September 27 - 28, 2013 The Luther College Writers Festival celebrates the rich diversity of contemporary imaginative writing, fosters conversation among readers and writers, and explores the many ways in which highly crafted literature plumbs the human condition and illuminates readers’ spiritual and moral imagination. TABLE OF CONTENTS
SEPTEMBER 27-28, 2013 LUTHER COLLEGE, DECORAH, IOWA
Contents
Festival Schedule 2
Authors and Presenters 4
Luther English Department Members 9
Festival Information 11
Campus Map inside back
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 Tweet the Conference! #LCWF13 8:00–9:00 a.m. Registration and Refreshments FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 Centennial Union Lobby (first floor) 9:00–10:30 a.m. 2:00–4:00 p.m. Reading: Poetry Registration Center for Faith and Life Recital Hall Valders Hall of Science Concourse Barbara Crooker James Pollock 4:00 p.m. Cary Waterman Keynote Presentation: Mark Salzman Convenor: Clara Boyle, Luther English Department “Write In Peace: A Contemplative Response to Creative Distress” Panel: Writing Spiritual Lives Centennial Union Mott-Borlaug Room (first floor) Valders 206 Mary Allen Introduction Melanie Hoffert Rachel Faldet, Luther English Department Mark Salzman Moderator: Nancy K. Barry, Luther English Department 5:00 p.m. In his novel Lying Awake, Mark Salzman draws a portrait Reception and Salzman Book Signing of an American Carmelite nun facing a crisis of faith who Sampson Hoffland Atrium begins to experience ecstatic visions, only to discover that her visions are the symptoms of epilepsy. In her memoir 7:30 p.m. Rooms of Heaven, Mary Allen describes her spiritual quest to connect with her former lover after his suicide. In Prai- Center Stage Series: Weiss Kaplan Newman rie Silence, Melanie Hoffert examines the cultural silences Trio about our lives and our deepest selves, within the context Center for Faith and Life Main Hall of reconciling an identity that challenged her religious up- Group rate discounted tickets for Festival registrants are bringing. These writers will examine the nature of spiritual available at the Ticket Office for $21. illumination—and its cost and value to the communities that inspire it. Combining the talents of three award-winning solists, the Weiss Kaplan Newman Trio has been hailed by The New 10:30–11:00 a.m. York Times as “three strong voices, locked in sequence.” This evening’s all-Beethoven program is the first in a series Refreshment Break of concert celebrations of the recent rebuilding of the CFL Centennial Union Lobby (first floor) Steinway grand piano, originally purchased in 1977 for $12,000 by a pledge from the Luther College Women’s 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Club to celebrate the opening of the CFL. Reading: Fiction 8:00 p.m. Center for Faith and Life Recital Hall Cass Dalglish Poetry Slam Chris Fink Decorah Elks Club, 402 West Main Street, Decorah William Jablonsky Featured Artist: Chris Fink Convenor: Kate Narveson, Luther English Department Presented by Decorah ArtHaus, sponsored by Dragonfly Books
Festival registrants’ free entrance ticket is included with their name badge, along with directions to the Elks Club (one mile distance from campus).
2 Panel: Writing About, Above, and Beyond Panel: Considering Anne Lamott: Word the Fray of War by Word Centennial Union Mott-Borlaug Room (first floor) Centennial Union Mott-Borlaug Room (first floor) Patrick Hicks David Faldet Steven Schroeder Rachel Faldet Moderator: Martin Klammer, Luther English Department Karla Suomala Both authors in this panel have written about the effects Moderator: Lindsey Row-Heyveld, Luther English of war. Patrick Hicks addresses this in his poetry and has Department just finished a novel about the Holocaust. Steven Schro- This panel will explore the ways Anne Lamott’s writings eder has both translated the German theologian Dietrich lend themselves to a range of audiences: aspiring writers, Bonhoeffer’s poems (written while he was imprisoned spiritual seekers, women. Wise and funny, Lamott has a under the Nazis), and also written his own poems in re- way of breaking down barriers. The panelists will consider sponse. These writers will discuss how their research and the way she speaks directly to readers in her instructional source material both influenced and transformed their cre- books, autobiographical essays, and novels. ative work, and how history and memory are intertwined in both poetry and prose. 3:00–3:30 p.m. Refreshment Break 12:30–1:30 p.m. Centennial Union Lobby (first floor) Lunch (“Dining Options” listed on page 11 of this program). Book Signing Centennial Union Book Shop Lobby (first floor) Book Signing Featuring: Fallon, Jablonsky, Schwehn, Waterman Centennial Union Book Shop Lobby (first floor) Featuring: Allen, Crooker, Dalglish, Fink, Hicks, Hoffert, Pollock, and Schroeder 3:30–5:00 p.m. Reading: Poetry Roundtable on Editing College Literary Center for Faith and Life Recital Hall Magazines Carol Gilbertson Centennial Union Nansen Lounge (second floor) Diane LeBlanc Moderator: William Jablonsky Jody Rambo Students who work on literary magazines at various col- Convenor: Kathy Reed, Luther Music Department leges, as well as faculty who advise such publications, talk about the opportunities, challenges, and new develop- Panel: New Writing, New Media ments in soliciting work, maintaining quality, and making Centennial Union Mott-Borlaug Room (first floor) student writing public. Roy R. Behrens Lise Kildegaard In order to have a full hour for this conversation about Cary Waterman and Cass Dalglish college literary magazines, we will provide brown bag Moderator: Andy Hageman, Luther English Department lunches for the number of participants we estimate will be attending this session. This panel touches on the intersection of media and contemporary writing. Cary Waterman and Cass Daglish 1:30–3:00 p.m. focus on how to mentor writers in a “virtual studio.” The artist and graphic designer Roy Behrens discusses the in- Reading: Memoir tersection between word and image. Describing creative Center for Faith and Life Recital Hall experiments being carried on during this Writers Festival, D’Arcy Fallon Lise Kildegaard explores how social media can enhance Kaethe Schwehn and deepen our love of story, as well as build community. Amy Weldon Convenor: Jessa Anderson-Reitz, Luther English Major (LC ‘14)
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5:00–5:30 p.m. KEYNOTE AUTHORS Book Signing Centennial Union Book Shop Lobby (first floor) Anne Lamott’s distinctive writing Featuring: Behrens, Dalglish, Gilbertson, LeBlanc, Rambo voice is both full of heart and wildly funny. She is the author of seven Reception (with cash bar) novels including Hard Laughter, Centennial Union Hammarskjold Lounge (second floor) Rosie, Joe Jones, Blue Shoe, All New People, Crooked Little Heart, and Imperfect Birds. Her bestselling books 5:30-7:15 p.m. of nonfiction includeOperating Dinner Instructions, an account of life as a single mother during Centennial Union Peace Dining Room (second floor) her son’s first year, followed bySome Assembly Required: (For all paid participants) A Journal of My Son’s First Son. Her much-loved guide for writers, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, has shepherded countless writers—newbies and 7:30 p.m. experts—through their perilous and exhilarating efforts to Keynote Presentation: Anne Lamott fix their words onto the blank page. She has also authored Luther College Distinguished Lecture: three collections of autobiographical essays on faith: “Faith & Writing (And Living)” Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith; Plan B: Center for Faith and Life Main Hall Further Thoughts on Faith; and Grace (Eventually): (Reserved seating for Festival registrants) Thoughts on Faith. In her latest book, Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers, Lamott explores how three Introduction simple prayers can suffice for the soul in struggle and Nancy K. Barry, Luther English Department gladness. Her next book, Stitches (late fall 2013), offers an honest, funny account of how to make sense of life’s 8:45 p.m. chaos and mystery. Lamott has been honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship, and has taught at UC Davis, as Lamott Book Signing well as at writing conferences across the country. Her Center for Faith and Life Concourse Salon online diary, “Word by Word,” was voted The Best of the Web by TIME magazine.
Mark Salzman’s unusual combination of talents and accomplishments—as an award-winning author, a concert- proficient cellist, and a world-traveling observer of human life—have engaged him in many adventures, both home and abroad. His first memoir, Iron and Silk, inspired by his years in China, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction and received the Christopher Award. His book True Notebooks recounts his experiences as a writing teacher at Los Angeles Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for violent teenage offenders. He is also the author of the memoir Lost in Place: Growing Up Absurd in Suburbia, and the novels The Laughing Sutra, The Soloist, and Lying Awake. Salzman has been the topic of a feature-length profile inThe New Yorker magazine. He was recently presented with the Algonquin West Hollywood Literary Award, and his books have been chosen for “book in If you don’t believe in what you are saying, there is common” reading programs by a number of universities. no point in your saying it. You might as well call it a day and His newest work is the non-fiction bookThe Man in the go bowling. Empty Boat. —Anne Lamott
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Mary Allen is the author of a memoir, Luther College Professor of English The Rooms of Heaven, published by David Faldet’s book, Oneota Flow Alfred A. Knopf and Vintage Books. (University of Iowa Press), folds his She earned an Iowa Writers’ Work- local roots and stories into a natural- shop MFA and has been awarded a cultural history of Decorah’s Upper National Endowment for the Arts Iowa River and the Driftless region. A creative writing fellowship for work on Luther grad and a PhD from Iowa in a second memoir, Awake in the nineteenth-century British literature, Dream House. Her essay “At the Monastery” won first David teaches rhetoric, journalism, and the occasional prize in the 2012 Tiferet Journal spiritual writing contest. section of creative writing. His poems have appeared in She teaches spiritual writing in The University of Iowa’s journals such as Mid-American Review, Ekphrasis, Spiritus, Summer Writing Festival, has taught in the Nonfiction and Midwest Quarterly. Writing Program at The University of Iowa, and is a full-time writing coach. She lives in Iowa City. Luther College Assistant Professor Rachel Faldet helps student writers Roy R. Behrens is a Professor of Art find their voices. An MA in Writing and Distinguished Scholar at the from the University of Iowa, she is a University of Northern Iowa. He has freelance editor whose From My taught graphic design, illustration, Perspective: Essays About Disability and design history at art schools and (Spectrum Network) was featured on universities for more than forty years. Iowa Public Radio. Essays on details As a nonfiction writer, he has pub- of individual lives, including her own, appeared in lished seven books and hundreds of Christian Science Monitor, Carolina Quarterly, and essays. As an artist-designer, he has illustrated short Ruminate. Her book Our Stories of Miscarriage landed stories, books, and other works by various prominent her two appearances on NBC’s Today Show. writers, among them Jerzy Kosinski, Guy Davenport, Margaret Atwood, Joyce Carol Oates, Lee K. Abbott, and Associate Professor D’Arcy Fallon Barry Lopez. teaches feature writing, creative writing, and English at Wittenberg Barbara Crooker’s poems have University. Prior to coming to Witten- appeared in many literary journals, berg, she was an award-winning including The Christian Science reporter and columnist for the Monitor, The Christian Century, Colorado Springs Gazette. She Christianity and Literature, Sojourners, worked previously for the Long Beach Rock & Sling, Ruminate, Literature and Press-Telegram and the San Francisco Examiner. Her 2004 Belief, The Cresset, Tiferet, America, memoir, So Late, So Soon (Hawthorne Books and Literary and in anthologies, including Imago Arts) details life in the remote California Christian com- Dei: Poems from Christianity and Literature and Good mune she called home for three years in the early 1970’s. Poems: American Places (Garrison Keillor, editor). She has Her writing has been published in The Sun, Greenwoman, won a number of awards, including the Thomas Merton The Final Draft, Springs Magazine, American Hiker, and Poetry of the Sacred Prize. Her newest book is Gold many other publications. (Poeima Poetry Series, Cascade Books, 2013).
Cass Dalglish is a novelist and prose poet who has written television news and documentaries as a broadcast journalist. She is the director of and a fiction mentor in Augsburg College’s Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing. Her published novels include I want to tell you your life is a blue coal, a slice Nin and Sweetgrass (Minnesota Book of orange in your mouth, cut hay in your nostrils. The Award finalist). Her book-length prose poemHumming the cardinals’ Blues is a jazz interpretation of the Sumerian cuneiform red song dances in your blood. signs in Enheduanna’s Song to Inanna, Ancient Iraq, 2350 BCE. Her interests include women’s studies, mythology, —Barbara Crooker archetypal theory, and Reiki energy practice.
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Chris Fink teaches literature, writing, Patrick Hicks, Writer-in-Residence at and journalism at Beloit College. He Augustana College, is the author of is the editor of the Beloit Fiction five poetry collections, most recently Journal. Since 2000, he has Finding the Gossamer and This published more than twenty-five London, both from Ireland’s ac- stories and essays at various journals, claimed press, Salmon Poetry. He is including Alaska Quarterly Review, the recipient of a number of grants, The Cream City Review, Hayden’s including from the Bush Artist Ferry Review, Malahat Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humani- Other Voices, The Pinch, and South Dakota Review. He ties. His work with PBS’s “Over South Dakota” was was a founding faculty member of the MFA program at nominated for an Emmy in 2012. His first novel,The San Jose State University, where he taught for five years Commandant of Lubizec, which is about the Holocaust, and edited Reed Magazine. He is a recipient of the 2003 will be published by Steerforth/Random House in 2014. Silicon Valley Artist’s Grant, and founder of the John Steinbeck Award for the Short Story. Melanie Hoffert is the author of Prairie Silence: A Memoir (Beacon Carol Gilbertson’s chapbook, From a Press, 2013). She grew up on a farm Distance, Dancing (2011), was a near Wyndmere, North Dakota, where finalist in Finishing Line Press’s Open she spent her childhood wandering Chapbook Competition. She has gravel roads and listening to farmers received the Donald Murray Prize and at church potlucks. Her work has been the Flyway Sweet Corn Prize for published in several literary journals, Poetry, as well as placing second in and she holds an MFA in creative writing from Hamline the MacGuffin Poet Hunt. Her poem University. Melanie lives in Minneapolis. Her website is “Night Rising,” the inspiration for composer Philip
Luther College Professor Lise Kildegaard teaches Milton, eighteenth and nineteenth century British literature, and young adult literature at Luther College. A University of Chicago PhD, she spent a year in a Danish Folk School, and When I must speak, I choose words with the she returned to Denmark in 2008 as properties of air, words a fellow of the American-Scandinavian Foundation. Her so thin I could pass through them and come out the other translations of Louis Jensen’s Square Stories have been side, published in Translation: A Translation Studies Journal and waterly reassembling myself in the form of a river or a sash The Iowa Review and adapted into a play at Luther of ribbon. College. She currently holds the Luther College Dennis M. Jones Distinguished Teaching Professorship in the —Jody Rambo Humanities.
6 Diane LeBlanc is the author of two Steven Schroeder is a poet and poetry collections, Dancer with Good visual artist who has spent many years Sow (Finishing Line Press, 2008) and moonlighting as a philosophy Hope in Zone Four (Talent House professor – most often in interdisci- Press, 1998). “Work in Progress,” an plinary settings, most recently at the essay examining intersections of University of Chicago Graham School. teaching, writing, and Wendell He studied at the University of Berry’s vision of the world as home, is Chicago (where he earned a PhD in forthcoming in Claiming Our Callings: Toward a New Ethics and Society and an MA in Divinity) and Valparaiso Understanding of Vocation and the Liberal Arts (Eds. University (where he earned a BA in Psychology and was a Kaethe Schwehn and L. DeAne Lagerquist, Oxford Christ College Scholar). His most recent poetry collections University Press, 2014). Diane is an Associate Professor of are Turn and Raging for the Exit (with David Breeden). His Interdisciplinary Studies at St. Olaf College, where she website is
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Cary Waterman is the author of five A native Alabamian, Amy Weldon is books of poems; her latest, Book of Associate Professor of English at Fire, was a finalist for the Midwest Luther College, specializing in writing, Book Award. Her poems are included English Romanticism, and Southern in the anthologies Poets Against the literature. Her work has appeared in War, To Sing Along the Way: Minne- the Los Angeles Review of Books, sota Women Poets from Pre-territorial Best Travel Writing 2012, Cornbread Days to the Present and Where One Nation 2: The Best of Southern Food Song Ends, Another Begins: 150 Years of Minnesota Writing, Shenandoah, New Haven Review, Keats-Shelley Poetry. She has received grants from the Minnesota State Journal, The Millions, Bloom, and Southern Cultures. Arts Board and the Bush Foundation and has had residen- Amy’s love of gardening and the land appears in her blog cies at the MacDowell Colony and the Tyrone Guthrie on sustainability, spirit, and self-reliance at
I wish, too, that we could move away from asking people “what do you do?” and instead begin conversations by asking, “what is it you love to do?” —Kaethe Schwehn
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The English Department at Luther fosters love of litera- ture and Ecology.” She loves to cook, follow baseball, and ture, delight in word-craft, and desire for wisdom. We explore the Upper Iowa River with her husband Brendan are committed to the college’s mission to cultivate the and dog Rose. whole person and to journey with students beyond im- mediate interests to a love of Truth and Beauty in all their grave or goofy forms. We delight in each other as well as in our students: we treasure the time we find to read David Faldet and discuss each other’s creative and scholarly work, and See Authors and Presenters we love conversing over our epicurean meals at depart- ment potlucks. We also get a kick out of social events with students, whether flipping burgers at our fall picnic, costuming up for our literary Halloween party, or dancing around the Christmas tree in the Center for Faith and Life,
as twilight falls and exams beckon.
Rachel Faldet Nancy K. Barry has taught at Luther See Authors and Presenters for 24 years, and has worn many hats:
Professor of English, Director of Advising, College Writing Director, and English Department Head. A native of Baltimore, she earned her PhD in twentieth-century poetry at A Decorah native, Assistant Professor University of Illinois Urbana-Cham- Andy Hageman lived in Shanghai, paign. She teaches a range of writing courses at Luther Washington state, and California (PhD, and in the University of Iowa’s Summer Writing Festival. UC Davis) before returning to join the Her primary writing genre is creative nonfiction, but her Luther faculty. He loves connecting recent endeavors include a one-woman play about her travels with texts: from hiking to the experience as a teacher undergoing treatment for breast cave of the Tang Dynasty hermit poet cancer, Lessons from Cancer College. Han Shan, to walking Dashiell Hammett’s San Francisco. Andy enjoys teaching American Judy Boese is Administrative Assis- literature and film studies, and he has published essays on tant to the Paideia program, the science fiction, ecological media, and dead whales. English department, and the Luther College Writers Festival. Judy manages the production of The Paideia Reader for Luther’s first-year Lise Kildegaard common course and of the faculty See Authors and Presenters journal Agora. Both of Judy’s children are Luther grads, and her husband Charlie works at Luther too, so they’ve made Luther part of their family. Her favorite topic is her grandchildren, but she also loves to reminisce about the “Sacred Spaces of Western Europe,” a study abroad course on Lutheran-Catholic ecumenism in Martin Klammer, Professor of English which she participated as a reward for receiving the Luther and Africana Studies, is currently College 2006 Staff Excellence Award. College Writing Director. His primary interest these days is in the literature Clara Boyle is a Visiting Assistant and culture of South Africa, where Professor. Her research on John he’s taken Luther student groups for Ashbery’s poetry (UC Davis, 2010) January term classes since 1998. focuses on poetry and ecology. She Martin has taught at the University of recently presented papers on Cape Town and co-authored a book with Blanche LaGuma plant-like poems and on Wallace on her life as a nurse-midwife, anti-apartheid activist, and Stevens’s cloudy poetics. At Luther, in wife of the novelist Alex LaGuma. Martin also maintains addition to “Literary Ventures” and his interest in Walt Whitman, whom he wrote about in his “The Writer’s Voice,” she has taught a J-term course on first book:Whitman, Slavery, and the Emergence of poetry and science; in the spring, she will teach “Litera- Leaves of Grass (Penn State Press, 1995).
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Professor Kate Narveson shares her Professor Diane Scholl enjoys passion for Medieval and Renaissance teaching courses in both British and English literature in her teaching and American literature, with special for the archives in her scholarship. An interest in women’s literature, MPhil in Renaissance Studies from the theology in literature, and literature of Warburg Institute and a PhD in English the ancient world. Currently she is from the University of Chicago, Kate teaching a seminar entitled “Posses- publishes on Donne, Herbert, and, in sion: Narrative Voice and the Creative a new book, on the unintended consequence of the Daimon.” She has published on Emily Dickinson, Nathan- Reformation push for Bible reading: the emergence of an iel and Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, Henry James, and ordinary lay person’s writing culture. A violinist who also Alice Walker. A widely-published poet, Diane models her fiddles at folk dances, Kate’s recent marriage to a designer belief that the combination of critical and creative writing of solar PV systems has added to the department’s sharpens the eye and energizes the mind. voltage. Nancy Simpson-Younger is a Visiting With a strong commitment to middle Instructor at Luther College and a school and high school students, Kris PhD candidate at the University of Peterson passes her passion on to Wisconsin-Madison. Her research Luther’s secondary English Education explores the way that sleeping bodies majors. Kris serves as Visiting demand an ethical response from Instructor in English and Education, onlookers in early modern English working with pre-service English literature; Nancy has published educators and first-year writers, and articles on sleeping bodies and their watchers in Sidney’s savoring the creativity of YAL authors in a course explor- Old Arcadia and Shakespeare’s Cymbeline. She also ing literature for the young adult audience. A Luther BA keeps an eye on the wide world of Shakespeare adapta- and University of Iowa MA served Kris in classrooms as a tions, the subject of an up-coming J-term course. career educator, and brought Kris and husband Dave home to build their cabin in the hills of Northeast Iowa.
Nicholas Preus, Professor of English and Education, draws on his former Amy Weldon life as a high school teacher in a See Authors and Presenters course on ethical issues in education, and also teaches Romantic and Victorian literature, novels, and poetry. Nick has a BA from Luther and a PhD from the University of Novian Whitsitt is Professor of Wisconsin-Madison in nineteenth century British literature. Africana Studies and English. A PhD He has recently written on Matthew Arnold’s theories of from Wisconsin-Madison, Novian education, and he teaches a course in maritime literature wrote his dissertation on popular aboard a historic schooner. A skilled woodworker, he fiction by Muslim women written in builds beautiful furniture and cooks wood-oven pizza. Hausa, one of the Nigerian languag- es. Particularly interested in gender Lindsey Row-Heyveld is the newest analysis of African, Caribbean, and assistant professor in Luther’s English African-American literature, Novian has served as Director department. A PhD from the Univer- of Women’s Studies at Luther. Novian is a former basket- sity of Iowa, she focuses in her baller for Stanford and our own prize-winning competitive research on performances of disability cyclist. in early modern English drama, and has published an article on mental disability and revenge tragedy in a pioneering collection on disability in early modern Our emeriti faculty—who still live in Decorah, attend col- England. Lindsey loves teaching Shakespeare and is lege cultural and social events, and whom we thank for dreaming up other courses on sixteenth and seventeenth their continuing friendship and mentoring—are John C. century English literature, on disability studies, and on Bale, Carol Gilbertson, Martin Mohr, Mary Hull Mohr, monsters and superheroes. Mark Z. Muggli, Harland Nelson, and Peter Scholl.
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Registration Hearing Devices At the Friday afternoon registration table in the Valders Hearing devices for the Lamott lecture are available at the Concourse, you will receive your copy of the printed pro- CFL ticket office. gram and your nametag, which will include your ticket to the Poetry Slam on Friday night at the Elks Club. Satur- Photography and Audio/Video Taping day morning registration will be held at Dahl Centennial Union. You may also ask at the registration table for any Photography and recording devices are strictly forbidden other information or directions. during the Festival. Please silence all cell phones, watch alarms, and paging devices. Nametags History of the Festival Your nametag is your ticket to all sessions, so please wear it at all times. At the end of the Festival, please recycle The 2013 Luther College Writers Festival is the third cam- your nametag by putting it in the designated box in the pus national writing festival. The idea for a festival came CFL. from Paul Shepherd (then Writer-in-Residence at Florida State University and a former visiting writer at Luther Col- Transport lege), who felt that the great variety and achievement of writers shaped by the Lutheran tradition (cradle Lutherans, Hometown Taxi (563-382-3155) runs Friday 6:30 a.m.–6:00 practicing Lutherans, Lutheran writers teaching at non- p.m. and Saturday 7:30 a.m.–8:00 p.m. Lutheran colleges, and faculty at Lutheran colleges, along Sarge & Marge Taxi (563-517-0190) has 24-hour service. with Lutheran editors and publishers) warranted a national Campus Safety and Security (563-387-2111) for gathering focused on their common bonds. 24-hour emergency transport assistance. Luther College was delighted to take the leadership in Dining Options on Campus hosting the highly successful festivals of 2007 and 2010 under the direction of Carol Gilbertson. Through readings, Dahl Centennial Union has the following weekend options lectures, and panel discussions, the festivals encouraged for snacks and meals: serious reading and writing and cultivated a community Marty’s Café of writers and readers among the students, faculty, and Friday and Saturday, 10:30 a.m.–midnight general public of the Lutheran world. Cafeteria Building on the enthusiastic response to the 2007 Festival, Friday and Saturday, 7:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m. Paul Shepherd spearheaded the development of the Lu- theran Writers Project, an ongoing initiative “that provides Luther Book Shop and Book Signings resources and gathering opportunities for writers, readers, and institutions—including churches, schools, colleges, Visit the Luther Book Shop in Dahl Centennial Union for and churchwide organizations.” The project’s website is displays of our presenters’ books available for purchase.
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Supporting the Festival Acknowledgments Luther College intends to continue sponsoring the Fes- • Nancy K. Barry, Professor and Department Head of tival as a triennial event. We are grateful for a generous English, and Director for Advising, is the Festival gift which allowed us to begin building our endowment, Director. and for subsequent gifts from our friends and Festival • The Luther College Writers Festival Endowment, attendees. But we will need more to ensure the Festival’s supplemented by gifts from Friends of the Festival, has continuation. Please consider a gift to support this impor- made this event possible. tant work. Go to the LCWF website < www.luther.edu/ • The Luther College English Department was respon- writersfestival> and click on “Give to the Festival” or go sible for planning and implementation and provided to
And so with us: up close fleshy, ravenous, and flawed, but from a distance, dancing, sleek for love, and sailing. —Carol Gilbertson
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