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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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National Poetry Month: Spoken Word Poetry Projects
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Spoken Word Poetry ProjectsFor this week of National Poetry Month, we are featuring spoken word poetry and poets. Today, we wanted to share some spoken word projects you might be interested in. Button Poetry was founded in 2011, launching the first Button website and blog soon after. They have being promoting and producing spoken…
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National Poetry Month: Andrea Gibson
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Andrea GibsonFor this week of National Poetry Month, we are featuring spoken word poetry and poets. Andrea Gibson is an award-winning poet and activist born in Calais, Maine. Gibson has lived in Boulder, Colorado since 1999. Gibson also goes by Andrew and uses gender-neutral pronouns. Their website bio says, Andrea Gibson is…
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National Poetry Month: Shane Koyczan
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Shane KoyczanFor this week of National Poetry Month, we are featuring spoken word poetry and poets. Hearing a poem read by its author adds an additional dimension to any work.The inflection, the empty spaces, the tone. All of these pieces work together to create the art of spoken word. Shane Koyzcan…
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National Poetry Month: Billy Collins
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Billy CollinsJohn Updike described Billy Collins’s poems as “more serious than they seem.” And indeed, while Collins’ poems are often laugh-out-loud funny, many end on a touching, sometimes somber note. Billy Collins is one of the most well-known and financially successful poets in the United States. He was the United States…
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The TEFL/TESL Student Association presents: Advocacy Week
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Read More: The TEFL/TESL Student Association presents: Advocacy Week~from the TEFL/TESL Student Association We are excited to announce that Advocacy Week is almost upon us! As a registered GSA, the TEFL/TESL Student Association (TTSA) strives to promote linguistic and cultural diversity, both here on campus and in the larger Fort Collins community. We do this through Advocacy Week,…
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National Poetry Month: Rupi Kaur
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Rupi KaurArtist and poet Rupi Kaur was born in Punjab, India, in 1992. When she was only 4, her parents emigrated to Toronto, Canada. Her artistic and creative ability was something that emerged when she was a young age. Kaur began to draw and paint, inspired by her mom and would…
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National Poetry Month: David Whyte
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Read More: National Poetry Month: David WhyteThe work of David Whyte moves between literary, psychological, theological and vocational worlds. As Whyte explains, his poetry and philosophy comes from “the conversational nature of reality.” Born in 1955 in Mirfield Yorkshire, his poetry was influenced by bother his mother’s Irish heritage and what he called his “Wordsworthian childhood”…
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National Poetry Month: Mary Oliver
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Mary OliverTell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? ~Mary Oliver, from her poem “The Summer Day” Mary Oliver is a prolific contemporary poet. Her work has received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award,…
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Creative Writing Reading Series MFA Reading Reflection
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Read More: Creative Writing Reading Series MFA Reading Reflection~from intern Joyce Bohling The reading of creative writing master’s theses on March 30 featured creative nonfiction M.A. candidate Dana Chellman and poetry M.F.A. candidates Denise Jarrott and Kylan Rice. Each reading featured unique style and subject matter, showing the diversity and creativity of work produced by students in the…