Taylor Mali!

The Oklahoma Literary Arts Festival presents Taylor Mali
6:30
November 5, 2009
in the Dorothy Summers Theatre
This performance is free & open to the public.


Mali is generally considered to be the most successful poetry slam strategist of all time, having won the National Poetry Slam a record four times. He was also one of the original poets on HBO's Russell Simmons presents Def Poetry. And since June of 2000, when he said goodbye to his last sixth grade homeroom class, Mali has made a living as a poet, traveling the country and the world, reciting, reading, teaching and lecturing about poetry.

For more on Mali, go to http://www.taylormali.com/
For more on OLAF and the Scissortail Arts Series, go to www.ecok.edu/scissortail.

Enter the Gen Hum / Comp II Matrix

Need a ENG 1213 and a G-1 Humanities elective? Consider taking Dr. McMahon's ENG 1213/HUM 2413 combination course. Students must co-enroll in the courses for a total of 6 hrs and completion of 2 general education requirements.

Though some of you may be reluctant to enroll because of the co-enrollment requirement, Dr. McMahon says you "need not fear. The HUM 2613 class introduces students to major figures and issues in philosophy through the medium of film. Films that we will consider include (but are not limited to): The Matrix, Total Recall, The Butterfly Effect, Minority Report, Gone Baby Gone, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. We will consider how these films explore philosophic topics such as personal identity, moral obligation, intellectual certainty, and the nature of reality. In the ENG 1213 class that is linked to HUM 2613, students will develop their skills in writing, critical analysis of literary and visual sources, and library research. They will be required to complete several critical (argumentative) essays focused upon works and themes addressed in the HUM 2613 class. Their essays will be expected to utilize both primary and secondary source materials.

Waitenale Glasses!

Hugh Tribbey's new chapbook Waitinale Glasses is now available from chalk editions.

Click here for details.

"There’s not a normal poem in the whole collection," says the author.

IMAGE SOURCE: http://wnyheritagepress.org/magazine/summer07/summer2007b.html

Learn about "The Tulsa School": Nov. 5-7

Join us Nov 5-7 for a conference on “The Tulsa School,” a group of four poets and artists from Tulsa who traveled to New York City in the early 1960s and became part of the internationally acclaimed “New York School.” The conference will bring the two surviving members of the group, Ron Padgett and Dick Gallup, back to Tulsa for a weekend of scholarly panels, roundtable discussions, and poetry readings. Also featured as key participants will be the family of Ted Berrigan the eldest and erstwhile leader of the “Tulsa School.” (That's Berrigan on the far right in the photo at left, taken in 1969 with Allen Ginsberg.) His sons Edmund and Anselm and wife Alice Notley are renowned poets and are editors of The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan. The conference will gather over 30 participants from all over the world to discuss Tulsa’s role in this influential movement and period.

Start Time:
Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 6:25pm

End Time:
Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 9:30pm

Location:
University of Tulsa campus & Downtown Doubletree Hotel
616 W. 7th St.
Tulsa, OK

IMAGE SOURCE: www.catholicboy.com/images

Klingon Love!

Avant garde Oklahoma poet Hugh Tribbey will be reading on the TU campus, bringing his blend of surrealism, word play, and Klingon love to Tulsa. The reading will be held in Zink Hall in the seminar room. Call if you need directions. 809-1268. Don't miss it!

Thursday, October 22, 2009
7:00pm - 10:00pm

Zink Hall, Room 354
University of Tulsa Campus
3101 E. 7th St.
Tulsa, OK

*If you missed the reading, you may well gnash your teeth with regret when you read the following list of poems that Dr. Tribbey read:
“Or Ful Rust #1,” “Or Ful Rust #2,” “Logolatry,” “Hears Numbers and Names,” “A Maddening Share,” “Psalm 53 Meets Burning Chrome,” “J3SOPOZ,” “Easy is the Dawn,” “Gandhi the Swedish Chef,” “Strategic Fisticuffs,” “Opinion of the Interior Paramour,” “Opium of the Interim Paralysis,” “ ‘OY’ GHOPDAP QOS” [Post Neo-Absurdist Klingon], “Googolism for Through,” “Only One Danger (A Mini-Rant),” “Green People: The Great Monsanto Conspiracy,” “Roguery Hogsheads,” and “B-Movie Benzedrine.”

Human?

Excerpt from The History Boys: The Film (Screenplay by Alan Bennett and Nicolas Hytner, adapted from the original stage play by Alan Bennet; New York: Faber and Faber, 2006).

Mrs Lintott (played by Francis de la Tour--that's de la Tour above on the right)

" . . . One of the hardest things for [students] to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them."

Thoughts?

STD Screening

Sigma Tau Delta will be screening the film, The History Boys at 2pm on Friday for its October meeting. Come join us at the Tiger Cinema for this thought-provoking (and somewhat unsettling) film and stay for the discussion at 3:50. Remember, any English major, or for that matter, anyone with any interest in literature, film, writing, or critical thinking is more than welcome!