selection for Holiday 2012. Martin’s first book, Mountain City (FSG/North Point Press), received a Washington State Book Award, was named a New York Times Notable Book, and is referred to by some people in Mountain City as “the book.” Martin’s work has appeared in The Sun, The Kenyon Review, Creative Nonfiction, The Writer, Witness, and elsewhere. For his teaching, Martin has received the University of New Mexico’s Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award. He is an Associate Professor of English and serves as Director of UNM’s Combined BA/MD Degree Program.

Amy Beeder is the author two books of poetry: Burn the Field and Now Make an Altar, both from Carnegie Mellon University Press. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, AGNI, The Nation, Pleiades, American Letters & Commentary, and other journals. She teaches poetry at the University of New Mexico. A former human rights observer in Haiti and Suriname, and a high school teacher in West Africa, Amy Beeder balances an ear for meter with an often ominous tone, creating a musical, at times mythical, exploration of how we construct beauty and strangeness. Beeder’s honors include a 2001 “Discovery”/The Nation Award, a Bread Loaf Scholarship, and an award from the Emerging Writers Network.

Monday, August 20, 2012

Diane Thiel list of recent accomplishments, publications, awards and readings

Diane Thiel published her book, Three Genres, with Pearson/Longman, 2011. She won the PEN Translation Award, 2010, for translation project of Eugenia Fakinou's poetic novel, The Great Green. She also was awarded a summer residency grant from the International Writers' House in Rhodes Greece. She also wrote and recorded a Longman lecture (print and audio) on Louisie Erdirch, 2011.
Her poem, "The First Sea," was published in The Burden of the Beholder: Dave Armstrong and the Art Collage, a fine art book, Colorado College press, 2010. Her non-fiction, "Memento Mori and Terza Rima," was published in Mentor and Muse, 2010. Her interview with Sherman Alexie was published in Conversations with Sherman Alexie, 2009. She has had work selected for several new anthologies from 2010-2012, including Backpack Literature from Longman, The Ablemuse Anthology, Poets of the American West, and Collecting Life: Poets on Objects Known and Imagined, among others.
Several of her poems, including "Kinder und Hausmarchen" and "Editorial Suggestive" have been set to music by composers Lori Laitman, Dale Trumbore, and David Conte and were performed in CA, NJ, FL, and others, particularly on an extensive tour in 2011. One venue in particular was Carnegie hall. Her poem, "The Minefeld," chosen for national NEA initiative, Poetry Out Loud, and was performed by high school students across the country in national competitions, particularly in 2010-11.
She visited several Albuquerque schools as a writer-in-the-schools in 2011-12. Diane Thiel was recorded on NEA nationally distributed cd about Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me Ultima. She was interviewed by NPR in 2009. Some of the readings she has given include for the Florida College English Association, 2010, Virginia Tech Creative Writing program's Reading Series, 2010, plenary speaker, Sewanee: University of the South School of Letters, 2011, Albuquerque's Local Poet's Guild, 2012.
She also designed and taught 6 new UNM online courses, and chaired or served on 7 dissertation committees.

Thursday, April 5, 2012

It Begins With Me

The Second Annual Gray-Torres Interpersonal Violence Conference

It Begins With Me

Ever wonder how you can help a friend or family member deal with domestic violence? The 2nd annual Gray –Torres Interpersonal Violence Conference can help. Join us April 16th in SUB Ballroom B and…

 Enjoy free pizza and snacks!

 Hear nationally known speaker, Mike Dilbeck, discuss how you can be an every-day hero

 Learn how to act when you see an interaction between people that escalate or promote violence and how to deal with conflict in personal relationships

 Listen to poetry and fiction readings with local and nationally known authors

 Watch a free screening of “Telling Amy’s Story”, a powerful documentary, brought to you by Verizon Wireless.

 And much more!

Remember We Can’t Begin Without You!

Join us Monday April 16th

In SUB Ballroom B

From 9:45am-6:30pm

The Second Annual Gray-Torres Interpersonal Violence Conference

For more information email: Gail Houston at ghouston@unm.edu or Summer Little at salittle@unm.edu

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Indigenous Book Festival

The UNM Institute for American Indian Research (IFAIR) and the Alfonso Ortiz Center present:

The 2012 Indigenous Book Festival
Thursday, April 12 - Friday, April 13
UNM Student Union Building

Please join us in celebrating the work of indigenous writers and scholars across fields. Other than the keynote luncheon on Friday, April 13 with Dr. Luana Ross, President of Salish Kootenai College, all book festival events are free and open to the public. In addition to presentations, panels, and creative writing workshops, the book festival features Diné poet and UNM English Professor Luci Tapahonso for a reading on
Friday, April 13 from 3:30-4:30 p.m.
in SUB Ballroom B.
Additional program details can be found at the IFAIR website:
http://www.unm.edu/~ifair/2012bookfest.html