READING
ROOM
Students, faculty, and general
readers will find the following works, selected from the Weber archives, of
special interest. These readings may be supplemented by using our search
program to look for works by the same authors or works that deal with the
same themes and ideas.

Personal Narrative
"Is language, in fact, a medium in which we exist as
human beings and function as social beings? Is language tantamount to our experience of life and culture, or is it simply used to keep a
conversation going?"
- Harold Gaski,
"A Language to Catch Birds," Weber
Studies, Fall 1999.
Karen Babine, "Deadwood"
Simmons B. Buntin,
"Calendars
of the Sun and Moon"
Russell Burrows,
"The
Mormon Samson: Porter Rockwell"
Christopher Camuto,
"In
a Landscape"
Matthew Cooperman,
"The
Color of Dust," "A
Raft of Blues"
Julia Corbett,
"Fashion
Stories"
John Daniel, "The Province
of Personal Narrative"
David James Duncan,
"My
Advice on Writing Advice"
Ron Fischer,
"The
Language of Stone: Stories from Pictograph Caves"
Shaun T. Griffin,
"Letter
From the Blackstone River: Under Fog with the Porcupine Caribou"
Jessica Halliday,
"A
Mother's' Fairy Tale"
Robert King, "Lost
at Home in the Bottomlands"
Waddie Mitchell,
"Keynote
Address: 2001 National Cowboy Poetry Gathering"
David Mogen, "Circle in the Snow"
Louis Owens, "Finding Gene"
Levi Peterson, "Growing Up in Snow Flake"
John Schwiebert,
"News
Flash: Walt Whitman Advises Teens to 'Skip' Poetry?"
Robert B. Smith,
"Metamorphosis"
David Stevenson, "Untethered
in Yosemite: A Report from Paradise in the Last Summer of the Millennium"
John H. Timmerman,
"Bringing
the Dead to Life: An Explanation of War and Memory"

Poetry
"I do not write poetry / it writes me
/ into the blue-black center / of my birth back then / when I slid head first / into sterile white with no words..."
- Carol Carpenter, "I
Do Not Write Poetry," Weber Studies,
Fall 1998.
Poets
Stephen Dunn,
2007.
Billy Collins,
2008.
Todd Fuller, 1999.
Carolyn Forché,
2008.
Gary Gildner, 2003.
Lois Marie Harrod,
1996,
1998,
2003,
2007.
Sherwin Howard, 1985, 1986,
1986, 1991,
1997.
William Kloefkorn, 1989, 2000,
2002.
2005.
David Lee, 1988,
1996,
2002,
2007.
Joel Long,
2004.
Waddie Mitchell,
2004.
Naomi Shihab Nye,
2008.
Galimarie
Pahmeier, 2000.
Mark Strand, 1992.
Myrna Stone, 2002.
2005.
Nancy Takacs, 1992, 1995
, 1996, 1999,
2002.
Stan Tixier,
2004.
Kathryn Winograd, 1995, 1999.
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Essays
on Poetry
"Poets
on the Prairie" by Robert King.
"With Sharon Olds in Idaho"
by Ron McFarland.
David
Lee, Interview
with Katherine Coles.
Mark Strand, Interview with Katherine Coles
"From
the Ash of Human Feeling—Teaching Poetry Behind the Fence" by
Shaun T. Griffin
"News
Flash: Walt Whitman Advises Teens to 'Skip' Poetry?" by John
Schwiebert
"Poetry
Everyday—Yemen 1993" by Elmaz Abinader
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Conversations
with Eminent Writers (including examples of their creative work published in Weber)
"Do you think it might be different for writers who are critics, too?
What do you find in your own conversations with writers? Do writers who
are also critics shy away from analyzing their own work?"
- Scott Slovic, "An
Interview with Rick Bass," Weber
Studies, Fall 1994.
1997
Meena
Alexander (Poetry
1997).
1994 Rick Bass (Fiction
1994).
1990 Ann Beattie
(Fiction 1990).
2004 Ken
Brewer
2000 Rex Burns (Fiction
2000).
1990 Alan Cheuse
(Fiction 1990, Fiction
1994).
2008
Billy
Collins (Poetry
2008).
2001 Chitra Bannerjee Divakaruni
(Fiction 1998).
2007
Stephen
Dunn.
1994 E.L. Doctorow,
(Fiction 1994).
2002 David
J. Duncan, (Essay
2004).
2008
Carolyn
Forché, (Poetry
2008)
2000 Carlos Fuentes.
2004
Gary
Gildner,
(Poetry
2003,
Fiction
2004).
1993 William Kennedy
(Play 1993).
1995 Maxine
Hong Kingston (Fiction
1995).
2002 Gary
LaFontaine.
1996 David Lee
(Poetry 1988, Poetry
1996, Poetry
2002). |
2001 Barry
Lopez.
2004
Waddie
Mitchell (Essay
2004,
Cowboy
Poetry 2004)
1994 Lewis
Nikosi (Fiction
1994).
2008
Naomi
Shihab Nye (Poetry
2008).
1996 Robert Olmstead
(Fiction 1996).
2005
Robert
Pinsky
2001 David
Quammen.
1992 May Sarton
(Journal 1991,
Poetry 1992).
2007
Alice
Sebold.
2003 Michael
Schumacher.
1992 Mark Strand
(Poetry 1992).
2002 Stephen
Trimble (Art
2002).
2003 Raquel
Valle-Sentíes, (Art
& Poetry 2003)
1999 Gerald Vizenor
(Fiction 1999).
1995 James Welch
(Fiction 1995).
2003 Kate
Wheeler.
2002 Terry
Tempest Williams.
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Short
Stories
"Stories are for joining the past to the
future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember
how you got from where you were to where you are."
- Tim O'Brien, quoted by
Joseph Cox, Weber
Studies, Spring/Summer 1996.
James Barbour,
"Mondegreen"
Martin R. Dean
"The
Escape Artist" (Global Spotlight)
Joseph Ditta, "Hour Before
the Dark", "Of
Bondage and the Break", "Madison
Blues"
Richard Dokey, "A Horse of a Different Color",
"Something
Happened", "Motel
Man"
Gary Gildner,
"The
Romona Tomorrow Story"
Tom Hansen, "No Monsters Allowed"
David Kranes, "Burning the Leaves"
Will Michelet,
"The
Price of Preservas Prohibidas"
James Reed,
"The
Otherwise Dark"
Neila Seshachari, "It's Your Heart that Makes all the Difference"
Alicia Shank, "Hurts"

The Environment
"The very meaning of the word
environment ... has undergone metamorphosis from human environment to the environment, protean in
its suggestiveness of survival as well as cyclical natural processes of regeneration."
- Neila Seshachari,
"Editor's Note," Weber
Studies, Winter 1992.
Michael Branch, "Ecocriticism: The Nature of Nature in Literary
Theory and Practice"
Brendon Cesmat,
"Surviving
Paradise"
Sally
Charette,
"It
Ain't Las Vegas"
Michael Engelhard,
"Closed
Range"
Mike Freeman,
"Interplay—The
Need for Wilderness"
Tim Gilmer, "The Soil Inside Us"
Shaun T. Griffin,
"Letter
From the Blackstone River: Under Fog with the Porcupine Caribou"
Linda Hasselstrom, "Badger's Business"
Kevin Holdsworth, "High Plateau Blues"
Edward Lueders, "Dirt, Rock, Wind, Rain, Ice, Dust: Notes on the
Environment"
Waddie Mitchell,
"Keynote
Address: 2001 National Cowboy Poetry Gathering"
John Nizalowski, "Bridges"
Max Oelschlaeger, "The Way Ahead: Building Grounded
Communities"
Barry Lopez, "A
Conversation With..."
Stan Tixier,
"Welcome
Rain" and other poems
Maximilian S. Werner, "The
Dowsers of Perlite Pond"

Ideas
"In humanistic studies such as art, history, philosophy and literature there is a
lack of immediacy, a lack of task-orientation, a lack of practicality and pay-off. When the press of immediacy is suspended, one has a chance to play
around with ideas. This is the atmosphere conducive to developing critical intelligence."
- K. Danner Clouser,
"Humanities in a Tech Education," Weber
Studies, Spring 1986.
Appleby, Englehardt, Irish,
Wilson, "The Value of Values: A Conversation"
Wayne Booth, "The Last Amateurs
..."
Walter Cummins, "'They Fancied Themselves Free': Exploration and
Individualism"
Judy Elsley, "Dividing up the World"
Tamara Fritze,
"Growing
a Home: Gardens as Place"
Carolyn D. Holbert, "True West"
David Hutto, "The Southern Quandry of Being OK but Southern"
Robert Schnelle,
"Over
the Line: Robert Frost and Trespass"
Doug Smith,
"Ten
Years After: An Intimate Account of the Yellowstone Wolf Story"
Matthew J. Sullivan,
"Outsiders"
Larry Tritten,
"R.
C. Gorman and J. D. Challenger: Two Hearts of the West"
Manfred Weidhorn, "Beyond Conservatism and Liberalism"
Jim Young,
"Homesteading
in Virginia: An Academic in Exile"

FilmFocus
"Filmmaking is very
attractive to people, and there’s an apparent glamour to it. I would
personally disabuse people of that. It’s very, very hard work. I remind
people that it’s hard work. The hardest working people I know are
filmmakers, in terms of how many hours they put in a day and how many days
they work a week and how many weeks they work a year."
- Ken Burns,
"Weber
Studies, Fall 2006.
Samir Dayal,
"Professing
Spirituality: Bollywood Fantasies and the Return of Religion"
Greg Lewis,
"Between
Moscow and Hollywood: China's National Cinema at Weber State University"
Andreas Ströhl,
"On
the Threat to American Bodies: The View From Abroad Inside a Movie
Theater"
Madonne Miner,
"Not
the Usual Suspects: Revising the Code of the Male Heist in Sugar &
Spice"
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