Under the Arch     October 24, 2005     Volume VII, Number 8

PROFESSOR MOORE TO HOST POETRY READING NOV. 1

        Berwyn Moore will host a reading for her new book of poetry, Dissolution of Ghosts, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 1, in the Boardroom of Old Main. The event is free and open to the public; light refreshments will be served.

Copies of Dissolution of Ghosts will be available for purchase and Moore will sign copies of the book.

For more information on the reading, call ext. 7504 or 7725.

More about Berwyn Moore and Dissolution of Ghosts

Moore has been a member of the Gannon faculty since 1985. She is an associate professor of English and serves as advisor to the student-produced Totem.

Her poetry has been published in The Southern Review, Shenandoah, the Journal of the American Medical Association, Kansas Quarterly and other journals. She has won poetry awards from the Chester H. Jones Foundation and Negative Capability Press and a teaching award from the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts. Her poem “Glass” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

Dissolution of Ghosts enacts its title through the very act of lyric art that predominates in its poems. The ghosts that haunt the elegant poems of Berwyn Moore are the ghosts of loss, of memory, and of the ties that bind.

One reviewer of the book said, “In this collection of startlingly original poems, Berwyn Moore confronts with courage and sensitivity the tremors and trials of a life and decides to embrace them, singing all the while. These are poems that recreate the days and nights in which we live, so that we can better know ourselves. Afterwards, as she describes us, readers and poet: ‘suddenly we’re all laughing—the old, the lost, the new, the cured.’”

Dissolution of Ghosts is also available through its publisher, Cherry Grove Collections (http://www.cherry-grove.com/moore.html).

OUR EVENTS

• Tuesday, October 25 – Office of Admissions: Monroeville Reception.

• Tuesday-Wednesday, Oct. 25-26 – Nash Library Book Sale: Offered from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. both days. Hardcover books, paperbacks, pocket paperbacks, videos, and audio books will be offered in categories like history, engineering, business, psychology, science, education, and medicine.

• Wednesday, October 26 – Halloween in the Halls: From 5-8 p.m., faculty, staff, and student families are welcome to join first-year students in celebrating the Office of Student Living's annual Halloween in the Halls. Come and have some fun Trick-or-Treating with the staff and students of Finegan, Wehrle, and Crispo. All parents and children are welcome to explore and enjoy these safe, spectacular environments and practice their haunting skills in preparation for the spookiest night of the year.

• Wednesday, October 26 – Office of Admissions: Bethel Park Reception.

• Thursday, October 27 – Office of Admissions: Allison Park Reception.

• Thursday, October 27 – Resume Day: Between 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m., stop in to the Career Development/Experiential Education Office and have a career counselor review your resume with you. Call ext. 5603 for more information.

• “Our Events” is intended to serve as a random sample of campus events. For a more complete listing, refer to Eventcal.

THE PRESIDENT'S SCHEDULE

Monday, October 24 – Cathedral Preparatory school visit; St. Vincent Health System Annual Foundation Meeting. Tuesday, October 25 – Cathedral Preparatory School Advisory Board Meeting; meeting with Gannon University fraternity and sorority leaders. Wednesday-Thursday, October 26-27 – NCAA Division II Presidents Council Meeting. Friday, October 28 – Gannon University United Way Campaign Kick-off Breakfast.

CURRENT BIRTHDAYS

Dick Sukitsch. Kenneth McCurdy. Don Henry. Matthew Yucha. Sharon Dugan. David Hemenger. Matthew Clark. Lori Jasinski. Bryan Morse. Lynne Wright. Mahesh Aggarwal. Scott Harrington. Donald McAleer. Michael Szymanowski. Janice Greene. Tim Natale. Kenneth Hanas. Darlene Hess. Francis Grandinetti. Mary Ellen Simkovitch. Bernadette Hattjar. Valerie Baker. Lisa Chimenti. Richard Oros. Harry Rudge. Tina DeFoy. John Carrig.

HEARD ON CAMPUS

• Gannon University and the Schuster Program for the Arts would like to announce a special Gannon Night at the Erie Playhouse. On Thursday, Nov. 3 at 7:30 p.m. the Playhouse will put on a special Gannon performance of the musical The Fantasticks. The Fantasticks is the longest-running musical in the world, and with good reason: at the heart of its breathtaking poetry and subtle theatrical sophistication is a purity and simplicity that transcends cultural barriers. The result is a timeless fable of love that manages to be nostalgic and universal at the same time. Tickets are free to all Gannon faculty, staff, and students and are available at the Waldron Center front desk. Please plan on joining us for this special evening. Refreshments will be provided at a 6:45 p.m. reception in the Playhouse lobby. For more information, contact Anita Snider at ext. 5467 or snider001@gannon.edu.

• Please consider supporting Nash Library during its upcoming book sale, Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 25-26. The sale will run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. both days. A wide selection of titles in hardcover and paperback will be offered.