Tag: Creative Writing Reading Series
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Creative Writing Reading Series: Ross Gay
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Read More: Creative Writing Reading Series: Ross GayThe final installment of the 2017-2018 Creative Writing Reading Series took place to the sound of a sorority party happening next door. The bellows of Taylor Swift, celebration, and Greek chants penetrated through the walls. But even that couldn’t overshadow the vigor, humor, and emotion of Ross Gay’s reading. For…
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Creative Writing Reading Series Event: Ross Gay, April 26
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Read More: Creative Writing Reading Series Event: Ross Gay, April 26~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 Unabashed Gratitude (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015). Gay has planted…
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Creative Writing Reading Series: Daryl Farmer
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Read More: Creative Writing Reading Series: Daryl Farmer~from Michaela Hayes Daryl Farmer is a photographer, husband, professor, program director, cyclist, and most notably to us, a writer. He has two books out, Where We Land: Stories (2016) and Bicycling Beyond the Divide: Two Journeys into the West (2008). He holds a BA in Physical Education from Adams…
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Creative Writing Reading Series Fundraiser
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Read More: Creative Writing Reading Series FundraiserThe CSU department of English Creative Writing Reading Series (CWRS) brings major literary voices to share their work with students and community members through free and public readings. In addition to giving a reading of their work, visiting writers take part in an audience Q&A, a book signing, and class…
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Creative Writing Reading Series MFA Reading Reflection from Michaela Hayes
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Read More: Creative Writing Reading Series MFA Reading Reflection from Michaela HayesAt the end of November, four MFA students wrapped up the semester’s Creative Writing Reading Series for Fall 2017 in a stellar performance at the Visual Arts building. By the time the reading began, the walls of the lecture hall were lined with students, faculty, and community members alike. The…
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Creative Writing Reading Series: Emily Pérez and Lauren Haldeman
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Read More: Creative Writing Reading Series: Emily Pérez and Lauren Haldeman~from Katie Haggstrom The most recent Creative Writing Reading Series event took place in the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art. The venue created a powerful dynamic between the blending of visual arts with literary arts. This reading was set apart from others because both poets, Emily Pérez and Lauren Haldeman,…
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Creative Writing Reading Series – MFA Reading
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Read More: Creative Writing Reading Series – MFA ReadingThe Creative Writing Reading Series event hosted on November 9th in the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art differed from this year’s other readings. This reading was a time for students in their last year of the MFA program to showcase their final creative work. Three fiction writers, Chelsea Hansen, Mir…
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Writer's Harvest
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Read More: Writer's HarvestNovember 16, 2017 marked the 2017 Writer’s Harvest presented by the CSU English Department Creative Writing Reading Series. The event was a twofold community project: one part literary reading and one part food drive with proceeds going to the Larimer County Food Bank. Many attendees brought nonperishable foods to donate,…
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Creative Writing Reading Series: Felicia Zamora
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Read More: Creative Writing Reading Series: Felicia ZamoraPoet and CSU alumna Felicia Zamora returned to campus for a Creative Writing Reading Series reading. The reading series is part of the CLA 2017 Diversity and Inclusion theme. This is an important theme for Zamora and her writing. Just last year, Zamora’s Of Form & Gather was awarded the…
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Creative Writing Reading Series: Nina McConigley
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Read More: Creative Writing Reading Series: Nina McConigleyNina McConigley comes from Laramie, Wyoming, about an hour drive over the Colorado/Wyoming border. A few weeks ago, Colorado State was so lucky to welcome her to our very own Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, where she shared a piece from her most recent short story collection Cowboys and East Indians. McConigley was…