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Ed 390 065 Author Title Institution Pub Date DOCUMENT RESUME ED 390 065 CS 215 170 AUTHOR Mitchell, Roger, Ed.; Shermis, Michael, Ed. TITLE Creative Writing. INSTITUTION Indiana Univ., Bloomington. Office of Research. PUB DATE Jan 96 NOTE 30p. AVAILABLE FROMResearch & Creative Activity, Office of Research and the University Graduate School, Indiana University, Bryan Hall 104, Bloomington, IN 47405-1201 or via electronic mail: [email protected]. An online edition is on the World Wide Web: http://www.indiana.edu/Etilda] rugs/rca/toc.html. PUB TYPE Collected Works Serials (022) JOURNAL CIT Research & Creative Activity; v18 n3 Jan 1996 EDRS PRICE MFOI/PCO2 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Authors; *Creative Writing; Higher Education; Intellectual Disciplines; Novels; Playwriting; *Poetry; Poets; *Scholarship; Writing Processes IDENTIFIERS *Indiana University ABSTRACT This theme issue features 11 articles on the research interests of Indiana University faculty whose work on various campuses continues to advance knowledge about creative writing. Articles in this issue are "Creative Writing and the Future" (Roger Mitchell) which outlines the historical beginnings of the intellectual disciplines of Literature and Creative Writing; "IU's Creative Writing Program: Past, Present, and Future" (Heather Shupp); "It's a Matter of Character" (Susan Moke) which discusses the work of award-winning author and Indiana University professor Frances Sherwood; "Close to the Center" (Nancy Cassell McEntire) which discusses the work of author Scott Russell Sanders; "A Postmodern Twist on Modernist Concerns" (Susan Moke) which discusses the work of novelist Cornelia Nixon; "Speaking the Mind and Spirit of a People" (Bob Baird) which discusses the work of John McCluskey, Jr., Chairman of Indiana University's Department of Afro-American Studies and adjunct professor of English; "Poets as Teachers as Poets" (Mary Cox Barclay) which discusses three poetry and fiction writers on the Indiana University faculty; "Surprising the Poet" (Mary Cox Barclay) which discusses the work of English professor and poet Yusef Komunyakaa; "Poetry Made Accessible" (Mary Cox Barclay) about a radio show about poetry and poets; "Champions of Prose and Poetry Praise the 'Bloomington Experience'" (Bob Baird); "Playwright Haven" (Mildred Perkins) which describes the work of playwright Benjamin Sahl; "Behind the Facade: The Lilly Library's Creative Side" (Heather Shupp) which describes some of the material in the Lilly Library, Indiana University's rare book, manuscript, and special collections library.(RS) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE U S DEPARTMENT THIS Once of Educahonai OF eDucAncx, MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTEDBY EDUCATIONAL Research and improvoenora RESOURCES INFORMATION Vcrlis CENTER (ERIC) Iflr 311,»,.0 document has been received from the reproduced as originating it person or organintion 0 Minor changes have been made improve reproduction lo quality - TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES - - - - - Points of viewor opinions stated INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC)" document donot nocessanly in thas official OERI regrows( position Of poky Research, both pure and applied, and creative activities are ongoing and essential aspects ot lite on the campuses of Indiana Universitc . The quality of instructional education at any institution is tremendously enhanced if based upon and continuously associated with research and creative inquiry. It is significant, therefore, that the emphasis at It: not only is placed upon fundamental and basic research but also is directed toward developmental activities designed to discover those applications of research that characterize the efforts of many of our faculty in the arts and sciences as well as in the professional schools. As an overview of the diverse and interesting programs ot research. scholarship, and creative activities conducted at Indiana University. Research 6, Creative Activity offers its readers an opportunity to become familiar with the professional accomplishments of our distinguished faculty and graduate students. We hope the articles that appear in Research 6- CreatiPe Activity continue to be intellectually stimulating to readers and make them more aware of the great diversity and depth of the research and artistic creativity under way at Indiana University. A full and c \citing life 1- being created here, now and for the future. From our readers %Ye welcome suggestions for topics for future articles in Research ,!--, C rea f tz.r A, t n.11 ii that %Yin demonstrate further the scholarly activity at Indiana University. Research & Creative Activity INDIANA UNIVERSITY \ ,thnne \ N. umber ; Creative Writing and the Future 2 Ianuar\ jou', IU's Creative Writing Program: 1. Past, Present, and Future 3 Roger Mitchell It's a Matter of Character 5 Close to the Center 7 Michael Shermis A Postmodern Twist on Moderntst C -ncerns 8 Speaking the Mini and ;pint ot a Peop:e 10 Tish Zapata Poets as Teachers as Poets 12 .iurprisina tt-tc P 13 Heather Shupp Poetry Made AccessCnle 16 iitortai Champions of Prose and Poetry Praise Alicia Crabtree the "Bloomington Experience" 17 Playwright Haven 18 14,.ad Behind the Facade: The Lilly Library s Creative Side 21 Jeff Alberts Jeremy Dunning From Inquiry to Publication 22 Books by Indiana University faculty members Roger Farr Curtis Simic George E. Walker Research & Creative Activihy is published three times each academic year by the Office of Research and the University Graduate School, with support from the Indiana University Foundation and the IU Alumni Association. Subscription matters, requests for permi.sion to reprint material, and editorial correspondence should be addressed to the Associate Editor, Research & Creative Activity, Office of Research and the University Graduate School, Indiana University, Bryan Hall 104, Bloomington, IN 47405-1201 or via electronic mail to orugsRindiana.edu. Subscriptions are available upon request. All contents Copyright © 19% by the Indiana University Foundation. Printed by Indiana University Printing Services on recycled paper. An online edition of this magazine is on the World Wide Web, The URL is http://wwwindiana.edut-rugshcaitoc.html Aeratd. j CL, Litt, elLftal.2Za "01.Ve4 dad-t Clue , zi .7 a rsurtr Cair<n-teL etee4 my '...te:ofv: .11 )4 . ice e really, . ing e r uture by Roger Mitchell Disciplines neverseem to stand focus instead on the work of art and Amazing, we say, but that still. They keep beingrein- the aesthetics under whichit was may vented. Take literature. be where much of thefuture of cre- At one time written. The inevitablereaction to it was thought redundant ative writing lies. Creativewriting to teach that has now broughtus back to the literature of one'sown lan- one form or another of culturally- programs will certainly continueto find and ericourage guage. Anyone could read it,any- based criticism, which a good number tends to see of tomorrow's authors, one smart enough to be in authors less as conscious the task that artists has come to be their university, (hat is. Thestudy of lit- working independently central concern, and freely but already, at the erature was entirelyan extracurric- and more as agents of undergraduate large and level, the future Dickinsons ular enthusiasm. Thencame the complex historical forces. and Dreisers sit among large Germans with theirhistorically and The same restlessnesssur- numbers of their peers who lookto creative linguistically-based scholarship rounds creative writing.As we who said, in whatcame to be called know r t today, creative writing for other kinds ofhelp: help writing is with language "life and times" criticism,that applied aesthetics, the use, help with cre- training ative thinking .nd personal works of literaturecannot be prop- writers receive is similar expres- in intent to siveness, help with literary erly known withoutrigorous cours- the training painters receive in a interpretation. es in philology. school of fine arts. The faculties of The challenge that After that came critics(they the numerous (onehas to say, academic were called "new") who said, increasingly numerous) programs in creative writing face programs today is to meet ignore the biography andthe social in creative writing in a rapidly rising American col- interest in the subject forces surrounding theauthor and leges and universitiesconsist among both almost entirely of serious undergraduate and graduatestu- practicing dents and to do writers. Oddly, this is so in broad and a new condi- realistic ways that tion, one that the practice are not limited to and study the simple production of creative writing inour universi- of authors. A challenge, it seems tome, already ties has evolved intoonly in the last being met by themany fine writers forty or fifty years. D. G.Myers, teaching in the IUsystem. who has just publishedthe first full scholarly study of creative writing, Roger Mitchell, Director The Elephants Teach,traces the teach- ing of this subject back Creative Writing Program to 1880. As Indiana University Bloomington he points out, creativewriting was first introducedas an alternative tool in the teaching ofliterature, alternative to the standardtool of that day, philology. Creativewrit- ing was an antecedentto what we now call composition andwas intended solely to givestudents an opportunity to inhabit thespirit of the literature theywere being asked to read
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