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Dr. Carol W. Payne
has been appointed
the new director of
Clayton
State
University's Music
Preparatory School,
a part of the Visual
and Performing Arts
Department's Music
Division.
Payne has been a music educator for more
than 25 years and holds a Ph.D. in Music
Education/Piano Pedagogy from The
Florida State University. She previously
taught music courses and piano at FSU,
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Campus Review
September 19, 2012
Carol Payne Named
Director of Music Preparatory School
Kathleen Ossip Opens Fall 2012
Visiting Writers Reading Series
Arts Page
Pensacola State College and the
University of West Florida.
Clayton State’s Music Prep School has a
faculty of professional musicians and
offers affordable lessons and classes to the
public in piano, violin, voice, brass, and
other instruments. Each session lasts for
nine weeks and adults, children over the
age of six, and all skill levels are wel-
come.
Registration for Fall Session II opened on
Wednesday, Sept. 12, with lessons begin-
ning the week of Oct. 15. Prep School stu-
dents are taught in the Clayton State
Music Education Building and have the
opportunity to perform on campus in
beautiful Spivey Hall.
For more information, please contact
Payne at extension (678) 466-5600, or
email her at carolpayne@clayton.edu, or
check out the website at http://www.clay-
ton.edu/arts-sciences/vpa/music/prepara-
toryschool.
Poet Kathleen
Ossip will be
featured in the
first installment
of the fall 2012
edition of the
Clayton State
Department of
English’s popu-
lar
Visiting
Writers Reading
Series.
Ossip will be read-
ing at Clayton State
on Thursday, Sept.
27, at 11:30 a.m., in
room T212 of
Clayton Hall. As is
the case with the
entire
series,
Ossip’s reading is
free and open to the public.
Ossip is the author of two books of
poems, “The Search Engine” and
“The Cold War,” and one chapbook,
“Cinephrastics.” Her poems have
appeared in The Best American
Poetry, Paris Review, Kenyon
Review, American Poetry Review, the
Washington Post, Fence, The
Believer, and Poetry Review
(London).
She teaches at The New School in
New York, where she was a founding
editor of LIT, and she's the poetry
editor of Women's Studies Quarterly.
She has received a fellowship in poet-
ry from the New York Foundation for
the Arts, as well as grants from Bread
Loaf, the Ragdale Foundation, and
Yaddo.
For more information on Ossip’s
work, go to http://www.kathleenos-
sip.com/.
Upcoming visiting readers at Clayton
State will include Amy Riddell (Oct.
25), and a Nov. 15 reading featuring
series director and Clayton State
Associate Professor of English Dr.
Brigitte Byrd, Robert Pfeiffer, and
Clayton State creative writing stu-
dents.
Visi
Ɵ
ng Writers Reading Series
FALL 2012
SEPTEMBER 27, 2012
Thursday, 11:30 a.m. | T212 | Poetry
OCTOBER 25, 2012
Thursday, 6:00 p.m. | Con
Ɵ
nuing Educa
Ɵ
on Atrium | Poetry
NOVEMBER 15, 2012
Thursday, 6:00 p.m. | Writers’ Studio G224 | Poetry
KATHLEEN OSSIP
is the author of
The Cold War,
which was named one of
Publishers Weekly
's
100 best books of 2011;
The Search Engine
, which won the American Poetry
Review/Honickman First Book Prize; and
Cinephras
Ɵ
cs
, a chapbook of movie
poems. Poems have appeared in
The Best American Poetry
,
Paris Review
,
Kenyon
Review
,
Boston Review
,
American Poetry Review
, the
Washington Post
,
The
Believer
,
Fence
, and
Poetry Review
(London). She teaches at The New School in
New York and online for The Poetry School in London. She was a co-founder of
LIT
(the journal of the graduate wri
Ɵ
ng program at The New School), and she's the poetry
editor of
Women's Studies Quarterly
. She has received a fellowship from the New York Foun-
da
Ɵ
on for the Arts.
Clayton State University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, na
Ɵ
onal origin, sex, disability or age in its programs and ac
Ɵ
vi
Ɵ
es. Clayton State is an A
ĸ
rma
Ɵ
ve Ac
Ɵ
on/Equal Opportunity Ins
Ɵ
tu
Ɵ
on.
Individuals requiring disability related accommoda
Ɵ
ons for par
Ɵ
cipa
Ɵ
on in any event or to obtain print materials in an alterna
Ɵ
ve format, please contact the Disability Resource Center at (678) 466-5445.
All events are free to the public. Each reading is followed by a Q&A and book signing.
This event is sponsored by the College of Arts & Sciences and the Department of English.
h
Ʃ
p://www.clayton.edu/arts-sciences/english
AMY RIDDELL
,
in her first full-length volume of poetry, has given us a true crime story, that of her
Bluebeard-like father who went to prison for trying to murder his wife. From her
a
Ʃ
empts to understand her father’s odd brutali
Ɵ
es (and love) to her own hard-won
transcendence later in life, these poems o
ī
er tacit touchstones to healing what is
wounded in all of us. Riddell's poems have appeared in journals such as
Prairie Schoo-
ner
,
Blue Fi
Ō
h Review
,
Prick of the Spindle
,
Birmingham Poetry Review
, and
Chicken
Piñata
. Her chapbook
Narcissis
Ɵ
c Injury
was published in 2009 by Pudding House. She
lives with her husband and daughter in northwest Florida, where she teaches English
at Northwest Florida State College.
Bullets in the Jewelry Box
was published by FutureCycle Press in
March 2012.
BRIGITTE BYRD
is a na
Ɵ
ve of France where she was trained as a dancer, Brigi
Ʃ
e Byrd is the author
of
Song of a Living Room
(Ahsahta, 2009),
The Dazzling Land
(Black Zinnias, 2008),
and
Fence above the Sea
(Ahsahta, 2005). About
Song of a Living Room
, the
Hu
ĸ
ng-
ton Post’
s contemporary poetry reviews say “very, very highly recommended.” Byrd
currently lives in Atlanta and is an Associate Professor of English teaching Crea
Ɵ
ve
Wri
Ɵ
ng at Clayton State University. She is also an editorial reviewer for Confluence:
The Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies. h
Ʃ
p://www.brigi
Ʃ
ebyrd.com
ROBERT PFEIFFER
a
Ʃ
ended Wake Forest University where he received a Bachelor of Arts in
English. A
Ō
er moving to Atlanta, he earned an MFA and PhD in Crea
Ɵ
ve Wri
Ɵ
ng from
Georgia State University. His fist book of poetry,
Bend, Break
was published in Janu-
ary 2011 by Plain View Press. His poems have appeared interna
Ɵ
onally in journals
and magazines, including
The Connec
Ɵ
cut River Review
,
The Flint Hills Review
,
Freefall
Magazine
and
The Concho River Review
. He currently teaches in the English Depart-
ment at Clayton State, and lives in Atlanta with his wife, their daughter and their two dogs.
KATHLEEN OSSIP
AMY RIDDELL
ROBERT PFEIFFER, BRIGITTE BYRD
& CREATIVE WRITING STUDENTS
Catch all of the writers in the Fall 2012 Visiting
Writers Reading Series. Look for posters around
campus or read the series details online at
http://faculty.clayton.edu/bbyrd/readingseries.
Ossip
Payne