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Monday, December 15, 2008 COKINOS PUBLISHED IN "THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR"
 The essay titled “ ‘HD 11964 d' ” by Any Other Name” by Christopher Cokinos, appears in the current issue of The American Scholar, Volume 78, No. 1, Winter 2009. The essay considers the way in which planets that orbit other stars are named. Cokinos writes “It's worth remembering that not so long ago astronomers debated whether our solar system was the only one in the entire universe. Clearly it's not, and as we move closer to finding planets like our own, what today seems an arcane matter will loom: What do we call these new worlds?” To read the entire essay, click here.
The American Scholar describes itself as the “venerable but lively quarterly magazine of public affairs, literature, science, history, and culture published by the Phi Beta Kappa Society since 1932. In recent years the magazine has won four National Magazine Awards, the industry’s highest honor, and many of its essays and articles have been selected for the yearly Best American anthologies.” More
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Monday, December 15, 2008 ISOTOPE AWARDED SECOND PRESTIGIOUS GRANT FROM NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS
 The Literature Program of the National Endowment for the Arts has announced that Isotope: A Journal of Literary Nature & Science Writing has won a prestigious literary publishing grant for calendar year 2009. Isotope was also awarded an NEA grant in 2007.One of only 15 university-affiliated literary magazines and 56 total magazines and presses funded in this grant cycle, Isotope is in good company with magazines such as Agni, Crazyhorse, Ecotone, Ploughshares and Kenyon Review.The $5,000 NEA Access to Artistic Excellence grant will go toward Isotope's regular operating expenses, according to Managing Editor Leslie Brown.“This grant couldn't have come at a better time,” she said, “with the current economic woes.” More
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Monday, December 15, 2008 SPACECRAFT, EDITORS’ PRIZES AND FINDING THE WORDS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE – ISOTOPE RELEASES ITS FALL/WINTER 2008 ISSUE.
 Inside Isotope issue 6.2, Deborah Banerjee's paintings mix still life with landscape art as they evoke the adventure of spacecraftsuch asPioneer 10 and the Hubble Telescope exploring the edges of space and expanding the boundaries of our knowledge. As Banerjee says, “I have sought out the most extreme frontier where the human-made is still dwarfed by landscape in order to recapture that earlier sense of optimism, daring and curiosity about the cosmos.” More
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Monday, December 08, 2008 HELICON WEST OPEN MIC FORUM INVITES YOU!
 Join us for the next Helicon West at 7 p.m. Thursday, December 11, at the True Aggie Café (117 North Main Street) in Logan. Before the open mic portion of our evening, we will feature a selection of guest writers from last year's “Scribendi” creative writing contest" Jacoba Mendelkow, Russ Winn, Diane Bush, Daniel Nyikos, and Jeff Carr. After the special reading, everyone, university and community members alike, is invited to read up to seven minutes of creative work (poetry, fiction, non-fiction). Please arrive early to sign up for the reading schedule and to support True Aggie by purchasing soft drinks, Caffe' Ibis coffee or sandwiches. As always, Helicon West is free of charge and open to everyone. More
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Sunday, December 07, 2008 DECEMBER GRADS – WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS?
 What's next for you? We'd like to know what your plans are for work, grad school and anything else you are up to. Please send your information to marina.hall@usu.edu. More
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Friday, December 05, 2008 GRAD PRESENTATIONS: "TECHNOLOGY AND TOURISM"
 Please join the graduate students of “Theory and Practice of American Studies: Technology and Tourism in the US West” for their class conference, Tuesday, December 9, 10-2:30. Feel free to come for one or two presentations, to come and go. Audience members are invited to join presenters for free pizza at 12:15 pm. For a complete schedule, click here. More
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Friday, December 05, 2008 CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAYS WITH KEN SANDERS RARE BOOKS
 As always, the Holiday season is a busy one at Ken Sanders Rare Books, and for the Broadway area at large. Poets and cartoonists, collectors and folk singers, human rights and canyon conservation all promise to make this one of their best Christmas seasons ever. For more information on the many holiday events, click here. More
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Friday, December 05, 2008 AMERICAN FOLKLIFE CENTER SEEKS INTERNS FROM USU
 The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress is interested in drawing students from Utah State University for their Volunteer Internship Program. AFC accepts applications year-round from students and other individuals interested in working with the collections in AFC's Archive. These internships provide educational experience or career training in the fields of folklife, ethnomusicology, archival studies, library science, and related areas; provide in-depth exposure to the processes of collection, preservation, and presentation; and build networks with future generations of professionals concerned with folklife and archives. For more information, contact the American Folklife Center at folklife@loc.gov, or visit their internship website. More
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Tuesday, December 02, 2008 UNDERGRAD ALUMNUS PUBLISHES IN “THE IOWA REVIEW”
 Utah State University alumnus Taylor Christensen's poem “Banana Tree: 1964” will be published on December 8, in The Iowa Review. Taylor Christensen attended Utah State in 2006- 07 as a freshman in the English Creative Writing program. He now resides in Salt Lake City attending the University of Utah. To read “Banana Tree: 1964”, click here. More
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Tuesday, December 02, 2008 VOICES ON STAGE AND IN PRINT
 On Thursday, December 4, the third semi-annual Voices Reading will be held in the Performance Hall. Undergraduates enrolled in English 2010 have entered one of their course-assigned essays to the Voices writing contest, and the students themselves have selected the winning essays. At the reading, awards will be announced and several of the winners will be asked to read excepts from their winning essays. Other winners are awarded a cash prize, or earn consideration for publication in an anthology. Six separate readings (7:30am, 9am, 10:30am, Noon, 1:30pm, and 3pm) are held in the Performance Hall to recognize students from all of the approximately fifty on-campus classes each semester. All sessions are open to the public.
Because English 2010 is the only required course for all USU students, Voices gives undergraduates of all disciplines the chance to be publicly recognized for their work. The contest provides extra incentive for students to write well, engages them in careful and meaningful in self-assessment, and reinforces class instruction and the value of diverse perspectives. The university hopes Voices, with approximately 300 winners each year, will help enhance recruitment and development activities by providing hands-on experience for undergraduates. Voices is a self-sustaining program originallymade possible by a USU Innovation Grant. More
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Monday, December 01, 2008 ISOTOPE ESSAY SELECTED FOR “THE BEST CREATIVE NONFICTION” VOL.3
Creative Nonfiction has selected “The Rope Swing, the Swastika, the Oldest Whale I know” by Scott Black for inclusion in the Best Creative Nonfiction, Volume 3 anthology to be published by W.W. Norton in July 2009. Black's essay was published in the Spring/Summer 2007 (5.1) issue of USU's Isotope Journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing. To read “The Rope Swing, the Swastika, and Oldest Whale I know” from Isotope's website, click here: http://isotope.usu.edu/web/5-1/black.htm More
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Monday, December 01, 2008 USU Symphony Orchestra Presents 'Poetry of the Seasons'
 The Utah State University Symphony Orchestra presents “ Poetry of the Seasons,” a concert featuring works by Vivaldi and Brahms, Tuesday, Dec. 2, in the Kent Concert Hall of the Chase Fine Arts Center (approximately 1110 E. 610 North, Logan). Concert time is 7:30 p.m. The Caine School of the Arts event is under the direction of Department of Music faculty member and conductor Sergio Bernal.Tickets are $5, and free to USU students with a valid ID. Tickets are available at the CSA Box Office online, or by calling (435) 797-8022. Fry Street Quartet member William Fedkenheuer joins the orchestra as guest performer for Vivaldi's celebrated Four Seasons. The orchestra concludes with Brahms's beautiful Fourth Symphony. More
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