Wednesday, July 29, 2009 COKINOS’S NEW BOOK “THE FALLEN SKY” TO BE RELEASED AUGUST 1
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009 SUGARHOUSE REVIEW CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
 A new journal, Sugarhouse Review, has just been launched by USU department of English alumni John Kippen, Nathaniel Taggart, Jerry VanIeperen, and Natalie Young. The debut issue, which will be published in Fall 2009, will include poems by the late Utah Poet Laureate, Ken Brewer. For submission information, click here. More
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009 PRESENTATION ON ANGLO-SAXON CHILDHOOD ANNOUNCED
 Dr. Sally Crawford, medieval archaeologist from the University of Oxford, will be in Logan for a conference organized by David Lancyin early August. Crawford will give a lecture on Anglo-Saxon childhood on Thursday, August 6. For more information on location and time, contact christine.rompato@usu.edu. More
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009 BREWER THESIS AVAILABLE ONLINE
 USU department of English alumna Dayna Kidd Patterson now has her thesis on the late USU professor and Utah Poet Laureate online at : http://ecommons.txstate.edu/engltad/10 Patterson graduated from USU in May 2004 with a major in English and a French minor. She spent her sophomore year studying abroad at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. She worked at the USU Writing Center off and on for two years. After completing one year of graduate study at the University of New Mexico, she transferred to Texas State University-San Marcos where she completed her MA in English (May 2008). She was inspired to write her MA thesis. The Spirit of Place: Southwestern Literature and the Poetry of Kenneth W. Brewer, and center it on Brewer's poetry largely because of her experience at USU. More
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009 OLD LYRIC REPERTORY COMPANY PRODUCTIONS JULY 29-AUGUST 1
 The Old Lyric Repertory Company will present three plays July 29-August 1. “An Inspector Calls,” “The Foreigner,” and “You're a Good Man Charlie Brown,” will be performed at the Caine Lyric Theatre in downtown Logan. Evening performances begin at 7:30 pm and matinees at 2:00 pm. For more information or to buy tickets, click here. More
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Monday, July 13, 2009 USU GRADUATES AND FACULTY SELECTED TO PARTICIPATE IN ADVANCED PLACEMENT PROGRAM READING
 Former USU English department graduate student Emily Gilliland and lecturer Susan Nyikos were selected to participate in the annual Reading and scoring of the College Board's English Literature AP Examinations this June in Louisville, Kentucky. Each year the AP Program, sponsored by the College Board, gives more than one million capable high school students an opportunity to take rigorous college-level courses and examinations and, based on the exam performance, to receive credit and/or advanced placement when they enter college. Over 10,000 AP readers from universities and high schools evaluated more than 2.7 million examinations from 37 AP Courses. Representing many of the finest academic instructors in the world, these men and women are some of the best high school and college educators in the United States, Canada, and abroad. The AP Reading is a unique forum in which academic dialogue between secondary school and college educators is fostered and strongly encouraged. “The Reading draws upon the talents of some of the finest teachers and professors that the world has to offer,” said Trevor Packer, Vice President of the Advanced Placement Program at the College Board. “It fosters professionalism, allows for the exchange of ideas, and strengthens the commitment to students and to teaching. We are very grateful for the contributions of talented educators like those who participated from Utah State University.” More
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Monday, July 13, 2009 EMERITUS PROF’S PLAY TO BE PRODUCED IN SLC
 The play Faces on the Cutting Room Floor by Gene Washington, USU emeritus professor of English, will be produced, along with other short plays, on the following dates: Friday, September 11, 8:00 PM; Sunday, September 13, 7:00 PM; Saturday, September 19: 1:00 PM; Thursday, September 24, 8:00 PM; Saturday, September 26, 8:00 PM. All productions, which will be performed by the Wasatch Theatre Company, will take place at the Studio Theatre at the Rose Wagner Center for the Performing Arts (138 West, 300 South, SLC). Tickets can be purchased through http://www.arttix.org/ More
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