What We Are Doing
Public Events Sponsored
2003-2004
Eliot Wilson, poet and English professor: poetry reading, October 30, 2003
Kim Stafford, poet: public forum & poetry reading, November 17, 2003
Creative Writing Awards
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Paulson Poetry Award
Alex Morf, '03
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Fiction Award
Benjamin Jacobson, '03
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Nonfiction Award
Sara TerMaat, '05
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Humor Award
Natalie Stowe, '04
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Experimental Award
Dan Sinykin, '05
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Best Sentence Award
Natalie Stowe, '04
Jack came home with candles, an expensive cut of meat, a nice red wine, and a newly
sharpened knife to make sure his wife didn't live to see dessert.
April Is Poetry Month!
Found Poetry Contest
Song of the Contest Judges
We
have met over the submitted poems,
agonized,
debated,
disputed the canonical categories,
prayed.
We
have thrown objects and insults
at
each other,
consulted the experts and the muses,
and
finally agreed on the
winners
of this contest.
We
are absolutely exhausted,
and grateful to you
for revealing our decisions to the wider world
and, yes,
even beyond.
--found by Mary Steen in an e-mail from David Wee & Mary Titus
Here are the winners of the Found Poetry Contest.
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PUBLIC ADVERTISEMENTS CATEGORY
1st Prize: Jessica Overbeck
Neat
Functional and
Fast
And that's just the
Cup
Holder
--Found in a New Yorker ad for a Saab
2nd Prize: Liesl Werner
Flavorful
and
Marinated
Italian
Beef.
--Found on an Arby's sign in Minneapolis
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MANUAL INSTRUCTIONS CATEGORY
1st Prize: Kelley Grow
Wet
area
to be shaved.
Dispense
onto fingers
or directly on the
area
to be shaved.
Gently rub
over skin to produce
a rich, luxurious lather.
Shave.
Rinse
off skin after
shaving.
Perfect
for frequent
shaving
of legs, underarms or bikini
areas.
--Found on a can of Skintimate
2nd Prize: Natalie Stowe
Do not attempt
To defeat
This safety feature.
--Found in the operating instructions for Conair hot rollers
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HISTORICAL NARRATIVE CAEGORY
1st Prize: Laura Trude
convicted thieves
were
h
u
n
g
if they were
not citizens
and
be
headed
if they were.
--Found in Steven Ozment's
Magdalena & Balthasar. An Intimate Portrait of Life in the 16th Century
Europe Revealed in
the Letters of a Nuremburg Husband & Wife (pp. 20-21)
2nd Prize: Jake Erickson
It was their practice
at mortuary feasts
to consume deceased relatives
until
cannibalism was banned
in the 1950s.
--Found on the CNN website about the Fore people of Papua New Guinea
Public Events Sponsored
2002-2003
Mary Winstead, writer and English professor: reading, October 1, 2002
P. J. Gibson, playwright: performance, October 25, 2002
Jennifer Baumgardner & Amy Richards, authors ManifestA: reading and
lecture, February 13, 2003 (co-sponsored)
Carole Levin, internationally-known Queen Elizabeth I scholar: lecture,
"Sacred Blood and Monarchy: Dreams of Elizabeth I," February 21, 2003
Lola Haskins, poet and computer scientist: lecture, "Woman with Two
Brains," March 12, 2003
Philip Bryant, poet and English professor: reading and writing contest
judge, May 6, 2003
2001-2002
Diane LeBlanc & Melanie Richards, poets and English professors: poetry
reading, September 20, 2001
John Balaban, author: reading, September 28, 2001 (co-sponsored
with History Department)
Rebecca Wee, poet: poetry reading, October 9, 2001
Jim Heynen, writer and English professor: poetry and fiction reading,
October 17, 2001
LeAnne Howe, author, playwright, scholar, and teacher: Native American
Week speaker, October 30, 2001 (co-sponsored)
Kenneth Ramchand, English professor, University of the West Indies-Trinidad:
lecture, "Blowing up the Can(n)on: The Study of West Indian
Literature," February 18, 2002
Ronald Takaki, Ethnic Studies professor, University of California-Berkeley:
lecture, March 14, 2002 (co-sponsored with Diversity Celebrations Committee)
Mai Moua: April 8, 2002 (co-sponsored with Hmong Awareness Group)
Diane Jarvi, poet, songwriter, and singer: poetry reading and performance,
April 9, 2002 (co-sponsored with ARMS and Women Studies)
Theodore Genoways & John Minczeski, poets: poetry month celebration,
April 30, 2002
John Rezmerski, author: reading and awarding of writing prizes, May 9, 2002
2000-2001
Helen Frost, poet: poetry reading, October 12, 2000
Robert Dana, poet: poetry reading, November 30, 2000
Josip Navakovich, author: reading, March 15, 2001
Shannon Olson, author: reading, April 11, 2001
Staceyann Chin, poet: poetry performance, April 18, 2001 (co-sponsored with
GLOW!)
Ray Gonzalez, author: poetry reading, April 23
Literature of our Lives
Group Independent Research
Participants
Tiffany Freeman
Megan Gunderson
Anne Keasling
Lyndsay LeClair
Brie Mattson
Wendy Smith
Sarah Sumner
Emily Uzzell
List of recommendations:
(A star next to the title indicates that the group selected it for
the semester's reading list. The seminar is inviting those who
recommended a particular text to join their discussion on that book.)
White Noise by Don DeLillo: Mark Allister
*Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson: Mark Allister
*Beloved by Toni Morrison: Carol Holly
Ceremony by Leslie Silko: Carol Holly
The Human Stain by Philip Roth: Ed Santurri
Lincoln by Gore Vidal: Ed Santurri
The Call of Stories by Robert Coles: Jim Farrell
Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver: Jim Farrell
*The Red Tent by Anita Diamant: Sarah Sumner
*Atonement by Ian McEwan: Diana Postlethwaite
The Voyage of the Narwahl by Andrea Barrett: Mary Steen
Corelli's Mandolin by Louis deBernieres: Mary Steen
*Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood: Mary Steen
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon: Mary Steen
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje: Mary Steen
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Brie Mattson
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro: Eric Nelson
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro: Eric Nelson
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro: Eric Nelson
Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman: Eric Nelson
The Diagnosis by Alan Lightman: Eric Nelson
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan: Eric Nelson
*The Hours by Michael Cunningham: Carol Holly
*The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh: Megan Gunderson
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf: Joseph Mbele
Bridget Jones's Diary: Judy Kutulas
*Running in Heels by Anna Maxted: Judy Kutulas
The Corrections by Jonathon Franzen: J. Robbins of Graywolf Press
*Heaven's Coast by Mark Doty: Brie Mattson
Short Stories
*Interpreter of Maladies by Jumpha Lahiri: Rich DuRocher
In the Gloaming by Alice Elliot Dark: Jerry Bilek (St. Olaf Bookstore)
You're Ugly Too by Lorrie Morgan: Jerry Bilek
(both from Bilek found in Best American Short Stories of the Century)
Birds of America by Lorrie Morgan: Carol Holly
Essays
The Common Life by Scott Russell Sanders: Jim Farrell
ACM Nick Adams Short Story Contest Winner, 2002
Benjamin Jacobson, a junior English major, has been named the
winner of
the 30th annual ACM Nick Adams Short Story Contest. Ben's story, "Faculty
Brat," was selected from more than 40 stories submitted by students from
ACM colleges. Professors Shawn Gillen of Beloit College and Ross Vander
Meulen of Knox College served as initial faculty readers for the contest,
selecting the six finalists from which the final judge made his choice.
Stephen Raleigh Byler, author of Searching for Intruders: A Novel in
Stories, served as the final judge for the contest this year, which
carries with it a first prize of $1,000, made possible through a generous
gift from an anonymous donor.
The winning story is available on the ACM website.
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