Category: News
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Celebrating Bruce Ronda on His Retirement
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Read More: Celebrating Bruce Ronda on His RetirementTomorrow we are honoring Bruce Ronda at a celebration (he’s retiring!), and in preparation, we have these two special posts, an interview with the man himself and a collection of memories and good wishes.
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Interview with Bruce Ronda
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Read More: Interview with Bruce RondaIn Spring 2016, English major Alexander (Alec) Pearson did an internship where he researched department history. He graduated at the end of that same semester, earning his Bachelor of Arts in English with a writing concentration. Alec collected and wrote a lot of material that semester. One thing he did…
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Bruce Ronda: Memories and Good Wishes
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Read More: Bruce Ronda: Memories and Good Wishes~from Jill Salahub Tomorrow the English department will be holding a very special celebration. Bruce Ronda is retiring this year, and as sad as we are to see him go, we are sending him off with our best wishes at this upcoming event. To honor him here on the blog, I’ve been collecting memories and…
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News of Note Week of April 24
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Read More: News of Note Week of April 24Matthew Cooperman has a new poem up at The Awl. You can read it at https://theawl.com/a-poem-by-matthew-cooperman-7676e273da85 Camille Dungy’s poem, “Trophic Cascade,” was featured on Poetry Daily on April 25. http://poems.com/poem_print.php?date=17282 Camille Dungy received an advance copy of Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood and History (W.W. Norton), her debut collection of essays.…
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National Poetry Month: Camille Dungy
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Camille DungyWe’re coming to the end of National Poetry Month. It has been a challenge to limit ourselves to just a month’s worth of influential poets and poetic forms, while including space for CSU’s own poets. We’ve barely brushed the surface. If we’ve learned anything this month, it would be that…
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Faculty Profile: Nancy Wright
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Read More: Faculty Profile: Nancy WrightWhat brought you to CSU? When my kids were little, I worked online through Johns Hopkins University, but then at a certain point, I wanted to get back into the face-to-face classroom, so I worked at Front Range Community College a couple of years until a spot opened up at…
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National Poetry Month: Sasha Steensen
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Sasha SteensenAs National Poetry Month comes to a close, we’ll spend the final days focusing close to home, on our very own English department poets — Matthew Cooperman, Sasha Steensen, Dan Beachy-Quick, and Camille Dungy. Professor Sasha Steensen has published numerous chapbooks and full-length poetry collections, including correspondence (a collaborative work…
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Communications Internship: Application Deadline May 8
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Read More: Communications Internship: Application Deadline May 8English Department Communications Internship Number of positions: TBD Internship term: Fall 2017 Semester, 15 weeks, August 21 – December 8, 2017 Total credits: 2 (optional) Hours: 80 hours (40 per credit hour), approximately 5 per week Stipend: $500 Application Deadline: Monday May 8 by 5:00 p.m. The English Department…
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National Poetry Month: Dan Beachy-Quick
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Dan Beachy-QuickAs National Poetry Month comes to a close, we’ll spend the final days focusing close to home, on our very own English department poets — Matthew Cooperman, Sasha Steensen, Dan Beachy-Quick, and Camille Dungy. Poet, professor and essayist Dan Beachy-Quick is next up for our local poets. He is an…
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26th Annual English Department Awards Reception
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Read More: 26th Annual English Department Awards ReceptionThe English department and friends recently gathered to celebrate and honor our amazing students. These students hold a total of 169 University and departmental scholarships and 6 literary awards for the 2016-2017 academic year. In addition, the English Department selected 13 winners of the Creative and Performing Arts Awards. Recipients, award…