Extra Credit Opportunity

Another reading coming up... attend, do a write-up, and get extra credit!

April 15th @ Schaible Auditorium, 7 PM

Dawn Raffel

Dawn Raffel's newest book is Further Adventures in the Restless Universe. She is also the author of a novel, Carrying the Body and a previous collection, In the Year of Long Division. Her stories have appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, Conjunctions, Black Book, Fence, Open City, The Mississippi Review Prize Anthology, The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, Arts & Letters, The Quarterly, NOON and numerous other periodicals and anthologies. She was a fiction editor for many years, followed by a seven-year stint as Executive Articles Editor at O, The Oprah Magazine and three years as Editor-at-Large at More magazine; she has also taught in the MFA program at Columbia University. She now works part time at Readers Digest as Editor at Large, Books, and is completing a memoir. She lives outside New York City with her husband and sons and can be reached at Dawn@​Raffel.name. For more information please visit www.dawnraffel.com

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Extra Credit Opportunity

Daryl Farmer, an assistant professor in the English Department, will be reading from his book Bycicling Beyond the Divide: Two Journeys into the West.

Friday, March 25, 2011 - 7 PM
Reichardt 201

Extra Credit Opportunities

A few things coming up...

Tonight - Poetry Reading: Cecily Parks, 4 March, 7 PM, Schaible Auditorium, UAF

Saturday - Poetry Reading: Lance Twitchell and John Morgan, 5 March, 7 PM, Pioneer Park Bear Gallary

March 19 - Poetry Reading: Nuala Ni Dhomnaill (Irish Poet Laureate) 7 PM, Pioneer Park Bear Gallary

As always, if you attend any of these events just do a blog post about your experience for 10 points.

Have a great weekend!

Heads Up - Thursday 2/24

Hey 111ers,
A couple of changes in the syllabus to note... I'm removing "We Alaskan," from the reading list.  Instead, we'll be looking at a documentary today and preparing a critical review (to replace Reading Response #4). 

Please come to class on Tuesday ready to discuss "Killing Wolves," and "The Old Crow."

For Tuesday - Analysis Essay

Don't forget, as we talked about in our conferences, I'm going to be asking everyone to have the following ready for Tuesday's class:

1) Author selected, along with two pieces of writing by that author.
2) A source that provides biographical information. 
3) A theme that connects these three sources.

If you struggle with this over the weekend, let me know.  For this essay, it will be important that you get started on time, and make steady progress up to the deadline.  Finishing the work for this essay at the last possible minute will be disastrous for your grade.

See you Tuesday!

PS - we'll be discussing "Going Native," (on the blog) and "Salvation," (in your textbook). Reading Response #3 is due Tuesday at 11:59 PM.

Extra Credit Opportunity

There's another reading coming up... if you want to attend and give me a one page write-up, you'll get 10 extra points (the equivalent of one whole letter grade on your essays).


Friday, February 18, 2011 - 7:00 PM - Museum of the North
Jeanne E. Clarke

Jeanne E. Clark is the author of a collection of poems, OHIO BLUE TIPS, winner of the Akron Poetry Prize. She regularly teaches creative writing classes with an emphasis in poetry as well as literature classes such as Women Writers and Modern American Poetry. She is interested in community-based education and taught for many years in prisons, nursing homes, homeless shelters, and public schools as an Artist in Education. She is at work on a second poetry collection, tentatively titled "The First Good Day of My Life."