March 5th, 2009

• Powell Reading

  7:00pm

April 2nd, 2009

• Why Read? Lecture by Mark Edmundson

  7:30pm Lecture by Mark Edmundson

September 30th, 2009

• Petrarch and the Birth of Connoisseurship

  3:30pm Francesco Petrarca (1304-74) was particularly appreciative of the visual arts, recording his reactions to ancient monuments in his letters and even owning works by Giotto and Simone Martini.  Consequently, art historians have often sought in Petrarch the advent of modern art criticism.  This talk explores what was–and wasn’t–so innovative in Petrarch’s observations and also muses on how the visual arts may have shaped Petrarch’s own literary creations.

October 5th, 2009

• Dr. Craig Kallendorf: The Use and Abuse of Rhetoric in Shakespeare’s “Othello”

  3:30pm

  This talk begins by sketching out the system of persuasive rhetoric that was known to every schoolboy in Shakespeare’s England.  The body of the talk shows how various persuasive devices are used by Iago to manipulate Othello, so that the play ends as an object lesson in what happens when a good man forgets the rules of the argumentative game.  This reading of the play is one that would have made sense in Shakespeare’s day, but still has the power to speak to us as well.

• An Occasion for Poetry: Mary Szybist and Michele Glazer

  7:00pm Fall Reading sponsored by the Library of Congress, Center for the Book, The Oregon Center for the Book, The Witter Bynner Foundation, and Lewis & Clark College.  Reception to follow the Readings.

October 12th, 2009

• Charles and Gail Entrekin: On Writing, Publishing, Activism, and Advocacy

  4:30pm Charles Entrekin is the author of Red Mountain (2007), In This Hour (1989), Casting for the Cutthroat (1980), and All Pieces of a Legacy (1975).  Gail Entrekin’s books of poems include Change (Will Do You Good) (2005), You Notice the Body (1998), and John Danced (1988).  The Entrekins currently serve as Co-Directors of the Entrekin Foundation, a funder of non-profit programs for the environment, children, and the arts.

October 20th, 2009

• One Man King Lear Performed by Johnny Stallings

  7:00pm Stallings first performed his solo version of King Lear in the Spring of 1978, thanks to a CETA grant from the Metropolitan Arts Commission of Portland.  Keith Scales directed. Since then he has performed in schools, theaters, prisons, and  at the Cornelia Connelly Theater in New York.

October 22nd, 2009

• A Reading by J.C. Hallman

  7:00pm J.C. Hallman is the author of a variety of fiction and nonfiction  In 2009, he published a story collection, The Hospital for Bad Poets, with Milkweed Editions, and edited, The Story About the Story, a collection of pieces on literature by writers themselves:  “criticism” combined with personal essay.  In 2010, he will publish, In Utopia, a book about modern utopian movements and the history of utopian literature.

October 26th, 2009

• A Reading by Tom Krattenmaker

  7:00pm Associate Vice President for Public Affairs and Communications at Lewis & Clark College, Tom Krattenmaker is also an award-winning writer specializing in religion in public life.  His first book, Onward Christian Athletes, with Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, is due for release in October 2009.

November 4th, 2009

• A Reading by Chase Twichell

  7:00pm Chase Twichell’s books of poetry include, The Snow Watcher (Ontario Review Press, 1998), The Ghost of Eden (1995), Perdido (1991), The Odds (1986), and Northern Spy (1981).  In 1999, she founded Ausable Press.

December 1st, 2009

• The Scaffold in the Marketplace: Johnson, Hawthorne and the Romance of Authorship

  3:30pm Helen Deutsch, Professor of English at UCLA, will be discussing Samuel Johnson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and each author’s relation to (and anxieties about) the literary marketplace.

February 4th, 2010

• “The Gift and the Commons: Creativity and the Public Good”

  4:00pm Lewis Hyde is a poet, essayist, translator, and cultural critic with a particular interest in the public life of the imagination.  He is the author of The Gift (1983) and Trickster Makes This World (1998).

February 17th, 2010

• Three Days Before the Shooting

  7:30pm Co-editors John F. Callahan and Adam Bradley will read from Three Days Before the Shooting:  The Unfinished Second Novel by Ralph Ellison.  Released by Random House January 2010.
  
  Book signing and reception immediately following the reading
  Lewis & Clark College Bookstore and Trail Room
  Templeton Campus Center

March 1st, 2010

• A Creative Nonfiction Reading by Susan Kirschner

  7:00pm Susan Kirschner is a Senior Lecturer in the Humanities at Lewis & Clark College, where she teaches creative non-fiction.  She has written essays on Virginia Woolf, Alice Walker, and pedagogy, and her current project is a memoir about her family’s life in pre-WWII Austria, and their flight on the eve of war.

March 15th, 2010

• CANCELLED - A Colloquium with Shaye Areheart, Editor, Random House

  7:00pm As a result of travel complications associated with winter storms on the east coast, “A Colloquium with Shaye Areheart” is cancelled.

March 29th, 2010

• Poetry Readings by Matthew Dickman and Carl Adamshick

  7:00pm Poets Matthew Dickman and Carl Adamshick will offer readings from their respective works.

March 31st, 2010

• A Fiction Reading by Pete Rock

  7:00pm Pete Rock is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.  He is the author of the novels The Unsettling, The Bewildered, The Ambidextrist, This is the Place, and Carnival Wolves.  He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.

April 1st, 2010

• A Poetry Reading by Lewis & Clark College Alum Nick Lantz

  7:00pm NIck Lantz, winner of the 2010 Felix Pollak Prize, will read from his recently published collection of poems. 

April 13th, 2010

• English Honors Presentations by Asher Katz and Kit Shields

  4:00pm English honors students Asher Katz and Kit Shields will present their papers to faculty, students, and the community.  Please join us in celebrating their work.  In addition, this will be a unique opportunity for freshman, sophomore, and junior students to learn more about what pursuing an honors project entails.

April 17th, 2010

• Songbird - Student Composition Recital

  2:00pm You are cordially invited to come join in on the fun as students in the Lewis &
  Clark Composition program present their latest musical creations!

April 20th, 2010

• Senior Poetry Readings

  7:00pm Senior Lewis & Clark College English majors will be reading original works of poetry.

April 27th, 2010

• Senior Fiction Readings

  7:00pm Senior Lewis & Clark College English majors will be reading original works of fiction.

April 28th, 2010

• Lewis & Clark Literary Review Annual Student Readings

  4:00pm Please join in the celebration of the 2009-2010 Literary Review students at their annual reading of works published in this year’s Lewis & Clark Literary Review.  All are welcome.  Light refreshments will be served.

September 28th, 2010

• A Fiction Reading by Author Lee Montgomery

  7:00pm The Department of English is pleased to announce a reading by author and Oregon Book Award Winner Lee Montgomery.

October 14th, 2010

• A Poetry Reading by Kevin Prufer

  7:00pm

  The Department of English welcomes poet Kevin Prufer whose most recent collection, NATIONAL ANTHEM (Four Way Books, 2008), was named one of the five best poetry books of 2008 by PUBLISHERS WEEKLY.

October 28th, 2010

• Oregon Poet Laureate Celebration

  7:00pm The Lewis & Clark College Community and the general public is invited to a reception for the Oregon Poet Laureates exhibit on October 28th at 7:00 pm. The reception will feature readings by Paulann Petersen and Lawson Inada, as well as virtual readings through recordings of past poet laureates.

November 4th, 2010

• Faculty Colloquium with Professor Rachel Cole

  3:30pm Lewis & Clark College Department of English will host a faculty colloquium with Professor Rachel Cole.  The title of Dr. Cole’s talk is “Pearl Prynne: Witch-Baby or a New Model of American Personhood?”

November 9th, 2010

• A Fiction Reading by Erin Ergenbright

  7:00pm Please join faculty, staff, and students for a fiction reading by Professor Erin Ergenbright

November 16th, 2010

• Author Mark Christensen

  7:00pm In Acid Christ (Schaffner), Mark Christensen offers a candid chronicle of the life and times of cultural icon Ken Kesey, the literary wonder boy and countercultural guru whose cross-country bus trip inspired The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.

November 22nd, 2010

• Colloquium with Martin Harries

  3:30pm New York University Professor of English Martin Harries will lead a colloquium entitled “Beckett and Medium Around 1960”.  The event is free and open to the public.