Columbus College of Art & Design Blog » Charlene Fix http://www.ccad.edu/blog All things CCAD. Wed, 22 May 2013 19:44:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Liberal Arts Faculty Publishes Book http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2013/03/liberal-arts-faculty-publishes-book/ http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2013/03/liberal-arts-faculty-publishes-book/#comments Sat, 23 Mar 2013 13:00:06 +0000 Katlin McNally http://www.ccad.edu/blog/?p=20105 Professor Charlene Fix’s book Harpo Marx as Trickster has been published by McFarland Publishers.

The book was 10 years in the making and explores her reasoning in defining Harpo Marx, a member of cinema’s famous Marx Brothers, as a trickster.

A trickster figure is a literary term to describe a character that plays tricks or otherwise disobeys normal behavior and includes well-known characters such as the Joker from the Batman comics and the Brer Rabbit.

]]> http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2013/03/liberal-arts-faculty-publishes-book/feed/ 0 Liberal Arts Professor Does Local Poetry Reading http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2013/03/liberal-arts-professor-does-local-poetry-reading/ http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2013/03/liberal-arts-professor-does-local-poetry-reading/#comments Thu, 07 Mar 2013 19:00:29 +0000 Katlin McNally http://www.ccad.edu/blog/?p=19797 Professor Charlene Fix will be a featured poetry reader at Beehive Books in Delaware, OH, on March 7.

Her reading is part of the bookstore’s monthly first Thursday initiative of events featuring local musicians and Ohio poets. Fix’s presentation will begin at 7 p.m., followed by an open mic session.

Beehive Books is located at 25 North Sandusky St., Delaware, OH.

]]> http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2013/03/liberal-arts-professor-does-local-poetry-reading/feed/ 0 Professor Reads and Publishes Poetry http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2013/02/professor-reads-and-publishes-poetry/ http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2013/02/professor-reads-and-publishes-poetry/#comments Sat, 16 Feb 2013 15:30:03 +0000 Katlin McNally http://www.ccad.edu/blog/?p=19374 Professor Charlene Fix is doing a poetry reading for the Peripatetic Poets series, Feb. 27, 7 p.m., at the Gardens at Whetstone Care Center, Columbus, OH.

The group meets on the fourth Sunday of every month to host a featured poet and an open mic session.

Fix’s manuscript Frankenstein’s Flowers has been accepted for publication in 2014 by WordTech Communications under their CW Books imprint.

Her poems Sweet and Our Norwegian were published in the Red Branch Journal during fall 2012.

]]> http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2013/02/professor-reads-and-publishes-poetry/feed/ 0 Professor Has Greatest Hits Poems Published http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2012/12/professor-has-greatest-hits-poems-published/ http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2012/12/professor-has-greatest-hits-poems-published/#comments Sun, 16 Dec 2012 15:00:32 +0000 Katlin McNally http://www.ccad.edu/blog/?p=18736 Professor Charlene Fix had a chapbook of her poems published by Kattywompus Press in November.

The chapbook, Charlene Fix: Greatest Hits 1998-2011, features 12 poems by Fix, plus an opening bio and explanation of the poems.

Greatest Hits chapbooks are part of a series printed by Kattywompus Press based on the music industry’s greatest hits albums. There have been more than 300 poets’ greatest hits published since the series’ founding in 2000. Poets’ are invited by a panel to be a part of the series.

 

]]> http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2012/12/professor-has-greatest-hits-poems-published/feed/ 0 Professor’s Poem Part of Neighborhood Celebration http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2012/10/professors-poem-part-of-neighborhood-celebration/ http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2012/10/professors-poem-part-of-neighborhood-celebration/#comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 20:00:20 +0000 Katlin McNally http://www.ccad.edu/blog/?p=17718 Associate Professor Charlene Fix’s poem Loitering Geese was included in Schumacher Days 2012: Exploring Art, Embracing History.

Schumacher Days was an event in German Village, OH, created to help explore the past and present of the neighborhood and celebrate Columbus’ bicentennial.

Fix’s poem was in a display featuring work from several Columbus-based poets.

]]> http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2012/10/professors-poem-part-of-neighborhood-celebration/feed/ 0 Liberal Arts Professor Has Poems Published http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2012/08/liberal-arts-professor-has-poems-published/ http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2012/08/liberal-arts-professor-has-poems-published/#comments Tue, 21 Aug 2012 20:07:46 +0000 Katlin McNally http://www.ccad.edu/blog/?p=17067 Charlene Fix, associate professor and chair of English & Philosophy, will have three poems in the spring 2012 issue of the literary journal Hotel Amerika: “The Burial of Bruno Schulz,” “My Mole,” and “Haunting.”

In addition, Fix’s poem “Kublai Kahn” will be featured in issue 35 of 5AM magazine.

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To read more about Fix’s current work, including her recent book contract with McFarland, click here.

]]> http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2012/06/professor-presents-poetry-at-public-library/feed/ 0 Poetry Contests, Readings Keep Liberal Arts Faculty Busy http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2012/04/poetry-contests-readings-keep-liberal-arts-faculty-busy/ http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2012/04/poetry-contests-readings-keep-liberal-arts-faculty-busy/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:30:54 +0000 Katlin McNally http://www.ccad.edu/blog/?p=14652 Charlene Fix, associate professor and chair of English & Philosophy, served as a judge for a local poetry slam and is presenting her work throughout Columbus.

Fix was on a panel of judges for the Columbus City School District Poetry Slam on April 21 at Centennial High School. She will also be reading her poetry at Sips Café at 101 South Main Street in Mount Vernon, OH, on April 24, 7 p.m.

She will be presenting on her manuscript, Harpo Marx as Trickster: Why We Love Him, Why We Laugh at Him, Why He Seems Divine, at C.G. Jung Association of Central Ohio, a community center in Columbus, on May 6, 1:30 p.m. She recently signed a contract with McFarland, to publish the manuscript.

]]> http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2012/04/poetry-contests-readings-keep-liberal-arts-faculty-busy/feed/ 0 Liberal Arts Faculty Signs Book Contract http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2012/03/liberal-arts-faculty-signs-book-contract/ http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2012/03/liberal-arts-faculty-signs-book-contract/#comments Wed, 07 Mar 2012 13:30:39 +0000 Katlin McNally http://www.ccad.edu/blog/?p=13655 Charlene Fix, associate professor and chair of English & Philosophy at CCAD, received a book contract from McFarland, an independent publisher of academic and nonfiction books.

Fix started working on her manuscript Harpo Marx as Trickster: Why We Laugh, Why We Love Him, Why He Seems Divine 10 years ago, and she finished her first draft last summer. She hopes to have the book published within a year.

The manuscript asserts that the literary character Harpo Marx captures the complexity and disruption needed to be considered a literary trickster.

Fix has been presenting her book proposal at various conferences throughout the last year, including most recently the C.G. Jung Association of Central Ohio, a community center in Columbus.

 

 

]]> http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2012/03/liberal-arts-faculty-signs-book-contract/feed/ 1 CCAD Professor Promotes Marx Brother to Trickster http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2011/11/ccad-professor-promotes-marx-brother-to-trickster/ http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2011/11/ccad-professor-promotes-marx-brother-to-trickster/#comments Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:00:42 +0000 Katlin McNally http://www.ccad.edu/blog/?p=11931 Harpo Marx is known as the curly haired silent member of cinema’s Marx Brothers but a CCAD Liberal Arts professor is bringing him into the ranks of a literary trickster.

Charlene Fix, associate professor and chair of English & Philosophy, is an avid fan of the character and ten years ago had the idea to have his film persona become a trickster figure. Her research of Harpo Marx lasted years and this last summer she completed the first draft of her book.

The working title of her book is, Harpo Marx as Trickster: Why We Love Him, Why We Laugh at Him, Why He Seems Divine. Her book will discuss her reasoning on the character who captures the complexity and disruption needed to be considered a literary trickster.

A trickster figure is a literary term to describe a character that plays tricks or otherwise disobeys normal behavior. Some well known characters within the category of tricksters are the Brer Rabbit and The Joker from the Batman comics.

“I bought DVD’s of all the films and watched them over and over and over again, laughing unto tears, taking notes, drafting, revising, and writing more,” Fix said.

Fix will be conducting talks and discussions on the topic in various locations over the next year. She recently spoke at the School of Visual Arts Conference in New York City. This was her second year attending the conference.

She gave a 15 minute read of her proposal, Harpo Marx as Trickster, and accompanied it with images and film clips of the character.

“I submitted my proposal to the conference because I felt my work was similar to the conference topic, Crossing Borders, and my program had a very positive response from the audience.”

The conference was the twenty-fifth annual national conference on liberal arts and the education of artists. It consisted of round table presentations and talks on the arts.

]]> http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2011/11/ccad-professor-promotes-marx-brother-to-trickster/feed/ 1 CCAD Faculty Member, Poet to Read at Literary Arts Event http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2011/10/ccad-faculty-member-poet-to-read-at-literary-arts-event/ http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2011/10/ccad-faculty-member-poet-to-read-at-literary-arts-event/#comments Sun, 02 Oct 2011 12:00:03 +0000 Katlin McNally http://www.ccad.edu/blog/?p=11496 Charlene Fix, the chair of the English and philosophy departments at CCAD, will share her poetry with central Ohio.

Fix will be a featured reader in Paging Columbus: Under the Influence at the OSU Urban Arts Space.

Paging Columbus is a literary arts-themed event series with a local focus. It takes place once a month in the evenings and features readings and panel discussions.

The October installment, on Oct. 6 from 6-8 p.m., will feature three individuals, including Fix, and will have the individual readers discuss their mentors, teachers, and gurus.

Fix also recently participated in the House of Toast poetry group performance at Beehive Books in Delaware, Ohio.

The House of Toast is a group of central Ohio poets founded in 1995 as a way to support the member’s poetry and since then has become a group that does various performances and readings at local venues.

Fix’s poems have appeared in numerous publications, including Poetry, The Ohio Review, The Chicago Review, The Manhattan Review, and Negative Capability.

She has received fellowships for her poetry from both the Greater Columbus Arts Council and the Ohio Arts Council, and won the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.

She has published a chapbook of poems, Mischief (Pudding House Publications), and a poetry collection, Flowering Bruno: A Dography, a finalist for the Ohioana Book Award in Poetry (XOXOX Press).

Learn more about the October Paging Columbus: Under the Influence event here.

To watch Fix’s reading click here.

]]> http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2011/10/ccad-faculty-member-poet-to-read-at-literary-arts-event/feed/ 0 CCAD Professor Judges High School Poetry Slam http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2011/05/ccad-professor-judges-high-school-poetry-slam/ http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2011/05/ccad-professor-judges-high-school-poetry-slam/#comments Sun, 08 May 2011 14:26:21 +0000 CCAD News http://www.ccad.edu/blog/?p=8683 CCAD’s chair of English and Philosophy was one of four judges for the preliminary rounds of the Columbus Public Schools poetry slam at Eastmoor Academy in late April.
Charlene Fix, professor of Liberal Arts, said it was an honor to judge and witness the talent and courage of the students from 18 district high schools perform their original poetry. Finalists advanced to a grand slam event at Capital University on May 11.
]]> http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2011/05/ccad-professor-judges-high-school-poetry-slam/feed/ 0 Professor Wins Poetry Award, Joins Community Read http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2011/03/professor-wins-poetry-award-joins-community-read/ http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2011/03/professor-wins-poetry-award-joins-community-read/#comments Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:29:16 +0000 CCAD News http://www.ccad.edu/blog/?p=6748 A poem by Charlene Fix, the chair of the English and philosophy departments at CCAD, has won an award from the Poetry Society of America.

“On the Outskirts of Vertigo” by Fix won the Louis Hammer Memorial Award for a distinguished poem in the surrealist manner. The Liberal Arts professor will go to New York in April for the awards ceremony.

According to judge David Lehman, editor in chief of the Best American Poetry series, “the poem’s regular three-line stanzas go oddly well with the strangeness of a place where gravity is routinely defied and people can ‘pass from left to right while remaining still’.”

To read “On the Outskirts of Vertigo” and some of the judge’s comments click here.

Fix also is one of four poets participating in a Community Poetry Read at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 29. She will be joined by Mimi Brodsky Chenfeld, Steve Abbott, Rose Smith and moderator Fred Andrle at the Bexley Public Library, 2411 E. Main St.

]]> http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2011/03/professor-wins-poetry-award-joins-community-read/feed/ 0 Newspaper Tells Tale of Professor’s Poetry http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2011/02/newspaper-tells-tale-of-professors-poetry/ http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2011/02/newspaper-tells-tale-of-professors-poetry/#comments Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:02:13 +0000 CCAD News http://www.ccad.edu/blog/?p=5594 Liberal Arts Chair & Professor Charlene Fix was recently featured in a Columbus community newspaper. The article focused on Fix’s journey as an educator and poet and her published book of poetry Flowering Bruno: A Dogography, which includes illustrations by CCAD colleague Susan Josephson (also a Liberal Arts professor).

The book of poetry was inspired by Fix’s dog Bruno, and in the article, Fix mentioned she did not intend to have a dog but several years ago allowed a CCAD student to talk her into taking one of two puppies abandoned in a box on a church doorstep. After many years and many walks with Bruno, Fix said that the dog had inspired her to write more than 50 poems. While Bruno did not live to see the finished work, Fix included in the book a fitting final tribute to her friend.

Read the full article about Fix in the Clintonville edition of ThisWeek community newspapers.

]]> http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2011/02/newspaper-tells-tale-of-professors-poetry/feed/ 0 Poetry Fix Available at Columbus Café http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2011/01/poetry-fix-available-at-columbus-cafe/ http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2011/01/poetry-fix-available-at-columbus-cafe/#comments Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:46:09 +0000 CCAD News http://www.ccad.edu/blog/?p=4562 Liberal Arts professor Charlene Fix is the featured reader at an upcoming weekly poetry forum in Columbus. The event is Monday, Feb. 21 at 7 p.m. at Rumba Café, located at 2507 Summit St. Fix serves as chair of English and Philosophy at CCAD.

]]> http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2011/01/poetry-fix-available-at-columbus-cafe/feed/ 0 Liberal Arts Chair Shapes the Literature of Food http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2010/06/liberal-arts-chair-shapes-the-literature-of-food/ http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2010/06/liberal-arts-chair-shapes-the-literature-of-food/#comments Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:00:15 +0000 CCAD News http://www.ccad.edu/blog/?p=1063 Two poems published in the shape of their titles by Charlene Fix, professor, Liberal Arts, chair, English and Philosophy, are in the summer issue of Alimentum: The Literature of Food. The design of Orange and Peaches was accomplished for the author by her daughter Madeleine Fix-Hansen.

To see the current literary journal go to http://www.alimentumjournal.com.

]]> http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2010/06/liberal-arts-chair-shapes-the-literature-of-food/feed/ 0 Professor in ‘Page Meets Stage’ Poetry Reading in April http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2010/03/professor-in-page-meets-stage-poetry-reading-in-april/ http://www.ccad.edu/blog/2010/03/professor-in-page-meets-stage-poetry-reading-in-april/#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:12:11 +0000 CCAD News http://www.ccad.edu/blog/?p=1736 Charlene Fix, professor, Liberal Arts, chair, English and Philosophy, squares off in a merging of poetic voice and performance in a ‘Page Meets Stage’ poetry reading at Wild Goose Creative, 2491 Summit St. in Columbus, on Sunday, April 25 from 7-11 p.m. For details go to www.wildgoosecreative.com or call 614.859.9453. Fix also recently read poems before Ballet Met’s March 11th performance of Carmina Burana and at SIPS coffee house on March 23 in Mt. Vernon, OH with Fred Andrle and Jerry Roscoe.

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