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/

4/4 - Athenaeum at 1pm - New Poets Read from their Work

Please join us on Wednesday, April 4, at 1pm for "New Poets Read from Their Work" presented by James Armstrong's ENG 412 Advanced Poetry Students.

In celebration of National Poetry Month, students from James Armstrong's Advanced Poetry Writing class will read from their work.

The Library Athenaeum is located on the second floor, bluff side of the Darrell W. Krueger Library. For additional information about the Athenaeum, please visit the following: http://www.winona.edu/library/athenaeum/

4/13 - Athenaeum at 1pm - A History of Murder and Exile in a Poetry Format

Join us on Wednesday, April 13, at 1pm for the last Athenaeum of the Spring 2011 semester, "A History of Murder and Exile in a Poetry Format" presented by Nancy Kay Peterson

Nancy Kay Peterson will read her poetry as well as discuss the process of creating a poetry chapbook that tells a historical narrative. Nancy Kay Peterson's chapbook, published by Finishing Line Press, tells the story of her great-great uncle Arne Kulterstad (1825-1902) through the voices of different characters. He was convicted of murder in Valdres, Norway and sentenced to death. An editorial campaign by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson saved his life. He was imprisoned, eventually pardoned and exiled to America to settle near relatives in Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin. Ms. Peterson will describe how she discovered the story, conducted the research and created the chapbook.

The Athenaeum is located on the second floor of the WSU Library, bluff side. The event is free and open to the public. For additional information about the Athenaeum, please visit the following: http://www.winona.edu/library/athenaeum/

4/6 - Athenaeum at 1pm - A Poetry Reading

Join us on Wednesday, April 6, at 1pm for a poetry reading by James Armstrong's ENG412: Advanced Creative Writing - Poetry students.

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.

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/

2/4 Athenaeum at 1pm -Phillis Wheately the first African American Poet by Michlitsch and Ripley

Join us on Wednesday February 4 at 1:00pm for Professor Gretchen Michlitsch and Professor Chuck Ripley's presentation on Phillis Wheately the first African American Poet.

Michlitsch and Ripley discuss Phillis Wheatley, the First African-American Poet
Brought from Gambia, Africa to colonial America in 1761, Phillis Wheatley entered Euro-American Christian culture as an enslaved girl. A literary prodigy, she became the first published black American poet in 1767. Her poems provide an important window into the developing but conflicting discourses surrounding freedom, race, and human nature in the era of the American Revolution. Gretchen Michlitsch and Chuck Ripley will explore Wheatley’s works in terms of her immediate eighteenth-century context and her twenty-first century significance as the founder of the African-American literary tradition.

The Athenaeum is located on the second floor south side of the WSU Library.
The Athenaeum schedule and more information can be found at: 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/