2017: Schedule of Readings

12th Annual: Scissortail Creative Writing Festival

April 6-8, 2017

East Central University

Ada, Oklahoma

Thursday, April 6

I. 9:30 – 10: 45 Estep Auditorium  

Brady Peterson – Belton, Texas

From an Upstairs Window

Rebecca Hatcher Travis – Sulphur, Oklahoma

Constant Fires

Michael Dooley – Tarleton State University

Mary, Mother of …

II. 11:00 – 12: 15 Estep Auditorium

Elizabeth Raby – Santa Fe, New Mexico

A Matter of Time

Paul Bowers – Northern Oklahoma College

The Lone, Cautious, Animal Life

Dorothy Alexander – Santa Fe & Oklahoma City

Birds, Bees and Misogyny: Verse & Paragraphs

*** Lunch ***

III. 2:00 – 3: 15 North Lounge

George McCormick – Cameron University

Saints

Sarah Webb – Burnet, Texas

What the Moon Saw

Jim Benton – Ft. Worth, Texas

Poems of the Scissortail’s Nest

IV. 2:00 – 3:15 Estep Auditorium

John Morris – Cameron University

On Wickedness, Art and Solubility

Mary Anna Evans – University of Oklahoma

Only a Time Machine

Gary Worth Moody – Santa Fe, New Mexico

Upon Fevered Ground

V. 3:30 – 4:45 Estep Auditorium

Jennifer Kidney – Norman, Oklahoma

Deadhead, Hog Farm, Grass and Other Things

William Peter Grasso – Tulsa, Oklahoma

Just a Matter of Time …

Greg Stapp – Norman, Oklahoma

Whatever Counts as Blood among Locusts

VI. 3:30 – 4:45 North Lounge

Tom Murphy – Corpus Christi, Texas

Prometheus Unbound

Carol Coffee Reposa – San Antonio, Texas

Incident at a Party

Richard Dixon – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Winding Stair

VII. 7:00 – Estep Auditorium

                       

(Musical Prelude: begins at 6:30pm)

Featuring: Patricia Hampl

(Authors’ Reception follows at Vintage 22)

Friday, April 7

VIII. 9:00 – 9:50 Estep Auditorium

Sally Rhoades – Albany, New York

Through the Layers

Rob Roensch – Oklahoma City University

Victor, Jonah, Laney

IX. 9:00 – 9:50 North Lounge

Jessica Issacs – Seminole State College

The Deer in the Corn & Other Poems

Michael Howarth – Missouri Southern State U

Scream Three Times

X. 10:00 – 10:50 Estep Auditorium

Paul Austin – Norman, Oklahoma

Portraits

Michelle Hartman – Ft. Worth, Texas

Lost Journal of My Second Trip to Purgatory

XI. 10:00 – 10:50 North Lounge

Shaun Perkins – Locust Grove, Oklahoma

The Book with the Beacon Lights

Juan Perez – Corpus Christi, Texas

Protesting Politically

XII. 11:00 – 11:50 Estep Auditorium

Ben Myers – Oklahoma Baptist University

Poems in Various Forms

Roxie Faulkner Kirk – Morris, Oklahoma

The Northeast Corner Section

XIII. 11:00 – 11:50 North Lounge

Joey Brown – Missouri Southern State U

Cross-Cut Stanzas

Todd Fuller – University of Oklahoma

Cherry Kool-Aid vs. Post-Truth America

*** Lunch ***

XIV. 2:00 – 3:15 North Lounge

Clarence Wolfshohl – Fulton, Missouri

Scattering Ashes

Terri L. Cummings – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

The Nature of Nature

Ron Wallace – Durant, Oklahoma

Songs for Lesser Gods

XV. 2:00 -3:15 Estep Auditorium

Alan Berecka – Del Mar College

The Hamlet of Stittville

Margaret Dornaus – Ozark, Arkansas

Prayer for the Dead: Recently Collected Poems

Terry Lucas – Mill Valley, California

A Small Desert Town

XVI. 3:30 – 4:45 Estep Auditorium

Katherine Hoerth – U.T. –Rio Grande Valley

Revisionist Mythmaking in Texas

Chera Hammons – Amarillo, Texas

Born under a Bright Horizon

J.C. “Catfish” Mahan – Edmond, Oklahoma

I Hate Poetry

XVII. 3:30 – 4:45 North Lounge

Dan Wilcox – Albany, New York

Where’s the Nearest Ocean?

Jennifer Luckenbill – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

The Water Below

Lyman Grant – Austin Community College

Old Men on Tuesday Mornings

XVIII. 7:00 Estep Auditorium

Featuring Leif Enger

                       

(Musical prelude at 6:30 pm)

Saturday, April 8

XIX. 9:00– 10:15 Estep Auditorium

Ann Howells – Carrollton, Texas

Conjuring the Chesapeake

A.W. Marshall – Tulsa, Oklahoma

The Bend

Jeanetta Calhoun Mish – Oklahoma City U

Elegies & Love Poems

XX. 10:30 -11:45 Estep Auditorium

Andrew Geyer – Univ. of South Carolina-Aiken

Symmetry

Jenny Yang Cropp – Cameron University

Poems from Concordance

Nathan Brown – Wimberly, Texas

Don’t Try

XXI. 12:00 – 1:00 pm Estep Auditorium

Grand Finale: Rilla Askew

University of Oklahoma – Snake Season

           

& Awarding the Dr. Darryl Fisher

State High School Contest Winners