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March 4, 2001 SIGMA TAU DELTA CONVENTION COMES TO BOISE Sherman Alexie, who wrote “Reservation Blues” and co-authored the screenplay for the film “Smoke Signals,” Utah essayist Terry Tempest Williams and poet Craig Arnold are among the featured speakers at the international convention of Sigma Tau Delta, the English honors organization that includes a chapter at Boise State University. The convention will be held March 14-17 at the Grove Hotel in downtown Boise and is open to the public. The cost is $60 and includes the final awards banquet on March 16; registration will be held March 14 from 11 a.m.-6:30 p.m. On March 17, an optional tour of southwestern Idaho will take participants to various attractions including wine tasting at Ste. Chapelle Winery. The tour is an additional $27. Alexie will present the keynote address at 7 p.m. March 14 at the Grove Hotel’s Grand Ballroom and will also be available for a book signing afterwards. Selected by The New Yorker magazine as one of the best American fiction writers under 40, Alexie is a Spokane/Coeur D’Alene Indian who has written numerous plays, short stories and novels including “The Toughest Indian in the World,” and “Indian Killer.” Williams will read from her works at 4 p.m. March 14. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and is author of “Refuge,”“An Unspoken Hunger,”“Leap” and “Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert.” Arnold, winner of the 1998 Yale Younger Poets Award and author of “Shells,” will hold a poetry workshop at 9:45 a.m. and a reading at 4 p.m. March 15, followed by the Oinkari Basque Dancers at 5 p.m. A book sale of featured authors, a book drive organized by the student advisers and student representatives benefiting Idaho’s Bells for Books program, and a variety of breakout sessions will also be held. Boise State’s Zeta Upsilon chapter of Sigma Tau Delta helped sponsor the convention and presenters and mediators will include Boise State students and faculty, as well as Sigma Tau Delta members from colleges and universities around the country. Topics such as Shakespeare, American Fiction, Original Poetry, Ways We Talk, Hemingway and Outside the Mainstream in Film will be discussed throughout the first three days of the convention. Registration deadline for the convention is Friday, March 15, at noon. Registration forms and additional information can be found online at: www.english.org. Contacts: Media Contact:
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