As part of our celebration of National Poetry Month, we sent out an email to the English department and asked them a single question: “What is your favorite poem, and/or who is your favorite poet, and why?” In this edition is […]
Camille Dungy, a professor in CSU’s Department of English, has won another major honor: a Guggenheim Fellowship. On April 9, the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation named Dungy among the 168 scholars, artists and writers […]
Last year, during Black History Month, Camille Dungy helped us celebrate by sharing a reading list, Ten Essential Black Authors to Read During Black History Month— and Every Month. The year before that, we featured her during Women’s History Month. We’ve also […]
Last semester ended with a thesis reading from two MFA students: Sarah Wernsing (poetry) and Caleb Gonzalez (fiction). As the last event for the Creative Writing Reading Series fall semester, the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art was filled with students, faculty, […]
A section from Dan Beachy-Quick’s essay on Marcel Duchamp and Hell is being featured at The Humble Essayist: https://www.the-humble-essayist.com The opening sections of a long abecedarian are up on the wonderful new journal from Split/Level Texts: http://splitleveltexts.com/journal Tatiana Nekrasova-Beker and […]
Welcome back! Lynn Badia’s co-edited collection, Climate Realism: The Aesthetics of Weather and Atmosphere in the Anthropocene, is under contract with Routledge. It is scheduled for publication in 2019. Anthony Becker and Tatiana Nekrasova-Becker recently had their research article, titled “Investigating the […]
Dan Beachy-Quick has a short essay up at The Brooklyn Rail, part of a critic’s section curated by Ann Lauterbach, on Why Poetry Now: https://brooklynrail.org/2018/04/criticspage/Crisis-of-the-Poetic-Now EJ Levy’s hybrid essay, “Natural World,” which appeared in Passages North, has been awarded a […]
As we mentioned yesterday, we are spending this week highlighting our “local” poets (faculty and alumni). We sent a short set of questions to each, and will be posting their responses. Today we are sharing what Camille Dungy had to say. […]
Stephanie G’Schwind’s National Endowment for the Arts grant application, on behalf of the Center for Literary Publishing, was funded for $15,000. The grant will fund two issues of Colorado Review and the most recent title in the Mountain West Poetry […]
Ten Essential Black Authors to Read During Black History Month— and Every Month A reading list from Camille Dungy Narrowing this down to a Top Ten List was a nearly impossible assignment. So, like the books I share here, I […]
