Institute to Host Poet Laureate he Humanities Institute is currently Rosenkranz four poets will read and dis- T will host the Pulitzer writer-in-residence at Yale cuss their poetry, giving the Prize-winning poet and University. Her other honors audience an opportunity to ask United States Poet Laureate include the Bollingen Prize in questions about their poetry for 2003-2004 Louise Glück Poetry, the Lannan Literary and creative processes. on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 at Award for Poetry, Sara Teas- 7:00pm in Traditions Hall, dale Memorial Prize, and fel- Streckfus is on the faculty of Alumni Center. She is the lowships from the Guggen- Western Connecticut State author of numerous books of heim and Rockefeller founda- University’s Low Residence poetry, including The Seven tions and from the National MFA in Professional Writing Ages (2001); Vita Nova Endowment for the Arts. In program and also teaches at (1999), winner of The New 2003, she was City Col- Yorker Magazine’s Book named as the “Averno ...demonstrates lege of San Award in Poetry; Meadow- new judge for that she is writing at the Francisco. lands (1996); The Wild Iris the Yale Series He is a (1992), which received the of Younger peak of her powers” graduate of Pulitzer Prize and the Poetry Poets, serving George Society of American’s Wil- through 2007. The Yale Se- Mason University’s MFA pro- liam Carlos Williams Award, ries of Younger Poets is the gram in creative writing and a and her latest Averno (2006), oldest annual literary award in recipient of fellowships from which the New York Times the United States. Established the Bread Loaf Writers Con- described as “rich and reso- in 1919, this competition ference and the Peter S. Reed nant” and states “[it] may be through the Yale University Foundation. Siken received Glück’s masterpiece. It dem- Press has published first col- an MFA in poetry from the onstrates that she is writing at lections of promising Ameri- University of Arizona and is the peak of her pow- can poets. editor of the literary magazine ers” (March 12, 2006). Also spork. He is a recipient of a in the December On Wednes- Pushcart Prize, two Arizona 3, 2006 issue of day, April 11, Commission on the Arts the “Book Re- 2007, at grants, and a fellowship from view” section of 7:00pm in the National Endowment for the New York Traditions the Arts. Hopler is the editor Times, Averno Hall, Ms. of The Killing Spirit: An An- was named one Glück will thology of Murder-for-Hire, of the 100 Nota- introduce the and his poems, essay, and ble Books of the winners of book reviews have appeared, Year. At the the Yale or are forthcoming, in numer- April 10 event, Series of ous magazines and journals she will read Younger Po- including The Kenyon Review, from her poetry ets competi- Mid-American Review, The and then take tion since she New Yorker, Pleiades, and The part in an on- has become Seattle Review. He is an As- stage interview judge: Peter sistant Professor of English at UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA conducted by Streckfus USF. Fisher is a doctoral can- Professor Jay Hopler, Depart- (2003 for The Cuckoo), Rich- didate in English at the Uni- ment of English. ard Siken (2004 for Crush), versity of California, Berkeley Jay Hopler (2005 for Green and is co-editor with Robert Louise Glück taught at Wil- Squall), and Jessica Fisher Haas of the Addison Street liams College for 20 years and (2006 for Fail-Safe). These Anthology. Humanities Institute New e-literary The Saw Palm contains poetry, in LIT 6934: Literary Editing fiction, book and film reviews, and Publishing. To view the journal published interviews, and essays all cen- journal click on Volume III, Issue 2 by the English tered around a Florida theme. It is an impressive journal pro- www.sawpalm.org Spring 2007 Department duced by the graduate students Mark Dimunation Keynotes Symposium he Special Collections Department brary of Congress, will keynote the sym- exhibition of its Sacred Leaves series. T of the Tampa Library and the Hu- posium by speaking on the history of the This year’s exhibition, Beyond the manities Institute will sponsor the First book with emphasis on early printing. Quill…Printed Books 1450-1500, opens Annual Sacred Leaves Graduate Sympo- As Chief, Mr. Dimunation is responsible February 22, 2007 in the Reading Room sium. The theme is The Book Between for the development and of the Special Collections Manuscript & Print. Current and recent management of the Rare Department. The exhibit M.A. and Ph.D. stu- Book Collec- features three full books dents will present pa- tion at the and nineteen individual pers covering a variety Library of pages from books printed of topics on the history Congress, the before 1500 in Europe. of the book, including largest collec- The martyrdom of Saint Quiriacus, a These incunabula offer readership, production tion of rare bishop and priest from Ostia, Italy physical evidence of the techniques, word and books in North will be on display in the collection. transition between script image relations, and An example of the exhibit is this America. On and print, a transitional the book as art. hand-colored woodcut depicting Friday, February 23 from and experimental period in the history of On Thursday, Febru- the persecution of Prince Alchior. 10:00am-5:00pm, the presenta- the book. The Sacred Leaves is made ary 22 at 7:00pm in tions will be given in the Grace possible through the generous loan of Traditions Hall, Alumni Center, Mark Allen Room, 4th floor of the library. medieval manuscripts and early printed Dimunation, Chief of the Rare Book and The symposium coincides with the books by private collectors and donors. Special Collections Division at the Li- opening of the Tampa Library’s fourth Argentinean Novelist, Paula Varsavsky n February 20, 2007, in Traditions Great Britain over the Falkland Islands. beneath.” Other reviewers have com- O Hall, Alumni Center at 1:30pm, Varsavsky’s heroine, Luz Goldman, is a pared her style to that of Ernest Heming- Paula Varsavsky, an Argentinean novelist wealthy and precocious teenage girl way’s and her main char- and jouornalist, will discuss her novel No oblivious of the political situation. She acter has been termed “a One Said a Word (2000) and the emer- is engaged with her friends in a drug- kind of Holden Caul- gence of Argentinean women novelists . and sex-centered world, a life that be- field,” experiencing the No One Said a Word, which was trans- comes more disrupted when her parents anguishes of growing up lated by Anne McLean, is a coming-of- divorce and her father unexpectedly dies. as did the hero of Catcher age novel that is set during the military As a critic has written “all of this is with- in the Rye. dictatorship in Argentina and then carries out sentimentality, in a stark, wryly hu- over to Argentina’s subsequent war with morous voice that hides the rage lurking Sci-Fi Panel 2007 n March 7, 2007, the Humanities tion of natural resources. Both of these novels are the seven works in the O Institute and the USF library will prolific writers will discuss their works Heechee Series including Gateway, hold its 3rd annual Science Fiction panel and works of others dur- the first novel in the discussion in Traditions Hall, ing what has been series for which Pohl Alumni Center, at 7:00pm. called the “Golden won both the Hugo The two speakers this year are Age of Science Award and the Nebula Frederik Pohl, who became a Fiction.” Award, and Man Plus, Nebula Grand Master in 1993, for which he won a and Harry Harrison, who cre- Frederik Pohl’s science fiction second Nebula Award. ated the well known science career has included being both a Harry Harrison started in the science fiction characters the Stainless novelist and an editor. Early in fiction world by working with science Steel Rat and Bill, the Galactic his career he was the editor of fiction comic books, first as an illus- Hero, and wrote the novel both Amazing Stories and Super trator for Weird Fantasy and Weird Make Room! Make Room!, Science Stories, and from 1959- Science and later as a comic strip which was the basis for the 1969 he edited Galaxy and If. His writer. He was, for example, the film Soylent Green (1973), a novel and editorship of the latter won him the Hugo writer for the Flash Gordon newspaper film about overpopulation and the deple- for three consecutive years. Among his strip during the 1950s and 1960s. Page 2 VOLUME III, ISSUE 2 Borges Spanish Language Celebration– Madeline Cámara (WLE,USF), Pablo Brescia (WLE, USF), Angel Esteban (Universidad de Granada). Photo by Robin R. Bajkiewicz Tom Shippey autographs his book “The Road to Middle Earth: Tolkien Created a New Mythology” for USF students. Photo by Tim Bajkiewicz Humanities Institute Highlights Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey (St. Louis University) enlightens the packed audi- ence in Traditions Hall on the theories behind the timeless appeal of Brent Weisman Narnia, Middle-Earth and Hogwarts. (Anthropology) reads from Photo by Tim Bajkiewicz his latest book, “Frank Hamilton Cushing” during a “Main Event” series talk. Photo by Darlene Corcoran Probes Becomes Associate Director he Humanities Institute is pleased in Romance Linguistics from Tulane Renaissance, and Papers on French T to announce that beginning with the University, New Orleans. Prior Seventeenth Century Literature. Spring semester 2007, Christine McCall to joining the USF faculty in a Since 1972, she has been a contrib- Probes has accepted the position of Asso- tenure-earning position in 1987, uting editor for the Modern Lan- ciate Director of the Humanities Institute.