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Poetry Writing
Workshop
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Monday April 9, 2007
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Noon - 1 pm
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Clark Hall -
"Fishbowl" Room on 1st floor (to your immediate right as you
enter Clark Hall)
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Led by poet
and MFA student Erica Goss
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Erica Goss is a poet and MFA
candidate at SJSU. She has published her poems in The Bohemian,
HeartLodge, and Hotel Amerika. She has been writing poetry since she
was a small child. She teaches poetry at Saratoga High School and lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains with her family
and several animal friends.
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Open to all members of the SJSU
community
Honoring
SJSU's Past, Present, and Future Poets
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The SJSU Poets & Writers
Coalition (PWC) in collaboration with Poetry Center San Jose, Honor
SJSU's Past, Present, and Future Poets
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April 21, 2007
(Saturday)
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1:30 - 4:30pm
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Spartan Memorial (next to
Faculty Office Building and Washington Square Hall; note - this event
is NOT at the Markham House at History Park as once advertised)
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For more information please
contact PWC member Rachelle @ rachelle_lescamilla@hotmail.com
and visit the PWC site.
Public
Reading of Edwin Markham Poetry
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April 23, 2007 (Markham's birthday (1852))
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11:30 am - 1 pm
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On the west side of Tower Hall near the lawn with the
fountain
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Employees and students will read the many poems of
Edwin Markham. Winners of the SJSU Student Poetry contest will also
read their works.
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Stop by to enjoy the poems and to learn more about
this world famous poet who graduated from the Normal School in 1872.
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For more information on Mr. Markham, click here.
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SJSU's Fabulous Literary History on Display
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Societies, Publications & Celebrity Poets!
SJSU has a history of students publishing magazines of their work -
poems, short stories, essays, plays, parody and news. The first student
paper began in 1867 called The Acorn. In 1880, there was The
Class Paper and in October 1885 The Normal Index, a monthly
publication began. This was followed by The Normal School Pennant,
the The Quill in 1925, El Portal in 1932 and Reed in
1948 which is still published annually today. Each of these
magazines of student writings was also edited by the students with
assistance from the English Department and occasionally a panel of outside
judges.
In the late 1890's, students and faculty participated in several
different literary societies including the Browning Literary Club to study
the works of Robert Browning, the Shakespeare Club, and Ero Sophian to
"cultivate a love of good literature." By the 1930's, these
clubs that remained had become primarily social clubs. Ero Sophian
eventually became Alpha Phi, a sorority which still exists on campus
today.
From 1887 to at least 1892, some alumni of the Normal School
participated in the Alumni Reading Circle with extensive readings to help
them in their teaching and lifelong learning.
SJSU can also boast some famous poets including 1872 Normal School
graduate Edwin Markham, Dr. Henry Meade Bland - an English Professor who
became the California Poet Laureate in 1929, Professor Roberta Holloway,
and alum Sandra McPherson. Click here
for more information on SJSU's Legacy of Poets.
EVENT: During April 2007, there will be a display on the 5th
floor of the King Library illustrating SJSU's literary history with
several pieces of memorabilia about its societies, student publications
and celebrity poets.
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