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Reading: Jonis Agee
No full textIn this audiovisual recording from Friday, April 8, 1994, as part of the 25th Annual UND Writers Conference: “Homelands,” Jonis Agee reads a selection of her fiction. Agee reads the short story “I Can\u27t Stop Loving You” and excerpts from Sweet Eyes, Strange Angels, and the then-unpublished South of Resurrection.
Introduced by Dr. Libby Rankin, Department of English
Jonis Agee: 03-26-1996
No full textJonis Agee is a poet, fiction writer, and professor of English. She earned her PhD in English and Creative Writing from Binghamton University and can claim three of her published titles as New York Times Notable Books. She begins the interview by reading the short story “Listen”, from her collection A .38 Special and a Broken Heart. Agee goes on to discuss how she’d wanted to be a writer from a very young age, but only started writing poetry during her undergraduate studies, and then fiction when she was in her early 30’s. The interview continues with a conversation about the plot, characters and controversy within her first novel, Sweet Eyes, and within her second novel, Strange Angels, and discusses how western culture, and specifically country music and western movies, influenced her novels. Agee ends the interview by reading the short story “Asparagus.”Archived web contentSUNY BrockportWriters Forum Video
An Appreciation of Ted Kooser
Get PDFA year before he was named U.S. Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser was honored by an event sponsored by the Friends of the University of Nebraska Press. These are remarks from that evening by Paul Royster, then director of the press. Included are introductions of speakers Suzanne Wise, Chuck Hassebrook, Charlie Tisdale, Laura Casari, Jonis Agee, and a telegram from Jim Harrison
Panel
No full textIn this audiovisual recording from Friday, April 8, 1994, as part of the 25th Annual UND Writers Conference: “Homelands,” James Whitehead, Larry Watson, and Jonis Agee participate in the noon panel. The panelists discuss landscape, nature, sense of identity and place, the importance of literacy, accuracy and authenticity in writing, and commitment to literature.
Moderated by Dr. Robert Lewis, Department of English
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