There’s a review of Dan Beachy-Quick’s book of poems, gentlessness, up at Rain Taxi: http://www.raintaxi.com/gentlessness/ Antero Garcia reflected on Teacher Professional Development and Loss, Trauma, and Empathy for DMLcentral. You can read his post here: http://dmlcentral.net/loss-trauma-and-the-digital-language-of-empathy-in-schools/ Antero Garcia wrote a blog post […]
~From English Department Communications Intern Ashley Afirevic While we pride ourselves on being part of a global community, Fort Collins is also wonderfully self-contained in a way. We have an abundance of art and culture right in our own city, […]
The CSU Community Literacy Center (CLC) helps create alternative literacy opportunities that work to educate and empower underserved populations, and foment university-community literacy collaboration. Through the SpeakOut! writing workshops, the CLC confronts stereotypes of at-risk youth and incarcerated women and men, […]
Mary Ellen Sanger Associate Director Community Literacy Center What brought you to CSU? Since moving to Fort Collins two years ago (for love), I have volunteered at CSU: with the Community Literacy Center leading writing workshops at Larimer County Detention […]
English Students, There’s talk about an exciting opportunity to go to south-central Africa in summer 2016 and work in local communities … and earn three English upper-division credits. An hour-long information session will be held on Monday, November 16th, at noon, in LSC308. After […]
The SpeakOut! writing program won the “Program of the Year” award last night at the Larimer County Jail volunteer awards banquet. Congrats to the facilitators and writers! Two of Dan Beachy-Quick’s essays, “Heraclitean Thirst” and “Circles” are featured at the […]
~from English Department Communications Intern Ashley Alfirevic “We were going to call it the Bread & Cheese Club, but that seemed too obscure,” says Kelsey Easton of the Dead Poets Society. The beloved Robin Williams/John Keating wasn’t the only […]
English Department Communications Internship Number of positions: 1 Internship term: Spring 2016 Semester, 15 weeks, January 19th – May 6th, 2016 Total credits: 2 Hours: 80 hours (40 per credit hour), approximately 5 per week Stipend: $500 Application Deadline: TBA […]
Tobi Jacobi presented at the Community Writing Conference in Boulder on Friday, October 16. She gave a retrospective talk on 10 years of directing the SpeakOut writing program and co-facilitated a “deep think tank” workshop on homelessness, prison, and poverty […]
~by English Department Communications Intern Ashley Alfirevic In the CSU English Department’s first of many upcoming listicles, we’re spotlighting some of the best places at CSU to read, write, and study. This week, I took to our Twitter and Instagram […]