Online essays, stories, poetry

The Phi Xi chapter has been very active in recent years, and this has resulted in a great number of presentations at the various National Conventions. Below, you can get a taste of the kinds of things Sigma Tau Delta members from The University of Alabama have read at conventions.

Savannah, 2000

Critical Essays

• Michel Aaij - Misreading in Wieland: Some Unresolved Issues

Personal Essays

• David Hodnett - Unpacking (finalist for the Convention Award for Best Personal Essay)

Convention Essays

• Michel Aaij - Only Connect (winner in the Convention Essay contest)

Good Poetry

• Christina Rauh - Deaf
• Christina Rauh - Window Seat
• Christina Rauh - For Richard G. Morin
• Christina Rauh - A Far Cry from Ruth

St. Louis, 1999

Critical Essays

• Michel Aaij - Bartleby's Poetic Narrator
• Carmen Corral - The Textual History of The Sun Also Rises
• JoAnn Marshall - The Roles of Southern Women, Black and White, in Society

Personal Essays

• Allen Gamel - Daughter, Mother, Me (received President's Award for Best Personal Essay)
• Tanner Latham - The Bouncing Chairs

Fiction

• Zac Showers - The Way It Started

Bad Poetry

• Zac Showers - To the Beholder (winner in the Bad Poetry Contest)

Good Poetry

• Zac Showers - Thirteen Things I Saw in Europe

Miscellaneous

• The rap that won us the t-shirt skit: Zac Showers - Beseech Somebody

Anaheim, 1998

Fiction

• Aaron Reid - All Gone Cold

Good Poetry

• Zac Showers - Men of Black, Alabama (received the Eleanor B. North Award for Best Rectangle poem and the Judson Q. Owen Award for Best Rectangle piece overall)

Savannah, 1997

Bad Poetry

• Zac Showers - The Party (winner in the Bad Poetry Contest)
• Bob Halli - Negatives, Driving South From Tuscaloosa To Mobile