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Rick Bass Reading

Friends--

Please join me for a stellar reading! And please pass this information on to students and friends. The reading is free!

Sept 22: Rick Bass, novelist/environmentalist

Reading at UTD at 7:30 pm in the Performance Hall

Rick Bass is the author of over twenty books. His first short story
collection, The Watch, set in Texas, won the PEN/Nelson Algren Award, and
his 2002 collection, The Hermit’s Story, was a Los Angeles Times Best Book
of the Year. Bass’s stories have also been awarded the Pushcart Prize and
the O. Henry Award and have been collected in The Best American Short
Stories. He was a finalist for The Story Prize in 2007 for his short story
collection The Lives of Rocks. He was a finalist for the 2008 National Book
Critics Circle Award (autobiography) for Why I Came West (2008). His most
recent book, The Wild Marsh, about his life in rural Montana was published
earlier this year.

You can read an excerpt from it at:
http://www.oprah.com/article/omagazine/200904-omag-rick-bass

Read more about the event at:
http://www.utdallas.edu/ah/events/detail.html?id=1220068171

Susan Briante, MFA, PhD
Assistant Professor
Aesthetic Studies
University of Texas at Dallas
800 W. Campbell Road--JO 31
Richardson, TX 75081-3021


http://www.ah.utdallas.edu/people/sbriante.html


http://ahsahtapress.boisestate.edu/books/briante/briante.htm

Dear Modifications by Trey Sager

You are the following dangerous words: 1. heart 2. love 3. mind 4. beauty and 5. eyes
(I don't consider beauty a failure, but that's just my opinion).
I wanted to save you because you are all so hackneyed;
maybe some of the words that typically surround you, I thought,
could give you some life?
So for example, for eyes, I wrote: four eyes, private eyes, snake eyes,
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling and Don't Shoot Until You See the Whites of Their Eyes.
For love I listed Hiroshima, From Russia with Love,
Love and Rockets, Love Is a Battlefield and You Can't Buy Me Love.
Maybe you were more political than I realized.
I subtracted you from these phrases, then scrambled your neighbors
into what I called a poem, but the end result was a solipsistic,
awkward definition for each of you
(I think I was trying to do something semiotic).
When I was about seven or eight, I found a blue jay with a broken wing in some nearby woods.
I ran home and told my mom, who gave me a shoe box and a pair of ski gloves
to handle him. My mom rushed us to the vet, and I felt so relieved.
But when we called later that afternoon to check on our patient, the vet had put him to sleep;
there was nothing he could do, he said.
Plato, in the Republic, says that poets must be exiled.
Shelley calls poets "the unacknowledged legislators of the world."
I remember the blue jay's eyes, looking up at me through the foot-length ferns
like I was going to kill him.
Just the exact opposite, I thought, cradling him in ski gloves.

(emailed to me by Tyler Hall)

Collaborative Event from Spring 2009

What is eleven40seven?

Last semester, we had an amazing

turnout for the first "Texas Creative Underground:Breaking" collaborative event.
The event consisted of groups containing creative writers, acoustic guitar players, percussionists, and/or photographers, most of whom had never worked together before. Their mission: to create an original collaborative piece by intersecting the different creative talents in their respective groups.

Mission accomplished.
(Above, to the left) Here are the officers present for the Spring 2009 Release Party of eleven40seven. Tina Le, Dr. Chantel Langlinais (coordinator for the event), Dr. Curt Rode (in back, our faculty advisor), Ashley Tambunga, Landry Weatherston, Taylor Yarborough and Sarah Dozier.

Here are three of the production managers for the eleven40seven magazine: Sarah Dozier, Landry Weatherston, and Taylor Yarborough.

(Right) From musicians to poets, our collaborate participants pose for us. (back row, Left to Right, includes: Tanner Trigg, Rebecca Bookman, Mike Garcia, Kelli Trapnell, Clint Church, Takeshi Takahashi, Jennifer Brown, Melissa Crutchfield

Front row, Left to Right, includes: Liz Rector, Anahita Kalianivala, Kelsey Svirsky)

(Below) Guitarists play and sing as images appear on the backdrop. Although the camera didn't allow for much recording time, the girl in front of the black band stand was reading her own poem in the midst of all this. It was a blend of visual, audible and literary bliss.

We anticipate the next Texas Creative Underground collaborative event to be held December 4th. More information to come.

BLS/TCU is Off and Running

The first meeting of the BLS / Texas Creative Underground is behind us, and, damn, but it went well. We have a lot of cool things on the table for the coming year (the next issue of eleven40seven, the next Collaborative Event, more blogging, more promotion, more hostile takeovers of various creative endeavors around campus). It's gonna be sweet.

Our next meeting will be on Thursday, September 17th @ 6:30, again in the New Media Writing Studio (Rickel 38). If you came for the first meeting, come back and bring 2 friends. If you weren't able to make the first meeting, you're forgiven. Come next time (and bring 2 friends).

Questions? Hit us up at eleven40seven@gmail.com.

Something a little freaky for the new school year

I have no idea where this comes from (I don't think it's from a TCU student, but who knows?). But the title of the piece is "Eleven 40 seveN." Strange coincidence? You decide. Reminds me of a Tool video I saw a long time ago on MTV. Watch at your own risk...

texas creative under:ground breaking

eleven40seven will release its spring 2009 issue on Saturday, May 2, 2009 at the new issue release party & collaborative event.

This event is an opportunity for TCU students to share their creative work (poetry, prose, music, art, photography, dance) and to collaborate with other students in the exhibition. You can read a piece of poetry with a musical accompaniment, or show a series of photographs while you read a short story.

If you’re interested in performing, email us at eleven40seven@gmail.com, and be sure to come by Moudy (141n) from 8-10 pm to pick up your copy of the new issue!

cover of spring 2009 issue of eleven40seven revealed

eleven40seven is pleased to reveal the cover art for the spring 2009 issue! "fountain" was painted by simone riford, a tcu undergrad from hawaii. if this whets your whistle, be sure to pick up a copy of 1147 starting may 2, 2009 at the issue release party.

Image Spark

Image Spark allows you to save any image you find on the internet by simply right clicking the image and it will be saved on a database. The website is free, and you only need to create a profile to get started. Yeah I know it is nothing new or exotic, but it solves the age old problem of losing something once you save it. So make yourself a profile and go infringe on some copyrights.

Hit the link to get started:
http://www.imgspark.com/

Jon Edwards Photography

Jon Edwards is an American teenager with a interesting photographic style. Follow the link to see more photos if you like the one above:
http://www.americansuburbx.com/2008/09/jon-edwards_10.html