Watch the Honors Convocation on Youtube on Friday, May 27 at 12:30 p.m.
Charles Austin Segrest Door to Remain: Community in Poetry's Threshold Friday, May 27, 2022
Honors Convocation Program
Friday, May 27, 2022
12:30 p.m.
Prelude
Praeludium in E minor - Nicolaus Bruhns (1665-1697)
Daniel Schwandt
University Organist
Procession of the Faculty*
Prelude in F Major - Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-1847)
Daniel Schwandt
University Organist
Recognition of Students Elected to Honor Societies and Recipients of Awards and Prizes
Laurie A. Carter
Lawrence University President
Musical Selection
Splinter - Marc Mellits (b. 1966)
VI. River Birch
IV. Black Ash
VIII. Red Pine
Emily Zuniga, oboe
Georgia Chau, clarinet
Melanie Shefchik, alto saxophone
Jazzlyn Timper, bass clarinet
Nate Scott, bassoon
Introduction of Professor Charles Austin Segrest
Catherine Kodat
Provost and Dean of the Faculty
Address
"Door to Remain: Community in Poetry's Threshold"
Charles Austin Segrest
Assistant Professor of English
Recipient of the 2022 Faculty Convocation Award
Recessional*
Trumpet Tune in C Major - David N. Johnson (1922-1987)
Daniel Schwandt
University Organist
*Please stand for the processional and the recessional
Charles Austin Segrest
Austin Segrest teaches classes in poetry writing and literature, as well as First-Year Studies. He is the author of the poetry collection, Door to Remain (UNT Press, 2022), winner of the Vassar Miller Poetry Prize. His poetry can be found in POETRY, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, The Yale Review, Ecotone, The Common, New England Review, and many other journals. His poetry criticism appears in APR, Poetry Northwest, 32 Poems, Southern Humanities Review, and Pleiades
An American Sign Language interpreter will be available and located near the stage.
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