Category: News
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Fork Socket Reading
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Read More: Fork Socket Reading~from English Department Communications Intern Joyce Bohling At the first ForkSocket reading of the 2016-2017 school year, on the evening of September 23 at Wolverine Farm Letterpress and Publick House, I decided that I like gummy bears better than wine. There are a lot of things I love about ForkSocket,…
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9 Tips for CSU English Majors Considering Graduate School
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Read More: 9 Tips for CSU English Majors Considering Graduate School~from English Department Communications Intern Joyce Bohling Thinking about applying to graduate school in English or another liberal arts field? Last Friday, a panel consisting of Academic Success Coordinators Joanna Doxey and Sarah Wernsing, along with Professor Ellen Brinks, presented to an audience of undergraduate students to address questions and concerns…
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News of Note Week of October 3
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Read More: News of Note Week of October 3Doug Cloud gave a presentation titled “Strategies for Concealing and Revealing Animus in Public Arguments About LGBTQ People” at After Marriage: A Conference Organized by CLAGS, The Center for LGBTQ Studies (CUNY) in New York, New York. The Academy of American Poets has posted three of Mary Crow’s translations of the…
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Gregory Pardlo Bio (Reading Thursday!)
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Read More: Gregory Pardlo Bio (Reading Thursday!)~from Communications Coordinator Jill Salahub Although reading his poetry now and looking at the list of his awards, honors, and publications might make it hard to believe, at one point Gregory Pardlo dropped out of Rutger’s having “bought into the stories about African American boys.” Having left school, Pardlo joined the Marine Reserves,…
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Humans of Eddy: Megan Skeehan
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Read More: Humans of Eddy: Megan SkeehanMegan Skeehan Admin Assistant II for the Ethnic Studies Department in Eddy Currently reading: Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals “My stepson is about to read this YA novelization of The Little Rock Nine for his advanced seventh grade literature class. I knew it was an intense novel so…
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In Memory of Mrs. Simmons, on World Teacher's Day
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Read More: In Memory of Mrs. Simmons, on World Teacher's Day~from Communications Coordinator Jill Salahub I was a lucky kid. I grew up in a really small town in a rural area of Oregon, but was part of a really big family. My mom is the second oldest of 12 kids and my grandparents had a farm. We all lived…
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Humans of Eddy: Jordan
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Read More: Humans of Eddy: JordanJordan Sophomore, English with Education Concentration Favorite class: 20th century fiction with Debra Walker. “Unlike a lot of the intro classes there’s a lot more variety in 20th century fiction that makes the class more interesting and diverse” Favorite poem: “Do Not Go Gentle into that Goodnight” by Dylan Thomas.…
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News of Note Week of September 26
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Read More: News of Note Week of September 26Tim Amidon and Michele Simmons (Miami University) gave a research talk titled “Negotiating ‘messy’ research context and design through adaptive research stances” at the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication (SIGDOC) in Washington, D.C. While at SIGDOC, Tim also participated in “Draw to communicate: How…
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News of Note Week of September 19
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Read More: News of Note Week of September 19Tony Becker recently had an article, “L2 Students’ Performance on Listening Comprehension Items Targeting Local and Global Information,” published in the Journal of English for Academic Purposes. For those interested in reading the article, it is currently available at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S147515851630042X. Judy Doenges’ story “Promised Land” was listed in Other Distinguished Stories…
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Jam: a Poem by Beth Lechleitner for Bev McQuinn
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Read More: Jam: a Poem by Beth Lechleitner for Bev McQuinnJam For Bev McQuinn A decade gone, responding to my plea for thinning, you dug canes with vigor, creating welcomed roominess in my raspberry forest and seeding a small grove of your own. Every summer since then, you have blessed me with jam. Including this one, after which, very shortly,…