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A Beautiful Mind, Vanilla Sky, Wicker Park, Tribulation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Majestic, Requiem for a Dream, D.I.Y Or Die: Burn This DVD, Short Cuts, Green, 8 Mile, Ken Park, Kids, Another Day In Paradise,
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Requiem for a Dream, The Sun Also Rises, Flight and Other Stories, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Catcher in the Rye, The Quixote Cult, Lolita, Junky, Queer, Naked Lunch, The Notebook, Howl, On the Road, The Magic of Blood, Last Exit to Brooklyn, A Farewell to Arms, Life Sex and Ideas: The Good Life Without God, El Paso del Norte: Stories on the Border, The Lost Years of William S. Burroughs: Beats in South Texas, The Communist Manifesto, Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader, The House of Leaves, Song of the Silent Snow, How to Breathe Under Water, The Stranger, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, The Jungle, Joseph Andres, The Great Sharkhunt and other strange tales, Pamela, A Clockwork Orange, The House on Mango Street, Things Fall Apart, Of Mice and Men, Jesus' Son, Love in Excess, Harry Potter, The Dresden Files, The Giver, Fahrenheit 451, Ender's Game, Why Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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Have some volunteers already, thanks to you guys...but we still need some more!!
Want to take part in making Rio Grande Valley history?
The first Valley International Poetry Festival will take place April 24, 2008- April 27, 2008.
We are currently looking for volunteers to help sell T-shirts, anthologies, welcome and sit guests at poetry readings and other events during these four days. It is great resume experience…besides, you get the chance to interact with poets from inside and outside the valley!
To volunteer or if you want more information on volunteering or about the VIPF, reply to this bulletin or contact me, Nayelly, at nyyjba at yahoo dot com.
Well hello there! This comment is to remind everyone that there will be a APORIA MEETING tomorrow (Thursday October 18, 2007)in SBS 119 from 12-1pm ... Our topic will be "Philosophy of War"... So come along, take a seat and share a few words! Bring a friend, tell a stranger!
If you're on the MFA listserve you might have received this announcement (below) already. But here it is again just in case--it describes the MFA info. meeting we started planning in class. The first hour (6-7pm) we will discuss MFA programs beyond this area. How to apply to MFA programs, teaching assistantships, your writing sample, etc. Please bring your questions, and we should also discuss potential resistance from family members if you'd like to leave the area for graduate school. Would be great if we had some snacks for the event--if you'd like to bring something, please, please do, and muchisimas gracias in advance. I'll bring something too.
The second hour (7-8pm) we will discus UTPA's MFA program. Feel free to come to one hour or both, depending on your interests. Hope you can make it. Dr. Braithwaite's email below.
Best, Emmy Pérez Assistant Professor English Department University of Texas-Pan American
email from Dr. Braithewaite:
Dear creative-writing fans:
As you know, this semester (fall 2007) UTPA launched its new MFA Creative Writing Program, with students enrolling to study Fiction, Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, and Literary Translation.
Within the next few years, we expect steady growth in the program as we add new students, faculty, and classes. We hope, for instance, to begin offering coursework in drama.
Many creative-writing programs solicit admissions only once a year, in the fall, and this will probably be true of ours in future years as well. However, right now, in our most intense growth phase, we are encouraging spring admissions as well.
For more information, please attend our MFA Information Session on Friday October 12. From 6-7 p.m., we will discuss graduate creative writing in general, and from 7-8 p.m., UTPA's MFA program in particular.
Profs Emmy Perez and Jean Braithwaite will be on hand to answer questions, and so will
Hey I don't know if you got my email because yahoo, is fucking up.
So my question is about the the WAGS boxes. I have one in the writing lab center and another in the Office of Disabilites. Do I need to pick them up or can some one from STD get them?
Also, when we count the books and determine a winner we should send out a letter of thanks to all the people who participated. I think that we should send a congratulation letter to the winner of the contest.
Hey Guys,
I wanted to let you know about his event that is going on at Cine El Rey in McAllen.
Here's the info for the Friday night event:
Hecho en Tejas Literary Event at: Cine El Rey
Contact: Virginia Haynie Gause
956-358-3915 vgause@rgv.rr.com
On Friday evening, April 27, 2007 at Cine El Rey in McAllen, writers from the 500+ page book Hecho en Tejas: an Anthology of Texas Mexican Literature , will host a reading and book signing literary event.
Writers who will be featured are Dalgaberto Gilb, editor of Hecho en Tejas (San Marcos), Tony Diaz (Houston), Erasmo Guerra (Mission), Macarena Hernandez (La Joya), Christine Granados (El Paso), Arturo Longoria (Misson), Diana Lopez (Corpus Christi), and Roberto Ontiveros (McAllen).
Music will be provided by David Garza, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist from Austin, who is featured in the book, as well as Rumbo al 'Anacua from Olmito.
Rumbo al 'Anacua musicians, Joe and Rosa Perez, will accompany themselves on guitar as they present some of their original songs as well as traditional songs sung in Texas since the early twentieth century. They have presented at several Texas Folklife Resources and Texas Commission on the Arts sponsored events throughout Texas. Also, they formerly produced the weekly show “North of the Border” at a Rio Grande Valley radio station.
Thanks to sponsors such as La Joya ISD, South Texas College, Region One and others this event is FREE to the public.
http://www.myspace.com/hechoentejasrgv
Location: Cine El Rey; 311 S 17th; McAllen, TX
I just found this handy page that lists arts events in RGV... I believe Virginia Gause keeps it up. Calendar information is here:
http://www.eventkeeper.com/code/events.cfm?curOrg=ARTSRGV
Hey I just wanted you guys to know that the EAC status on the recycle program at UTPA.
RE: Meeting
Body: Well, we made contact the recycling cordinator of Edinburg and she is in the process of setting something up her on campus all ready. She will be meeting with Pan-Am soon to get things going. Cool, right?
Hey everone I finaly got an e-mail from EAC. We will talk about it in the next metting.
Here it is
Hi
This is Jessica, the pres of the EAC. Your ideas are exactlly what we have in mind. I you have any interest in us, please feel free to stop by the UC on the 2nd floor Wednesday at 3 for our meetings. You are all welcomed.
Great about the books.
I got info about the beach clean up
here is the form web site
http://www.glo.state.tx.us/adopt-a-beach/pdf/registration.pdf
And here is the map of where it is going to be
http://www.glo.state.tx.us/adopt-a-beach/jpgs/rgvregion.jpg
We will talk about it more at the next meeting.
Hey I was also thinking that we should partner up with the environmental club here at Pan Am.
They are trying to get a recycle program set up on campus. I was t
