Category: News
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News of Note Week of August 21
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Read More: News of Note Week of August 21Leslee Becker was named the 3rd-Place Winner of the Marguerite McGlinn Prize for Fiction, sponsored by Rosemont College/Philadelphia Stories & PS Books (“the POWER of Small”) for her short story, “The Grotto.” The Community Literacy Center is happy to welcome six new interns for Fall 2017-Spring 2018. Interns who will develop research…
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"The Last Panther" by Todd Mitchell, a Q&A
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Read More: "The Last Panther" by Todd Mitchell, a Q&AA powerful tale. ~Kirkus Told in vivid, heartbreaking detail and filled with strong, developed characters, this novel tackles an important theme in a compelling way. In Kiri, young readers will find a protagonist who, although at times afraid, finds the courage to do what she believes to be right. ~Booklist…
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News of Note: Welcome to Fall 2017
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Read More: News of Note: Welcome to Fall 2017Dan Beachy-Quick has poems accepted at Poetry, New England Review, and Cincinnati Review. Harrison Candelaria Fletcher had a couple of lyric essays published during the summer break – “Family Cookbook” in Florida Review and “Flight” in Somos en escrito. He also and taught a few hybrid image and found text workshops at the…
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Events around Fort Collins, August edition
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Read More: Events around Fort Collins, August edition~From intern Katie Haggstrom The beginning of August means that fall classes start in less than three weeks. But there are still plenty of literary events happening around Fort Collins, both before and after school starts. From Fort Collins own Comic Con to a release party for English Professor Todd Mitchell’s…
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Events around Fort Collins, July edition
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Read More: Events around Fort Collins, July edition~From intern Katie Haggstrom July is usually celebrated with fireworks and Independence Day events. But that doesn’t mean that the literary world comes to a halt, especially in the Fort Collins area. There are some amazing literature-related events happening this month, including the release of a new book from English…
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OpenSpace Music and Reading Series
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Read More: OpenSpace Music and Reading Series~From intern Katie Haggstrom While the school year is over, there are still plenty of local events happening throughout the summer. The OpenSpace: A Music and Reading Series will have their next event this Saturday, June 17th at 7:30pm. The event will feature some familiar faces from the CSU English…
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Professor Camille Dungy releases collection of literary essays
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Read More: Professor Camille Dungy releases collection of literary essaysProfessor Camille Dungy, an award-winning author of four full-length poetry collections and the editor of three poetry anthologies, released her first collection of literary essays, Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History, on June 13. Publisher W.W. Norton & Company calls it “a stunningly graceful and honest exploration of race,…
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Putting the Humanities to Work
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Read More: Putting the Humanities to Work~From intern Katie Haggstrom Recently the English department hosted a workshop, “Putting the Humanities to Work,” to help graduate students explore potential career paths. As the event description explained, “one of the things we don’t talk enough about is how your English graduate degree prepares you for a wide range of interesting…
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Student Spotlight: Avery Jones
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Read More: Student Spotlight: Avery JonesWe recently featured English (double) major Avery Jones in an article for the Spring 2017 issue of the CLA online magazine. In the article she shared space with four other amazing English majors, and there just wasn’t enough room to share everything we wanted to about her, so we asked Avery…