Post by bedefan on Jan 5, 2010 16:49:32 GMT -5
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I'm hosting a panel at the Iowa City Newman Center on Jan. 24th at noon. Its theme is "Being Catholic / Being an Artist." Anyone who lives in the area (broadly considered) is welcome to come.
The panel, which really will be a kind of public conversation among four practicing Catholics who are practitioners of art, should be very informal, and last an hour or so. The participants will be Joshua Casteel (graduate of the Iowa Playwrights Workshop and currently a student in the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program), Patrick Haas (current student in the Iowa Writers' Workshop), Daniel Houglum (PhD student in music composition), and myself (current student in the Iowa Translation Workshop). So we'll mostly be talking about writing, aside from Daniel, who'll be talking about writing music.
Throughout the semester I'll also be running a "Great Catholic Authors" book group. Email me at bedefan at the ol' hotmail dot com if you're going to be around and want updates on that, or if you just want to be in on what the Catholics at the Iowa Writing Behemoth are in on (not that it's anything special, but you'd see our reading list anyway--looks right now like this spring we'll read a book by F. O'Connor, a book of essays by Andre DuBus, and a self-made selection of poems from G. M Hopkins, Rolf Jacobsen, Charles Peguy, and Franz Wright).
And my apologies for the gender imbalance of the panel. The last female Catholic writer I knew of at Iowa moved to Colorado a couple years ago. But I don't know everybody...
Mike
I'm hosting a panel at the Iowa City Newman Center on Jan. 24th at noon. Its theme is "Being Catholic / Being an Artist." Anyone who lives in the area (broadly considered) is welcome to come.
The panel, which really will be a kind of public conversation among four practicing Catholics who are practitioners of art, should be very informal, and last an hour or so. The participants will be Joshua Casteel (graduate of the Iowa Playwrights Workshop and currently a student in the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program), Patrick Haas (current student in the Iowa Writers' Workshop), Daniel Houglum (PhD student in music composition), and myself (current student in the Iowa Translation Workshop). So we'll mostly be talking about writing, aside from Daniel, who'll be talking about writing music.
Throughout the semester I'll also be running a "Great Catholic Authors" book group. Email me at bedefan at the ol' hotmail dot com if you're going to be around and want updates on that, or if you just want to be in on what the Catholics at the Iowa Writing Behemoth are in on (not that it's anything special, but you'd see our reading list anyway--looks right now like this spring we'll read a book by F. O'Connor, a book of essays by Andre DuBus, and a self-made selection of poems from G. M Hopkins, Rolf Jacobsen, Charles Peguy, and Franz Wright).
And my apologies for the gender imbalance of the panel. The last female Catholic writer I knew of at Iowa moved to Colorado a couple years ago. But I don't know everybody...
Mike