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Western Carolinian Volume 44 Number 28

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  • PAGE 10/THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN/APRIL 12, 1979 Laska to visit WCU for festival Dr. Peter J. Laska, poet and small-press editor, will lecture at WCU April 18 in the Cherokee Room of Hinds University Center during a two-day Small Press Festival. Laska's visit is sponsored by the university's Visiting Scholars Program. It coincides with a campus demonstration program funded by a grant from the U.S. Office of Education's Library Research and Demonstration Project to develop a model for non-traditional acquisitions in college libraries. Hunter Library is one of 35 libraries selected from 485 surveyed to participate in the alternative or small-press titles, fully catalogued, as a gift and Call in the professionals Havwood Transfer & Storage Co., inc. AKeMt -Moving -Storing E»*Wr_5 Local & Long Distance Van Lines 456-3001— Waynesvllle . by-product of project participation. Laska's first book of poems, "D.C. Images," was printed by a small press and was a National Book Award finalist. His own press, the Unrealist Press, has published his second book of poems, "Songs and Dances," and also publishes "The Unrealist." Laska will open the festival Wednesday afternoon with a reading. His evening lecture, which is free to the public, will be held at 8 p.m. in the Cherokee Room. The festival will continue Thursday, Penelope Scambly Schott will present a morning lecture and reading in the auditorium of the Music-English Building. Ms. Schott, a noted poet from New Jersey, will be sponsored by the English Club. A display of small press publications will open at 1 p.m. in the Cherokee Room. Judy Hogan, alternative acquisitions project consultant, will conduct an open workshop on alternative press publications in the Cherokee Room at 2 p.m. Ms. Hogan, past president of the Committee of Small Magazine Editors and Publishers, will be joined by Laska, Schott, Bill Herron and Kathryn Stripling Byer. Herron is a writer from Asheville and Ms. Byer is a recent winner of the Anne Sexton Poetry Prize. The festival will end with a book fair including open poetry and fiction reading, music, book browsing and informal small press talk. Local writers and publishers have been invited to attend and display samples of their work. In explaining the significance of small press to the collegiate library, Elliott Shore, director of the alternative acquisitions project, says "independent press publications are essential sources for study of contemporary culture since they are at the forefront of new ideas and modes of expression, offering information on timely topics—from feminist studies and Third World issues to ethnic, ecological, and energy concerns." Ms. Byer and Dr. Harold Farwell, WCU English professor, are co-organizers of the festival. Mary Morris is the Hunter Library representative. "I've got Pabst Blue Ribbon on my mind' l *«J^r\lGINAj^6Vgfi«^^ \ tSCM-IC.lT PRODUCTS PROVIDE ITS PRlUP FIA** , ONLY THE FINEST OF HOPS AND GRAINS ARt Ul» rJJAdW <uj[) &Ja£&Aidm^(i6iiau/bu 1844 wwxujfteat in $93 Blue Ribbon
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