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'Twas the Night Before Halloween . . . Fall quarters second open mic night, cosponsored by the University Writing Program and the Partners in Learning office, took place on Tuesday, October 30, and was on a spooky Halloween theme. Writing Program faculty member David Daniels began by reading poetry by Anne Sexton. The discontented housewife theme was continued by Heather Martin in her story of a thrifty woman who pulls pasta out of her neck to help feed her family. A ghostly sequel about family legends followed with Linda Tates narrative, taken from her forthcoming book Power in the Blood: A Family Narrative. Poetry slam artist Nitche Ward performed with stories of abusive families and an ironic commentary about Cinderella. Dee Galloway, chair of the African American Alumni Association, brought her notebook of writings, and, in an improvisational spirit, asked the audience for any letter of the alphabet. Amazingly, she had poetry or reflective prose beginning with any random letter. Students participated with works from a variety of genres, ranging from poetry and fiction to creative nonfiction. Thanks to Nikole Scribner, Mark Robinson, Russ Takeall, James Krefft, Emelye Neff, Sam Carty, and Christian Seik for their fine contributions to the evening. And we were all thrilled at Sams comment: This makes me feel like there is real life at D.U.!
Open Mic Presenters
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Dee
Galloway holds a BA in English from the
University of Denver and is currently chair of the University of
Denvers African American Alumni Association. She is involved in the
preservation and proliferation of Negro spirituals through the
Spirituals Project. Galloway is a poet whose works include They Slice
the Air, The Last Word of Ancient Sunlight, and Metamorphosis. She
is currently working on a poetic recreation of the artwork of
schizophrenic patients. In addition to her literary achievements,
Galloway is also a skilled accountant, editor, website designer, graphic
designer, and choral musician. 
Heather
Martin completed her doctoral coursework
at the University of Denver, and is currently working on her
dissertation, Latimers Stone, a novel in the form of a research
project. Martin received her her BA in English and Humanities from the
State University of New York at Stony Brook and her MA in Creative Writing at the City
University of New York at Queens. Most recently,
Martin served as the Interim Director of the First-Year English Program.
She has published both pedagogical work, such as Aspire!: A Guide to
First-Year English, which she co-authored, and creative works such
as A Cheap and Frugal Fashion and Pathway of the Waves.
Linda
Tate received her PhD from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a concentration in 20th century
British and American Literature. Before joining the University of
Denvers Writing Program, she was a tenured full professor at Shepherd
University in West Virginia. She received her BA and MA from the
University of Missouri-St. Louis. Tate has published numerous academic
articles as well as two books, A Southern Weave of Women: Fiction of
the Contemporary South and Conversations with Lee Smith. Her
forthcoming book, to be published next fall by Ohio University Press, is
Power in the Blood: A Family Narrative. Tate is currently working on
Writing the Self to Wellness.
Manuel
Blake Sanz received his
MFA from Notre Dame, where he taught creative writing before joining the
faculty at Louisiana State University. There he taught Latin American
Literature and Literature of the South, fiction, and composition. His BA
is from Loyola University in New Orleans. Sanz has published in The
Bend, RE:AL, and Xavier Review, among other places. He
has completed a novel, Airbrushed, and is currently working on a
second novel about Hurricane Katrina. He has also written a collection
of stories entitled In the City of Murals.
