Category: News
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Creative Writing Reading Series: MFA Thesis Reading (Megan Pipe, Sam Killmeyer, Emily Harnden, and Zach Yanowitz)
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Read More: Creative Writing Reading Series: MFA Thesis Reading (Megan Pipe, Sam Killmeyer, Emily Harnden, and Zach Yanowitz)As part of the MFA Thesis Reading series, four more MFA students shared their work in the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art. It was a night filled with the perfect combination of well-placed humor and the meaning of good friendships and love. Our readers for the evening were Megan Pipe…
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National Poetry Month: Danez Smith
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Danez SmithAs their biography on their website explains, “Danez Smith is a Black, queer, poz writer & performer from St. Paul, MN.” Their most recent poetry collection, Don’t Call Us Dead (2017) was a finalist for the National Book Award. This collection is a “heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for…
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Equal Pay Day
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Read More: Equal Pay DayToday is Equal Pay Day. It originated with the National Committee on Pay Equity (NCPE) in 1996 as a public awareness event to illustrate the gap between men’s and women’s wages. Equal Pay Day falls on a different day, depending on the year and the country, as it is meant…
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National Poetry Month: Motivation Monday
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Motivation Monday~from Katie Haggstrom Great poets have a way with words. To help you with your Monday, we’ve found some inspiring quotes from poets. “Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.” -Lucille Clifton “We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones…
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National Poetry Month: Hannah Johnson
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Hannah Johnson~from Michaela Hayes I found this poem several years ago when I was going through my obligatory English major spoken word poetry craze. I was struck by it then and I’m still struck by it now. It’s been hanging out in my laptop bookmarks and I watch it every few…
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National Poetry Month: Theodore Roethke
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Theodore Roethke~from Michaela Hayes I love the circularity of “The Waking.” The poem is a villanelle, a strict and rather complicated poetic form, so by definition it is pretty circular. It discusses the inescapable monotony of life as it interacts with the inescapable uncertainty. The poem is ambiguous and beautiful; it…
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We’re Hiring! English Department Communications Internship Fall 2018
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Read More: We’re Hiring! English Department Communications Internship Fall 2018English Department Communications Internship Internship term: Fall 2018 Semester, 15 weeks, August 20 – December 7, 2018 Total credits: 2 (optional) Hours: Approximately 5 per week Stipend: $500.00 Extended Application Deadline: Friday, September 7, 2018 by 5:00 p.m. The English Department is a vibrant and diverse community. It is home…
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National Poetry Month: Happy Birthday Maya Angelou!
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Happy Birthday Maya Angelou!Maya Angelou (April 4, 1928–May 28, 2014) would have been 90 years old today. We featured her last year during Black History Month, but when such a “phenomenal woman” and poet has a birthday during National Poetry Month, it’s hard to not celebrate that and feature her again (and again). I…
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National Poetry Month: Joy Harjo
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Joy HarjoToday’s poem comes from Joy Harjo. She was born in Oklahoma and received her MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop in 1978. She is part of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation, an identity that is also reflected in her poetry, including her collections The Woman Who Fell from the Sky (1996), How…
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News of Note for March 2018
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Read More: News of Note for March 2018Stephanie G’Schwind’s National Endowment for the Arts grant application, on behalf of the Center for Literary Publishing, was funded for $15,000. The grant will fund two issues of Colorado Review and the most recent title in the Mountain West Poetry Series: We Remain Traditional, by Arizona poet Sylvia Chan (February…