Fiction writer, essayist Martone to read Oct. 27
Both talks are part of The Writing Program’s fall Reading Series and will take place in Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall, Room 201.
Louisiana poet laureate Brenda Marie Osbey to host Katrina fundraiser Oct. 28
Courtesy photoBrenda Marie OsbeyBrenda Marie Osbey, Poet Laureate of the State of Louisiana, will host a fundraiser for victims of Hurricane Katrina currently staying in the St. Louis area from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 28, in The Gargoyle. Osbey, a native of New Orleans, will read from her work and discuss Katrina’s effects on the city. In addition, the event will feature Dixieland music by St. Louis’ Bourbon Street Band, while Gerald Early, Ph.D., the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters in Arts & Sciences, will speak on “The Death of Jazz and the Birth of New Orleans.”
Fiction writer and essayist Michael Martone to read Oct. 27 and Nov. 3
Courtesy photoMichael MartoneAcclaimed fiction writer and essayist Michael Martone, the visiting Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature in Washington University’s Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, will read from his work at 8 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 27. In addition, Martone will speak on coincidence and fate in fiction in a lecture entitled “Homer on Homer or a Bunch of Stuff That Happens” at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 3.
An artist’s touch
Photo by David KilperT.L. Solien, who was recently in residence at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, works with Lisa Bulawsky and Tom Reed.
Spoken-word artists Universes bring Slanguage to Edison
The blistering yet exuberant depiction of modern urban life will kick off the OVATIONS! Series Oct. 21-22.
Nanotechnology cancer center is formed via grant
A new center, headed by Samuel A. Wickline, will research and apply nanotechnology for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
The bunny’s evil twin?
Courtesy PhotoPhotographer Phyllis Galembo will speak about her work Oct. 19 for the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.
Looking for St. Louis
Forget purple mountains and fruited plains. The contemporary American landscape is more typically composed of parking lots and shopping malls, factory towns and industrial developments, argues Matthew Coolidge, founder and director of the Center for Land Use Interpretation in Los Angeles. From Oct. 26-29, Coolidge will host a number of events exploring St. Louis’ urban landscape as part of the yearlong series “Unsettled Ground: Nature, Landscape, and Ecology Now!” co-sponsored by the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts and the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts.
Extreme sports meets dance
Courtesy photoDiavoloDiavolo — the acclaimed Los Angeles dance company known for combining bold movement with the adventurous, high-wire attitude of extreme sports — will bring its dynamic and wittily subversive choreography to Edison Theatre at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 28 and 29. In addition, Diavolo will present an all-ages matinee as part of the ovations! for young people series at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 29.
Danforth scholar named Jamaica’s best young artist
Ebony Patterson has won the Jury Prize in Jamaica’s 2005 Super Plus Under-40 Artist-of-the-Year Competition.
View More Stories