Langdon Review Weekend Schedule (working draft, revised 7/30/2009)

September 9, 2009 Wednesday 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon Specialty Workshop on Collaborative Writing, led by Mike Kearby. (Tarleton State University campus in Stephenville, Barry B. Thompson Student Center Ballroom)

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 2009-2010 is a project involving students from the following schools: Albany High School Breckenridge High School Hico High School L. D. Bell High School Mineral Wells High School San Angelo Lakeview High School Stephenville High School Strawn High School Trinity High School

Sponsored by Tarleton State University Department of English and Languages

1:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. Afternoon Session I; Workshop, continued. (TSU campus in Stephenville, Barry B. Thompson Student Center Ballroom)

2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Afternoon Session II; Readings from the Collaborative Novel (TSU campus in Stephenville, Barry B. Thompson Student Center Ballroom)

7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Langdon Review Weekend Launch Party and Dinner with Music by WillieNatra (Tarleton State University Barry B. Thompson Student Center Ballroom B) Dinner tickets: $12.99

WillieNatra performs a blend between country and lounge style music.

Bob Francis – piano, Ira Campbell – trumpet, Steve West – guitar, vocals, and Bob Hunt – bass, with Peggy Bott Kirby – guest vocalist.

8:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Evening Session; SceneShop (Tarleton State University Barry B. Thompson Student Center Ballroom A)

“Tinsel and Pepperoni” (SceneShop), written by Steven Alan McGaw, performed by Nicholas Irion and Steven Cashion.

“A Similar Place” (this is actually presented by SceneShop's side-project, Lost , directed by Nicholas Irion. LBG will focus on edgier, more provocative material and geared to a somewhat younger audience), written by Nicholas Irion and Steven Alan McGaw.

“lived in...” (SceneShop), written by Steven Alan McGaw, performed by Adam Whittington.

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 marks 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, provoative and mobile.

September 10, 2009 Thursday 8:15 a.m. – Registration

9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. 2 Concurrent Sessions 1. Ethics and Medicine (Carriage House) a. Donna Walker Nixon, Lecturer, Baylor University. Creative Non-Fiction piece about the intersection of medicine and the law: “Don't Call Him Drunken Ira Hayes.” Donna is the co-founder of the Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas, the founder of Windhover, and a former editor of the New Texas series. Her stories have been published in Echoes magazine, Concho River Review, descant, Writing on the Wind, and Red Boots and Attitude. b. Richard M. Zaner, A. G. Professor Emeritus of Medical Ethics & Philosophy of Medicine, Vanderbilt University (retired 2002). “If You Listen, You Can Smile.” Dick will present a narrative focused on a clinical situation involving a severe dilemma for a young surgeon responsible for the care of an elderly gentleman.

2. Creative Writing (Rock House) a. Joe R. Christopher, Professor emeritus of English, Tarleton State University. Poems from “A Celebration of Charles Darwin's Bicentenary.” Joe has published about a dozen pieces of short fiction, over a hundred poems, two dramas, three edited collections of others’ writings, and over a hundred pieces of non-fiction, including two book-length pieces of academic prose. b. Carol Cullar, Executive Director of the Rio Bravo Nature Center Foundation, Inc. in Eagle Pass. Reading from her creative nonfiction story "Slim," soon to be published in Holt McDougal's ninth grade text with 1.25 million copies released in Canada and the U.S. Carol writes, “Slim was the hobo walking down Highway 66 on his way to California during the Dust Bowl of the ’30s who stopped to ask my grandmother for work and a dipper of water and never left.” c. Andrew Geyer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of English, University of South Carolina Aiken. “Café le Coq.” Andrew is the author of a novel, Meeting the Dead (UNMP 2007), and a short story cycle, Whispers in Dust and Bone (TTUP 2003); his award-winning fiction has appeared in numerous literary magazines, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. 3 Concurrent Sessions 1. History (Concert Hall) a. Arch Mayfield, Professor of English, Wayland Baptist University. “What a Beecher!” He was said to be “father of more brains than any other man in America.” She was described by Abraham Lincoln as “the little woman who wrote the book that made this big war.” Her brother was of such notoriety—if not notoriousness—his funeral in New York City attracted over 50,000 people. These are all Beechers: the patriarch, Lyman Beecher; a daughter, Harriet Beecher Stowe; and a son, Henry Ward Beecher. This presentation, focusing on Harriet and Henry, highlights not only some of the better-known but also some lesser-known Beecher exploits and will include dramatic adaptations of two or three scenes read by two guest women readers. (H.B.S.’s involvement in the Lord and Lady Byron controversy and Henry Ward Beecher’s rumored sexual liaisons with numerous parishioners). b. T. Lindsay Baker, W. K. Gordon Endowed Chair in History, Tarleton State University. “On the Trail of a Past as Elusive as the Wind.” T. Lindsay will examine his career-long efforts to study and interpret the history of wind power in America. He has published several scholarly works on the subject, including A Field Guide to American Windmills (1985), Blades in the Sky: Windmilling through the Eyes of B. H. “Tex” Burdick (1991), The 702 Model Windmills: Its Assembly, Installation and Use (1999), North American Windmill Manufacturers’ Trade Literature: A Descriptive Guide (1999), A Guide to United States Patents for Windmills and Wind Engines 1793-1950 (2004), and American Windmills: An Album of Historic Photographs (2007). c. Frances Neidhardt. “The Texas Banker Who Hid the Quedlinburg Treasures” from the in-process Quedlinburg Saga, a creative treatment of oral histories on the WWII looting. Frances has published lit/crit internationally and poetry nationally, the poetry book Things Seen and Seen Again, and a series of German/Texas oral histories. She is a councilor for the Texas Institute of Letters.

2. Poetry (Rock House) a. Salvatore Attardo. “Haiku Summaries and Other, Longer, Poems.” Salvatore has been published in Harpur Palate, Whiskey Island, Tampa Review, CadillacCicatrix, Quiddity, Bateau, Main Channel Voices, Poetry Harbor, RIEN, Pegasus, and MO: Writings from the River. b. Danny Parker, President of the Board of the Old Post Office Museum and Art Center in Graham, Texas. Poetry: “Whispers.” Danny is a poet, sculptor, photographer, and is trying his hand at water colors. He feels that he is a “cistern that catches what falls from another place, a higher source, and that the most important factor is to be open to what comes our way.” c. Tony Zurlo. Poetry from “The Mind Dancing.” Tony writes: “Life in the Peace Corps, Army, and a year teaching in China so warped my self esteem that I have since concealed from editors age, , size, race, religion, politics, and other private predispositions, and survive folded up in a back room in Arlington, Texas, working on Alice in Cyberland, my long-awaited solution to the unified field theory.”

3. Short Fiction (Carriage House) a. Rodney Stephens, Assistant Professor of English, Howard Paine University. Short Story, “Half Thumbs.” Rodney says, “I’m a scuba diver living in the middle of bone-dry West Texas.” He has written articles on has written articles on Richard Harding Davis, Salmon Rushdie, and Bao Ninh. b. Mark Busby, Professor of English, Jerome H. and Catherine E. Supple Professor of Southwestern Studies, and Director, Center for the Study of the Southwest, Texas State University—San Marcos. Reading from novel- in-progress Cedar Crossing. Mark is a former president of the Texas Institute of Letters. c. L. D. Clark, Novelist and Essayist. “Intimations of Immortality.” Fifty years a writer—and now a retired college professor—with fourteen books behind him, L. D. is jotting and recording notes for another one.

11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Lunch on your own

1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Plenary Afternoon Session #1 Poetry (Concert Hall) a. Charles Inge. Selections from his recently expanded Brazos View collection. Charles, a poet and native Texan, lives with his wife Dominique on a bluff overlooking Lake Granbury. b. Sally Lombardo, Poet. A Midwife's Journey. Sally is a mother of five who has lived in Houston, Austin, and most recently Southeast Texas. She taught English for six years at Lamar University in Beaumont. Her writing has appeared in Review of Texas Books, The Baylor Line, and English in Texas. She has spent many years as a childbirth educator and coach, and published her thesis through Lamar University, on the topic of Childbirth in Literature. Currently, her poetry reflects the topics of women finding strength and a unique voice after pivotal life change. c. Jerry Craven, Ink Brush Press and Baylor University, “‘Becoming Others’ and other poetic monologues.” A refugee from retirement, Jerry now teaches full-time at Baylor University and is director of Ink Brush Press. d. Sherry Craven, Independent Writer. “Editing My Dreams.” Sherry writes: “I have lived from Alaska to Georgia, Los Angeles to Washington D.C., but have called Texas home for most of my life.” Her poetry has appeared in journals such as AmarilloBay and Muse2, New Texas, The Witness, Windhover, descant, Maverick Press, Texas Review, Concho River Review, and she is included in the anthology Quotable Texas Women. Her poetry appears in the 2002 anthology, Texas in Poetry 2 and her nonfiction in Writing on the Wind, a collection of essays by West Texas women writing about sense of place. She won the Conference of College Teachers of English 2005 poetry award. e. Jerry Bradley. Professor of English, Lamar University. A piece from The Importance of Elsewhere (a new collection of poetry from Ink Brush Press). A member of the Texas Institute of Letters and the author of 5 books, Jerry is past-president of the Conference of College Teachers of English, the Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, and the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association.

2:45 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. Plenary Afternoon Session #2 Creative Writing (Concert Hall) a. Yvette Benavides, Associate Professor of English, Our Lady of the Lake University. Borderline Personalities: South Texas Stories. Yvette is a writer and educator from Laredo and now lives in San Antonio where she also produces Texas Matters for Texas Public Radio, with her husband Dave Martin Davies. b. Gregg Barrios. Contributing Writer, San Antonio Current. Excerpt from DarkHorse, PaleRider. Gregg is an award-winning playwright and poet who lives in San Antonio. His Katherine Anne Porter play, DarkHorse, PaleRider, won a CTG-Mark Taper Fellowship, and his Rancho Pancho won a Ford Foundation—Gateway grant and was recently named the San Antonio Express-News “book pick of the week,” and his "I-DJ", won a grant from Sandra Cisneros’s Macondo Foundation. c. Michael H. Price. Founding Partner, MedDogs, L.L.C. (www.meddogs.com) and columnist, Fort Worth Business Press. “Preservation of folklore in cartoon and comics-art form.” A veteran journalist and cartoonist, Michael has devoted much of his career to the preservation and interpretation of Southern folklore, ranging from projects for the Institute of Texan Culture to such books as The Cruel Plains (Zone Press; 2007) and The Ancient Southwest (TCU Press; 2005). Michael’s more recent books include the short-fiction anthology What You See May Shock You! and the graphic novel Carnival of Souls, both from Midnight Marquee Press of Baltimore. d. Bob Flynn, Professor Emeritus, Trinity University. “My Life in Church and Where I Mislaid It.” Bob is the author of 15 books. His eighth novel, Echoes of Glory, was published in May. e. Eugenio R. Garcia Orts, Spain. “V3 (Visual-Virtual-Valencia)” Eugenio writes, “Combining analytical thinking with practical skills to create images that have something to say, and through my illustrations and artwork turned into a multimedia presentation, I will try to require the viewer to become actively involved in a virtual–but, above all, visual–visit to my home town, Valencia, Spain.

4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Publication Reception honoring the 2009 Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas contributors and recognizing TSU President Dr. Dominic Dottavio, hosted by Tarleton State University (Langdon Center Lawn) 2009 Contributors Scott Barker Gregg Barrios Yvette Benavides Jerry Bradley Cassy Burleson Kevin Clay Jerry Craven Sherry Craven Jeffrey DeLotto Tom Dodge Peggy Freeman David Lowery Naomi Shihab Nye Eugenio R. Garcia Orts Danny Parker Mike Price Jessica Quazi Paul Ruffin Barrie Scardino Judith Segura

6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Dinner on your own

7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Evening Session; Langdon Contributors (Concert Hall)

• Tom Dodge Kevin Clay Judith Segura

• Jeffrey DeLotto Gregg Barrios Sherry Craven

SHORT BREAK

• Cassy Burleson Jerry Craven Danny Parker

• Yvette Benavides Barrie Scardino Jerry Bradley

September 11, 2009 Friday 8:15 a.m. — Registration

9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. 3 Concurrent Morning Sessions 1. Poetry (Rock House) a. Daniella DeLaRue. Director, McNair Scholars Program, Lamar University. “Poetry.” Daniella “enjoys her husband, writing, photography, flying and working on old cars. In that order.” b. June Zaner, retired freelance artist, now writing and publishing essays and poems. “Spilling Secrets: What Women Say When No One Is Listening.” Some of her publications include, New Texas, Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas, 2008, EXplore, a Hill Country magazine, columns for The Tennessean newspaper, a newsletter entitled Chop Suey, published on-line three times a week for about 135 recipients. June writes, “Over several years Cassy Burleson and I have found that while we do not finish each other’s sentences poetically, we do speak to each other as women who know that the secrets we reveal in our poems cut through much of the veneer that custom and society impose on women when they are truth- telling. We each gather the more interesting characters and events that have affected our lives and turn them loose upon the page. Neither of us is responsible for what these people and events reveal or conceal about their lives, or our own…only that they haunt the edges, where life is wild and free and perhaps too fragile. We invite you to let them speak to you.” c. Cassy Burleson, Member of the Journalism Faculty, Baylor University. “Answering June Zaner: Somewhere in Between.” Cassy has been writing poetry since 1965 while making her living as a journalist, curriculum and consortium developer, PR practitioner, securities fraud investigator, and teacher. She notes, “I live with a rainbow at my feet wherever the weather suits my clothes, and I work hard to maintain that lifestyle so I can write things that matter.” d. Nathan Brown, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Human Relations, University of Oklahoma. “Ashes over the Southwest.” Nathan is a musician, photographer, and award-winning poet who holds a Ph.D. in English and Journalism from the University of Oklahoma.

2. Short Fiction (Concert Hall) a. Juanita Luna Lawhn, Professor of English, San Antonio College. “A Day in the Brush Country of South Texas.” Juanita's research interest is the Mexican Woman in San Antonio from the 1920-30’s. She is the founder of the annual San Antonio College Multiculturalism Conference. b. Cheryl Clements, Blinn College/Bryan, Texas. “Concerto” (a memoir). Cheryl has been published in the Houston Chronicle's Texas Magazine, Short Story, Southwestern American Literature, and Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas (forthcoming). c. Carman C. Curton, Associate Professor of English and Writing, Adrian College, Michigan. “Simon’s Sins.” Carman is an avid reader and writer who does not blog and wonders what she will do with her time when written language dies. d. Alicia Clay, Lecturer of English, Texas A&M University. Excerpt from The Last Calliope Player. Alicia notes that she is “mother to an adventurous two year-old.”

3. Readings by former Creative Writing Students at Tarleton State University (2008- 2009) (Carriage House) Moderator: Julie Chappell, Associate Professor of English, Tarleton State University. The readers in this session are former students in Julie’s creative writing course. a. Paola Arbogast. “Pomegranate Seeds.” Paola, a former history teacher, wrote her first poems while in high school in the 1960s and waited forty years before giving creative writing a second try. b. Luke Morgan. “What I'm Thinking When I'm Not.” Born and raised in small town Texas, Luke realized his love of literature and language at a young age. He is continuing to engage his passion as a graduate student in the Department of English & Languages at Tarleton State University. c. Jesse McClure. “Expressions of a Human Nature.” Jesse began his college experience as a baseball player at Hardin-Simmons University until he read a Kafka short story. He soon transferred to Tarleton where he happily became consumed with expressing himself through words. d. David Chapman. “Ghost Train.” David lives in Fort Worth and works as a network engineer to finance his reading and writing addictions.

10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Plenary Morning Session “Journalism: 21st Century Style.” (Concert Hall) Judith Segura, Chair Judith’s research of 168 years of Texas media history for her book BELO: From Newspapers to New Media led her to note one overarching quality of success: Adaptation—steady and constant change, both with technology and society. The great challenges that newspapers and television news operations grapple with today are addressed by this panel that Judith has convened. a. Marian Spitzberg, an attorney, joined Belo in 1992 as assistant general counsel. When she retired in December 2008, she was senior vice president/Human Resources and a member of the Company’s Management Committee. b. Cassy Burleson, Baylor University, “The Future of News?” Cassy writes, “I have made my living as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer, researcher, curriculum developer, PR practitioner, fundraiser, consortium developer, security fraud investigator and professor, and I write poetry to maintain the standard of living in my soul.” c. Carlos Sanchez, editor of the Waco Tribune-Herald, and adjunct professor of Journalism at Baylor University. d. Judith Garrett Segura, author of BELO: Newspapers to New Media, (U of Texas P, 2008) and “The News in Review: A Memoir” (Langdon Review, 2009). Judith retired from Belo after 24 years, first at The Dallas Morning News, then at Belo Corp.

12:00 noon - 1:15 p.m. Picnic with the Poet Laureate: Paul Ruffin (Brazos House Gardens) Picnic Meal Ticket: $10 (not included in registration price)

Paul Ruffin, the 2009 Texas State Poet Laureate, will be reading from his New and Selected Poems (due out from TCU Press in 2010). Paul, who teaches at Sam Houston State University, is a Texas State University System Regents Professor and Distinguished Professor of English.

Paul is the founding editor and editor-in-chief of The Texas Review and founding director/present director of the Texas Review Press. He is the author of two novels, three collections of short stories, two books of essays, and six collections of poetry, and is editor or co-editor of eleven other books.

Hosted by Dominique and Charles Inge, Brazos House Gardens, Granbury, Texas.

1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Plenary Afternoon Session Poetry (Concert Hall) a. James Hoggard. Perkins-Prothro Distinguished Professor of English, Midwestern State University. Reading from his most recent collection, Triangles of Light: The Edward Hopper Poems. Former president of the Texas Institute of Letters, James is a poet, translator, novelist, essayist, and playwright. b. Jacqueline Kolosov. Associate Professor of English, Texas Tech University. Readings from Modigliani’s Muse. Jacqueline has published 2 full length poetry collections and 2 YA novels, and her work has appeared in journals including Poetry, Shenandoah, and Orion. c. Charlotte Renk, Professor of English, Humanities, and Creative Writing, Trinity Valley Community College. Readings from These Holy Hungers: Secret Yearnings from an Empty Cup (Eakin Press, 2009), which was awarded the Poetry Society of Texas’ Eakin Memorial Book Publisher’s award. Charlotte has been teaching English, Humanities and Creative Writing to a diverse population of returning adult students, incarcerated Texas Department of Corrections students, and transfer students since completing her Ph.D. at State University. She has been published in such journals as Kalliope, Sow’s Ear, Concho River Review, New Texas, and Third Wednesday. d. Carol Bryan Cook, Member of Authors Guild, NY, The Academy of American Poets, NY, and WritersBloc, Granbury. “Secrets, Whispers, and Windows.” Writing poetry in rhyming and free verse for 40 years, Carol has authored numerous short stories, five children's stories, is co-author of a novel, and a movie script. She lives in Granbury with her award-winning artist husband. She is working to complete 4th book of poetry. e. Karla K. Morton, Board Member of the Greater Denton Arts Council and the Denton Poets’ Assembly. Readings from Becoming Superman, a kickoff to the Little Town, Texas Tour. Karla, already chosen the 2010 Texas Poet Laureate, has been widely published across the state, and has three new books in the works: Redefining Beauty (Dos Gatos Press) and Names We’ve Never Known (Texas Review Press, 2009), and the TCU Poet Laureate Series Book (2010).

3:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. 2 Concurrent Afternoon Sessions 1. Slough Press Writers (Rock House) Slough Press has been publishing innovative poetry and fiction by Texas writers. This panel will feature readings from Chuck Taylor, the founder and Director of Slough Press, and two writers who have recently published books with Slough Press, as well as discussions of contemporary literature and publishing. a. Chuck Taylor, Director of Slough Press, taught creative writing at the Universities of Texas at Austin, Tyler, and El Paso before coming to Texas A&M University. He has been a writer-in-the schools and a CETA poet-in-residence for Salt Lake City. From 1980 to 1988 he co-owned and operated Paperbacks Plus Bookstore in Austin, Texas. His recent books include Heterosexual: A Love Story, and Fogg in High School. b. Ken Jones has been a published poet for over 20 years in academic and underground journals, magazines, anthologies, websites and other forums. He earned an MA in English/Creative Writing from the University of Texas at Austin and is a full-time faculty member at the Art Institute of Houston, teaching Creative Writing among other subjects. His collection Unutterable Blunders and Palace Disasters was published by PlainViewPress in 2006 and was a Finalist for the 2008 West Chester Poet’s Prize. His second book Ceaseless Greasepaint in Combat Stance was published in 2007 by Slough Press. c. Lowell Mick White is author of the story collection Long Time Ago Good (Slough Press, 2009), and of the forthcoming novel That Demon Life (Gival Press, 2009). His work has been published in over two dozen journals, including Callaloo, Iron Horse Literary Review, and Short Story. In 1998 he was awarded the Dobie-Paisano Fellowship by the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas Institute of Letters, and he is currently a PhD student at Texas A&M University, where he specializes in creative writing and regional literatures, and teaches creative writing and freshman composition. d. Hedwig Gorski, Smarthinking.com and University of Louisiana at Lafayette Continuing Education. Hedwig is an artist-poet who has received awards for media works in poetry and drama, and who coined the term “” in early 1980 to describe her poems written only for oral performance and recorded performance poems with composed music (e.g., Send in the Clown, 2009). She has published three books of poetry and released several audio collections. Intoxication: Heathcliff on Powell Street (Slough Press, 2009) is a memoir/archive about her 1978 experimental theater in Austin. Her BFA degree from NSCAD, a world famous radical , is in painting. Her doctorate in creative writing is from University of Louisiana. She received a Louisiana Artist’s Fellowship (2002), and a Fulbright to lecture in (2003).

2. Writers from Tarrant County College (Concert Hall) Moderator, Tony Zurlo, Professor of English, Tarrant County College, Southeast a. Yvonne Jocks (also published as “Evelyn Vaughn”), Instructor, Tarrant County College SE Campus, and Romance Author. Selection from Aka Goddess or Lost Calling. Yvonne lived in 5 states by the time she turned 15—the last state was Texas, and she’s lived here happily ever since. A self-avowed pop-culture addict, she published her first of 18 romance novels in 1993, and won the prestigious Rita Award from the Romance Writers of America in 2005. She has also published numerous fantasy short-stories and pop-culture essays. b. Violet O’Valle, Professor Emeritus of English, Tarrant County College. “Play Poetry: Putting Poetry on the Proscenium and Irish Texans in Re-Verse.” Violet writes, “I have loved poetry, theatre, music, and puppy dogs all my life.” c. Vicki Sapp, Associate Professor of English, and Director of the Cornerstone Honors Program, Tarrant County College. “A Wet Bird Never Flies at Night.” Vicki writes, “I still hold the distinction of having taught every English course imaginable, and I still hold on to the hope that someday I will finish one of my three book-length manuscripts (a novel, a grammar book, a Sedaris-rivaling essay collection).” d. Terri Schrantz, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Sociology, Tarrant County College, Trinity River Campus. “Witnessing Matters.” Terri calls herself a perpetual student. e. Jim Schrantz, Professor of English, Department Chair of English and Language Acquisition, Tarrant County College, Trinity River Campus. “Insolent Bystander.” Jim calls himself a “Writer turned talker trying to become a writer again.”

Friday evening 5-7 p.m. Dinner, with music by Rahim Quazi. (Café Nutt, 121 E. Bridge St. http://www.cafenutt.com/) Order from the menu.

Rahim is a Pakistani/American singer-songwriter whose songs have been licensed to TV (Roadtrip Nation—PBS, Chris & John to the Rescue), featured “Best of ’08 acoustic” by Ireland’s Urban Angel label, and have been a staple of Dallas stages for two decades. He is also a veteran of the road, who has opened for the Strokes, the Dave Matthews Band, and Glenn Tilbrook of Squeeze. He has two albums, Big Black Box and Supernatural, and Rahim was the featured musician at The Langdon Review Weekend Brunch in 2007.

For samples of Rahim's music, check out http://www.myspace.com/rahimquazi and http://www.rahimquazi.com/Home.html.

7:30 p.m. Evening Session Movie Screening, then Q&A: St. Nick with Director David Lowery (ShowBiz Cinemas 6, admission price: $7.50)

David Lowery is an award-winning filmmaker from Texas; his work has appeared in film festivals around the world.

September 12, 2009 Saturday 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Saturday Morning Brunch featuring Naomi Shihab Nye and the music of Jessica Quazi (Langdon Center Lawn) Brunch Ticket included in registration. If only attending the Brunch, tickets are $12.

• Naomi Shihab Nye, “Wind in a Bucket—A Life with Words.”

Naomi Shihab Nye lives in San Antonio, Texas. Her recent books include Honeybee, You & Yours, Going Going, A Maze Me, 19 Varieties of Gazelle; Poems of the Middle East, a National Book Award finalist in 2002, Come with Me: Poems for a Journey, Fuel, Red Suitcase and Habibi, a novel for teens which won 6 Best Book awards. She has edited seven anthologies of poetry for young readers, including This Same Sky, The Tree is Older than You Are, The Space Between our Footsteps: Poems & Paintings from the Middle East, What Have You Lost? and Salting the Ocean. A visiting writer for many years all over the world, she has been a Lannan Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Library of Congress Witter Bynner Fellow.

• Jessica Quazi, “Me, as of Now.”

Jessica writes, “I’m twenty-two years old and ready to spread my vibe across this planet.” As a freelancer, she is paying her way through college by working in the film industry on various films and television shows. Although she has found success in dipping her toes into countless odd-jobs and hobbies, music has proven to be the “never-failing love of her life.” Jessica is almost finished with her bachelor’s degree, “if she does not decide to change her major (for the fourth time),” and after school, she plans to move to a location still unknown, to be “a struggling, happy musician.”

Books, Photographs, and Music of various authors/artists/musicians will be on sale in the Studio throughout the Langdon Review Weekend.

Registration will be on site this year. The prices are as follows:

Full Registration for Langdon Review Weekend: $75 includes book, admission to readings, and Saturday brunch ticket

One day Pass (either Thursday or Friday only): $50 includes book, admission to readings

Picnic with the Poet Laureate (Friday afternoon): $10 (an extra event) featuring Texas Poet Laureate Paul Ruffin

Saturday Brunch: $12 (if only attending the Brunch) featuring Naomi Shihab Nye and the music of Jessica Quazi

Wednesday night Dinner and Music ticket: $12.99 the Plays by SceneShop following are free and open to the public .