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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.