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March 12, 2010

Mish Wins Wrangler Award

Filed under: Uncategorized — Kitty @ 9:43 am

Oklahoma Poet Jeanetta Calhoun Mish Wins Wrangler Award  

ALBUQUERQUE:  —West End Press author Jeanetta Calhoun Mish has won the 50th annual Western Heritage Award for her book of poetry Work Is Love Made Visible. Mish will be honored at a gala event April 17 at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. 

Work Is Love Made Visible is a book of poems and family photographs that explores the realities of Plains life. An Oklahoma native, Mish returned home after twenty years of traveling to revisit her working class roots. The result was a collection of heartfelt, determined poems that make up Work Is Love Made Visible. 

“I am honored that Work Is Love Made Visible was awarded the Wrangler, and I think it may have appealed to the judges because it tells the western stories not often heard, of sharecroppers and truck drivers, Native Americans and poor Scots Irish, women and men whose personal histories are too complex to romanticize.” Mish, a resident of Norman, Oklahoma, holds a Ph.D. in American literature from the University of Oklahoma. She is a founding member of the Woody Guthrie Poets at the Woody Guthrie Free Folk Festival in Okemah, Oklahoma, and she has been a featured reader at events across the country. Recently, she has published in Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, Oklahoma Today, Crosstimbers, and World Literature Today. 

The Western Heritage Awards honor the “legacy of those whose works in literature, music, film and television reflect the significant stories of the American West.” Awardees receive “The Wrangler,” which is an impressive bronze statue by famed Western artist John D. Free of Pawhuska, Oklahoma. Along with the category winners, inductees into the Hall of Great Western Performers and the Hall of Great Westerners will be honored at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, one of the world’s largest museums of western heritage and art.  Past Wrangler winners include John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, John Ford, and Louis L’Amour. Work Is Love Made Visible is Volume 3 in the New Series from West End Press and is available from booksellers or from UNM Press, distributor for West End press. To order, please call 800-249-7737. 

MORE INFO @: 
·     Wrangler Award Press Release: http://www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/info/MediaRelease.aspx?ID=266 

·     Jeanetta Calhoun Mish: —http://www.tonguetiedwoman.com/

March 3, 2010

Spend an evening with Richard Russo

Filed under: Uncategorized — Kitty @ 2:17 pm

The Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers cordially invites you to An Evening with Pulitzer Winner Richard Russo, Tuesday, April 13, 7 p.m., in the OSU-Tulsa auditorium.   Reading from his work.  Answering your questions.  Autographing your books.

 There is a big, wry heart beating at the center of Russo’s fiction” — The New Yorker

Ticket Information:

Tickets are $10 and may be purchased in person at Steve’s Books, 2612 S. Harvard in Tulsa.  You can also order tickets by mailing a check, payable to Poets and Writers, to the address below:

Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers

OSU-Tulsa

700 N. Greenwood

Tulsa, OK 74106

 

Patron Members of the Center receive two free tickets as part of their membership.   

For more information call (918) 594-8215

February 4, 2010

Asian Festival at the Metropolitan Downtown Library

Filed under: Uncategorized — Kitty @ 4:13 pm

Asian Festival

January 4, 2010

Oklahoma Landscapes: A Literary Tableau

Filed under: Events, OK author, Oklahoma Landscapes, Poetry, programs, speakers — Kitty @ 8:51 am

Come hear some of Oklahoma’s greatest writers read their works and sign their books!

Award-winning authors/poets, including Rilla Askew, S.E. Hinton, Billie Letts, N. Scott Momaday and Michael Wallis, will all be “re-envisioning the stereotypical, Dust Bowl landscapes that have haunted us so long“.

Thursday, Jan 21
7 p.m.
OSU-Tulsa Auditorium

This special even is not to be missed.  Tickets are $10 and should be purchased before the event.  Mail checks to:

Poets and Writers
OSU-Tulsa
700 N. Greenwood
Tulsa, OK 74106

or call Teresa Miller at 918-594-8215.

December 2, 2009

Pioneer Woman visits Oklahoma City

Filed under: Events, Nonfiction, speakers, storytelling — Kitty @ 10:10 am

Be sure and catch the Pioneer Woman when she comes to Oklahoma City.

She’s got great recipes and a humorous take on country life.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009
7:00 PM
BARNES & NOBLE
13800 North May Avenue
Oklahoma City, OK

November 24, 2009

Centennial Series by Glenda Carlile

Filed under: OK author — Kitty @ 3:41 pm

The third book in the Centennial Series: Oklahoma Women Creators of Destiny is now on sale!  The set of books, written by Glenda Carlile and published by New Forums Press as part of their Centennial Series, traces the history of Oklahoma women from Territorial Days to the present.

Buckskin, Calico, & Lace: Oklahoma Territorial WomenBuckskin, Calico, and Lace: Oklahoma’s Territorial Women -

Profiles a variety of women that contributed to the formation of the state including Anna Overholser, Elva Ferguson, Cattle Annie and Little Britches, Belle Starr, Kate Barnard, “Ketcucky” Daisy, Will Rogers Mother Mary and the all women town of Bethsheba.

Petticoats, Politics, and Pirouettes: Oklahoma Women from 1900 to 1950 –

Oklahoma’s heritage is continued with more exciting stories of Oklahoma women including the Five Indian Ballerinas, Perle Mesta, U.S. Representative Alice Robertson, Chief Alice Brown Davis, Te Ata, Augusta Metcalfe, Angie Debo, Norma Smallwood, Ruby Darby, Rosemary Hogan and even the infamous “Ma” Barker.

Astronauts, Athletes, & Ambassadors Oklahoma Women From 1950-2007Astronauts, Athletes, and Ambassadors: Oklahoma Women form 1950 to 2007 –

Pioneers in their own way, these women continue to open new frontiers and bring glory to Oklahoma.  Some of these prominent women are:  Jerrie Cobb, Shannon Lucid, Shannon Miller, Bertha Teague, Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, Mayor Mazola McKerson, June Brooks, Clara Luper, Chief Wilma Mankiller, the Five Miss Americas, Kay Starr, Reba McEntire, Wanda Jackson, Carrie Underwood, Billie Letts, Doris Travis, Ida “B” Blackburn, Leona Mitchell, Alma Wilson, Donna Nigh, Mary Fallin, Merline Lovelace, and General Rita Aragon.

The books are available on Amazon or by special order.  Use the special order and get all three for $45.  To place a special order call 405-681-8071.

November 18, 2009

Oklahoma’s Extraordinary Women

Filed under: OK author, programs, speakers, storytelling — Kitty @ 9:43 am

Glenda Carlile, our recently retired Executive Director of the Oklahoma Center for the Book, is also well known for her presentations on Oklahoma women.  Thankfully, she’s not giving that up!  As an approved Oklahoma Centennial project, dressed in period costume, she changes hats as she tells of the many women who have contributed to Oklahoma history.  Glenda is a former newspaper correspondent, a noted historian and author of four books on Oklahoma women.  She brings to life the exciting stories of these talented and courageous women.

Presentations include:

  • Hats Off to Territorial Women
  • Oklahoma Women Come of Age (Oklahoma Women from 1900-1950)
  • Astronauts, Athletes, and Ambassadors (Oklahoma Women from 1950-2007)
  • Kate Barnard – Oklahoma’s Good Angel
  • Perle Mesta – The Hostess with the Mostess
  • Angie Debo – Oklahoma’s Historian
  • The Harvey Girls
  • Susanna Wesley
  • Mary Still

For bookings call 405-678-8071 or email glencarl@cox.net

November 10, 2009

Romance in the Stacks

Filed under: OK author, Romance, Romance in the Stacks, speakers — Kitty @ 3:07 pm

Don’t forget – this Thursday is Romance in the Stacks!

The time to register has already past but if you would like a spot email Bill Young at byoung@oltn.odl.state.ok.us

Hardesty Regional Library

Thursday, November 12th from 10:30 to 2:00 p.m. (Registration starts at 10)

Enjoy the following:

November 4, 2009

Red Dirt Festival is Coming

Filed under: Uncategorized — Kitty @ 11:13 am

This blog has been sort of, um, quiet for awhile! Time to liven things up!

Much more is coming but for now, check out the Red Dirt Festival website.

September 24, 2009

Fantastic Super Saturday awaits at Del City

Filed under: Events — Kitty @ 7:37 am

Come out to Del City Library this Saturday for a Super good time.

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