January 21 & 22, 2005

with

Naomi Shihab Nye
Winner of several national poetry awards; author or editor of over 30 books including:

• 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East
• The Words under the Words
• Never in a Hurry: Essays on People and Places

Susan Van Zanten Gallagher
Professor of English, Seattle Pacific University, author of

Truth and Reconciliation:  The Confessional Mode in South African Literature
• A Story of South Africa: J. M. Coetzee's Fiction in Context
• Literature through the Eyes of Faith


Original submissions of poetry and creative prose are also welcome. Submit one-page abstracts and panel proposals by August 9, 2004 to Cheri Larsen Hoeckley (CCL Program Chair), English Department, Westmont College, 955 La Paz Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108-1011, or by email in Word format to larsen@westmont.edu.