Dan Beachy-Quick’s book of poems, gentlessness, has been named a finalist for the Colorado Book Award in Poetry. Dan Beachy-Quick’s poem, “Endangered Species,” is up today at the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day site: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem-day SueEllen Campbell and John Calderazzo spent […]
Dan Beachy-Quick’s book of poems, gentlessness, was named a finalist for the Rilke Prize. Matthew Cooperman recently gave a number of readings in North Carolina to support his new book. He’ll be reading at the University of Wyoming this Friday, March […]
~From English Department Communications Intern Ashley Alfirevic Walking up to the Wolverine Farm Letterpress and Publick House, it instantly felt like quintessential Fort Collins. The smell of new, raw wood mingled with looseleaf tea and amber microbrews. Actual bikes, pictures […]
Dan Beachy-Quick will be the Hurst Visiting Professor at Washington University from Feb 22 to March 3. Hannah Caballero (aka Nizam-Aldine – she got married and changed her name!) will present the results of her year-long classroom-based research project, “L2 […]
Dan Beachy-Quick is giving a “Pub Talk” at Wolverine Farm’s Publick House on Tuesday the 16th at 7:00 pm: “The Poem, the Shield, the Ardent Pursuit.” Matthew Cooperman has a new poem up at Spiral Orb, at http://www.spiralorb.net/eleven/cooperman. He will be […]
Dan Beachy-Quick gave a reading in Salt Lake City for the University of Utah and the Utah Arts Council. A poem, “A Century of Meditation,” has been accepted for the Kenyon Review’s special issue on long lyric forms. The Center […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dan Beachy-Quick went to Yale University last week to meet with the Poetics Work Group to discuss his most recent book, gentlessness. Antero Garcia published a blog post for DMLCentral discussing the racism of #BoycottStarWarsVII and the implications for classrooms: http://dmlcentral.net/boycottstarwarsvii-racism-and-classroom-responsibility/ Cindy O’Donnell-Allen […]
Tim Amidon and Mike Caggiano (Forestry) received funding from the Colorado Forest Restoration Institute for an interdisciplinary research project that seeks to learn how landowners, land managers, and emergency personnel in the Front Range understand the potential risks and benefits […]