2011 Scissortail: Updated Schedule of Readings

Rilla Askew (Photo by Ted Waddell)

Thursday, March 31

I. 9:30 - 10:45 Estep Auditorium

Shirley Hall – Broken Arrow, Oklahoma

from Listen

George McCormick – Cameron University

The Mexican

Ken Hada – East Central University

Going Backwards

II. 11:00 - 12:15 Estep Auditorium

Alan Barecka – Del Mar College

from Remembering the Body

Rilla Askew – University of Central Oklahoma

Your Granddaddy is a Felon .. And a Christian

Jim Spurr – Shawnee, Oklahoma

The 1940's and Thereabouts

*** Lunch ***

III. 2:00 - 3:15 Estep Auditorium

Jason Poudrier – Lawton, Oklahoma

In the Rubble at Our Feet

J. Don Cook, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Sublime, Absurd & Tragic

Ben Meyers – Oklahoma Baptist University

Elegy for Trains & other poems

IV. 3:30- 4:45 Estep Auditorium

Jane Vincent Taylor – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Sonnets for Childhood

Jeanne Dunbar-Green – East Central University

Since It’s You and All

Arn Henderson

The Confessor & other poems

Susan Perabo

V. 3:30 - 4:45 North Lounge

Constance Squires – University of Central Oklahoma

from Red Queen Transcript

Jim Hunter – East Central University

Four White Stallions: Full Arrest

Hugh Tribbey – East Central University

Mime Box

*** Dinner ***

VI. 6:30 pm. Estep Auditorium

Featuring: Susan Perabo

*** Reception for Authors follows ***

@ Oak Hills Country Club

2011: Updated Author Biographies

Jonis Agee was born in Omaha, Nebraska and grew up in Nebraska and Missouri, places where many of her stories and novels are set. She was educated at The University of Iowa (BA) and The State University of New York at Binghamton (MA, PhD). She is Adele Hall Professor of English at The University of Nebraska — Lincoln, where she teaches creative writing and twentieth – century fiction. She is the author of twelve books, including five novels — Sweet Eyes, Strange Angels, South of Resurrection, The Weight of Dreams, and her most recent, The River Wife — and five collections of short fiction — Pretend We've Never Met, Bend This Heart, A .38 Special and a Broken Heart, Taking the Wall, and Acts of Love on Indigo Road. She has also published two books of poetry: Houses and Mercury. Agee's awards include ForeWord Magazine's Editor's Choice Award for Taking the Wall and the Gold Medal in Fiction for Acts of Love on Indigo Road; a National Endowment for the Arts grant in fiction; a Loft-McKnight Award; a Loft-McKnight Award of Distinction; and two Nebraska Book Awards (for The Weight of Dreams and Acts of Love on Indigo Road. Three of her books — Strange Angels, Bend This Heart, and Sweet Eyes — were named Notable Books of the Year by The New York Times. Additionally, she has stories and essays in The Iowa Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Natural Bridge, and elsewhere. Finally, Jonis owns some twenty pairs of cowboy boots, some of them works of art, loves the open road, and believes that ecstasy and hard work are the basic ingredients of life and writing.

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