04/09 - Athenaeum at 2pm - Advanced Poetry Writing Student Reading with cookies and coffee

Join us on Wednesday, April 9th at 2:00pm as we wind down the spring Athenaeum with an Advanced Poetry Writing Student Reading.  WSU English Writing Majors from Professor James Armstrong's Advanced Poetry Writing class will read their poetry to showcase their year-long education in the art of writing poems.

 

Join us and take a break have a cookie and a cup of coffee or juice.  The Athenaeum is located on the second floor of the Library, beautiful bluff side.

http://www.winona.edu/library/athenaeum/ 

 

 

04/10 - Athenaeum at 1pm - Advanced Poetry Writing WSU Student Reading

Join us at 1pm as we listen to WSU students from Professor Jim Armstrong's advanced poetry class.  They will read their original poetry to showcase their year-long education in the art of writing poems.

The Athenaeum is located on the second floor of the Krueger Library, bluff side.  For more information please vist our website: http://www.winona.edu/library/athenaeum/  

04/03 - Athenaeum at 1pm - Soundings and Seasonings: Poems for April by Emilio DeGrazia

Please join us on Wednesday, April 3^rd at 1:00pm for our Library Athenaeum titled Soundings and Seasonings: Poems for April presented by Emilio DeGrazia, Professor Emeritus, Winona State University.  This presentation will be a reading/discussion from Professor DeGrazia's book of poems, "Seasonings," along with new work from a book to be entitled "Soundings."

We hope you may be able to take a little time out of your day to enjoy poetry (and also note that WSU Advanced Poetry writing students will share their poetry next week 4/10). The Library Athenaeum is located on the second floor of the Krueger Library, bluff side.  For more information please visit our web site: http://www.winona.edu/library/athenaeum/

2/9 Athenaeum at 1pm - How Genre Informs Contemporary Literature

Join us on Wednesday, February 9, at 1pm for “How Genre Informs Contemporary Literature” presented by Nicholas Ozment.

Margaret Atwood. Cormac McCarthy. Susanna Clarke. Michael Chabon. Chuck Palahniuk. Toni Morrison. You will not find these critically acclaimed authors in the science-fiction, fantasy, horror, or mystery sections of the bookstore, yet they have all written novels that are informed by those genres. Nicholas Ozment, who has long studied the intersections of genre and literary fiction, will discuss how these writers draw upon genre to create resonant works of literary fiction. He will also address this question: What raises a work of literature above genre?

The Athenaeum is located on the second floor of the WSU Library, bluff side. The event is free and open to the public.

For the complete Spring 2011 Athenaeum schedule and for additional information about the Athenaeum, please visit the following: http://www.winona.edu/library/athenaeum/

10/13 - Athenaeum at 1pm - The Cycle of Love in Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Fatal Interview by Gabe Dybing

Please join us on Wednesday, October 13, at 1:00pm for " The Cycle of Love in Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Fatal Interview” presented by Gabe Dybing.

In the midst of the Modernist literary movement, Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) resisted poetic trends by continuing to work with outmoded “fixed forms,” most prominently with the sonnet. In one of her most famous sequences, Fatal Interview (1931), Millay subverts what had once been considered a “masculine” form, thereby redefining what it means to love, lust, and lose in the early twentieth century. Dybing will lecture and share poems particularly demonstrative of Millay’s restructuring methods.

3/3 - Athenaeum at 1pm- Russell T. Davies’s Doctor Who: Myth for the Twenty-First Century by Gabe Dybing

Join us on March 3, 2010 at 1pm for a presentation by Gabe Dybing titled Russell T. Davies’s Doctor Who: Myth for the Twenty-first Century

Through his reinvention of the popular science fiction serial for the BBC, Doctor Who, writer and producer Russell T. Davies has proposed one of the new “myths” for the twenty-first century. This “grand narrative,” based on reason and focused on the now-fractured British Empire, assimilates and paradoxically validates belief systems that are more mythic or intuitive in nature. While working in many genres at once, Doctor Who repackages and re-presents content from spiritualist perspectives with “rational” explanations for those invested in dominant worldviews.

The Athenaeum is located on the second floor of the Krueger Library, bluff side.

10/7 Athenaeum at 1pm -Poetry and Prose from a Sabbatical Year by James Armstrong

Join us on October 7 at 1pm for Jim Armstrong's presentation titled What I Did on My Vacation: Poetry and Prose from a Sabbatical Year. Professor Armstrong will read from and discuss the poetry and prose that he worked on over his sabbatical year, as well as talk about the sabbatical process and what he learned from it.

The Athenaeum is located on the second floor of the WSU Library, bluff side. The event is free and open to the public.

For the complete Fall 2009 Athenaeum schedule and for additional information about the Athenaeum, please visit the following: http://www.winona.edu/library/athenaeum/

10/8 Athenaeum at 1pm - Why I Read and Write Poetry by Orv Lund

Join us on Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 1:00 pm for Orv Lund's presentation on "Why I Read and Write Poetry." Emeritus Professor Lund (English) discusses the importance of poetry in his personal life and professional life as a scholar/professor.

Then Athenaeum is located on the second floor of the WSU Krueger Library.

The fall 2008 Athenaeum schedule can be found at: http://www.winona.edu/library/athenaeum/