Category: Creative Writing

Eleven students from the School of Arts and Humanities will receive a total of $15,750, thanks to the Jonelle and Bryce Jordan Scholarship Fund. The fund’s annual awards support undergraduate students in music, theater, dance, creative writing, visual arts, and arts and technology. The 2012-2013 recipients will each receive up to $2,500. This year’s winners […]

Prizes Awarded to Students for Best Photography, Painting and Multimedia Works May 11, 2012 The Student Art Spring Festival comes to a close this weekend with readings from creative writing students and the year’s final choral concert. The festival kicked off last week with the student visual art show, which featured more than 40 works from students […]

Program Boasts List of Student Publications for School Year Lily Ounekeo and Susan Norman, graduate students in the School of Arts and Humanities, have both been accepted to the Juniper Summer Writing Institute, hosted by the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Working closely with faculty and a core group of peer writers, Ounekeo and Norman will […]

The Night Swimmer What do you get when you mix a deep-sea swimmer, a troubled marriage, an Irish pub and a goat that walks upright on two legs? The answer is Dr. Matt Bondurant’s third novel, The Night Swimmer. Bondurant, assistant professor in creative writing and literature, will discuss his new book Wednesday, Feb. 29, […]

The opening of Affinities, a new exhibit of images from the Jerry and Marilyn Comer Photography Collection, will kick off a varied week of arts events at UT Dallas. The exhibit’s opening reception is Tuesday, Feb. 7, at 2 p.m. in the University Theatre Gallery. The Comer Collection captures scenes of American life from the middle to […]

Ahsahta Press, 2011 Through poems that posit the constructed landscapes of American cities as their vantage points, Briante’s second collection is a study of collapse and what gets built up again after the breakdown. Rachel Levitsky notes that Briante is a “detritus artist, a gleaner working in the banal of the contemporary world, molding the […]

A look at capitalism’s future by science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson leads off a series of UT Dallas arts events in a week that also includes a dance performance, jazz concert and an art exhibit opening. Best known for his award-winning Mars trilogy, Robinson will give a talk Wednesday, Nov. 16, titled Valuing the Earth and Future […]

“I wish more poets would talk about money,” writes Susan Briante, assistant professor at UT Dallas, in an essay called Notes Towards the Poetics of the Dow. And some do, certainly. Philip Larkin listened to it sing. Howard Nemerov dissected a nickel (figuratively). The poets of Occupy Wall Street seem to be unstoppable. But Briante has approached the poetics of […]

“I wish more poets would talk about money,” writes Susan Briante, assistant professor at UT Dallas, in an essay called Notes Towards the Poetics of the Dow. And some do, certainly. Philip Larkin listened to it sing. Howard Nemerov dissected a nickel (figuratively). The poets of Occupy Wall Street seem to be unstoppable. But Briante has approached the poetics of […]

What do the sages of antiquity have to tell a modern audience about growing old? More than we may realize, says William B. Irvine, author of A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy. The Wright State University philosophy scholar will lecture Wednesday, Oct. 26, about the Stoic philosophers’ advice on aging well. […]