Interview with Sam Sheridan in The Preface

Eric Gingerich has published an interview with last month's visitor, Sam Sheridan, in this week's Preface. Check it out!

Submission Opportunities @ New Pages

This is the blog to check for ongoing writing news and submission activities:

http://newpagesblog.blogspot.com/

The main site has regular reviews of literary journals, and links to more info and web sites.

http://www.newpages.com/

Summer Writers' Retreats & Workshops

Now is the time to look into Summer Writing Workshops--and apply for scholarships! Here are a few nearby. Just click on the links:

Ropewalk: New Harmony, IN (June 14-21)

Kenyon Review: Ohio/Italy (June 14-21)

Antioch Writers Workshop: Yellow Springs, OH (July 12-18)

Interview with Vince Bauters in the Preface

There's still time to pick up last week's issue of The Preface, which features an interview with Analecta's editor, Vince Bauters.

Our Next Event: Greg Rappleye, poet

Mark your calendars for Thursday, Feb. 28 at 7:00 pm. The poet Greg Rappleye will be reading from his latest book, Figured Dark, in the third floor lounge of Wiekamp Hall.

A blurb from the U. of Arkansas press: "The voices in Greg Rappleye's Figured Dark call across a vast landscape of myth, memory, and horrific wreckage. He is a poet who refuses easy categories. These poems are by turns wise, elegiac, ironic, and wickedly funny. Here are dreamy raptors, dome-lighted Firebirds, flaming bodies, junk cars, deadly archangels, the musician Brian Wilson, and a young John Berryman."

Click link to Rappleye's blog: http://sonnetsat4am.blogspot.com/

Thanks for coming out!

Sam Sheridan's reading was a huge success. Thanks so much to all the students, faculty, and staff who braved the weather to be there. (And there were lots of you!) Thanks also to Sam Sheridan for coming, to the fighter Rory Markham for adding to the conversation, to the Howe Military Academy students who joined us, to Heidi Eakins who supplied the wonderful food, to Anne Richmond who makes everything happen, and to Elaine Roth for sacrificing precious sabbatical time to host Sam and Rory this week. Look for photos and coverage of the event, as well as an exclusive interview with Sam to be published in The Preface!

Sam Sheridan Reading is ON

Despite the weather, Sam Sheridan will read from his memoir, A Fighter's Heart, tonight at 7:00 in the third floor lounge (venue change) of Wiekamp Hall (DW 3001).

I met Sam and his friend Rory, a Milatech fighter from Chicago's south side, and they are both excited to be here, and it should be a great event!

See previous post for additional info.