Collaboration in Literature & the Arts
The UTSA English Department
colfa.utsa.edu/English/
Creative Writing Reading Series
The UTSA Creative Writing Reading Series hosts outstanding
writers from around the country and beyond. All sessions, which
are open to the public, will be held in the Faculty Center Assembly Room in the John Peace Library, JPL 4.04.22.
Reading by UTSA Faculty: Wendy Barker,
Jackie Cuevas, Cynthia
Hawkins, Catherine
Kasper, Steven G. Kellman, Ben Olguín, and
David Ray Vance
Friday, October 16, 2015
7 p.m.
Philipp Meyer
Friday, Feb. 5, 2016
7 p.m.
www.philippmeyer.net
Philipp Meyer is the author of The Son
and American Rust. Meyer’s first novel,
American Rust, won the Los Angeles
Times Book Prize. His second novel, The
Son, was runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize.
A New York Times Notable Book and on numerous “Ten Best
Books” lists, The Son has been on the bestseller list in six countries. He lives in Austin.
Rigoberto González
Friday, March 4, 2016
7 p.m.
www.rigobertogonzalez.com
Rigoberto González is the author of
four books of poetry, most recently Unpeopled Eden, which won the Lambda
Literary Award and the Lenore Marshall
Prize from the Academy of American
Poets. His ten books of prose include
two bilingual children’s books, three young adult novels in the
Mariposa Club series, the novel Crossing Vines, the story collection Men Without Bliss, and three books of nonfiction, including
Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, which received
the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. He also edited Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and
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Voices de la Luna, 15 October 2015
Latino Writing and Xicano Duende: A Select Anthology. The
recipient of Guggenheim, NEA, and USA Rolón fellowships, a
NYFA grant in poetry, the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, The Poetry Center Book Award, and the
Barnes & Noble Writer for Writers Award, he is a contributing
editor for Poets & Writers Magazine, on the executive board of
directors of the National Book Critics Circle, and professor of
English at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey.
UTSA Awarded $300,000 to Study Monarchs
The monarch butterfly is widely recognized in North America
as lepidopterous royalty. A large butterfly, its orange and black
wings stand in stark contrast to the blue fall skies as it migrates
across Texas to winter in
Mexico. Although in decades past it traversed the
state by the tens of millions, recent declines in
the population have been
noted by scientists. Designated the official state
insect of Texas, monarchs
play a vital economic role
as pollinators of various
agricultural products, not
to mention the ubiquitous
wildflowers for which Texas is famous. UTSA has been awarded
a $300,000 grant by the state comptroller’s office to study monarch migration patterns and the reduced availability of milkweed,
a monarch favorite, and to propose solutions to the recent decline
in the monarch population. All of us who appreciate the majestic
beauty of this butterfly applaud the efforts of both the state and
UTSA scientists to preserve and restore to health the monarch,
iconic tiger of the sky.
I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed
Emily Dickinson
I taste a liquor never brewed—
From Tankards scooped in Pearl—
Not all the Frankfort Berries
Yield such an Alcohol!
Inebriate of air—am I—
And Debauchee of Dew—
Reeling—thro’ endless summer days—
From inns of molten Blue—
When “Landlords” turn the drunken Bee
Out of the Foxglove’s door—
When Butterflies—renounce their “drams”—
I shall but drink the more!
Till Seraphs swing their snowy Hats—
And Saints—to windows run—
To see the little Tippler
Leaning against the—Sun!