Pity the Poor Reader

As a longtime writing professor, I know a painful truth: High school and college students find most writing textbooks as appealing as a mouthful of sawdust. And no wonder. These books tend to be turgid, dull and uninspiring. But what if there were a lean, lively and inspiring book - an un-textbook, if you will - that taught the fundamentals of writing well in a playful, irreverent voice that spoke to young people? Think of it as a pirate\u27s manifesto on writing well

Permafrost, Vol. 17 (Winter 1995)

This issue of Permafrost was funded by grants from the Alaska State Council of the Arts and the Associated Students of the University of Alaska Fairbanks.[Poetry] -- The Bunt / Carol Alessio -- The Betrayal: Jacqueline & Isabelle / Annie M. Verbicky -- Eyes with a Double Gaze / Gabriel Chifu, translated by Adam J. Sorkin & Taina Dutesçu-Coliban -- The Cafe Venus / Ricia Anne Chansky -- Chicken in a Box / Patrick B. Mikulec -- The Stun Gun / Jacqueline Berger -- Lessons / Anne Caston -- The Dream / Anne Caston -- Split Watch / Chris Gompert -- Opening Gates / Chris Gompert -- Under the Bed / Chris Gompert -- Sailing to My Lai / Chris Gompert -- O / J. Todd Beers -- Decay (A Metamorphosis) / Meara Day -- My Block / Mary Winters -- This Poem Ends With Crying / Lee Evans -- Brains Bashed in With Sledgehammers / Antler -- Thoughts Breathing in a Blizzard / Antler -- Research Trip: Yucca Valley / Peter Wild -- God's Brains / Peter Wild -- Living in the Dark / Donna Turner [Fiction] -- The Shaking of Milk / Sean Genell -- Dreaming of Dead and Missing / David Staudt -- A Shadow on the Grass / Katherine Beebe [Nonfiction] -- Walkabout / Greg Leichner -- 1995 Permafrost Fiction Contest Winner: Riverbend / James Calvin Schaap -- 1995 Permafrost Chapbook Winner: The White Light of Trees / Gayle Elen Harvey [Interview] -- A Conversation with Toi Derricotte / Susan McInnis [Art/Photography] -- Masks / Blair Rainey -- Torso / Blair Rainey -- Joe's Dad / Joseph Enzweiler -- Water Drops / Blair Rainey -- Chair / Blair Rainey -- Street / Joseph Enzweiler -- Snow & Steps / Joseph Enzweiler [Cover] --Design / Dafna Ezran --Photography / Joseph Enzweile

Pity the Poor Reader (PDF)

Pity the Poor Reader” as an un-textbook, an irreverent “Elements of style.” Like Elements, it’s designed to complement textbooks. Pity is concise, memorable and portable. Under 300 pages, Pity serves as an aspiring writer’s keepsake

The Women of Country Music: A Reader

Women have been pivotal in the country music scene since its inception, as Charles K. Wolfe and James E. Akenson make clear in The Women of Country Music. Their groundbreaking volume presents the best current scholarship and writing on female country musicians. Beginning with the 1920s career of teenage guitar picker Roba Stanley, the contributors go on to discuss Polly Jenkins and Her Musical Plowboys, 50s honky-tonker Rose Lee Maphis, superstar Faith Hill, the relationship between Emmylou Harris and poet Bronwen Wallace, the Louisiana Hayride’s Margaret Lewis Warwick, and more. Charles K. Wolfe, professor of English and folklore at Middle Tennessee State University, is the author of numerous books on music. James E. Akenson, professor of curriculum and instruction at Tennessee Technological University, is the founder of the international Country Music Conference. In this well-timed collection of essays, Wolfe and Akenson have compiled a solid representation of contemporary scholarship that focuses on the significant role female musicians have played in the development of country music. —Agricultural History Its contributors demonstrate that, although women have long been perceived to be on the periphery of country music, they have in fact been integral to its production from the earliest days of its commodification. —American Music Contains more than a dozen articles about famous, forgotten, or often ignored women who have shaped the country music industry. —Cookeville (TN) Herald-Citizen These well-researched 200-plus pages chronicle the pioneering women of country, whose immeasurable contributions and artistry have been allowed to gather dust for far too long. —Country Weekly A welcome addition to the modest resources available on women in country music. —Gulfstream Gathers a wide range of current scholarship in country music studies, reflecting disciplinary backgrounds from history, literature, musicology, and education alongside the scholarship of aficionados. —Indiana Magazine of History Needs to be placed for easy reference in the library of every country music scholar. —Lexington Herald-Leader This book is highly recommended for academic libraries and will make a fine contribution to both gender studies collections and collections with a focus on American vernacular music. —Library Journal A continually interesting series of articles about some of the best known performers as well as a few whose names were new to me. —Marietta (OH) Times Pays dues to these savvy new players, as well as to the performers who blazed a path for their success. —McCormick (SC) Messenger From the electric Roni Stoneman to the plucky Polly Jenkins, the womenpresented here pioneered trails for women in country music and receivedlittle attention as thanks—until now. The Women of Country Music turnsover new earth. —Michael Streissguth, author of Ring of Fire: The Johnny Cash Reader . In this serious but thoroughly readable anthology of the most outstanding writing and analysis of the careers and contributions of female country musicians, editors Wolfe and Akenson examine some world class and unforgettable performers, of any gender, in any musical genre. —Pegram (TN) Advocate Such a well-done and solid (yet fabulously readable) group of essays on an often-overlooked set of strong cookies that it deserves a lot more notice than it has received. —Rockland (ME) Courier Gazette What separates this book from most musical journalism is that its biographies cover great characters about whom few of us are aware, and its histories are almost universally unknown to us. —Splendid E-Zine Casting a net over country music’s better-known female performers and most interestingly over obscure pioneers, this collection . . . marks an important advance in the academic study of American popular music. —Tidal Wave Magazine A welcome resource in a field with too few. —Western Folklorehttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_music/1007/thumbnail.jp

UA68/13/5 The Contact Sheet, Vol. 5

Newsletter created by WKU alumni who were associated with student publications. Includes information about alumni and WKU Journalism & Broadcasting

The Trail, 2001-02-22

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The Courier, Volume 23, Issue 14, February 16, 1990

Stories: Faculty Negotiations Heat Up Mediator Brought In To Act As Voice Box Salary Levels Issue In Faculty\u27s Contract Gregory Urges Audience To Make A Difference Grapplers Qualify Two For Nationals In Bismarck, N.D. People: Herb Salberg Preston Reed Dick Gregory Erich Hauenstein John Pearson Rich Murra

Hearings on Community Crime Prevention

Hearings held on Nov. 17, 1981 and Dec. 17, 1981