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Hey Y’all.

First, the bad news: Summer is almost over.
Second, the good news? ROR has got some cool new stuff for you to check out!
We have made a REAL Survival Guide for the incoming freshman including everything from Party Etiquette to a Guide to Getting Off to Going Green as a Greenie. Check it out and all you upperclassmen, feel free to add your own helpful, hopeful or hateful comments to articles!

Go there now,
Rise Over Run

Enjoy the first day of classes and be looking out for our first full issue, Breaking and Entering, in September.

Thanks and Love,
ROR

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Clever as only The Onion can be–may the Secretary of Grammar live forever!

From Dale Rigby via the creative writing list,

Hello all,

…as many of you know I’m working with both the Women Writers Conference
and the Affrilachian Poets (a Roots and Heritage Sponsored Event) to
promote some amazing literary opportunities within the next few weeks in
Lexington. They are all FREE and rare opportunities to be in the
combined company of so many amazing writers. Below is a brief outline
of what’s to come. If you are interested in the FREE writing workshops
space is limited, so please RSVP at this email adress, ASAP. Okay, onto
the schedule! Hope to see you soon….! Please forward this along to any
interested parties!

Bianca

*The Affrilachian Poets Reunion Events

**Thursday, September 4, 7 PM, Carnegie Center:* /New Member Induction
Reading /featuring: Norman Jordan of West, VA., Hasan Davis of Berea,
Makalani Bandeli of Louisville, Keith Wilson of Newport, KY, and Joy
Gonsalves of Lexington, KY

*Friday, September 5, 7 PM, Al’s Bar (6th and Limestone):* /Reunion
Reading/ featuring: Ricardo Nazario-Colon, Mitchell Douglas, Crystal
Nazario, Jude Mcpherson, Marta Miranda, Frank X Walker, Kelly Ellis,
Crystal Wilkinson, Bianca Spriggs (Open mic from 7:00-7:30 PM)

*Saturday, September 6, 12-5:00 PM, Central Library, 4th Floor
Conference Room: */Poetry and Fiction Workshops/ led by Kelly Ellis
(poetry 12:00-2:30 PM) and Crystal Wilkinson (fiction 2:30-5:00 PM)*

Women Writers Conference Event
*/(for further information on more free events from the WWC (including a
reading by Pulitzer Prize winner, Natasha Trethewey, and a reading by
key note author, Joyce Carol Oates), please log on to
www.thewomenwritersconference.org
)/*

Thursday, September 11, **Gypsy Slam, 6 PM, Victorian Square:* featuring
Samantha Thornhill, and women poets from around the region and country
including Denver, Milwaukee, Columbus, and Bowling Green. Open Mic
begins at 6:30 PM, Samantha Thornhill Featured at 7, Slam starts at 8
PM. $500 goes to the winner!

From Dale,

Dear All…please mark your calendars for 7 pm on May 1 for the
FANTASTIC gala to be held in support of Rise Over Run–check out the attached news
release to see what I mean!

Good Afternoon Creativewriting-list!

My name is Monique Gooch and I am Rise Over Run’s PR Coordinator. We have scheduled an event for May 1st and would like for everyone to be
in attendance! I am attaching a press release with this e-mail.
Thank you so much for your support of ROR! Have a great day!

~Monique Gooch~
VP of Membership Services

Web Sites Let Bibliophiles Share Books Virtually : NPR
Bookish people may not be known for their social skills, but a crop of social-networking Web sites aimed at bibliophiles are allowing readers to connect with the page — and with each other — in a brand new “virtual” environment.

WKU Libraries will host an African-American Read-in from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, Feb. 4 at Java City in Helm Library.

The Read-in is part of Black History Month activities at Western Kentucky University as well as a nationwide celebration of African-American literary works.

“The read-in is an opportunity for students, faculty and staff to come together and celebrate the works of African-American writers,” said Cindy Troutman, Marketing Coordinator with WKU Libraries.

Students, faculty, staff and community members are invited to read three-minute excerpts from their favorite work by an African-American writer. Works can include music, poetry, adult literature or children’s books.

Participants are encouraged to sign up by Monday, Jan. 31, to have their names listed in the program. To register, contact Cindy Troutman at (270) 745-4502 or by email at cindy.troutman@wku.edu.

WKU Library’s Writer-in-Residence Program presents:

This workshop is designed to set you on the journey of finding your writing voice, getting words on paper, and moving forward from there. You’re not alone—join us! Bring paper, pen, and your questions.

This session will also be presented at:

* Bowling Green Community College (WKU’s South Campus): TBD
* WKU’s Glasgow Campus in room 131 on Thursday, February 7, 12:30-2:30 p.m.

Presented by Diana McQuady, the 2007-2008 Western Kentucky University Libraries’ Writer-in-Residence.

From a faculty-all, staff-all, and student-all email…just in case anyone overlooked it…. (Minorly edited for style.)

Kaleidoscope Youth in Art , a WKU grant-funded program, is looking for WRITING STUDENTS willing to volunteer at the Parker Bennett Elementary School on Mondays for our 5th grade Creative Writing class. Kaleidoscope is working with three Parker Bennett fifth grade classes in the area of Creative Writing. Our Mentoring Artist, Bonny McDonald is instructing the classes, hosting over 55 students.

This program is a part of Kaleidoscope’s Outreach initiative connecting to local youth serving agencies to provide an arts-integrated curriculum. Our mission is to transform youth and community through arts and activism. Each student journals weekly on the lesson of the day. Bonny needs assistance responding to the youth journals, correcting grammar and spelling, and complimenting the work completed.

If you would like to assist in helping young people discover the world of language, the power in vocabulary and the freedom in expression please contact Lauren Cunningham, Kaleidoscope Program Director at lauren.cunningham@wku.edu.

Dear All:

It’s that wonderful time again. Our (now umpteenth annual)
2007 Undergraduate Conference on Literature, Language and Culture.
TODAY, Friday, November 16 in Cherry Hall 125.

Come enjoy free food and bonhomme and some great oral essays!

1:30 Intro by Associate Dean Larry Snyder

1:45 session: Lydia Nelson, Kim Reynolds, Mary Sparr
2:20 session: Katie Bond, Christa Davidson, Melissa Messer
3:00 session: Mason Broadwell, Brooke Shafar, Emmett Barton
3:40 session: Kenneth Gray, Erin Tabor, Amanda Schneider
4:15 session: Chuck Stinson, Brandon Colvin, Corey Smith

Please come out to support your friends and students and colleagues!