Category: News
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Student Spotlight: Dakota Lewis
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Read More: Student Spotlight: Dakota LewisDakota Lewis BA English: Writing Concentration BS Business Administration: Marketing and Computer Information Systems Concentrations What inspired you to get a degree in English? My mom has a degree in English herself and taught it for a while, and my dad is a published writer. They instilled in my sister…
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Fork Socket: An Exposé (or, No One Was Injured in the Making of This Blog Post)
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Read More: Fork Socket: An Exposé (or, No One Was Injured in the Making of This Blog Post)~from intern Joyce Bohling This month’s Fork Socket reading featured a giant game of Battleship. You know, Battleship: the game with the submarine, the cruiser, the aircraft carrier, and the destroyer, where you say “miss” so many times it starts to sound like you’re trying to get an unmarried woman’s…
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Women's History Month: Sylvia Plath
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Read More: Women's History Month: Sylvia PlathThe name Sylvia Plath incites thoughts of deep, depressive poetry and a woman who abruptly ended her life. But her raw, revealing writing has inspired and influenced generations of new writers and poets. Born in 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts, Plath had always been drawn to language. From the age of…
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Women's History Month: Edith Wharton
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Read More: Women's History Month: Edith WhartonEdith Wharton may not have published her first novel until she was 40 years old, but she was a prolific writer who actually began writing poetry and fiction as a young girl, even writing a novella at age eleven. Publishing was seen as something women, especially those of her class, didn’t do (their…
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Women's History Month: International Women's Day
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Read More: Women's History Month: International Women's Day“The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights.” ~Gloria Steinem International Women’s Day commemorates the movement for women’s rights, and was originally called International Working Women’s Day. The earliest…
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Women's History Month: Sojourner Truth
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Read More: Women's History Month: Sojourner TruthSojourner Truth was an abolitionist and women’s rights activist born into slavery, originally named Isabella Baumfree. At eleven years old, after the death of her original owner and then his son, she was separated from her family, and sold at an auction with a flock of sheep for $100. Sold two more times…
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News of Note Week of February 27
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Read More: News of Note Week of February 27Dan Beachy-Quick had a conversation with Alex at Wolverine Farms that is now this podcast: http://www.wolverinefarm.org/matter-podcast/ Sue Doe and Mike Palmquist presented a workshop on writing across the curriculum to the faculty at CSU Pueblo last Thursday. They enjoyed the drive south and the conversation in both directions, but didn’t have…
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Women's History Month: Maxine Hong Kingston
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Read More: Women's History Month: Maxine Hong KingstonThe daughter of Chinese-American immigrants, Maxine Hong Kingston was born in 1940 in Stockton, California. She is the author of two highly-acclaimed works of nonfiction—Woman Warrior and China Men—and has also written two novels and a number of more recent works of nonfiction. Kingston’s writing career began early with publication…
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Women's History Month: Margaret Fuller
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Read More: Women's History Month: Margaret FullerMargaret Fuller is a woman known for her powerful feminist writings and her literary criticism. Born in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts in 1810, she learned to read at the age of three. Her father refused to let her read the feminine books of the time that focused on etiquette and sentiment, setting…
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Reading: Rachel Hall and Mike Lala
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Read More: Reading: Rachel Hall and Mike Lala~from intern Katie Haggstrom Literary readings always bring together a diverse audience who shares a love for language. As a new MA English student at CSU, I was eager to attend my first Creative Writing Reading Series at the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art. I relinquished my pen and water…