Category: News
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Applications Being Accepted: Words for the Earth Award
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Read More: Applications Being Accepted: Words for the Earth AwardAre you concerned about the conditions of the natural world? Are you involved in or about to begin a project that would result in some form of social action that would increase awareness or lead to positive change? Funding from the Words for the Earth Award can help. The Department…
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National Poetry Month: New Poetry from the Mountain West Poetry Series
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Read More: National Poetry Month: New Poetry from the Mountain West Poetry Series~by Katherine Indermaur, Managing Editor, Center for Literary Publishing On Colorado State’s campus, the Center for Literary Publishing’s (CLP) interns work under the guidance of director and editor-in-chief Stephanie G’Schwind to publish new collections of poetry every year. Furthest Ecology, by Adam Fagin, is the CLP’s most recent book, published…
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Camille Dungy wins Guggenheim Fellowship
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Read More: Camille Dungy wins Guggenheim FellowshipCamille Dungy, a professor in CSU’s Department of English, has won another major honor: a Guggenheim Fellowship. On April 9, the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation named Dungy among the 168 scholars, artists and writers to receive the fellowship this year. Appointed on the basis…
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National Poetry Month: 早知去年今天日，人无花开再少年 “As flowers cannot blossom again, neither can we regain our youth.”
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Read More: National Poetry Month: 早知去年今天日，人无花开再少年 “As flowers cannot blossom again, neither can we regain our youth.”~by Frank Xia and Alister Matheson English major and department communications intern Frank Xia offers for our National Poetry Month celebration a poem he wrote based on a dream he had, written first in Chinese and then translated to English. His friend and fellow English major then took that translation…
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Student Spotlight: Holly Lathrop
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Read More: Student Spotlight: Holly LathropHolly Lathrop English major: Creative Writing concentration History Minor Besides your current classes, what else are you doing or have you done that we should know about? Awards? Special projects? Travel? Service work? Well, I work for the CLC as you mentioned. I edit the SpeakOut! journals that we publish…
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National Poetry Month: Favorite Poems and Poets
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Favorite Poems and PoetsAs part of our celebration of National Poetry Month, we sent out an email to the English department and asked them a single question: “What is your favorite poem, and/or who is your favorite poet, and why?” Here are a few more of the answers we’ve received. Kseniya Walcott, a student…
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Alumna Profile: Felicia Zamora
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Read More: Alumna Profile: Felicia ZamoraDisclaimer: We love to profile Felicia Zamora here on the blog. She’s always doing something interesting and noteworthy, is a genuinely wonderful human, and we like to keep in touch with her. If you’d like to read some previous stories, you could check out the first alumni profile we wrote…
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Student Spotlight: Emma Kerr
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Read More: Student Spotlight: Emma KerrEmma Kerr English Major: Creative Writing concentration History Minor Besides your current classes, what else are you doing or have you done that we should know about? Awards? Special projects? Travel? Service work? A project I’m excited for is my upcoming Honors thesis, which will be a collaborative piece with…
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Humans of Eddy: Jingying Ye
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Read More: Humans of Eddy: Jingying YeJingying Ye English Major: Language Concentration Besides your current classes, what else are you doing or have you done that we should know about? Awards? Special projects? Travel? Service work? I am a part-time teacher at the Confucius Institute at CSU! My students are age six to eight. When they…
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A Day in the Life of an English Student: Frank Xia
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Read More: A Day in the Life of an English Student: Frank XiaBeing an English major student at CSU needs lots of effort and hard work. As an international Ram, I am happy to learn new knowledge every day, but there are also sorrows and troubles. It is super cool to learn English from different people and the contents of the courses…