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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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Women's History Month: Amy Krouse Rosenthal
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Read More: Women's History Month: Amy Krouse RosenthalIf you have young children who love to read, you may already know Amy Krouse Rosenthal, maybe without even realizing it — she’s a best selling author of over 30 award-winning books beloved by children, including “Duck! Rabbit!,” “Spoon,” “Yes Day!,” “Little Pea,” and “The Wonder Book,” (see a full…
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Women's History Month: Leslie Marmon Silko
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Read More: Women's History Month: Leslie Marmon SilkoLaguna Pueblo writer Leslie Marmon Silko was born in 1948 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She identifies as an Anglo American and Mexican American, noting that she is ¼ Laguna Pueblo, a Native American tribe predominantly located along the Rio San Jose in west-central New Mexico. Growing up along the border…
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News of Note Week of March 6
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Read More: News of Note Week of March 6In the new issue of Writer’s Chronicle there’s an essay on erasure poetry that considers Dan Beachy-Quick’s chapbook Shields & Shards & Stitches & Songs. Sue Doe’s article, coauthored with Erik Juergensmeyer of Fort Lewis College, “Owning Curriculum: Megafoundations, the State, and Writing Programs” was just published in the new…
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Student Spotlight: Dakota Lewis
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Read More: Student Spotlight: Dakota LewisDakota Lewis BA English: Writing Concentration BS Business Administration: Marketing and Computer Information Systems Concentrations What inspired you to get a degree in English? My mom has a degree in English herself and taught it for a while, and my dad is a published writer. They instilled in my sister…
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Fork Socket: An Exposé (or, No One Was Injured in the Making of This Blog Post)
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Read More: Fork Socket: An Exposé (or, No One Was Injured in the Making of This Blog Post)~from intern Joyce Bohling This month’s Fork Socket reading featured a giant game of Battleship. You know, Battleship: the game with the submarine, the cruiser, the aircraft carrier, and the destroyer, where you say “miss” so many times it starts to sound like you’re trying to get an unmarried woman’s…
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Women's History Month: Sylvia Plath
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Read More: Women's History Month: Sylvia PlathThe name Sylvia Plath incites thoughts of deep, depressive poetry and a woman who abruptly ended her life. But her raw, revealing writing has inspired and influenced generations of new writers and poets. Born in 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts, Plath had always been drawn to language. From the age of…
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Women's History Month: Edith Wharton
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Read More: Women's History Month: Edith WhartonEdith Wharton may not have published her first novel until she was 40 years old, but she was a prolific writer who actually began writing poetry and fiction as a young girl, even writing a novella at age eleven. Publishing was seen as something women, especially those of her class, didn’t do (their…
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Women's History Month: International Women's Day
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Read More: Women's History Month: International Women's Day“The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights.” ~Gloria Steinem International Women’s Day commemorates the movement for women’s rights, and was originally called International Working Women’s Day. The earliest…
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Women's History Month: Sojourner Truth
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Read More: Women's History Month: Sojourner TruthSojourner Truth was an abolitionist and women’s rights activist born into slavery, originally named Isabella Baumfree. At eleven years old, after the death of her original owner and then his son, she was separated from her family, and sold at an auction with a flock of sheep for $100. Sold two more times…
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News of Note Week of February 27
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Read More: News of Note Week of February 27Dan Beachy-Quick had a conversation with Alex at Wolverine Farms that is now this podcast: http://www.wolverinefarm.org/matter-podcast/ Sue Doe and Mike Palmquist presented a workshop on writing across the curriculum to the faculty at CSU Pueblo last Thursday. They enjoyed the drive south and the conversation in both directions, but didn’t have…