Category: News
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National Poetry Month: Matthew Cooperman
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Matthew CoopermanAs National Poetry Month comes to a close, we’d like to 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. CSU professor Matthew Cooperman is the author of four chapbooks and five full-length books…
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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. English graduate…
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National Poetry Month: Alumna Poets
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Alumna PoetsMaybe we are biased, but we have some of the best alumni. They are a diverse group of amazing humans doing interesting and important work in the world. We miss them after they are gone, and love nothing more than to brag about them, to share with you all the good…
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News of Note Week of April 17
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Read More: News of Note Week of April 17CSAL Roundtable Discussion Sue Doe wishes to announce that the Center for the Study of Academic Labor (CSAL) will host a roundtable discussion of the CSU “Proposal for Re-Envisioning Faculty Appointments” (authored by the Committee on Non Tenure-Track Faculty –CoNTTF) featuring leaders of the academic labor movement on April 27…
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National Poetry Month: Spoken Word Poetry Around FoCo
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Spoken Word Poetry Around FoCo“Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn’t just want to sit on the paper, that something about it demands to be heard out loud or witnessed in person.” -Sarah Kay We’ve spent this week celebrating the form of slam…
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MA/MFA Reading, a Reflection from Katie Haggstrom
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Read More: MA/MFA Reading, a Reflection from Katie HaggstromThe Creative Writing Reading Series ended with this semester’s second, and final, thesis reading in the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art. The space was filled with family, peers and faculty members eager to hear the accomplishments of these three students: Joyce Bohling (MA in Creative Nonfiction), KT Heins (MFA in Fiction),…
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National Poetry Month: Our Favorite Spoken Word Poems
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Our Favorite Spoken Word PoemsToday we are continuing our focus on spoken word poetry and poets. These are some of our favorite spoken word poems. What are some of yours? Video: “What Teachers Make” by Taylor Mali Video: Rachel Rostad – “Names” Video: Neil Hilborn – “OCD” Video: Sabrina Benaim – “Explaining My Depression to My Mother” Video: Beautiful…
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National Poetry Month: Spoken Word Poetry Projects
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Spoken Word Poetry ProjectsFor this week of National Poetry Month, we are featuring spoken word poetry and poets. Today, we wanted to share some spoken word projects you might be interested in. Button Poetry was founded in 2011, launching the first Button website and blog soon after. They have being promoting and producing spoken…
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National Poetry Month: Andrea Gibson
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Andrea GibsonFor this week of National Poetry Month, we are featuring spoken word poetry and poets. Andrea Gibson is an award-winning poet and activist born in Calais, Maine. Gibson has lived in Boulder, Colorado since 1999. Gibson also goes by Andrew and uses gender-neutral pronouns. Their website bio says, Andrea Gibson is…
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National Poetry Month: Shane Koyczan
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Shane KoyczanFor this week of National Poetry Month, we are featuring spoken word poetry and poets. Hearing a poem read by its author adds an additional dimension to any work.The inflection, the empty spaces, the tone. All of these pieces work together to create the art of spoken word. Shane Koyzcan…