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SUMMARY:Dixie Forum: A Window to the World
DESCRIPTION:Don't miss the opportunity to hear from an award-winning poet when Dixie State University hosts Lauren K. Alleyne as part of its weekly lecture series "Dixie Forum: A Window on the World." \n\n\n\nAlleyne will present a reading and host a question-and-answer session from noon to 12:50 p.m. on Tuesday\, Oct. 27\, at the Dunford Auditorium in the Browning Resource Center on the DSU campus. Admission is free and the public is welcome and encouraged to attend. \n\n\n\nOriginally from the twin-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago\, Alleyne writes poems that are both spiritual and sensual. Her writings depict the narrator's journey into womanhood and struggle for self-knowledge. \n\n\n\nAlleyne recently published collection of poetry "Difficult Fruit" is a nod to Billie Holiday's famous song "Strange Fruit." Her work has been awarded numerous honors\, most recently the Picador Guest Professorship in Literature at the University of Leipzig\, Germany\, a 2014 Iowa Arts Council Fellowship\, and a 2010 Small Axe Literary Award. Additionally\, her fiction\, nonfiction\, interviews and poetry have been published in journals and anthologies. \n\n\n\nAlleyne\, the poet in residence and an assistant professor of English at the University of Dubuque\, holds a Master of Fine Arts in poetry\, a graduate certificate in feminist\, gender\, and sexuality studies from Cornell University and a Master of Arts in English and creative writing from Iowa State University. \n\n\n\nDixie Forum is a weekly lecture series designed to introduce the St. George community and DSU students\, faculty and staff to diverse ideas and personalities while widening their worldviews via a 50-minute presentation. Next week\, Dixie Forum will continue at noon on Tuesday\, Nov. 3\, in the Dunford Auditorium with a presentation from Dr. Alan R. Harker\, the associate academic vice president for research and graduate studies at Brigham Young University. Harker will present "Small and Simple Things That Rule the World" about his current research focusing on the microbes that inhabit the Great Salt Lake. He posits that the metabolic potential available in the lake should yield both academic and applied discoveries that will rival any other environment thus far explored. \n\n\n\nDixie Forum is a lecture series designed to introduce the St. George community and DSU students\, faculty and staff to diverse ideas and personalities while widening their worldviews via a 50-minute presentation. \n\n\n\nThe remainder of the spring Dixie Forum schedule is below. All forums will be at noon on Tuesdays in the Dunford Auditorium of the Browning Resource Center on the DSU campus. \n\n\n\nTuesday\, November 3 from 12:00 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. Speaker(s): Alan Harker Topic: Small and Simple Things that Rule the World\n\nTuesday\, November 10 from 12:00 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. Speaker(s): Bradford Lee Eden Topic: Tolkien\n\nTuesday\, November 17 from 12:00 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. Speaker(s): No Forum Topic: No Forum\n\nTuesday\, November 24 from 12:00 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. Speaker(s): No Forum (Thanksgiving) Topic: No Forum (Thanksgiving)\n\nTuesday\, December 1 from 12:00 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. Speaker(s): Eric Thacker Topic: TBA\n\nTuesday\, December 8 from 12:00 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. Speaker(s): Frederick Crook Topic: The China Dream: An Interpretation of Contemporary Wall Posters\n\nTuesday\, December 15 from 12:00 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. Speaker(s): No Forum (Finals week) Topic: No Forum (Finals week)
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<span style="color:#000000\;"><span style="font-family:arial\;"><span style="font-size:14px\;"><span style="line-height: normal\;">Don&#39\;t miss the opportunity to hear from an award-winning poet when Dixie State University hosts Lauren K. Alleyne as part of its weekly lecture series &quot\;Dixie Forum: A Window on the World.&quot\;&nbsp\;</span><br style="font-family: Tahoma\, Geneva\, sans-serif\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; font-size: 12px\; line-height: normal\;" />\n<br style="font-family: Tahoma\, Geneva\, sans-serif\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; font-size: 12px\; line-height: normal\;" />\n<span style="line-height: normal\;">Alleyne will present a reading and host a question-and-answer session from noon to 12:50 p.m. on Tuesday\, Oct. 27\, at the Dunford Auditorium in the Browning Resource Center on the DSU campus. Admission is free and the public is welcome and encouraged to attend.&nbsp\;</span><br style="font-family: Tahoma\, Geneva\, sans-serif\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; font-size: 12px\; line-height: normal\;" />\n<br style="font-family: Tahoma\, Geneva\, sans-serif\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; font-size: 12px\; line-height: normal\;" />\n<span style="line-height: normal\;">Originally from the twin-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago\, Alleyne writes poems that are both spiritual and sensual. Her writings depict the narrator&#39\;s journey into womanhood and struggle for self-knowledge.&nbsp\;</span><br style="font-family: Tahoma\, Geneva\, sans-serif\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; font-size: 12px\; line-height: normal\;" />\n<br style="font-family: Tahoma\, Geneva\, sans-serif\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; font-size: 12px\; line-height: normal\;" />\n<span style="line-height: normal\;">Alleyne recently published collection of poetry &quot\;Difficult Fruit&quot\; is a nod to Billie Holiday&#39\;s famous song &quot\;Strange Fruit.&quot\; Her work has been awarded numerous honors\, most recently the Picador Guest Professorship in Literature at the University of Leipzig\, Germany\, a 2014 Iowa Arts Council Fellowship\, and a 2010 Small Axe Literary Award. Additionally\, her fiction\, nonfiction\, interviews and poetry have been published in journals and anthologies.&nbsp\;</span><br style="font-family: Tahoma\, Geneva\, sans-serif\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; font-size: 12px\; line-height: normal\;" />\n<br style="font-family: Tahoma\, Geneva\, sans-serif\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; font-size: 12px\; line-height: normal\;" />\n<span style="line-height: normal\;">Alleyne\, the poet in residence and an assistant professor of English at the University of Dubuque\, holds a Master of Fine Arts in poetry\, a graduate certificate in feminist\, gender\, and sexuality studies from Cornell University and a Master of Arts in English and creative writing from Iowa State University.&nbsp\;</span><br style="font-family: Tahoma\, Geneva\, sans-serif\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; font-size: 12px\; line-height: normal\;" />\n<br style="font-family: Tahoma\, Geneva\, sans-serif\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; font-size: 12px\; line-height: normal\;" />\n<span style="line-height: normal\;">Dixie Forum is a weekly lecture series designed to introduce the St. George community and DSU students\, faculty and staff to diverse ideas and personalities while widening their worldviews via a 50-minute presentation. Next week\, Dixie Forum will continue at noon on Tuesday\, Nov. 3\, in the Dunford Auditorium with a presentation from Dr. Alan R. Harker\, the associate academic vice president for research and graduate studies at Brigham Young University. Harker will present &quot\;Small and Simple Things That Rule the World&quot\; about his current research focusing on the microbes that inhabit the Great Salt Lake. He posits that the metabolic potential available in the lake should yield both academic and applied discoveries that will rival any other environment thus far explored.&nbsp\;</span><br style="font-family: Tahoma\, Geneva\, sans-serif\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; font-size: 12px\; line-height: normal\;" />\n<br />\nDixie Forum is a lecture series designed to introduce the St. George community and DSU students\, faculty and staff to diverse ideas and personalities while widening their worldviews via a 50-minute presentation.&nbsp\;<br />\n<br />\nThe remainder of the spring Dixie Forum schedule is below. All forums will be at&nbsp\;<span data-term="goog_1932431726" style="border-bottom-width:1px\;border-bottom-style:dashed\;position:relative\;top:-2px\;z-index:0\;" tabindex="0"><span style="position:relative\;top:2px\;z-index:-1\;">noon</span></span>&nbsp\;on Tuesdays in the Dunford Auditorium of the Browning Resource Center on the DSU campus.&nbsp\;<br />\n<br />\nTuesday\, November 3 from 12:00 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. Speaker(s): Alan Harker Topic: Small and Simple Things that Rule the World<br />\nTuesday\, November 10 from 12:00 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. Speaker(s): Bradford Lee Eden Topic: Tolkien<br />\nTuesday\, November 17 from 12:00 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. Speaker(s): No Forum Topic: No Forum<br />\nTuesday\, November 24 from 12:00 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. Speaker(s): No Forum (Thanksgiving) Topic: No Forum (Thanksgiving)<br />\nTuesday\, December 1 from 12:00 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. Speaker(s): Eric Thacker Topic: TBA<br />\nTuesday\, December 8 from 12:00 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. Speaker(s): Frederick Crook Topic: The China Dream: An Interpretation of Contemporary Wall Posters<br />\nTuesday\, December 15 from 12:00 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. Speaker(s): No Forum (Finals week) Topic: No Forum (Finals week)</span></span></span>
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