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ge also wrote college girl a memoir that explores her college experiences and how she became interested in rhetoric as a way of talking about those college experiences daniel eadens new book social justice instruction empowerment on the chalkboard offers str ategies for teaching social justice concepts across subject areas from kindergarten through college because i write edit and publish my students know how to write edit and publish we can also host big cultural events my students attended the international nonfictionow conference at nau last year this year students who were part of that conference will help host the northern arizona book festival october 10 16 and attend the next conference in reykjavik david wagner professor of biological sciences and table host extraordinaire works with microorganisms and bacteria like anthrax and plague his facility is run like a business the benefit to undergraduates they who work in the lab most write letters create resumes and interview to get a job at the lab these students go on to great graduate research universities having had such professional research experience forestry professor bruce fox told us about how after a forest fire on the peaks aspen trees tried to regenerate but elk snacked on the baby aspen trees as though at a deli his students tried protecting the baby trees by strewing the area with fallen logs to stave off elk it didn t work but those students keep trying to find ways to help forests regenerate in their now graduate programs rachel koch teaches international students english quickly to prepare them for the two years of study they will spend at nau professor of educational leadership ishmael munene noted that we teach these students the subtle art of organizing committees and preparing presentations theater professor kate ellis teaches costume design she takes students to the utah shakespeare festival for hands on set and design work statistics professor roy st laurent said that on friday afternoon math undergraduate seminar famus from 3 to 4 there s not an open seat in the classroom sociology and social work professor natalie cawood when asked by a regent if when we were in college did we had any undergraduate research opportunities said that one of the things nau does best is marry what private liberal arts schools provide small class sizes close relationships with faculty with what a large university provides big research president cheng underscored that faculty at the breakfast were just a few of the hundreds of professors at nau invested in undergraduate research she invited each of the regents to next april s symposium where the entire skydome is filled with poster presentations showcasing undergraduate research i hope you can come too posted by nik at 11 50 am 3 comments letter 92 northern arizona book festival dear governor ducey it is festival season in flagstaff two saturdays ago at the same time as the hopi festival the festival of science began in wheeler park i met a falcon owned by the woman who manages jay s bird barn and talked to an avalanche expert max and zoe won sunflower seeds by spinning a wheel made bracelets with beads that indicated when to reapply sunscreen and made parachutes to catch good air last saturday was oktoberfest and weekend two of the festival of science we did as much science as possible with max and zoe at the new science and health building with its hogwarts staircases that look down upon the liberal arts building you can see my office which i chose for the light that came through my windows before science and health construction began still to be shadowed by hogwarts is not the end of the world at the science fest we saw a scorpion that bio luminesced under a black light we learned that people with cats have less staphylococcus bacteria on their skin max and zoe got smarties for answering questions about heart ventricles we saw a stuffed peregrine falcon and a long eared owl and took some wildflower seeds home for our garden when we first moved to flagstaff we went to an oktoberfest out at the nordic center there were pumpkins and a straw bale maze but no beer which confused us so we went home this year we didn t make it to oktoberfest because stacy murison lawrence lenhart colleagues of mine at nau and kate harkins blake carrera students in the mfa program typed poems on demand at full circle thrift store while aly jay played her beautiful guitar and sang her beautiful voice here s two poems by us the poetry on demand team cloud a pull of snow o thin you can only dream about touching it you can fly through them and finding a fan it was a breezeless day what can you do in phoenix in july wait no no no go get the wind instead of drinking beer we typed in the first event of the northern arizona book festival which officially begins next week jesse sensibar and james jay have put together an amazing schedule of events the whole schedule can be found at http www nazbookfest org wp schedule 2 but here are a few highlights monday october 10 th 7 8 p m narrow chimney reading with michaela carter ann cummins susan lang mary sojourner at uptown pubhouse followed by northern arizona playwriting showcase at the doris harper white community playhouse from 8 9 30 p m on wednesday oct 12 5 30 7 p m flag live s letter from home columnists read from their latest works at uptown then at 7 30 p m gary every and lawrence lenhart read at barefoot cowgirl on thursday from 7 9 p m i with william trowbridge erin stalcup diana gabaldon read at the coconino center for the arts on friday oct 14 from 7 10 p m jim harrison tribute with pamela uschuk william pitt root doug peacock at the orpheum theater on saturday oct 15 from 11 30 a m 1 30 p m getting published workshop at barefoot cowgirl at the downtown library the book fest offers a slate of young readers events from 11 30 a m to 2 30 p m at 1 30 3 p m simmerman book release reading with william trowbridge ann cummins james jay miles waggener and sean carswell at uptown saturday night at 7 00 it s return of the writers with nau english department alumni sean carswell t greenwood and miles waggener return to read from their latest books at uptown on sun oct 16 from 1 00 to 2 00 the waxwing reading with matt bell and dexter l booth at firecreek coffee co will be followed by 2 3 p m thin air reading then from 3 4 p m is indigenous authors reading with jennifer foerster tom holm simon ortiz and orlando white the final event that sunday is the book festival board reading with james jay stacy murison jesse sensibar john quinonez andrew wisniewski and ian kersey where i promise to read all 100 of my letters to ducey not really really i will read poems on demand no need to torture my kind friends although if you come governor ducey i will read a letter to you this is just a sampling of the events but you can see this is going to be a festival that will soar as high as the peregrine falcon catch as much wind as a max built parachute will make your heart ventricles pump enough blood to warrant a bucketful of smarties come up from phoenix come get the wind posted by nik at 11 49 am 2 comments letter 92 volunteer dear governor ducey i just finished mopping the floor my sister is coming to town and i don t want her to think i m a total slob i don t have to mop the floor she really wouldn t mind but bear the dog likes to find the only mud spot in the forest and to lay down full body then he likes to jump up on me and my running clothes my running clothes are in the laundry my leg is flaking its patch of dirt onto the floor which i ll have to vacuum again and then mop again sometimes efficiency is not my middle name i don t have to mop the floor or walk the dogs i do have to walk the dogs or the dogs would maul me with their neediness and pent up desire for muddiness i could have been finishing the grant application or making a volunteer spreadsheet or finishing the copyedits on canning peaches for the apocalypse or emailing instructors to send me their resumes in between swipes of mop i did some of these things again probably not the most efficient mode but things pop up in my mind like dirt pops up on my leg seemingly out of nowhere but actually quite predictable my job is a hodgepodge of duties and like most professor jobs one that seems on the surface voluntary but is by hodge and podge actually required i want to email my student because she s embarking on a big project trying to put together a thesis on a single topic how do you write about a single topic without becoming redundant well i think back to the egg book i wrote how did i write egg i looked for various clichés and i titled each short essay that cliché how many eggs does it take to break an omelet can you put humpty dumpty back together again is the egg truly incredible do i really have to walk on eggshells i do have to email the student because my job is to teach and i do have to write a book about eggs because how else will i know how to answer her question if i haven t grappled with how to write about something before i look at my list of things to do make a volunteer sign up list for the northern arizona book festival this is truly volunteer work not even in my job description and yet i volunteered to be a part and i want the book festival to go off successfully and how can i volunteer to make a volunteer list if i don t volunteer myself this morning before i left to go get my sister from phoenix i popped over to puente de hozho where my son max goes to school to try to inspire the kids to join the read a thon each kid has a bingo like paper and each square has a particular idea to make the reading extraordinary like read under a tree read over the phone the kids ask their parents and relatives to sponsor each square and the money goes to puente to buy things puente can t normally afford like new sound systems computers playground equipment one of the squares was read in a funny place i asked the kids where they could read the answers on the roof on the toilet in the car on the car in a tree while climbing in a box in a closet on stilts i told them to try to keep both feet on the ground as they read as a precautionary measure i outlined the prizes a kindle a 25 gift card but i told them the true gift was a week devoted to reading truly self serving i as a writer want kids to grow up loving to read i can write soon but first i have students with essays for me to comment upon and books to read and review for presses i have book fests to support and colleagues and students to write letters of recommendation for and previous professors to ask letters of recommendation of future letter to the governor abolish letters of recommendation an actual part of my job is to write like that is spelled out and detailed i m supposed to teach 60 of my time write for 30 serve for 10 and the writing is important because that is how i know what and how to teach now i guess i have to go let the dogs back in dirty though they may be somewhere between vacuuming and mopping i ll find a minute to write again posted by nik at 11 48 am 1 comment letter 91 colleagues dear governor ducey it is the first week back at university the campus is bustling the students are rapt there are many changes afoot new buildings and ped ways new systems to make classroom assignments more efficient new parking rules new grant procurement incentives it s like a whole new university and in a way it is since i started teaching here only 8 years ago the number of students has doubled you can tell when you re in downtown flagstaff you can tell at the restaurants that have waiting lists and in the traffic and in the hallways we are squeezing in and making room and i would say it s kind of exhilarating it s a great thing that more people want to come here and a sign that the university is getting recognition it deserves my colleagues do awesome things win guggenheim s national endowment of the arts grants national science foundation grants they also write books two of my colleagues lawrence lenhart and erin stalcup had books released this summer lawrence s book the well stocked and gilded cage is a fantastic collection of essays about animals and mythologies babies and sinking countries the blurb i wrote for the back of the book goes like this there are books with turtles in them and books with dogs and books about bullies and books about hoarding birds there are books about bangladesh and books about the end of the world but i do not think there is another book that pulls back the veil to reveal how woven together dogs bullies birds babies and bangladesh are lenhart does something in the well stocked and gilded age that only someone with a special kind of genius can do train his focus as sharply inward as he does outward intense awareness combined with his intense concern make for a big heart and a big brain and a big as in important book erin stalcup s and yet it moves is an amazing collection of short stories this book is wild in the way it incorporates science sex and sauciness into a wide array of characters what i love most about the book is the variety of narrators erin is just one person when i work and hang out with her but inside that one person s head she s crafting believable and far ranging people justin bigos worked on his novel all summer he had good reason to his novella was chosen by tc boyle for the seattle review s novella contests if that wasn t a big enough win right before his short story published by mcsweeney s was chosen for the best american short stories and right before that his chapbook 20 000 pigeons came out he s on a winning streak that doesn t seem to stop did i mention that erin and justin s lit mag waxwing published a poem by maggie smith that went so viral articles in the guardian were written about it ann cummins author of the collection red ant hill and yellow cake both big books from big presses finished her nonfiction book this summer i ve a good portion of this you may have heard her read from this manuscript around town i don t want to jinx it by saying out loud how big i think this book is going to be so i ll just say it s already amazing jane armstrong who s on sabbatical just won a viola award for her project aphasia neurological aphasia in text and image which is still on display in riles building on campus even though she s not on campus she s still working on building a writing community she s directing and acting in plays that the northern arizona playwriting showcased naps founded in part by our colleague ann cummins showcases seven winning ten minute plays every year this year september 9 11 in between playwriting and lyric essay writing is researching a big book about her ancestry please see charlemagne i went back to teach this week and stood in front of the incoming master of fine arts in creative writing students and was able to tell them how happy we are to have them here and that the creative writing 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