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Washington State Book Award. She co-edited the first eBook anthology of contemporary women’s poetry, Fire On Her Tongue. Her work has appeared in magazines and journals such as The Atlantic, Prairie Schooner, and North American Review as well as on “The Writer’s Almanac” with Garrison Keillor. Kelli is the editor of Seattle’s literary journal, Crab Creek Review, and the co-founder of Two Sylvias Press. Her third book of poems, Hourglass Museum, also from White Pine, will have its book launch in Seattle
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Kondonassis; A standard solo of student’s choice JAZZ Play a Jazz Standard (defined as a jazz composition, e.g. “Blue Monk”) or a piece from the Great American Songbook commonly used as a vehicle for jazz (e.g., “All of Me”) following the form described below: HORNS Play one chorus of melody, and one or two chorus(es) of improvised solo. We suggest that you use a play along audio file such as iReal Pro PIANO AND GUITAR Either unaccompanied jazz solo piece (including an improvised section); OR Play one
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Sven Beckert of Harvard University to Give Benson Lecture Posted by: halvormj / July 31, 2019 July 31, 2019 On October 9, 2019, the PLU community welcomed Sven Beckert of Harvard University to give the 15th Annual Dale E. Benson Lecture in Business and Economic History. The lecture took place at 7:30 p.m. in the Chris Knutson Lecture Hall, located in the Anderson University Center. Professor Beckert is Laird Bell Professor of American History at Harvard, where he teaches the history of the
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Arctic seen through the lens of literature, folk and classical music, and Sámi culture. This year’s lecture, entitled “Why Norwegian Women Can Have it All,” was presented by Norwegian journalist Cathrine Sandnes. Sandnes’ title implied a contrast between American and Norwegian perspectives and practices of gender equality. In a 2012 essay entitled “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All,” American Ann Marie Slaughter made the bold statement that current conditions in American society made the balance
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also work in Spanish.”Call, an affiliated faculty member with the NAIS program and Environmental Studies, has published more than 70 poem translations in U.S. literary journals and has a full-length collection of poem translations forthcoming, from the work of Mexican-Zapotec poet Irma Pineda. Expanding to another Latin-American country was a natural progression for her. “Colombia is just coming out of a long civil war and so it’s really interested in having foreign scholars come to the country as
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was as depressing as this. To those who have seen The Child, however dimly, however incredulously The Time Being is, in a sense, the most trying time of all. [1] Professor Emeritus Doug Oakman and his students in 2015 Words. Words are the heart of the Humanities. Whether they are in English, Spanish, Latin, or Greek. Italian, French, German, Norwegian, Chinese. Words are like images. Words are images. Words become music to the attentive ear. So there is a natural affection between the Humanities
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Kelmer Roe Fellowship Rona Kaufman, English Department Faculty and Kyomi Kishaba ’20 present research from their Kelmer Roe project at University of Washington. The Kelmer Roe Fellowship funds a student to work with a Humanities faculty on a joint scholarly project that “bring[s] the wisdom of the Humanities disciplines to bear on enduring human questions and the contemporary problems of our time.” The Fellowship may cover the summer or work over a regular academic year, but in either case, the
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out of fear and as a means of attempting to control blackness. Ehrenhaus will be listed as first author on this book project, with A. Susan Owen, professor of communication studies and African-American studies at the University of Puget Sound as second. Their book’s working title, White Terror, is meant to characterize the double-bind underlying historical black-white relations of power. Though social conditions change through time, the cycle of fear, repression, resistance and retributive
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Fleda Brown Poetry, Nonfiction Website: http://fledabrown.com/ Biography Biography Fleda Brown has published nine collections of poems. The Woods Are On Fire: New & Selected Poems was published in 2017 by the University of Nebraska Press. The book is in the Ted Kooser Contemporary Poetry Series. Her work has twice appeared in The Best American Poetry and has won a Pushcart Prize, the Felix Pollak Prize, the Philip Levine Prize, and the Great Lakes Colleges New Writer’s Award, and has twice
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both contemporary and conventional roles and has performed internationally. audrey-luna.com Lisette Oropesa, international sensation, celebrated star soprano and recording artist. Oropesa emphasizes bel canto style and is a lyric coloratura soprano. lisetteoropesa.com Zachary Dietz, music director from Broadway. Dietz has worked on a variety of musicals in multiple roles. From keyboards to conductor to music director, Dietz has worked on In the Heights, School of Rock, and Mrs. Doubtfire
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