Natasha Trethewey
will read and discuss her work April 17th 7:00 p.m. at Traditions
Hall on the University of South Florida Tampa campus. The 2007
Pulitzer Prize winner
accepted the award for her third poetry collection, Native Guard
published in 2006. It contains her poems about black Union soldiers
who guarded a fort off the coast of Mississippi during the U. S.
Civil War.


Her first work,
Domestic
Work, was selected by Rita Dove to receive
the inaugural 1999 Cave
Canem  poetry prize for the best first book by an African
American poet and also received the 2001 Lillian Smith Award for
Poetry and the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize.
Her second work, Bellocq’s Ophelia (2002) received the 2003
Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize. She is the
recipient of the prestigious Bunting fellowship from the Radcliffe
Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.


Born in Gulfport,
Mississippi, Trethewey holds a B.A. in English from the University of
Georgia, an M.A. in English and Creative Writing from Hollins
University, and an M.F. A. in poetry from the University of
Massachusetts. She is the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair, and
professor of poetry at Emory University


This event is
sponsored by the USF Humanities Institute, the departments of English
and Women’s Studies, and USF Women in Leadership and Philanthropy.

Poetic Meetup Featuring:
MARTHA MARINARA

Orlando Poetry Group presents:
Every Third Wednesday@ Austin’s
Martha Marinara is an associate professor of English at the University of Central Florida where she teaches rhetoric, First-year writing, and creative writing. She currently directs the Information Fluency Program, a university initiative. Marinara has written two textbooks—Writing Outside the Lines (2000) and Choices: A Handbook for Writers (2008), and published articles in College Composition and Communication and The Journal of Basic Writing. She writes and publishes poetry and fiction, and her work has appeared most recently in Massachusetts Review, Xavier Review, FEMSPEC, Estuary, Lesbian Fiction Quarterly, White Pelican Review, and Alembic. In 2000, she won the Central Florida United Arts Award for Poetry. Street Angel, her first published novel, was released in October 2006 and was a finalist for ForeWord Magazine’s Best GLBT Novel Award for 2006.
Wednesday April 16, 8:30pm

Austin’s Coffee and Film
929 W Fairbanks Ave
Winter Park, Florida

The Wonderful Martha Marinara
Followed by an Open Mic
BE THERE!

Hosted by Chaz Yorick’s Open Words ,& Russ Golata
For directions or comments e-mail me at blacksox@att.net
Or phone me at 407-403-5814
Or AUSTIN’S at 407-975-3364

Just a note that we will not be meeting during BACC days. For those of you who are not "BACCing," I hope you will consider:

-- reading some of the authors I have recommended to you throughout the term, hopefully in a pleasant place with a notebook handy
-- reviewing or otherwise creatively or critically responding to the BACC presentations

sharing the results here, on this blog, or elsewhere!

Introduction to Non-fiction Publishing featuring John Byram and Amy Gorelick of the University Press of Florida
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
2:00 pm
Cook Hall Conference Room

Amy Gorelick, Senior Acquisitions Editor, and John Byram, Editor-in-Chief, will discuss the basics of getting your work published; submitting a proposal, when to submit a full manuscript, the review process, the production process, marketing and selling works of non-fiction, and things to avoid when working with a publisher. A question and answer period will follow the brief presentation, with an opportunity to meet and discuss your own work in detail with Ms. Gorelick.

The University Press of Florida, established in 1945, is the largest publisher in Florida and the second largest university press in the Southeast.



UPF's mission is to serve all universities in the SUS system: to answer questions, offer advice, and possibly publish your work.

A mail art show at Urban Community School in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Third and fourth level students are curating their own mail art show
and `artist's exchange'. Not only will the children learn about the
various ways that a theme can be artistically interpreted, they will
learn how to organize and hang an a show of their own, and will learn
about geography through the tracking of various entries. They will
send back their work in exchange for the work received.

The theme for all work should be centered on the theme of "habitat".
What is YOUR habitat like?

Entries can be in any media. Size should be kept at 8"X10" or
smaller. Remember to include your name and address.

No fees, no jury, no returns. All creative responses are welcome, but
please keep in mind that they must be school appropriate to be
exhibited.

In order to guarantee display entries must arrive no later than May
16th, 2008.

For more information please email: mgreen@leeca.org

Send entries to:
Mary Green, CAS
Art Department
Urban Community School
4909 Lorain Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44102