Book published by APSU’s Zone 3 Press wins PEN New England Award
May 20, 2014
Clarksville, TN – Earlier this year, the famed American poet Richard Blanco became a fan of a young poet named Karen Skofield. After reading her debut collection, “Frost in the Low Areas,” he admitted to falling “in love with poetry all over again.”
“She understands that poetry does not exist independently; it is pulled out of all we see, without pretense or artifice, and not in the obvious and expected ways either,” he said.
Karen Skofield’s book, “Frost in the Low Areas,” recipient of this year’s PEN New England Award.
Austin Peay State University to have reading by Poets Nancy Eimers and Karen Skolfield October 3rd
October 1, 2013
Clarksville, TN – In early 2012, award-winning poet Nancy Eimers read a poetry collection that was tender and serious, but also deeply funny and playful.
“This is a poet who pays attention to small wonders, who marvels that ‘sticks / can walk’ and ‘the roots of trees gather / forgotten rains,’ who takes to heart ‘the river’s stillness behind a fallen log,’ and yearns over human fragility, a child’s hand with its ‘twiggish bones, the little covering of skin,’” Eimers later wrote. “In and around and under the wit these poems are enormously tender.”
Karen Skolfield
Poet Blas Falconer to read at Austin Peay State University March 1st
February 24, 2013
Clarksville, TN – Dr. Blas Falconer, an award-winning poet and an associate professor of English at Austin Peay State University, will read from his new collection of poems, “The Founding Wheel,” during a special reading at 8:00pm, March 1st, in the Morgan University Center.
The event is free and open to the public.
Dr. Blas Falconer
APSU Visiting Writers Series presents Blas Falconer Poetry Reading March 1st
February 19, 2013
Clarksville, TN – On Friday, March 1st, 2013 there will be a Poetry Reading by Blas Falconer at Austin Peay State University, The reading will start at 8:00pm at the Morgan University Center.
Poet and editor Blas Falconer will read from his new collection of poems, The Foundling Wheel (Four Way Books, 2012).
Associate professor of English at Austin Peay State University Blas Falconer.
Austin Peay State University Center of Excellence Winter Salon sets romantic tone for Valentine’s Day
February 13, 2012
Clarksville, TN – This Valentine’s Day, the Austin Peay State University Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts plans to set a romantic mood with its newest Winter Salon Series Event – A Reading of Love Poetry by Dr. David Till.
“Well, it’s Valentine’s Day, so the subject will be love: some old favorites and maybe some poems new and surprising, too, I hope,” Till said. “It was William Carlos Williams who said ‘It is difficult / to get the news from poems / yet men die miserably every day / for lack / of what is found there.’ The whole performance will be a sort of ramble or collage, of if I can manage it, a graceful unfolding.” [Read more]
Creative writing professor kicks off lecture series
August 30, 2011
Clarksville, TN – The written words of Emily Dickinson, Sappho, Dorothy Allison, Abigail Thomas and Jane Tompkins all have something in common – their powerful voices speak for those misrepresented or underrepresented.
This is the basis of a research presentation by Dr. Amy Wright, assistant professor of creative writing at Austin Peay State University. She is one of several faculty members chosen to present their research and creative activity on campus during the 2011-12 academic year as part of the Provost Lecture Series.
Abigail Thomas and Dorothy Allison
Provost Lecture Series at APSU kicks off 2011-12 academic year
August 26, 2011
Clarksville, TN – Several faculty members at Austin Peay State University will present their research and creative activity on campus during the 2011-12 academic year as part of the weekly Provost Lecture Series.
The Provost Lecture Series will kick off with a talk by Dr. Amy Wright, assistant professor of creative writing and the nonfiction editor of APSU’s Zone 3 journal and Zone 3 Press, from 3:00pm-4:30pm, Thursday, September 1st in the Morgan University Center, Room 303. [Read more]
Alice Randall to Keynote Sixth Annual Clarksville Writers Conference
May 20, 2010
The Clarksville Arts & Heritage Development Council is pleased to announce the Sixth Annual Clarksville Writers Conference, being held July 28th – 31st, 2010, on the campus of Austin Peay State University.
This year’s conference opens with a new two-day tour centered around Clarksville’s rich architectural heritage. Participants will tour structures which tell stories of a community that began in the late 1700’s as a river city, weathered the Civil War, and later became a world center for the dark-fired tobacco trade.
We are very honored to have as this year’s keynote speaker ALICE RANDALL, award-winning songwriter and author of Rebel Yell, Pushkin and the Queen of Spades, and The Wind Done Gone, the New York Times bestselling parody of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With The Wind. Randall, a Harvard graduate and current Writer-In-Residence at Vanderbilt University, will speak at the conference banquet at the Clarksville Country Club on the evening of Friday, July 30th. [Read more]
