2016 Scissortail: Schedule of Readings

11^th Annual Scissortail Creative Writing Festival

Thursday, March 31

I. 9:30 – 10: 45 Estep Auditorium

Michael Howarth – Missouri Southern University

Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things

Dorothy Alexander- Santa Fe, Oklahoma

Coming & Going: Departures & Homecomings

Paul Austin – Norman, Oklahoma

Monk, and other poems

II. 11:00 – 12: 15 Estep Auditorium

Andrew Geyer – University of South Carolina - Aiken

Pink Elephants

Jenny Yang Cropp – Cameron University

String Theory

Shaun Perkins – Locust Grove, Oklahoma

Poem Life

III. 11:00 -12:15 North Lounge

Steven Schroeder – Chicago, Illinois

The Moon, not the Finger, Pointing

Kerri Vinson Snell – McPherson College

Topography of the Light-Filled

Nathan Brown – Wimberly, Texas

To Sing Hallucinated: First Thoughts on Last Word Words

*** Lunch ***

IV. 2:00 – 3: 15 North Lounge

Charlotte Renk – Athens, Texas

This Great Turtle Heart: The Tao of Turtlism

John Morris – Cameron University

One of the Things You Wouldn’t Think a Man Would Remember

William Peter Grasso – Tulsa, Oklahoma

Operation Fishwrapper

V. 2:00 – 3:15 Estep Auditorium

Sally Rhoades – Albany, New York

Where Light Falls

Clarence Wolfshohl – Fulton, Missouri

Three-Corner Catch

Yvonne Carpenter – Clinton, Oklahoma

From an Oklahoma Farm

VI. 3:30 – 4:45 Estep Auditorium

Brent Newsom – Oklahoma Baptist University

You a Good Man

Mary Anna Evans – University of Oklahoma

A Nice Atheist Boy

Tom Murphy – Texas A & M – Corpus Christi

American History

VII. 3:30 – 4:45 North Lounge

Joey Brown – Missouri Southern State University

Tyler

Rayshell Clapper – Seminole State College

Not a Bad Girl

Charles Etheridge – TX A &M – Corpus Christi

The Brenner Pass

VIII. 7:00 – Estep Auditorium

                       

(Musical Prelude: OPUS 1, begins at 6:30)

Larry D. Thomas – Alpine, Texas

As If Light Actually Matters

Rilla Askew – University of Oklahoma

Home Territory

Paul Bowers – Northern Oklahoma College

The Lone, Cautious, Animal Life

(Authors’ Reception follows at Vintage 22)

Friday, April 1

IX. 9:00 – 9:50 Estep Auditorium

Alan Gann – Dallas, Texas

Literary Springboards

Jason Poudrier – Cameron University

What about Fitch?

Jennifer Long – Eufaula, Oklahoma

I Swim Upstream

X. 9:00 – 9:50 North Lounge

Hank Jones –Tarleton State University

More Life to Lead, More Books to Read

Sarah Webb – Burnet, Texas

Rock and Friends

Robert Broyles – Oklahoma City, OK

Love Lost

XI. 10:00 – 10:50 Estep Auditorium

Bayard Godsave – Cameron University

The Clay Eaters

Jennifer Kidney – Norman, Oklahoma

Tempus Fugit

A.W. Marshall – Tulsa, Oklahoma

Simple Pleasures

XII. 10:00 -10:50 North Lounge

Ann Howells – Carrolton, Texas

Under a Lone Star

John Yozzo – Tulsa, Oklahoma

Broaching Wife & Epithalamia Over Time

Chera Hammons – Amarillo, Texas

The Poetry of Bomb City

XIII. 11:00 – 11:50 Estep Auditorium

Michael Dooley – Tarleton State University

The Cowboy and the Hippy Chick

Terri Cummings – Oklahoma City, OK

A New Season

Todd Fuller – University of Oklahoma

Binaries at the End of Nostalgia

XIV. 11:00 -11:50 North Lounge

George McCormick – Cameron University

Inland Empire

Michelle Hartman – Ft. Worth, Texas

My Inheritance & other poems

JC “Catfish” Mahan– Edmond, OK

Autumn on Costa Brava

*** Lunch ***

XV. 2:00 – 3:15 North Lounge

Rebecca Hatcher Travis – Sulphur, Oklahoma

Constant Fires

Haesong Kwon – Little Priest Tribal College

Independence Fighter

Gary Worth Moody – Santa Fe, New Mexico

The Burnings

XVI. 2:00 -3:15 Estep Auditorium

Walter Bargen – Ashland, Missouri

Did You Say That! – Persona Prose Poems

Brady Peterson – Belton, Texas

He Writes Poetry and Makes Soup

Maryann Hurtt – Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin

Once Upon a Tar Creek: Mining for Voices

XVII. 3:30 – 4:45 Estep Auditorium

Chris Ellery – Angelo State University

Sunday of Divine Mercy

Chip Dameron – Brownsville, Texas

Drinking from the River

Robin Carstensen – TX A & M-Corpus Christi

Ode to Before We Were Dance and Form

XVIII. 3:30 – 4:45 North Lounge

Hardy Jones – Cameron University

Praying Hands

Lucie Smoker – Enid, Oklahoma

Make More With Your Short Sticks

Debbi Brody – Santa Fe, New Mexico

2nd Generation American: Ancestor Influences

XIX. 7:00 Estep Auditorium

                       

Featuring Naomi Shihab Nye

                       

(Music by Rowdy Folk begins at 6:30 pm)

followed by Moonlighter’s Combo

& Awarding Collegiate Writers’ Contest

at the Ada Arts & Heritage Center

(the corner of 14^th & Rennie Streets)

Saturday, April 2

XX. 9:15– 10:15 Estep Auditorium

karla k. morton – Fort Worth, Texas
For the Love of the Horse

Ron Wallace – Southeastern State University

A Song for Lesser Gods

Julie Chappell – Tarleton State University

Mad Habits of a Life

XXI. 10:30 -12:00 Estep Auditorium

Elizabeth Raby – Santa Fe, New Mexico

Dodging Ice

Terry Dalrymple – Angelo State University

Dead Dogs

Jessica Isaacs – Seminole State College

Dumplins & other poems

Alan Berecka – Del Mar College

Post Modern Nostalgia

XXII. 12:15– 1:15pm Estep Auditorium

Grand Finale: Featuring Ben Myers

                       

& Awarding the Dr. Darryl Fisher

State High School Contest Winners