As we round the corner towards the end of April, the final days of National Poetry Month, we’ve been thinking about ways we can get more poetry into our lives. Here’s a short list of suggestions, poems, websites, and writing […]
~from Michaela Hayes James Galvin, born in 1951, is a poet, novelist, and instructor. He has written seven books of poetry, most recently Everything We Always Knew Was True (2016), one novel, and a weird hodge-podge mix called The Meadow. […]
~from Cole Konopka Ross Gay is an activist, environmentalist, and most notably, an award-winning poet, whose prizes include a 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, both for his collection Catalog of […]
Today’s poem is by Tommy Pico, a poet from Brooklyn who grew up on the Viejas Reservation outside San Diego, California. Pico published his first epic poem in 2016, titled IRL. The poem follows a character named Teebs who is […]
We’ve featured Naomi Shihab Nye before. I’ve listened to this interview with her on On Being with host Krista Tippett multiple times over the past two years. I find it very inspiring, and thought you might too, on this Monday […]
There is something about hearing poetry and stories read aloud that adds another dimension, or emphasis, on what that work means. Do you think you could tell a story in three minutes? If you’re in Fort Collins tonight, the second […]
~from Michaela Hayes Today’s poem is brought to us by CSU poet and MFA candidate Danny Schonning. I’m taking E403 Writing the Environment this semester (a great class, I highly recommend it to English and non-English majors alike) with Danny […]
~from Michaela Hayes My personal national poetry month would not be complete without a tribute to Sylvia Plath’s “Lady Lazarus.” This poem always chills me to the bone in the best possible way. The three line stanzas, the leading questions, […]
This MFA Thesis Reading blended together MFA poetry and fiction writers: Ryann Peats (Poetry), Lauren Matheny Gee (Fiction), and David Mucklow (Poetry). Once again, the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art was filled with people eager to hear the work of […]
As part of the MFA Thesis Reading series, four more MFA students shared their work in the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art. It was a night filled with the perfect combination of well-placed humor and the meaning of good friendships […]
