Comments on: Examining the Fossil http://renegadebusdallas.com/2009/09/21/examining-the-fossil/ Culture and the curious in Dallas, Texas Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:18:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Carl http://renegadebusdallas.com/2009/09/21/examining-the-fossil/comment-page-1/#comment-1564 Carl Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:44:06 +0000 http://renegadebusdallas.com/?p=2902#comment-1564 I thoroughly enjoyed hearing Marilynne Robinson at the Dallas Writers' Garret yesterday. In addition to being a great writer, she's clearly a very thoughtful person and a real intellectual. With Dallas being one of the handful of places that compete for the distinction of being the proverbial buckle of the proverbial Bible Belt, her theme of Protestant theological intellectual life in the MidWest seems very relevent here. Flat country and earnestness doesn't mean one is necessarily intellectually dull. Alan Birkelbach Lecture at the Dallas Philosophers Forum: Buried in the Wall: When Poetry, Philosophy, and Faith Converge: http://www.philosophersforum.org/archive/BirkelbachArchive.html Texas Poets Laureate: http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ref/abouttx/poets.html http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/PP/kzp1.html I thoroughly enjoyed hearing Marilynne Robinson at the Dallas Writers’ Garret yesterday. In addition to being a great writer, she’s clearly a very thoughtful person and a real intellectual. With Dallas being one of the handful of places that compete for the distinction of being the proverbial buckle of the proverbial Bible Belt, her theme of Protestant theological intellectual life in the MidWest seems very relevent here. Flat country and earnestness doesn’t mean one is necessarily intellectually dull.

Alan Birkelbach Lecture at the Dallas Philosophers Forum: Buried in the Wall: When Poetry, Philosophy, and Faith Converge:
http://www.philosophersforum.org/archive/BirkelbachArchive.html
Texas Poets Laureate:
http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ref/abouttx/poets.html
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/PP/kzp1.html

]]> By: Jason http://renegadebusdallas.com/2009/09/21/examining-the-fossil/comment-page-1/#comment-1558 Jason Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:39:21 +0000 http://renegadebusdallas.com/?p=2902#comment-1558 I attended the Texas Book Festival last year for the first time, and while I enjoyed parts of it, I was disappointed in the lack of poetry sessions offered. Also sorely lacking? Playwrights. People do still read plays, and I'd like to see that field represented, too, at the festival. I attended the Texas Book Festival last year for the first time, and while I enjoyed parts of it, I was disappointed in the lack of poetry sessions offered.

Also sorely lacking? Playwrights. People do still read plays, and I’d like to see that field represented, too, at the festival.

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