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Langdon Review Weekend September 8 – 11, 2010 Langdon Review Weekend September 8 – 11, 2010 Tarleton’s Langdon Center Granbury, Texas Tarleton State University Stephenville, Texas Co-Editors: Moumin Quazi and Marilyn Robitaille Editorial Advisory Board Phyllis Allen Judy Alter Betsy Berry Alice Cushman Robert L. Flynn Todd Frazier Don Graham Dominique Inge James Hoggard Lynn Hoggard James Ward Lee Natrelle Long Jill Patterson Tom Pilkington Punch Shaw Thea Temple Cheryl Vogel Donna Walker-Nixon Betty Wiesepape 2010 Contributors Mildred Vorpahl Baass David Bates Charles Behlen Alan Lee Birkelbach Cary Clack L. D. Clark Daniella DeLaRue Otis Marion Dozier Steven Fromholz J. B. Harlin Susan Harlin Sara Hickman James Hoggard Charles Inge Nicholas Dean Irion Juanita Luna Lawhn Charles Lohrmann Walt McDonald Karla K. Morton Frank Mosley Cleatus Rattan Red Steagall Larry D. Thomas Roger Winter Philip Zwerling 2 General Information REGISTRATION: The registration desk in the Langdon House will open beginning Thursday morning at 8:30 a.m. and continuing throughout the Langdon Review Weekend. VENUE: All events with the exceptions of the Wednesday Opening Events, the film screening, and the Picnic with the Poet Laureate take place at Tarleton’s Langdon Center. The Rock House and the Concert Hall are both within shouting distance of the Gordon House where registration and some sessions are taking place. EXHIBITS: Various writers have been invited to display their books at a table in the Carriage House. Feel free to browse and ultimately purchase books. Say hello to Christina Stradley, Tarleton Campus Store manager extraordinaire. BREAK AREA: From 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m., help yourself to the snacks provided. Look for the tents on the Langdon Center Lawn. RESTROOMS: Restrooms are located in the building behind the Concert Hall. SOCIAL, CULTURAL, AND INTELLECTUAL PROGRAM: All the events from Thursday morning’s readings onward–the publication reception, readings, guest speakers’ programs, and the Saturday Morning Brunch–are all included in the registration fee, as is a copy of this year’s journal. Movie tickets and the Friday evening meal may be purchased on location. Sign up and pay for your box lunch for the picnic and extra brunch tickets either online or at the registration desk. THE BOOK: We’re celebrating (and shamelessly promoting) the seventh edition of the Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas, available for purchase at the Gordon House and in the Carriage House bookstore. IMPORTANT NOTE: Please respect the room capacity numbers posted at each venue. If you need anything, please don’t hesitate to ask Co-editors Moumin Quazi and Marilyn Robitaille or Langdon Center Director Janice Horak. 3 Langdon Review Weekend Schedule September 8 - 11, 2010 Day One, Wednesday, September 8 Specialty Workshop 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon • Specialty Workshop on Collaborative Writing, led by Mike Kearby Tarleton State University campus in Stephenville, Lower-Level, Barry B. Thompson Student Center Mike Kearby is an author and ex-high school reading teacher. He is “intent on making sure every kid in Texas learns to read – just for the fun of it.” The Collaborative Novel Project 2010-2011 is a project involving students from the following schools: Breckenridge High School, Clyde High School, Hamilton Southeastern High School (Fishers, Indiana), Hico High School, Lawton High School (Lawton, Oklahoma), Lindale High School, Stephenville High School, Strawn High School, Trinity High School, North Oak Middle School (Haltom City, Texas) Special thanks to our Workshop Sponsor: The Department of English and Languages, Tarleton State University, Box T-0300, Stephenville, Texas. 254.968.9039 www.tarleton.edu/english Session II: 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Workshop, continued. Tarleton State campus in Stephenville, Lower-Level, Barry B. Thompson Student Center 4 EVENING SESSION Langdon Review Weekend Launch Party Party, Music, & Drama 09/08/10 Wednesday, September 8 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Tarleton State University Gallery Foyer, Fine Arts Center Recognizing Dr. Donna Walker-Nixon, Founding Co-Editor, Baylor University George F. Nixon Langdon Review Weekend Student Grants Program • 09/08/10 Music by WillieNatra Music by WillieNatra, performing a blend between country and lounge-style music. Bob Francis, piano ♦ Ira Campbell, trumpet ♦ Steve West, guitar & vocals ♦ Bob Hunt, bass ♦ Peggy Bott Kirby, guest vocalist • Drama 8:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Tarleton State University Fine Arts Theatre Co-founder Steve McGaw Since 1996, SceneShop has produced over 100 new works— scenes and monologues—and presented them in an intimate, minimalist style, focusing on the essential communication between the playwright, the producing ensemble and the audience. 2009 marked the debut of Lost Beat Generation (LBG), a performance alternative stemming from, but not identical to, Fort Worth’s SceneShop. The aim of LBG is to be edgy, provocative and mobile. • SceneShop Readers’ Theatre 5 DAY TWO, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2010 MORNING SESSIONS Registration: 8:30 a.m. – Gordon House Thursday, September 10 Session I: 9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. 2 concurrent sessions 1. Mixed Genres Concert Hall • Palmer Hall, Director/Editor, Pecan Grove Press. “A Little Humor in Serious Poetry: A Poetry Reading.” Palmer most recent book is a collection of poems, Foreign and Domestic (Turning Point Press, 2009); his fourth full-length book, a collection of short stories called The Home Front, is due out from Ink Brush Press this year. • Charles Inge, Poet in Residence, Brazos House, Granbury. “Why Brazos View?” Charles just published his book, “Brazos View” (Ink Brush Press), a collection of 115 poems about Granbury, the Brazos River, and his and Dominique’s property there. • Peter Hoheisel, Chair, Department of Religion and Philosophy, Lon Morris College. “Some Recent Poems.” 2. Mixed Genres Rock House • Mark Busby, Jerome H. and Catherine E. Supple Professor of Southwestern Studies and Professor of English at Texas State University-San Marcos. “Elihu Garrett.” Mark, a native of Ennis, Texas, is Director of the Center for the Study of the Southwest and the Southwest Regional Humanities Center and Jerome H. and Catherine E. Supple Professor of Southwestern Studies and Professor of English at Texas State University-San Marcos and is author of the novel, Fort Benning Blues. • Carl Wade Thompson, Doctoral Student, Texas A&M—Commerce. “Sketches of A Small Town.” Carl is an avid writer and teacher who enjoys in revealing the extraordinary out of ordinary life and experiences. When he is not at his studies Wade enjoys the martial arts, literature, and Eastern culture. • Mike Gullickson, Independent Writer. “Current Events.” Mike is co-editor and publisher of The Enigmatist, chairman of The Georgetown Poetry 6 Festival, and has been published in Divercity, Affirming Flame and recently had a poem on the Via Transit system in San Antonio. His poetry deals with current events and the overwhelming joy of love. Thursday, September 9 Session II: 10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. 2 Concurrent Sessions 1. Mixed Genres Concert Hall • Grant Sisk, Chair of the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Phoenix- Austin. “All of My Friends Are Gonna Be Strangers.” Grant lives just outside of Austin with his son, eight horses, two dogs and an ever fluctuating number of chickens. His work has appeared in The Iron Horse Literary Review, New Texas, The Colorado Review, and others. • Carol Cullar, Executive Director, Rio Bravo Nature Center Foundation, Inc., “And the Wind Blew.” Carol is presently working on her collection of short creative non-fiction pieces based on early family roots in Texas and the Oklahoma Territory (1880s-1900s). • T. Lindsay Baker W.K. Gordon Endowed Chair in History and Director of W.K. Gordon Center for Industrial History of Texas, Tarleton State University. “Sorting out the Truth in a Story Made into Fiction by a Master: A Close Look at the Santa Claus Bank Robbery.” T. Lindsay has authored over twenty books on the history of the American West, most recently the manuscript for "A Gangster Tour of Texas" for the Texas A&M University Press, in which he grappled with reconciling A. C. Greene's fictionalized account of the December 1927 Cisco Bank Robbery with documentary evidence. • Grayson Harper, “The Music of Dialogue.” Grayson is a Fort Worth-based poet, playwright, and visual artist. 2. Mixed Genres Rock House • Sherry Craven, Independent Writer. Standing at the Window. Sherry’s poetry has has appeared in English and Spanish in journals such as AmarilloBay, Muse2, New Texas, Two Southwests, The Witness, Windhover, descant, The Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas, RiverSedge, The Texas Review, Concho River Review, El Locofoco, and she is included in the anthologies Quotable Texas Women and Texas Poetry 2, and Writing on the Wind, and she won the Conference of College Teachers of English 2005 7 poetry award. Her new book of poetry, Standing by the Window, has just been released by vacpoetry. • Joyce Gullickson, Independent Writer. “Against All Odds.” Joyce is a registered nurse living and writing poetry in Georgetown Texas, co-editing The Enigmatist, and serving as an inspiration to her husband Mike. • Patrick Allen Wright. “The Lyric Eye, and So On.” Patrick, a native of Southeast Texas, retired from working at Lamar University in 2007 after twenty-seven years in Texas education, and subsequently spent two and a half years working in South Korea. • Joe Christopher, “Why I Edited a Collection of 1946 Radio Mysteries.” Christopher is Professor Emeritus of English at Tarleton State University. He has written one book on C. S. Lewis and co-written another, has edited several more, and has contributed essays to ten or so books, on topics ranging from Tolkien’s poetry to Diane Glancy’s novel about the Cherokee Trail of Tears. In journals, he has published over 100 essays and short bibliographies and over 100 poems.
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