Carol Stevens
Just
after spring break I presented a paper,Deconstructing the House of Straw: David
Wiesner's Postmodern Retelling of The Three Pigs" at the
International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, in Fort Lauderdale. And
did I mention that David and I went to Maui in November?
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John Kilgore
I became a
grandfather on March 26 with the birth of Ethan Kilgore Hadley, whose handsome
mug you see here. Ethan arrived with great aplomb, so alert at age 2 hours that
he already seemed to be checking out the nurses. After that a scary setback:
respiratory syncitial virus, apparently contracted right there in the delivery
room, had him back in the hospital from days 7-10, with his anxious parents
sleeping right there at his bedside and helping with his breathing treatments.
Since then he has been doing fine, and as he approaches the one month milestone
is gaining weight at a pace that would make him a 90-pounder by his first
birthday; but I suspect he’ll slow down a bit before then. Dad Brent Hadley and
Mom Christy have been fabulous, showing real grace under pressure during their
very arduous initiation to parenthood. All of us intend to head to Alaska in
June, to spend the longest day of the year within shouting distance of the
Artic circle, so Ethan will have an early introduction to world travel. Maybe
the 23-hour day will help ease him out of the night-feeding phase.
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Bonnie Irwin
I've been working
on teaching this semester: UPI workshop on whole brain learning, conference in
disciplinary styles in the scholarship of teaching and learning, TEDE-supported
class on instructional design. All have
served to show me what I don't know but thought I did! I'm going to spend the summer overhauling my
courses and thinking about how better to integrate my three jobs into one of
manageable size.
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John Guzlowski
I
don't know about anybody else but I think I'm ready to close up shop for the
semester and begin mowing. Before I do, let me just say that I was happy to see
my personal, non-fiction essay "My Life in Postmodernism" placed on
line at www.thescreamonline.com.
And I've got two poetry readings lined up: one at the University of Colorado at
Colorado Springs (where Language of Mules is being taught in a course on
the Literature of Oppression) and one at Western Kentucky
University.
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Bruce
Guernsey
I’m
pleased to report the appearance of three nonfiction pieces this April: “The
Poetry of Abraham Lincoln” in The Virginia Quarterly Review; “Busing to
Byzantium” in Chronicles; “The Verdict,” a piece on deer hunting, in Sport
and Literature. Also, my narrative poem “Soldier’s Home” finally came out
in The Larcom Review.