IUSB Creative Writing

Hearthside Readers & Writers

iusbcreativewriting — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:47:07 +0000

Hearthside Readers & Writers Open Stage this Sunday: 1/15/12

2:30 Pam Blair

2:35 Carina Finn

2:40 Trish Connolly

2:45 Steve Henn

2:50 Carol Meehan

2:55 Jeff Tatay

3:00 BREAK

3:05 Joshua Stump

3:10 Becky Pelky

3:15 Rachel Cheeseman

3:20 McKenzie Tozan

3:25 Jen Penkethman

3:35 Featured Reader Charmi Keranen – IUSB alum – Check out her brand new book here!

Currently available online at Amazon and other retailers.

Charmi Keranen holds a BA in English from Indiana University South Bend. Her poetry has appeared in Passages North, The Salt River Review, JMWW, Stirring, blossombones, elimae, The Dirty Napkin, Ouroboros Review, Sugar House Review, Inter|rupture, Grasslimb Journal and Hot Metal Bridge. She and her husband live in Northern Indiana, where she works as a freelance writer and proofreader of court transcripts.

Praise for The Afterlife is a Dry County
“What a subtle but bracing joy Charmi Keranen’s The Afterlife is a Dry County is. In poems such as “The South Shore,” transcendence emerges out of some paradoxically laid back determination to limn new realities using the particulars of place and mind in order to articulate a unique musicality, a powerful metaphor for the self. Which is to say the poems are sensual, deeply imagined, and visceral. They’re also historical, metaphysical, and funny as hell. But Keranen’s book is also a package full of things, constructions simultaneously so wholly “graspable” and disjunctive it feels as if a bell has been rung in the reader’s consciousness as he drifts toward the wide open water inside the wake of each poem’s lingering and mysterious shadow. One’s not sure HOW she pulls so many disparate elements together in such a small space of page and to such startling effect, but it is a pleasure to read, and I know I am richer for it.”

–David Dodd Lee, author of The Nervous Filaments, Sky Booths in the Breath Somewhere: The Ashbery Erasure Poems, and Orphan, Indiana.

“In The Afterlife is a Dry County, the world undergoes multiple transformations and evolutions. “It’s slow going//waiting for the rock/to become a fish,” Keranen writes. All the living things that appear here—hummingbirds, centipedes, owls, spiders, deer flies, egrets—exist next to man’s language, also alive and morphing. It’s as if time, too, has compressed her poetic line, and we read this collection, with all its white space—its absence—acutely aware of the “weight of language.””

– Nancy Botkin, author of Parts That Were Once Whole and Bent Elbow and Distance

Best of A399 Collage Journals Fall 2011 – part 2 of 2

iusbcreativewriting — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:23:23 +0000

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Best of A399 Collage Journals, Fall 2011 – part 1 of 2

iusbcreativewriting — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:33:56 +0000

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Pics from Student Readings, Book, & Art Exhibit

iusbcreativewriting — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:39:55 +0000

Here are some images from projects by Kelcey Parker’s A399 Narrative Collage students. Stay tuned for links to Margaret Chapman’s and Alessandra Rolff’s A190 online literary journals, as well as a collection of essays by Kelcey Parker’s W250 class. These class activities are part of the Center for Excellence in Literary Arts & Publishing initiative (see tab above).

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Student Readings & Exhibit

iusbcreativewriting — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:36:07 +0000

The semesterly Student Reading & Exhibit is taking place Thursday 12/8 from 8:30-3:00 p.m. in DW 3001.

(It actually kicked off already with a reading by Alessandra Simmons Rolff’s A190 students, who read from the two literary journals that they created and self-published.)

There will be readings by four classes in a row, and there will be a display of 2-D Self-Portrait Collages (see recent posts for images), Collage Journals, and individual books – written and published by students – from Kelcey Parker’s A399 class, a book published by her W250 class, and a computer projecting an image of online literary journals created by Margaret Chapman’s A190 classes.

Please feel free to drop in during the readings and to have a look around as we celebrate our students’ accomplishments in creative writing, narrative collage, and literary publishing!

All classes contribute to the Creative Writing Minor (click tab above) and are part of the Center for Excellence in Literary Arts & Publishing initiative.

Interview with Carrie Oeding

iusbcreativewriting — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:14:51 +0000

Carrie Oeding, author of Our List of Solutions

Kelcey Parker interviews Carrie Oeding, author of Our List of Solutions, published by IUSB’s 42 Miles Press.

Link: http://phdincreativewriting.wordpress.com/2011/12/04/how-carrie-oeding-became-a-writer/

More A399 Mythical Self-Portraits

iusbcreativewriting — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:10:33 +0000

A399 Mythical Self-Portraits

iusbcreativewriting — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:03:57 +0000

Here are some of the portraits that will be on display next week at our Arts, Aesthetics, & Creativity Exhibits!

Chat with a Professional Writer – Mon 12/5 @ 5

iusbcreativewriting — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:05:13 +0000

Here’s a great opportunity to meet with a Professional Writer and recent IU grad, Susanna Bradley. She is an editor at MSN.com and recently interviewed Michelle Obama!

New Analecta Poster

iusbcreativewriting — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:28:05 +0000

Keep an eye out for the new Analecta posters that now adorn the campus bulletin boards and don’t forget to SUBMIT YOUR WORK!!!