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Langdon Review Weekend September 9 12, 2009 Dora Lee Langdon Center Granbury, Texas Tarleton State University Stephenville, Texas Co-Editors: Moumin Quazi and Marilyn Robitaille
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Langdon Review Weekend September 9 – 12, 2009

Dora Lee Langdon Center

Granbury, Texas

Tarleton State University Stephenville, Texas

Co-Editors: Moumin Quazi and Marilyn Robitaille

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Editorial Advisory Board Phyllis Allen

Judy Alter Betsy Berry

Alice Cushman Robert L. Flynn

Todd Frazier Don Graham

Dominique Inge James Hoggard Lynn Hoggard

James Ward Lee Natrelle Long Jill Patterson

Tom Pilkington Punch Shaw Thea Temple Richard Tuerk Cheryl Vogel

Donna Walker-Nixon Betty Wiesepape

2009-2010 Contributors

Scott Grant Barker Gregg Barrios

Yvette Benavides Jerry Bradley

Cassy Burleson Kevin Clay

Jerry Craven Sherry Craven Jeffrey DeLotto

Tom Dodge Peggy Freeman David Lowery

Naomi Shihab Nye Eugenio R. Garcia Orts

Danny Parker Mike Price

Jessica Quazi Paul Ruffin

Barrie Scardino Judith Segura

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General Information

REGISTRATION: The registration desk in the Langdon House will open beginning Thursday morning at 8:30 a.m. and continuing throughout the Langdon Review Weekend. VENUE: All events with the exceptions of the Wednesday Opening Events, the film screening, and the Picnic with the Poet Laureate take place at the Dora Lee Langdon Center. The Studio, the Carriage House, the Rock House, and the Concert Hall are all within shouting distance of the Gordon House where registration is taking place. EXHIBITS: Various writers have been invited to display their books at a table in the Studio. Feel free to browse and ultimately purchase books. Say hello to Christina Stradley, Tarleton Campus Store manager extraordinaire. BREAK AREA: From 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m., help yourself to the snacks provided. Look for the tents on the Langdon Center Lawn. SOCIAL, CULTURAL, AND INTELLECTUAL PROGRAM: All the events from Thursday morning’s readings onward–the publication reception, readings, receptions, guest speakers’ programs, and the Saturday Morning Brunch–are all included in the registration fee, as is a copy of this year’s journal. Movie tickets and the meals on Wednesday afternoon and Friday evening may be purchased on location. Sign up and pay for your box lunch for the picnic at the registration desk. THE BOOK: We’re celebrating (and shamelessly promoting) the sixth edition of the Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas. Available for purchase at the Gordon House and in the Studio bookstore. IMPORTANT NOTE: Please respect the room capacity numbers posted at each venue. If you need anything, please don’t hesitate to ask Co-editors Moumin Quazi and Marilyn Robitaille or Langdon Center Director Janice Horak.

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Langdon Review Weekend Schedule September 9 - 12, 2009

Day One, Wednesday, September 9 Specialty Workshop

9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon • Specialty Workshop on Collaborative Writing, led by Mike Kearby

Tarleton State University campus in Stephenville, Barry B. Thompson Student Center Ballroom B

Mike Kearby is an author and ex-high school reading teacher. He is “intent on making sure every kid in Texas learns to read – just for the fun of it.”

The Collaborative Novel Project 2009-2010 is a project involving students from the following schools:

Albany High School

Breckenridge High School Hico High School L. D. Bell High School Mineral Wells High School San Angelo Lakeview High School Stephenville High School Strawn High School Trinity High School

Special thanks to our Workshop Sponsor: The Department of English and Languages, Tarleton State University, Box T-0300, Stephenville, Texas. 254.968.9039

www.tarleton.edu/english

Session II: 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Workshop, continued. TSU campus in Stephenville, Barry B. Thompson Student Center Ballroom B

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EVENING SESSION

Wednesday, September 9 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Tarleton State University Barry B. Thompson Student Center, Ballroom B • 09/09/09 Dinner & Music by WillieNatra

(FRIENDS OF THE LANGDON REVIEW dinner by reservation $19.99) Music by WillieNatra, performing a blend between country and lounge-style music.

Bob Francis, piano ♦ Ira Campbell, trumpet ♦ Steve West, guitar & vocals ♦

Bob Hunt, bass ♦ Peggy Bott Kirby, guest vocalist • Drama 8:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Tarleton State University Barry B. Thompson Student Center Ballroom A

• SceneShop

“Tinsel and Pepperoni” (SceneShop), written by Steven Alan McGaw, performed by Nicholas Irion and Steven Cashion. “Urges” (Lost Beat Generation), written by Rey Delbasa (of Florida), performed by Nicholas Irion and Nikki Singer. “lived in...” (SceneShop), written by Steven Alan McGaw, performed by Adam Whittington.

Since 1996, SceneShop has produced over 100 new works—scenes and monologues—and presented them in an intimate, minimalist style, focusing on the essential communication between the playwright, the producing ensemble and the audience. 2009 marks the debut of Lost Beat Generation (LBG), a performance alternative stemming from, but not identical to, Fort Worth’s SceneShop. The aim of LBG is to be edgy, provocative and mobile.

Co-founder Steve McGaw

Langdon Review Weekend Launch Party

Dinner, Music, & Drama on 09/09/09

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DAY TWO, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2009 MORNING SESSIONS Registration: 8:30 a.m. – Gordon House Thursday, September 10 Session I: 9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. 2 concurrent sessions 1. Ethics and Medicine Carriage House

• Donna Walker Nixon, Lecturer, Baylor University. Creative Non-Fiction piece about the intersection of medicine and the law: “Don't Call Him Drunken Ira Hayes.” Donna is the co-founder of the Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas, the founder of Windhover, and a former editor of the New Texas series. Her stories have been published in Echoes magazine, Concho River Review, descant, Writing on the Wind, and Red Boots and Attitude.

• Richard M. Zaner, A. G. Professor Emeritus of Medical Ethics & Philosophy of

Medicine, Vanderbilt University (retired 2002). “If You Listen, You Can Smile.” Dick will present a narrative focused on a clinical situation involving a severe dilemma for a young surgeon responsible for the care of an elderly gentleman.

2. Creative Writing Rock House

• Joe R. Christopher, Professor emeritus of English, Tarleton State University. Poems from “A Celebration of Charles Darwin's Bicentenary.” Joe has published about a dozen pieces of short fiction, over a hundred poems, two dramas, three edited collections of others’ writings, and over a hundred pieces of non-fiction, including two book-length pieces of academic prose.

• Carol Cullar, Executive Director of the Rio Bravo Nature Center Foundation, Inc. in

Eagle Pass. Reading from her creative nonfiction story “Slim,” soon to be published in Holt McDougal’s ninth grade American Literature text with 1.25 million copies released in Canada and the U.S. Carol writes, “Slim was the hobo walking down Highway 66 on his way to California during the Dust Bowl of the ’30s who stopped to ask my grandmother for work and a dipper of water and never left.”

• Andrew Geyer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of English, University of

South Carolina Aiken. “Café le Coq.” Andrew is the author of a novel, Meeting the Dead (UNMP 2007), and a short story cycle, Whispers in Dust and Bone (TTUP 2003); his award-winning fiction has appeared in numerous literary magazines, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

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Thursday, September 10 Session II: 10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. 3 Concurrent Sessions

1. History Concert Hall

• Arch Mayfield, Professor of English, Wayland Baptist University. “What a Beecher!” He was said to be “father of more brains than any other man in America.” She was described by Abraham Lincoln as “the little woman who wrote the book that made this big war.” Her brother was of such notoriety—if not notoriousness—his funeral in New York City attracted over 50,000 people. These are all Beechers: the patriarch, Lyman Beecher; a daughter, Harriet Beecher Stowe; and a son, Henry Ward Beecher. This presentation, focusing on Harriet and Henry, highlights not only some of the better-known but also some lesser-known Beecher exploits and will include dramatic adaptations of two or three scenes read by two guest women readers. (H.B.S.’s involvement in the Lord and Lady Byron controversy and Henry Ward Beecher’s rumored sexual liaisons with numerous parishioners).

• T. Lindsay Baker, W. K. Gordon Endowed Chair in History, Tarleton State

University. “On the Trail of a Past as Elusive as the Wind.” T. Lindsay will examine his career-long efforts to study and interpret the history of wind power in America. He has published several scholarly works on the subject, including A Field Guide to American Windmills (1985), Blades in the Sky: Windmilling through the Eyes of B. H. “Tex” Burdick (1991), The 702 Model Windmills: Its Assembly, Installation and Use (1999), North American Windmill Manufacturers’ Trade Literature: A Descriptive Guide (1999), A Guide to United States Patents for Windmills and Wind Engines 1793-1950 (2004), and American Windmills: An Album of Historic Photographs (2007).

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2. Poetry Rock House

• Salvatore Attardo. “Haiku Summaries and Other, Longer, Poems.” Salvatore has been published in Harpur Palate, Whiskey Island, Tampa Review, CadillacCicatrix, Quiddity, Bateau, Main Channel Voices, Poetry Harbor, RIEN, Pegasus, and MO: Writings from the River.

• Danny Parker, President of the Board of the Old Post Office Museum and Art

Center in Graham, Texas. Poetry: “Whispers.” Danny is a poet, sculptor, photographer, and is trying his hand at water colors. He feels that he is a “cistern that catches what falls from another place, a higher source, and that the most important factor is to be open to what comes our way.”

• Tony Zurlo. Poetry from “The Mind Dancing.” Tony writes: “Life in the

Peace Corps, Army, and a year teaching in China so warped my self esteem that I have since concealed from editors age, gender, size, race, religion, politics, and other private predispositions, and survive folded up in a back room in Arlington, Texas, working on Alice in Cyberland, my long-awaited solution to the unified field theory.”

3. Short Fiction Carriage House

• Rodney Stephens, Assistant Professor of English, Howard Paine University. Short Story, “Half Thumbs.” Rodney says, “I’m a scuba diver living in the middle of bone-dry West Texas.” He has written articles on Richard Harding Davis, Salmon Rushdie, and Bao Ninh.

• Mark Busby, Professor of English, Jerome H. and Catherine E. Supple

Professor of Southwestern Studies, and Director, Center for the Study of the Southwest, Texas State University—San Marcos. Reading from novel-in-progress Cedar Crossing. Mark is a former president of the Texas Institute of Letters.

Thursday, September 10

Lunch on your own 11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

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AFTERNOON SESSIONS Thursday, September 10 Session III: 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Plenary #1

Poetry Concert Hall

• Charles Inge. Selections from his recently expanded Brazos View collection. Charles, a poet and native Texan, lives with his wife Dominique on a bluff overlooking Lake Granbury.

• Sally Lombardo, Poet. A Midwife's Journey. Sally is a mother of five who has

lived in Houston, Austin, and most recently Southeast Texas. She taught English for six years at Lamar University in Beaumont. Her writing has appeared in Review of Texas Books, The Baylor Line, and English in Texas. She has spent many years as a childbirth educator and coach, and published her thesis through Lamar University, on the topic of Childbirth in Literature. Currently, her poetry reflects the topics of women finding strength and a unique voice after pivotal life change.

• Jerry Craven, Ink Brush Press and Baylor University, “‘Becoming Others’ and

other poetic monologues.” A refugee from retirement, Jerry now teaches full-time at Baylor University and is director of Ink Brush Press.

• Sherry Craven, Independent Writer. “Editing My Dreams.” Sherry writes: “I

have lived from Alaska to Georgia, Los Angeles to Washington D.C., but have called Texas home for most of my life.” Her poetry has appeared in journals such as AmarilloBay and Muse2, New Texas, The Witness, Windhover, descant, Maverick Press, Texas Review, Concho River Review, and she is included in the anthology Quotable Texas Women. Her poetry appears in the 2002 anthology, Texas in Poetry 2 and her nonfiction in Writing on the Wind, a collection of essays by West Texas women writing about sense of place. She won the Conference of College Teachers of English 2005 poetry award.

• Jerry Bradley. Professor of English, Lamar University. A piece from The

Importance of Elsewhere (a new collection of poetry from Ink Brush Press). A member of the Texas Institute of Letters and the author of 5 books, Jerry is past-president of the Conference of College Teachers of English, the Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, and the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association.

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Thursday, September 10 Session IV: 2:45 p.m. – 4:15p.m. Plenary #2

Creative Writing Concert Hall

• Gregg Barrios. Contributing Writer, San Antonio Current. Excerpt from DarkHorse, PaleRider. Gregg is an award-winning playwright and poet who lives in San Antonio. His Katherine Anne Porter play, DarkHorse, PaleRider, won a CTG-Mark Taper Fellowship, and his Rancho Pancho won a Ford Foundation—Gateway grant and was recently named the San Antonio Express-News “book pick of the week,” and his "I-DJ", won a grant from Sandra Cisneros’s Macondo Foundation.

• Michael H. Price. Founding Partner, MedDogs, L.L.C. (www.meddogs.com)

and columnist, Fort Worth Business Press. “Preservation of folklore in cartoon and comics-art form.” A veteran journalist and cartoonist, Michael has devoted much of his career to the preservation and interpretation of Southern folklore, ranging from projects for the Institute of Texan Culture to such books as The Cruel Plains (Zone Press; 2007) and The Ancient Southwest (TCU Press; 2005). Michael’s more recent books include the short-fiction anthology What You See May Shock You! and the graphic novel Carnival of Souls, both from Midnight Marquee Press of Baltimore.

• Bob Flynn, Professor Emeritus, Trinity University. “My Life in Church and

Where I Mislaid It.” Bob is the author of 15 books. His eighth novel, Echoes of Glory, was published in May.

• Eugenio R. Garcia Orts, Spain. “V3 (Visual-Virtual-Valencia)” Eugenio writes,

“Combining analytical thinking with practical skills to create images that have something to say, and through my illustrations and artwork turned into a multimedia presentation, I will try to require the viewer to become actively involved in a virtual–but, above all, visual–visit to my home town, Valencia, Spain.

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Thursday, September 10 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

PUBLICATION RECEPTION

Langdon Center Lawn

Celebrating the publication of the 2009-2010 Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas, Volume 6 &

Recognizing TSU President Dr. Dominic Dottavio Hosted by Tarleton State University

Co-Editors Moumin Quazi

Marilyn Robitaille

2009-2010 Contributors

Scott Barker Gregg Barrios Yvette Benavides Jerry Bradley Cassy Burleson Kevin Clay Jerry Craven Sherry Craven Jeffrey DeLotto Tom Dodge

Peggy Freeman David Lowery Naomi Shihab Nye Eugenio R. Garcia Orts Danny Parker Mike Price Jessica Quazi Paul Ruffin Barrie Scardino Judith Segura

Dinner on your own 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

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EVENING SESSION Thursday, September 10 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Concert Hall

Langdon Review Contributors’ Showcase

Jeffrey DeLotto Jeffrey DeLotto’s poems, essays, and stories have appeared in numerous magazines, journals, and anthologies including Days of a Chameleon: Collected Poems and a chapbook entitled Voices at the Door. He was the Southwest Poets Series winner from the Maverick Press. He currently teaches English at Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth. He has taught writing and literature at Texas Tech University, at Yarmouk University in Jordan, and as a Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Plovdiv in Bulgaria. He also serves as Poetry Editor for the international on-line journal Amarillo Bay (www.amarillobay.org), a grower of vegetables, and skipper on the mutinous family sailboat. Tom Dodge Tom Dodge is a commentator for National Public Radio station KERA in Dallas and the author of Oedipus Road: Searching for a Father in a Mother’s Fading Memory; A Generation of Leaves:Greek Lyrics of Love and Death; and A Literature of Sports. He is a member of The Texas Institute of Letters. He and his wife, children, and grandchildren live in Midlothian, Texas.

Kevin Clay Kevin M. Clay lives with his wife, Beth, in Arlington, Texas, and is currently Co-chairperson of the Arts & Sciences Division of Paul Quinn College in Dallas, having worked for many other universities and colleges; his work has appeared in periodicals such as The William and Mary Review, which awarded him the Hoepfner prize for fiction in 2002. Judith Segura Judith Garrett Segura is a writer and private consultant advising clients on history and archives projects, historical exhibits, and fine art acquisition and installation. She recently completed Belo: From Newspapers to New Media, a scholarly history of Belo Corporation. Segura is a published poet and author of two nonfiction books. Her poetry was selected for the DART “Poetry in Motion” project, and she has recorded one CD of her poetry. She is also a visual artist and recently completed a commissioned public art project for the University of North Texas at Dallas, incorporating three of her designs into the architectural planning of the new permanent campus. Gregg Barrios As a published poet, Barrios has with books to his credit including Puro Rollo, The Air-Conditioned Apollo, and Healthy Self. His new collection La Causa will be published in 2009. His poetry has appeared in publications ranging from Hecho en Tejas, an anthology of Tejano literature; Latina magazine, and the UCLA anthology, Aztlán and Vietnam. For his theater work, Barrios received a Center Theatre Group! Mark Taper Forum Fellowship in 1997 to write Dark Horse, Pale Rider on Texas writer Katherine Anne Porter. Barrios also received a commission and grant through the Ford Foundation Gateway Program at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in San Antonio to research and develop Rancho Pancho, which was just published in the Hansen Drama series. The film rights have also been optioned. Sherry Craven Sherry Craven has lived from Alaska to Georgia, Los Angeles to Washington D.C. but has called Texas home for most of her life. She has taught English, Creative Writing, and Spanish in high school and college. She has published poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction. Her poetry has appeared in journals such as Amarillo Bay and Muse2, New Texas, The Witness, Windhover, descant, Maverick Press, Texas Review, Concho River Review, and she is include in the anthology Quotable Texas Women. Her poetry appears in the 2002 anthology, Texas in Poetry 2 and her nonfiction in Writing on the Wind, a collection of essays by West Texas women writing about sense of place. She won the Conference of College Teachers of English 2005 poetry award. Her collection The Wild Rose: Poems about Love is finished at last.

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♦Intermission♦ Cassy Burleson Cassy Burleson was published in Whetstone and the Green Fuse and then kept her Muse a secret while earning a living in journalism, teaching, PR, and securities fraud investigation. She now teaches at Baylor University. Cassy’s grateful for a heart that feels deeply; decade-long relationships with family, friends, and colleagues who inspire her; good decisions and bad that compel her toward new adventures; and to Langdon Review for publishing her most tender reflections. Jerry Craven Jerry Craven has twenty-one published books, the latest, Becoming Others, Dramatic Monologues and Soliloquies, is just out from VAC Poetry in Chicago. He has taught for seven universities in three countries. Currently he lives with his wife, Sherry, in Temple, Texas, and teaches full time at Baylor University. He also serves as director of Ink Brush Press (www.inkbrushpress.com) and editor-in-chief of Amarillo Bay (www.amarillobay.org).

Danny Parker Danny Parker writes poetry and tall tales, sculpts metal, dabbles in watercolors, and is a photographer. Danny has been featured in several one man shows for his sculpture at the Breckenridge Fine Arts Center, Tarleton State University’s Langdon Center, and at The Old Post Office Museum and Art Center in Graham, Texas. Other shows include a three-man show of his photography at the center in Breckenridge and another with the Breckenridge Art Association. He is currently vice president of the Graham Art Guild and president of the board of the Old Post Office Museum and Art Center in Graham. He maintains membership in the Cross Timbers Arts Council, the Brownwood Art Association, and the Lake Granbury Art Association. Along with Marlene Edwards, he co-founded Graham’s Wyman Meinzer Eyes of Texas annual photography competition. Barrie Scardino Barrie Scardino is an architectural writer who has published numerous articles and lectured on Texas architecture. She is former managing editor of Cite Magazine:The Architecture and Design Review of Houston and has co-authored three books on architecture: Houston’s Forgotten Heritage (1991, Rice University Press); Clayton’s Galveston (2000, Texas A&M University Press) and Ephemeral City (2003, University of Texas Press). She is currently Executive Director of the American Institute of Architects, Houston Chapter and the Houston Architecture Foundation. Jerry Bradley Jerry Bradley is the author of five books including two volumes of poetry: The Importance of Elsewhere and Simple Versions of Disaster. A member of the Texas Institute of Letters, Bradley was chosen as the 2000 Joe D. Thomas Scholar-Teacher of the Year by the Texas College English Association, and he received the 2005 Frances Hernández Teacher-Scholar Award by the Conference of College Teachers of English. He recently won second place in the Texas Poetry Calendar 2010 competition judged by Mark Doty. Bradley’s poetry has appeared in many literary magazines including New England Review, American Literary Review, Modern Poetry Studies, Poetry Magazine, and Southern Humanities Review. He is currently poetry editor of Concho River Review, having founded and edited for sixteen years New Mexico Humanities Review.

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DAY THREE, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 MORNING SESSIONS Registration: 8:30 a.m. – Gordon House SESSION I: 9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. 3 Concurrent Morning Sessions

1. Poetry Rock House

• Daniella DeLaRue. Director, McNair Scholars Program, Lamar University. “Poetry.” Daniella “enjoys her husband, writing, photography, flying and working on old cars. In that order.”

• June Zaner, retired freelance artist, now writing and publishing essays and poems.

“Spilling Secrets: What Women Say When No One Is Listening.” Some of her publications include, New Texas, Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas, 2008, EXplore, a Hill Country magazine, columns for The Tennessean newspaper, a newsletter entitled Chop Suey, published on-line three times a week for about 135 recipients. June writes, “Over several years Cassy Burleson and I have found that while we do not finish each other’s sentences poetically, we do speak to each other as women who know that the secrets we reveal in our poems cut through much of the veneer that custom and society impose on women when they are truth-telling. We each gather the more interesting characters and events that have affected our lives and turn them loose upon the page. Neither of us is responsible for what these people and events reveal or conceal about their lives, or our own…only that they haunt the edges, where life is wild and free and perhaps too fragile. We invite you to let them speak to you.”

• Cassy Burleson, Member of the Journalism Faculty, Baylor University.

“Answering June Zaner: Somewhere in Between.” Cassy has been writing poetry since 1965 while making her living as a journalist, curriculum and consortium developer, PR practitioner, securities fraud investigator, and teacher. She notes, “I live with a rainbow at my feet wherever the weather suits my clothes, and I work hard to maintain that lifestyle so I can write things that matter.”

• Nathan Brown, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Human Relations, University

of Oklahoma. “Ashes over the Southwest.” Nathan is a musician, photographer, and award-winning poet who holds a Ph.D. in English and Journalism from the University of Oklahoma.

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2. Short Fiction Concert Hall

• Juanita Luna Lawhn, Professor of English, San Antonio College. “A Day in the Brush Country of South Texas.” Juanita's research interest is the Mexican Woman in San Antonio from the 1920-30’s. She is the founder of the annual San Antonio College Multiculturalism Conference.

• Cheryl Clements, Blinn College/Bryan, Texas. “Concerto” (a memoir). Cheryl

has been published in the Houston Chronicle's Texas Magazine, Short Story, Southwestern American Literature, and Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas (forthcoming).

• Carman C. Curton, Associate Professor of English and Writing, Adrian

College, Michigan. “Simon’s Sins.” Carman is an avid reader and writer who does not blog and wonders what she will do with her time when written language dies.

• Alicia Clay, Lecturer of English, Texas A&M University. Excerpt from The

Last Calliope Player. Alicia notes that she is “mother to an adventurous two year-old.”

3. “In the midst of the Fray”: Readings by Former Creative Writing Students at

Tarleton State University (2004-2009) Carriage House

Moderator: Julie Chappell, Associate Professor of English, Tarleton State University. The readers in this session are former students in Julie’s creative writing course. • Paola Arbogast. “Pomegranate Seeds.” Paola, a former history teacher, wrote

her first poems while in high school in the 1960s and waited forty years before giving creative writing a second try.

• Luke Morgan. “What I'm Thinking When I'm Not.” Born and raised in small

town Texas, Luke realized his love of literature and language at a young age. He is continuing to engage his passion as a graduate student in the Department of English & Languages at Tarleton State University.

• Jesse McClure. “Expressions of a Human Nature.” Jesse began his college

experience as a baseball player at Hardin-Simmons University until he read a Kafka short story. He soon transferred to Tarleton where he happily became consumed with expressing himself through words.

• Melanie Haas. "Hell Hath No Fury." She writes, “I have a lifelong addiction to

reading and writing fiction. “ She graduated from Tarleton State with a degree in English in 2008 and is currently part of Tarleton's English Graduate Program.

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Friday, September 11 SESSION II (PLENARY): 10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Plenary Morning Session

“Journalism: 21st Century Style” Concert Hall

Judith Segura, Chair Judith’s research of 168 years of Texas media history for her book BELO: From Newspapers to New Media led her to note one overarching quality of success: Adaptation—steady and constant change, both with technology and society. The great challenges that newspapers and television news operations grapple with today are addressed by this panel that Judith has convened. • Marian Spitzberg, an attorney, joined Belo in 1992 as assistant general

counsel. When she retired in December 2008, she was senior vice president/Human Resources and a member of the Company’s Management Committee.

• Cassy Burleson, Baylor University, “The Future of News?” Cassy writes, “I

have made my living as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer, researcher, curriculum developer, PR practitioner, fundraiser, consortium developer, security fraud investigator and professor, and I write poetry to maintain the standard of living in my soul.”

• Carlos Sanchez, editor of the Waco Tribune-Herald, and adjunct professor of

Journalism at Baylor University.

• Judith Garrett Segura, author of BELO: Newspapers to New Media, (U of Texas P, 2008) and “The News in Review: A Memoir” (Langdon Review, 2009). Judith retired from Belo after 24 years, first at The Dallas Morning News, then at Belo Corp.

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Friday, September 11

12:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. Picnic with the Poet Laureate Brazos House Gardens across the street from the Gordon House pre-order $10.00 box lunch at the registration desk

Paul Ruffin, the 2009 Texas State Poet Laureate, will be reading from his New and Selected Poems (due out from TCU Press in 2010). Paul, who teaches at Sam Houston State University, is a Texas State University System Regents Professor and Distinguished Professor of English. Paul is the founding editor and editor-in-chief of The Texas Review and founding director/present director of the Texas Review Press. He is the author of two novels, three collections of short stories, two books of essays, and six collections of poetry, and is editor or co-editor of eleven other books.

Special thanks to hosts Dominique and Charles Inge Brazos House Gardens, Granbury, Texas

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AFTERNOON SESSIONS Friday, September 11 SESSION III (PLENARY): 1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Poetry Concert Hall

• James Hoggard. Perkins-Prothro Distinguished Professor of English, Midwestern State University. Reading from his most recent collection, Triangles of Light: The Edward Hopper Poems. Former president of the Texas Institute of Letters, James is a poet, translator, novelist, essayist, and playwright.

• Jacqueline Kolosov. Associate Professor of English, Texas Tech University.

Readings from Modigliani’s Muse. Jacqueline has published 2 full length poetry collections and 2 YA novels, and her work has appeared in journals including Poetry, Shenandoah, and Orion.

• Charlotte Renk, Professor of English, Humanities, and Creative Writing,

Trinity Valley Community College. Readings from These Holy Hungers: Secret Yearnings from an Empty Cup (Eakin Press, 2009), which was awarded the Poetry Society of Texas’ Eakin Memorial Book Publisher’s award. Charlotte has been teaching English, Humanities and Creative Writing to a diverse population of returning adult students, incarcerated Texas Department of Corrections students, and transfer students since completing her Ph.D. at Louisiana State University. She has been published in such journals as Kalliope, Sow’s Ear, Concho River Review, New Texas, and Third Wednesday.

• Carol Bryan Cook, Member of Authors Guild, NY, The Academy of

American Poets, NY, and WritersBloc, Granbury. “Secrets, Whispers, and Windows.” Writing poetry in rhyming and free verse for 40 years, Carol has authored numerous short stories, five children’s stories, is co-author of a novel, and a movie script. She lives in Granbury with her award-winning artist husband. She is working to complete her fourth book of poetry.

• Karla K. Morton, Board Member of the Greater Denton Arts Council and the

Denton Poets’ Assembly. Readings from Becoming Superman, a kickoff to the Little Town, Texas Tour. Karla, already chosen the 2010 Texas Poet Laureate, has been widely published across the state, and has three new books in the works: Redefining Beauty (Dos Gatos Press) and Names We’ve Never Known (Texas Review Press, 2009), and the TCU Poet Laureate Series Book (2010).

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Friday, September 11 SESSION IV: 3:15 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. 2 Concurrent Afternoon Sessions

1. Slough Press Writers Slough Press has been publishing innovative poetry and fiction by Texas writers. This panel will feature readings from Chuck Taylor, the founder and Director of Slough Press, and two writers who have recently published books with Slough Press, as well as discussions of contemporary literature and publishing. Rock House

• Chuck Taylor, Director of Slough Press, taught creative writing at the Universities of Texas at Austin, Tyler, and El Paso before coming to Texas A&M University. He has been a writer-in-the schools and a CETA poet-in-residence for Salt Lake City. From 1980 to 1988 he co-owned and operated Paperbacks Plus Bookstore in Austin, Texas. His recent books include Heterosexual: A Love Story, and Fogg in High School.

• Lowell Mick White is author of the story collection Long Time Ago Good

(Slough Press, 2009), and of the forthcoming novel That Demon Life (Gival Press, 2009). His work has been published in over two dozen journals, including Callaloo, Iron Horse Literary Review, and Short Story. In 1998 he was awarded the Dobie-Paisano Fellowship by the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas Institute of Letters, and he is currently a PhD student at Texas A&M University, where he specializes in creative writing and regional literatures, and teaches creative writing and freshman composition.

• Hedwig Gorski, Smarthinking.com and University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Continuing Education. Hedwig is an artist-poet who has received awards for media works in poetry and drama, and who coined the term “performance poetry” in early 1980 to describe her poems written only for oral performance and recorded performance poems with composed music (e.g., Send in the Clown, 2009). She has published three books of poetry and released several audio collections. Intoxication: Heathcliff on Powell Street (Slough Press, 2009) is a memoir/archive about her 1978 experimental theater in Austin. Her BFA degree from NSCAD, a world famous radical art school, is in painting. Her doctorate in creative writing is from University of Louisiana. She received a Louisiana Artist’s Fellowship (2002), and a Fulbright to lecture in Poland (2003).

2. Writers from Tarrant County College Concert Hall Moderator, Tony Zurlo, Professor of English, Tarrant County College, Southeast

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• Yvonne Jocks (also published as “Evelyn Vaughn”), Instructor, Tarrant County College SE Campus, and Romance Author. Selection from Aka Goddess or Lost Calling. Yvonne lived in 5 states by the time she turned 15—the last state was Texas, and she’s lived here happily ever since. A self-avowed pop-culture addict, she published her first of 18 romance novels in 1993, and won the prestigious Rita Award from the Romance Writers of America in 2005. She has also published numerous fantasy short-stories and pop-culture essays.

• Violet O’Valle, Professor Emeritus of English, Tarrant County

College. “Play Poetry: Putting Poetry on the Proscenium and Irish Texans in Re-Verse.” Violet writes, “I have loved poetry, theatre, music, and puppy dogs all my life.”

• Vicki Sapp, Associate Professor of English, and Director of the

Cornerstone Honors Program, Tarrant County College. “A Wet Bird Never Flies at Night.” Vicki writes, “I still hold the distinction of having taught every English course imaginable, and I still hold on to the hope that someday I will finish one of my three book-length manuscripts (a novel, a grammar book, a Sedaris-rivaling essay collection).”

• Terri Schrantz, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Sociology, Tarrant

County College, Trinity River Campus. “Witnessing Matters.” Terri calls herself a perpetual student.

• Jim Schrantz, Professor of English, Department Chair of English and

Language Acquisition, Tarrant County College, Trinity River Campus. “Insolent Bystander.” Jim calls himself a “Writer turned talker trying to become a writer again.”

Friday, September 11 DINNER & MUSIC

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5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Café Nutt, 121 Bridge Street On the Square in Granbury Order from the menu. “Chef Tom McGrath transforms traditional ingredients into simple, yet imaginative dishes featuring local farm fresh produce and mouth-watering entreés.” www.cafenutt.com RAHIM QUAZI

Rahim is a Pakistani/American singer-songwriter whose songs have been licensed to TV (Roadtrip Nation—PBS, Chris & John to the Rescue), featured “Best of ’08 acoustic” by Ireland’s Urban Angel label, and have been a staple of Dallas stages for two decades. He is also a veteran of the road, who has opened for the Strokes, the Dave Matthews Band, and Glenn Tilbrook of Squeeze. He has two albums, Big Black Box and Supernatural, and Rahim was the featured musician at The Langdon Review Weekend Brunch in 2007.

For samples of Rahim's music, check out http://www.myspace.com/rahimquazi and http://www.rahimquazi.com/Home.html.

EVENING SESSION, Friday, September 11 7:30 p.m. Movie Screening & Meet the Director ShowBiz Cinemas 6

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$7.00 (pay at the door)

ShowBiz Cinemas 6

David Lowery is a filmmaker and writer from Texas. He is a two-time recipient of TFPF Production Grants, and is an alumni of the Berlinale Talent Campus at the Berlin Film Festival. His award-winning short films have been shown in festivals around the world, as well as on IFC and PBS. St. Nick, his first feature-length film, premiered at the 2009 SXSW Film Festival. His writing on film has been featured in Filmmaker Magazine and Hammer To Nail, and can also be found in no short supply at his website, www.davidpatricklowery.com

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Location for Friday night movie screening:

1201 Water's Edge Dr. Granbury, TX 76048 Located behind Wal-Mart, one block off Highway 377 and across from Chili's Restaurant

DAY FOUR, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 9:30 a.m. – Noon Langdon Center Lawn

Saturday Morning Brunch

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featuring

Naomi Shihab Nye

Wind in a Bucket—A Life with Words

Naomi Shihab Nye lives in San Antonio, Texas. Her recent books include Honeybee, You & Yours, Going Going, A Maze Me, 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East, a National Book Award finalist in 2002, Come with Me: Poems for a Journey, Fuel, Red Suitcase and Habibi, a novel for teens which won 6 Best Book awards. She has edited seven anthologies of poetry for young readers, including This Same Sky, The Tree is Older than You Are, The Space Between our Footsteps: Poems & Paintings from the Middle East, What Have You Lost? and Salting the Ocean. A visiting writer for many years all over the world, she has been a Lannan Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Library of Congress Witter Bynner Fellow.

and the music of Jessica Quazi

Jessica Quazi, “Me, as of Now” Jessica writes, “I’m twenty-two years old and ready to spread my vibe across this planet.” As a freelancer, she is paying her way through college by working in the film industry on various films and television shows. Although she has found success in dipping her toes into countless odd-jobs

and hobbies, music has proven to be the “never-failing love of her life.” Jessica is almost finished with her bachelor’s degree, “if she does not decide to change her major (for the fourth time),” and after school, she plans to move to a location still unknown, to be “a struggling, happy musician.” Books, Photographs, and Music of various authors/artists/musicians will be on sale in the Studio throughout the Langdon Review Weekend. Registration will be on site this year. The prices are as follows: Full Registration for Langdon Review Weekend: $75 includes book, admission to readings, and Saturday brunch ticket

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One day Pass (either Thursday or Friday only): $50 includes book, admission to readings Picnic with the Poet Laureate (Friday afternoon): $10 (an extra event) featuring Texas Poet Laureate Paul Ruffin Wednesday night 09.09.09 Dinner & Music $19.99 Friends of the Langdon Review (by reservation) (the Plays by SceneShop following are free and open to the public) Friday night Dinner & Music order from the menu At Café Nutt

featuring the music of Rahim Quazi

Friday Night Movie Show Biz Cinema. Pay at the door. $7.00 Saturday Brunch: $12 (if only attending the Brunch)

featuring Naomi Shihab Nye and the music of Jessica Quazi


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