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Student Creative Readings & Performances


PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE

Thursday, 16 April 2009, Guilford Parlor

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9:00 Welcoming remarks
Kurt Koenigsberger and Jason Stuart
9-9:20 Jess Rudolph, English 406
"Sleep Walking" (fiction)
9:20-9:50 Samiya Ilmudeen, English Grad Program
“The Visitor” (story)
9:50-10:20 Brandy Schillace, English Grad Program
from The Witchwood at Nob’s End (novel)
10:20-10:40 Michael Benning, English 314
from Tetris for Two (play)
10:40-11:10 Jamie McDaniel, English Grad Program
“Eating Out,” “Intimacy,” “Propriety” (Creative Nonfiction)
11:10-11:30 Fin Coe, English 314
from Scratch ‘n Snuff (play)
11:30-noon Cassie Freudenrich, English Grad Program
from The Daughters of Rahndi (novel)
Noon-12:10 Fatima Espiritu, English 304
“Freud, I Don’t Have Time for This”; “Some London Symphony”; “Oops”; “True fluency is ‘conclave’”; “Crane”; “How to pull off ‘landslide’ in a contemporary poem”; “Cranberry Juice Cocktail Dress”; “Aligning Stars Broadcast Alarm” (poems)
12:10-12:50 Performance by the IMPROVment troupe:
Michael Benning, Aaron Byers, Fin Coe, Clint Gibler, Leah Munsey-Konops, James Tomola
12:50-1:10 Ashley Livingston, English 406
from If You Don’t Know, Then You Don’t (novel)
1:10-1:40 Wells Addington, English Graduate Program
“The Winner” (story)
1:45-1:52 Chris Lambert, English 304
“List of Validation”; “Interviewing the Artist Pristine”; “Heat Lightning” (poems)
1:52-1:59 Lauren Geiser, English 304
“A Different Whole”; “Daily”; “Pieces of It” (poems)
1:59-2:06 Amanda Giffi, English 304
“Calendar”; “Calendar, Part II”; “A Distracted Inquiry”; “You Might Want to Dust in Here”; “Alarm”; “Not a lotabit blank, a little bit fickle” (poems)
2:06-2:13 Jamie Van Doren, English 304
“The Tongva Say a place above”; “To Bacchus”; “Wet Appetities”; “Kenning” (poems)
2:13-2:20 Jeremy Safran, English 304
“Backyard Photography”; “Half-trampled wheat”; “The other day this kid asked me what the boom-bap is”; “Submersible”; “Ocean and its opposites” (poems)
2:20-2:27 Brennon Ham, English 304
“Beached on Ice”; “And the Sparrow Made Us Swim”; “Please Believe Electric”; “Recycling Ohio” (poems)
2:27-2:34 Fin Coe, English 304
“Listen, Eurydice”; “It causes great discomfort”; “Stains, Scars”; "Oaks" (poems)
2:34-2:41 Margo Chervony, English 304
“A Series of Other Wonders”; “The Gulls Laugh”; “Portrait of a Thousand Lakes”; “Medea” (poems)
2:41-2:48 Jack Rooney, English 304
“Cartago”; “Menhir”; “When Someday the Rubbish Will Dispose of You” (poems)
2:48-2:55 Alisa Cullison, English 304
“Seeing Whales” (by Michael Dickman); “The wide land” (by A. R. Ammons); “Why sing” (by Alisa Cullison; poems)
2:55-3:02 Jon Vesey, English 304
“Antagonist”; “Strong Despite”; “Blending Theory”; “Narratorial Focalization”; “Mafic Lava Flows” (poems)
3:02-3:09 Emma Sleva, English 304
“Song of the West” (poem)
3:09-3:16 Sarah Mount, English 304
“The Lady Shall Not Say a Word”; “Weightlisted”; “Smoke in Mirrors”; “Broken Bones and Orange Peels”; “your untitled”; “For Thomas” (poems)
3:20-3:40 Emily Joseph, English 406
from The Order of the Moon (novel)
3:50-4:00 Rachel Stirba, English 303
“Demons” (story)
4:00-4:10 Laura Hurley, English 303
“Snapshot” (story)
4:10-4:20 Jack Rooney, English 303
“To Sleepwalk in a Silver Age” (story)
4:20-4:30 Gabriel Geschke, English 303
“Bubble” (story)
4:30-4:40 Jennifer Clay, English 303
“Just Another Day” (story)
4:40-4:50 Nate Kelly, English 303
“Hardcore Is Dead” (story)
 

Special Thanks To:

Jason Stuart (Master of Ceremonies)
Chris Kervick and Fin Coe (2008-09 and 2009-10 Presidents, IMPROVment)
Sarah Gridley (English 304: Intermediate Poetry Workshop)
Mary Grimm (English 406: Advanced Creative Writing)
Kurt Koenigsberger (Producer, Key Grip, Best Boy; Writing Week cast member)
John Orlock (English 314: Advanced Playwriting)
Thrity Umrigar (English 303: Intermediate Fiction Workshop)