Third Coast Magazine Celebrates 15 years

"Mark your calendars!  Third Coast magazine is having a 15th Anniversary Celebration/Fall Issue Release Party on Saturday, Nov. 6, from 7-9pm, at the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center (located in the Park Trades Center, 326 W. Kalamazoo Avenue). The celebration will include readings, refreshments and live music.  It's free and open to the public! (Tell your students!  Tell your friends!).
Featured readers include  Nancy Eimers, William Olsen, and Monica Berlin, who are part of the Fall 2010 issue's Symposium on Writing and the Midwest.  Austin Bunn will also be performing his one act play "Basement Story," from the Spring 2010 issue. Live music will be provided by the always wonderful Joe Gross.
More details to follow....  For now, save the date and plan to help celebrate a decade and a half of Third Coast, WMU's own national literary magazine."

All best,
Laura
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Laura Donnelly
Instructor of English
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5331
laura.k.donnelly@wmich.edu

Book Arts for Poets Reading

(left) Sheep, From Indigo by Susan Ramsey; 

(right) pages from Joe's Garage by Elaine Koren Seaman

Book Arts for Poets, an Exhibition and Reading
Saturday, October 23, 7 to 9 p.m., doors open at 6:30

KBAC Gallery, 103A Park Trades, 326 W. Kalamazoo Avenue

During the summer of 2010 six local poets participated in a six-week workshop in which they created limited-edition handmade books at the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center. These poets include Nina Feirer, Shanda Hansma Blue, Conrad Hilberry, Elizabeth Kerlikowske, Susan Ramsey, and Elaine Seaman. The poets made handmade paper covers for the books, created relief print illustrations, and sewed the books together by hand.

For this event the poet’s books will be displayed in the gallery, and they will read from their work. Please join us for this special exhibition and reading.

Tiffany on Shakespeare

Grace Tiffany's "Being English through Speaking English: Shakespeare and Early Modern Anti-Gallicism," first presented at a conference of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, has been published in Word and Rite: The Bible and Ceremony in Selected Shakespearean Works, edited by Beatrice Batson. Another article by Tiffany, "Rank, Insults, and Weaponry in Shakespeare's Second Tetralogy," will appear in the forthcoming issue of Papers on Language and Literature.

Thisbe Nissen Reads Her Work: Fall 2010 Gwen Frostic Reading Series

We welcome you to join us for our first reader of the Fall 2010 Gwen Frostic Reading Series. We’re very honored to have WMU’s new fiction faculty member, Thisbe Nissen, read her work this Thursday, Oct. 7th. The reading will take place at the WMU Bernhard Center, in room 209-210, starting at 8:00 PM. We look forward to seeing you there.

CFP: Newberry Grad Conference (10/15/10)

The Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies is pleased to announce:

Call for Papers for the 2011 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference

Deadline for submissions: October 15, 2010

Conference dates: January 27-29, 2011

www.newberry.org/renaissance/conf-inst/gradstudents.html

www.newberry.org/renaissance/conf-inst/2011CFP.pdf: PDF flyer printable in color or black-and-white. Please distribute and post.

We invite abstracts for 15-minute papers from master's or Ph.D. students on any medieval, Renaissance, or early modern topic in Europe or the Mediterranean or Atlantic worlds. We encourage submissions from disciplines as varied as the literature of any language, history, classics, art history, music, comparative literature, theater arts, philosophy, religious studies, transatlantic studies, disability studies, and manuscript studies.

We also hope to include at least one panel of papers dealing with the digital humanities.

Priority is given to students from member institutions of the Center for Renaissance Studies consortium.

Please feel free to forward this message to others who may be interested.

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Faculty and graduate students from Center for Renaissance Studies consortium schools are eligible to apply for travel funding to attend Center for Renaissance Studies programs or to do research at the Newberry Library. Contact your school's faculty representative for details: www.newberry.org/renaissance/consortium/exec.html. The Center's main web page is: www.newberry.org/renaissance.