It’s just a few shorts days until Scott Russell Sanders will arrive at Agnes Scott College and begin teaching his residency. That being said, I thought it just might be appropriate to share an excerpt of his work featured in Orion Magazine published in the November/December 2009 issue. This article is entitled “Mind in the Forest”. To read the rest of the excerpt visit Orion Magazine’s web page here. I TOUCH TREES, as others might Read more…
As the Festival is rapidly approaching, today we hear from Chelsea Perdue, a current sophomore at Agnes Scott College. She looks back at last year’s Festival and shares a story about author Junot Diaz and his visit to Agnes Scott. Enjoy! After the second longest wait in eternity for a book signing (That is, after Garrison Keillor. We all remember the old coot’s need to flirt with every girl in line.) poor Junot Diaz was still Read more…
The Festival is getting close! This week we hear from Peggy Thompson, Ellen Douglass Leyburn Professor of English/Chair. I hope you enjoy! One of my most memorable experiences at the Writers’ Festival came from Tillie Olsen’s visit. Olsen wrote a story, “I Stand Here Ironing,” which I had always found particularly moving because it contains a line that perfectly captured how I felt leaving my young son at daycare. During her visit, she asked me Read more…
The Writers’ Festival is just a few short weeks away but tonight, and tonight only Haider Al-Kabi will be reading in the Fireplace Lounge at 7:30pm. Haider Al-Kabi is an Iraqi poet, author of Bombardment (Al-Mada, Damascus, 1998) and co-editor of Flowers of Flame (Michigan State University Press, 2008), the first anthology of Iraqi poetry since the American invasion. In Flowers of Flame, the events of the war—the bombings, the fall of Saddam Hussein, the Read more…
While you’re waiting for the Festival we’ve got another event going on to stir up your appetite for literature! This Wednesday join us for Faculty Readings in the Fireplace Lounge! Drs. Christine Cozzens, Rachel Trousdale, Amanda Gable, Hugh Sheehy, and Christopher Deweese will be reading their original works Wednesday, February 24th at 10am in the Fireplace Lounge. If you have any questions check out the Facebook event page here. Many thanks go out to Kate Read more…
Here’s an excerpt from a short story by Sarah Scoles titled “Binary System” At the airport a man with a “Hi, my name is” sticker approached me, told me he was the man named Sixto, and asked me if I was the woman named Amy. I was, and I got in his car, which had three wheels on the sidewalk and one wheel in the no-parking zone. Death probably thought I was too cheap a Read more…
While you’re waiting for the Festival, I highly encourage everyone to pencil in and come out to our next poetry reading on campus! Poetry Reading by Haider Al-Kabi Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010 7:30 p.m. Alston Fireplace Lounge Haider Al-Kabi is an Iraqi poet, author of Bombardment (Al-Mada, Damascus, 1998) and co-editor of Flowers of Flame (Michigan State University Press, 2008), the first anthology of Iraqi poetry since the American invasion. In Flowers of Flame, the Read more…
On this lovely Sunday afternoon I encourage everyone to check out this review from Bookslut. I think it is a great site offering columns, books reviews and articles all about literature. Hopefully this article will get you as pumped up about the Festival as finding it made me!
We hear again from Christine Cozzens, Professor of English at Agnes Scott, about her experiences with the Writers’ Festival! When Professor Bo Ball started the Writers’ Festival in 1972, he created a college writing contest as the centerpiece of the event, and that contest—in an expanded form—is still the heart of the festival. Bo was a well-regarded fiction writer who had won several prestigious writing contests; in fact, after his retirement, we welcomed him back Read more…
TONIGHT! Come out and join us in the Fireplace Lounge at 7pm for Adrian Matejka’s poetry reading. Hope to see you there!
