[Cwgrad-announcements] Fwd: Thanks to Maurya and to Laila for passing along some interesting reading:

[cwhitney]

 From Laila:  Notice that the New Yorker has a very droll book review  
essay this week by Louis Menand of Mark McGurl's The Program Era  
(Harvard U.P.) about creative writing programs, in which, I would note  
without comment,  McGurl calls the development of academic creative  
writing programs "the most important event in postwar American  
literary history."

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2009/06/08/090608crat_atlarge_menand?currentPage=all

Maurya has a poem (Angels, reprinted from Ghost Orchid) as the lead  
piece in the current issue of the online journal The American Museum:  
See below for a link.  BTW:  The fourth article is a piece by some guy  
named Obama).


D. Charles (Chuck) Whitney
Office:  Department of Creative Writing, 4159 INTS, UC Riverside,  
Riverside CA 92521 / 951.827.6076 FAX 951.827.3619
Home:  6170 Kirk St., Riverside CA 92506 / 951.781.3497


> Subject: Fwd: Notice from The American Museum
>
> Dear All,
>
> Thought you might enjoy this truly eclectic and interesting on-line  
> magazine, The American Museum.  (I've a poem in this June edition of  
> it--)  There are so many pleasures among its features--political,  
> literary, visual, musical, etc.  Enjoy!
> Maurya
>
>
>> Notice from The American Museum:
>>
>> The June, 2009, issue is now online for your reading pleasure at
>>
>> http://www.theamericanmuseum.org/june.09.fifth.html
>>
>>
>> In endeavoring to improve the magazine in some small way each  
>> month, we've added sound-on-demand capability to one of our pages  
>> for this June issue. And what sound it is! In 1996, a collection of  
>> scruffy New York jazz players combined with several beautiful and  
>> delicate flowers from the classical world to record the music of  
>> Paul Miller, a composer who knows cold the theories and rules of  
>> musical composition set down through the ages, and while respectful  
>> of and often guided by them, is nevertheless gloriously  
>> unrestrained by their dictates. Even as you listen carefully to the  
>> individual instruments and voices in his pieces, and appreciate the  
>> professional skill they manifest, the music as a whole seems to  
>> bypass the intellect completely, and moves the soul in some  
>> remarkable and indescribable way.
>>
>> The country is now undergoing the ritual we periodically suffer  
>> through - the political process of selecting and confirming a  
>> Supreme Court justice. We'll hear terms thrown about, ad infinitum,  
>> such as "brilliant legal mind," "incisive reasoner," and  
>> "possessing a judicial temperament," all applied to the hacks under  
>> consideration, most of who have never had private clients walk  
>> through their office doors and plunk down hard-earned money to have  
>> them deal with real legal problems. As a service to readers, we  
>> have reprinted an opinion handed down by Chief Justice Murray of  
>> the California Supreme Court, an opinion that demonstrates with  
>> stark and stinking clarity the "justice" that flows from those with  
>> brilliant legal minds and judicial temperaments as they exercise  
>> that incisive reasoning.
>>
>> We print the text of two commencement addresses, one by Barack  
>> Obama to the kids of Notre Dame and another by Paul Hawken to those  
>> of the University of Portland. Both speakers used the fact that the  
>> sky is currently falling (and it is, by the way) as added incentive  
>> for their listeners to go forth and do great things. Perhaps the  
>> rest of us will be likewise inspired by these words.
>>
>>
>> We have some excellent social and informative commentary: James  
>> Hyder's piece examines both the fact of, and the reporting on, the  
>> recent refusal of some IMAX movie houses to book certain movies  
>> because of their messages that life evolved, and therefore wasn't  
>> "created." Karl Walling shares some unclassified insight on the  
>> historical, current, and future strategies of America's naval  
>> power. Janet Albrechtsen reports, from Down Under, on the shameful  
>> betrayal of trust of some Australian politicians who have great  
>> profit almost within their grasp.
>>
>> We reprint two exquisite poems: "Angels," by Maurya Simon, and the  
>> "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty," by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Neither  
>> artist claims to be an incisive reasoner, nor does either possess a  
>> brilliant legal mind or judicial temperament. Thank God.
>>
>> For the rest of this golf season, we're going to follow the  
>> successes and failures of one of our two favorite golfers, Paul  
>> Goydos. (Sorry Woodie, you lost the coin flip.) Each month we'll  
>> update Paul's record, and hopefully the coverage will inspire him  
>> to even greater heights.
>>
>> This month, we print two short Letters of the Autobiography of  
>> Mathew Carey, in which he speaks of the theater in Dublin, the  
>> founding of The American Museum, some predictions for the future he  
>> made around 1790, his early attempts at courtship, and finally of  
>> his marriage to Miss Bridget Flahavan.
>>
>> As always, we are grateful to May's contributing writers. We hope  
>> you enjoy the selections for this month. Please pass the magazine  
>> on to anyone who you think would enjoy it.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> George L. McDowelleditorThe American Museum
> Maurya Simon
>
> Professor
> Department of Creative Writing
> University of California Riverside
> 900 University Avenue
> Riverside, CA 92521-0318
>
> TEL. (951) 827-2006 (office)
>
> FAX: (951) 827-3619
>

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