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English Epilogue: October 2026
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English Epilogue is a monthly CSU English community newsletter. Here, you can catch up on department news, faculty and student achievements, upcoming events, opportunities, and highlights from across our vibrant…
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Writing in Fractures
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Read More: Writing in FracturesAndrew Altschul called me last March offering a spot in this coveted MFA program and, in between frantic packing and nervous drinking, I could not allow myself to be excited about this opportunity. Hours before Andrew’s call, my undergraduate institution made the decision to send its students home as the…
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Mental Health, COVID-19, and English Studies
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Read More: Mental Health, COVID-19, and English StudiesThe semester of Fall 2020 was perhaps one of the most challenging in CSU’s history–both for students and faculty. Many students struggled, and continue to struggle, with their mental health as a result of the pandemic. Safety precautions such as distance learning, quarantine, and limited contact have made it challenging…
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How To Write Following an Insurrection in the United States of America
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Read More: How To Write Following an Insurrection in the United States of AmericaI think the short answer is, “we don’t.” As an MFA student here at CSU, I’m meant to contribute something to the MFA blog on the subject of writing. Which is what I start doing. Writing on writing. And then word gets out that an unhinged mob of Trump Loyalists…
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Ineffable Poetics; Toward Recovery and a Life in Writing
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Read More: Ineffable Poetics; Toward Recovery and a Life in WritingNearly a decade has passed since my first college writing teacher encouraged me to write beyond his class. In the interim between then and now I have filled up notebooks and read at open mics trying to explain my experience with mental health, which has been compounded by familial histories…
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Congrats to Beth Lechleitner on Retirement
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Read More: Congrats to Beth Lechleitner on RetirementBeth Lechleitner, Senior Instructor Beth Lechleitner leaves after 17 years in the Department of English. She began teaching in the Department of English as an Instructor in 2003, was awarded a Senior Teaching Appointment in 2012, and will retire as a Senior Instructor. By her count, she has taught more…
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Congrats to Marnie Leonard on Retirement
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Read More: Congrats to Marnie Leonard on RetirementMarnie Leonard, Graduate Program Assistant For more than 20 years, Marnie has worked in the English department. Her official title is Graduate Program Assistant, but informally we might call her The Master of Transitions. She has been responsible for managing the admission of more than 2000 new graduate students and…
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Fall 2020 Commencement
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Read More: Fall 2020 CommencementCongratulations to the Fall 2020 Department of English graduates!
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Introducing the Embodied Experience of Playing Music To My Work on the Page, by Bryce M O’Tierney
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Read More: Introducing the Embodied Experience of Playing Music To My Work on the Page, by Bryce M O’TierneyMaking the decision to move cross-country and start an MFA program in the midst of a pandemic called me to consider my relationship with uncertainty. For four years in Chicago, I cultivated a career as a performing artist with my twin sister, Maris (https://maeveandquinn.com/); a week before the city locked…
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Reaching out
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Read More: Reaching outGrace Detwiler used her keen sense of initiative to open the ominously creaking door to writing opportunities in the realm of the macabre.
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Launching in Place
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Read More: Launching in PlaceThe outbreak of COVID-19 in March set the stage for a summer at home for most people, including Andrew Altschul, who had spent the last eight years writing a novel, which he expected to publicize heavily with a tour of in-person reading events.