Category: News of Note
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News of Note Week of February 29
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Read More: News of Note Week of February 29Dan Beachy-Quick’s book of poems, gentlessness, was named a finalist for the Rilke Prize. Matthew Cooperman recently gave a number of readings in North Carolina to support his new book. He’ll be reading at the University of Wyoming this Friday, March 4, 7pm. He also has new poems up at Word/for…
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News of Note Week of February 22
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Read More: News of Note Week of February 22On Friday, February 5th, Pam Coke gave two invited presentations at the Colorado Council International Reading Association (CCIRA): “Teaching as Close Reading: Igniting a Sense of Wonder about Why I Teach” and “If I Stay: Developing a Plan for Keeping a Sense of Wonder about Why I Teach.” Dr. Coke was thrilled…
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News of Note Week of February 15th
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Read More: News of Note Week of February 15thDan Beachy-Quick will be the Hurst Visiting Professor at Washington University from Feb 22 to March 3. Hannah Caballero (aka Nizam-Aldine – she got married and changed her name!) will present the results of her year-long classroom-based research project, “L2 English Writers’ Perceptions of Audio Versus Written Summative Feedback,” at…
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News of Note Week of February 8th
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Read More: News of Note Week of February 8thDan Beachy-Quick is giving a “Pub Talk” at Wolverine Farm’s Publick House on Tuesday the 16th at 7:00 pm: “The Poem, the Shield, the Ardent Pursuit.” Matthew Cooperman has a new poem up at Spiral Orb, at http://www.spiralorb.net/eleven/cooperman. He will be launching his new book Spool, and reading from it, alongside…
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News of Note Week of February 1st
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Read More: News of Note Week of February 1stAby Kaupang and Matthew Cooperman’s book NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified) was recently a finalist for the Essay Press Book Prize. Largely detailing the challenges and joys of raising their autistic daughter Maya, the book has been in progress for many years. A chapbook from that collection, Disorder 299.00, has just been released from Essay…
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News of Note Week of January 25th
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Read More: News of Note Week of January 25thDan Beachy-Quick gave a reading in Salt Lake City for the University of Utah and the Utah Arts Council. A poem, “A Century of Meditation,” has been accepted for the Kenyon Review’s special issue on long lyric forms. The Center for Literary Publishing received funding from the VPR’s FY2016 Quarterly…
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News of Note Week of December 14th
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Read More: News of Note Week of December 14thTom Conway received news that he was chosen for a College of Liberal Arts Excellence in Teaching Award. Jaime Jordan along with her husband, Robert Jordan (who teaches in the history dept) was awarded a 2016 Carl A. Bimson Humanities Endowment entitled “Digital Humanities in the Classroom: Empowering Student Scholars…
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News of Note Week of November 7th
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Read More: News of Note Week of November 7thZach Hutchins has been awarded a 2016 Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Humanities. NEH support will facilitate research on Hutchins’s current book project, a prehistory of the North American slave narrative. For his research, Hutchins is reading thousands of issues of early American newspapers and transcribing every news…
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News of Note Week of November 30th
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Read More: News of Note Week of November 30thSueEllen Campbell and John Calderazzo will be busy at the upcoming American Geophysical Union (AGU) annual conference in San Francisco. SueEllen is a co-convener of three sessions about the need for multidisciplinary approach to climate change education, two oral sessions and one poster session. She will also present a poster…