Category: Readings
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Creative Writing Reading Series welcomes major writers to CSU, Fort Collins
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Read More: Creative Writing Reading Series welcomes major writers to CSU, Fort CollinsThe CSU Department of English’s Creative Writing Reading Series welcomes major literary voices to campus to share their work live on stage and to engage with the local community.
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Khadijah Queen, author of “I’m So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On”: Upcoming Reading
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Read More: Khadijah Queen, author of “I’m So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On”: Upcoming ReadingKhadijah Queen — writer, editor, and teacher — will be reading as part of the English department’s Creative Writing Reading Series this Thursday at 7:30 pm at the Lory Student Center in the Longs Peak room. The interactive event will feature a reading from Khadijah Queen’s most recent book of…
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Susan Devan Harness, author of “Bitterroot: A Memoir of Transracial Adoption”: Upcoming Reading
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Read More: Susan Devan Harness, author of “Bitterroot: A Memoir of Transracial Adoption”: Upcoming ReadingThis Friday, October 26, English alumna Susan Devan Harness will be reading from and signing her latest book, Bitterroot: A Memoir of Transracial Adoption. The event will be held at Wolverine Farm Letterpress & Publick House, 5-8 pm, and is free & open to the public. In Bitterroot Susan Harness traces her journey…
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MFA Thesis Reading: Cory Cotten-Potter and Cole Konopka
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Read More: MFA Thesis Reading: Cory Cotten-Potter and Cole Konopka~from Michaela Hayes The last MFA Thesis reading of the semester was a magical night indeed. Only two readers took the floor — fiction writer Cory Cotten-Potter and poet Cole Konopka. Before the festivities began, Camille Dungy introduced the night (as always, thank you Camille) and the graduating class of…
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Compendiums of Misbehavior: A Q&A with Ethan Canin
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Read More: Compendiums of Misbehavior: A Q&A with Ethan Canin~from communications intern Joyce Bohling The Creative Writing Reading Series is a special opportunity for CSU students to hear established and esteemed authors from around the nation present their work, and when fiction writer Ethan Canin came to campus on Thursday, January 26, students were given an additional chance we…
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Summer Reading List 2016: Faculty Recommendations
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Read More: Summer Reading List 2016: Faculty RecommendationsLeslee Becker recommends Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: Two summers ago, I finally read Anna Karenina, the Richard Pevear/Larissa Volokhonsky translation. I loved the novel. The cover, though, is kitschy, like someone’s fervid dream about tubers and tumors. What can I say that hasn’t already been said about Tolstoy’s novel?…
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Matthew Cooperman Book Release, a Reflection from Beth Campbell
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Read More: Matthew Cooperman Book Release, a Reflection from Beth Campbell~From English Department Communications Intern Beth Campbell Night had settled over the whole of Fort Collins, but Old Town still shown bright with the glow of street lights, shop windows, and the strobing pulses of lasers to the beat of bar playlists. Groups of people milled over the sidewalks, their…
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Dan Robinson's Reading, a Reflection from intern Ashley Alfirevic
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Read More: Dan Robinson's Reading, a Reflection from intern Ashley Alfirevicby Communications Intern Ashley Alfirevic The comfortable blue armchair in the middle of the Children’s Section at Old Firehouse Books felt like a stark contrast to the reading about to start. Compared to the bright soothing covers on the shelves, the sleek new book jacket of Dr. Robinson’s new novel Death…
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Book Signing and Reading: Camille Dungy
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Read More: Book Signing and Reading: Camille DungyCamille Dungy, professor of English at Colorado State University, will be honored at a Distinguished Author Reception April 16, 4 – 6 p.m., 108 Johnson Hall on the CSU campus. The reception is free and open to the public, and hosted by the School of Global Environmental Sustainability at CSU.…