Christmas Event
Each December the Center holds its annual Members and Friends Christmas Luncheon. The event features recognition of outgoing Board members, new inductees into the Center's Heritage Club, and an interesting speaker. The lunch is followed by an open house at the Fantle Building with a discount in the CWS Book and Gift Shop.
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Noon - 3-in-1 Room, Morrison Commons
At the noon luncheon we will also recognize outgoing Board members and induct new Heritage Club members.
Reservations are required, cost of the meal is $15. The program is free.
Program: “Harvesting Words, (re)Defining Borders,
and the Making of a Book”
Patrick Hicks, Associate Professor of English and
Augustana College Writer-in-Residence
Patrick Hicks is the Writer-in-Residence at Augustana
College and the author of five poetry collections, most
recently Finding the Gossamer (Salmon, 2008) and
This London (Salmon, 2010). Dr. Hicks is also the
editor of the first anthology of contemporary South
Dakota poetry, A Harvest ofWords, published this year
by the Center for Western Studies. This volume, which
establishes the poetry canon for South Dakota, is
published in honor of Augustana’s first Writer-in-
Residence and founder of the Center for Western
Studies, Herbert Krause.
Hicks’ work has appeared in scores of international
journals, including Utne Reader, Glimmer Train,
Indiana Review, Christian Science Monitor, Natural
Bridge, Commonweal, Tar River Poetry, Nimrod and
many others. He has been nominated several times for
the Pushcart Prize, short-listed for a variety of awards,
and he recently won the Glimmer Train “Emerging
Writer’s Fiction Award.” Aside from being a Visiting
Fellow at Oxford, he is the recipient of a number of
grants, including one from the Bush Foundation to
support his first novel, which is about Auschwitz. He
has lived in Northern Ireland, England, Germany, and
Spain, but has returned to his roots in Midwest
America. When not writing, he enjoys watching
thunderstorms roll across the prairie.
1:30-3:00 p.m. - CWS Fantle Building
Open House continues at the Center for Western Studies. See the newest display, 40th Anniversary Exhibition: Art from the CWS Collection.
Shop for gifts in the CWS Book & Gift Shop and
Receive 20% Off Everything Through December
Call (605) 274-4007 for more information or to make reservations.
