There are still a few available spaces, but time is running out! “And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.” —W.B. Yeats, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” […]
MSUM English Professor Alan Davis reads from his newest collection of fiction, So Bravely Vegetative, at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 8 in Room 227 of MSUM’s Comstock Memorial Union. This is the first writer’s event of the Tom McGrath Visiting Writers Series. The 152-page book introduces readers to scenes from Davis’ native Louisiana, as well as characters like a Slovenian […]
Alan Davis, Professor of English and Senior Editor of New Rivers Press/MSUM, has won the Prize Americana for Fiction 2010 from Hollywood Books International for his collection of stories So Bravely Vegetative. The book is available locally or from online vendors. “So Bravely Vegetative is a marvelous collection of stories—beautifully written, daringly inventive, frequently disturbing. Each story draws us into […]
Alan Davis, English, and Kevin Zepper, Corrick Center for General Education, will read their work at the Marshall Festival ‘10, a literary gathering of Midwest writers. The four-day celebration takes place October 28-31. This event is sponsored by Southwest State University and held on campus. Davis’ third collection of short stories, So Bravely Vegetative, won the Prize Americana for Fiction […]
Join English Professors Alan Davis and Thom Tammaro, May 17-June 1, 2010, on a study tour of some of the most fascinating scenic, cultural, literary, and historic sites and cities in England, including London; Stonehenge; the Cotswolds; Bath; Chawton House (Jane Austen’s home and estate); Stratford-upon-Avon; York; the Lake District (Wordsworth’s Dove Cottage, Beatrix Potter’s Hill Top); Liverpool (home of The Beatles); Hay-on-Wye, Wales, ( Guardian Literary Festival); and Oxford. Click headline for more information.