Tag: Camille Dungy
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National Poetry Month: English Department “Professor Poets” Favorites
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Read More: National Poetry Month: English Department “Professor Poets” FavoritesAs 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 a special set of answers, from our very own English…
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Camille Dungy wins Guggenheim Fellowship
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Read More: Camille Dungy wins Guggenheim FellowshipCamille 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 to receive the fellowship this year. Appointed on the basis…
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Black History Month: Camille Dungy
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Read More: Black History Month: Camille DungyLast 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 featured her two years in a row during National Poetry…
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Creative Writing Reading Series: Sarah Wernsing and Caleb Gonzalez
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Read More: Creative Writing Reading Series: Sarah Wernsing and Caleb GonzalezLast 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, and family, there to support these two graduate readers. Sarah…
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News of Note Week of August 27
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Read More: News of Note Week of August 27A 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 Anthony Becker will be presenting at the upcoming 14th American…
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News of Note, Week of August 20
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Read More: News of Note, Week of August 20Welcome 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 Effect of Different Selected-response Item Formats for Reading Comprehension,” accepted…
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News of Note April 2018
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Read More: News of Note April 2018Dan 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 Pushcart Prize; it will appear in the 2019 Pushcart PPXLIII…
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National Poetry Month: Camille Dungy
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Camille DungyAs 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. (You can read our feature of her from 2017 National…
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News of Note for March 2018
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Read More: News of Note for March 2018Stephanie 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 Series: We Remain Traditional, by Arizona poet Sylvia Chan (February…
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Ten Essential Black Authors to Read During Black History Month— and Every Month, a reading list from Camille Dungy
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Read More: Ten Essential Black Authors to Read During Black History Month— and Every Month, a reading list from Camille DungyTen 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 will stretch the boundaries of the form in ways that…