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Dr. Mark Sanders |
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Education:
B.A. and M.A. in English (Kearney
State College) |
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Courses Taught at Lewis-Clark State College: Literature; Creative Writing in Poetry, Fiction, and Non-fiction; Editing; 19th Century American Literature; and Internships in Publishing. |
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Activities at Lewis-Clark State College: Faculty Advisor of Talking River and of Talking River Publications. Coordinator of the Visiting Writers Series and of the annual Wallace Stegner Lecture Series; visiting writers have included William Kloefkorn, Kelly Cherry, David Baker, R.T. Smith, Phil Condon, Joy Passanante, Robert Wrigley, and others. Visitors for 2006-2007 will include Craig Leslie, Stephen Corey, William Kittredge, and Pattiann Rogers. |
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Favorite Authors: Poetry: W.B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, Ted Kooser, David Baker, Kelly Cherry, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Weldon Kees, T.S. Eliot, William Stafford, Langston Hughes, Karl Shapiro. Fiction: Kurt Vonnegut, Richard Brautigan, Flannery O'Connor, Margaret Laurence, James Joyce, Toni Morrison, Robert Coover, D.H. Lawrence. Plays: Tennessee Williams, Eugene O'Neill, Jean Paul Sartre, Anton Chekov. Criticism: Dana Gioia, Frank Kermode, Viktor Schlovsky, Roman Jacobson, Jonathan Holden. Non-fiction: JoAnn Beard, Kim Barnes, Mark Spragg. |
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Favorite Books: Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut; Tess of the D'Ubervilles, by Thomas Hardy; The Diviners, by Margaret Laurence; Crazy Horse, by Mari Sandoz; O Pioneers, by Willa Cather; Alvin Turner as Farmer, by William Kloefkorn; Inklings: Poems Old and New, by Don Welch; A Prosody Handbook, by Karl Shapiro; Ceremony in Lone Tree, by Wright Morris; Love Medicine, by Louise Erdrich; Can Poetry Matter? by Dana Gioia; Standing by Words, by Wendell Berry; ABC of Reading, by Ezra Pound; Harmonium, by Wallace Stevens; numerous others. |
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Favorite Musicians: The Beatles; Jimi Hendrix; Janis Joplin; Led Zeppelin; Bob Dylan; The Who; The Rolling Stones; Stevie Ray Vaughan. |
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Favorite Music: So many, but among them: Abbey Road and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club, by the Beatles; Dark Side of the Moon, by Pink floyd; Big Brother and the Holding Company, by Janis Joplin; Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan; Physical Graffiti, by Led Zeppelin; The Complete BBC Sessions, by the Beatles (a ten-cd bootleg); Peace in the Valley, by Stevie Ray Vaughan (a bootleg of his last show, recorded prior to his dying in a helicopter crash); Headquarters, by the Monkees (no, I'm not kidding); Harvest, by Neil Young; Private Eyes, by Tommy Bolin; Chocolate Kings, by P.F.M.; Hot Rocks, by the Rolling Stones. |
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Hobbies: Rock and Roll Trivia; watching movies--especially fond of goofy romances and offbeat comedies; horses; poetry; publishing books; collecting obscure and bootlegged recordings of the Beatles. |
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A little bit about me: I am a Plains native, born and raised in Nebraska; however, I have taught at colleges in Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, and, now, Idaho. I write poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and criticism; my work has appeared in journals in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and Australia, including Glimmer Train, River Teeth, Prairie Schooner, Poetry East, Tar River Poetry, Western American Literature, and numerous others. My two full-length collections of poetry are Before We Lost Our Ways (1996) and Here in the Big Empty (2006); and my short story collection is A Dissimulation of Birds (2002). |
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Websites:
Webpage at the Nebraska Center for
Writers (this page will take you to a bibliographic listing of some
of my publications and samples of poetry from my first book,
Before We Lost Our Ways:) Webpage at the Nebraska Center for
Writers (this page will take you to a listing with links to journals
that publish creative writing:) |
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