Tag: Debby Thompson
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News of Note, Week of October 19th
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Read More: News of Note, Week of October 19thDan 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 presented last week at the annual conference of the Associations of…
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News of Note Week of September 7th
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Read More: News of Note Week of September 7thGerry Delahunty presented his paper “Amnesty International (AI) and Philanthropic Fundraising (PF) Appeals: A Comparative Move Analysis” at the 26th Annual Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics at Aalborg University, Denmark, on August 20, 2015. His presentation proposal, “Language, Text, and Ideological Opposition in Amnesty International (AI) Appeal Letters on Behalf of ‘Prisoners…
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News of Note Week of December 1st
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Read More: News of Note Week of December 1stStephanie G’Schwind is pleased to announce that the Center for Literary Publishing’s grant request to the National Endowment for the Arts has been funded for 2015 in the amount of $15,000. The grant will go toward printing, mailing, and author payments for Colorado Review and to support the publication of…
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News of Note Week of November 9th
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Read More: News of Note Week of November 9thSueEllen Campbell ran a workshop on teaching climate change in literature classes at the Western Literature Association conference on November 7 in Victoria, B.C. VCU’s literary journal, Blackbird, has published three of Camille Dungy’s poems: http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v13n2/poetry/dungy_c/index.shtml Ecotone, a literary journal published by the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, recently published “Differentiation,”…
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News of Note: Week of September 15th
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Read More: News of Note: Week of September 15thLeslee Becker’s story, “The Twilight Club,” has been accepted for publication in Alaska Quarterly Review. Another story, “If You Lived Here,” received an Honorable Mention in The New Millennium Fiction Contest. John Calderazzo will give several science and literature talks at the south rim of the Grand Canyon, at the…
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News of Note for the Week of September 8th
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Read More: News of Note for the Week of September 8thPulitzer Prize-winning Beat poet & eco-activist Gary Snyder will be reading at the Organ Recital Hall this Wednesday, Sept. 17th, at 7:30 p.m. NO TICKETS ARE REQUIRED. It is first come, first served, so people should arrive early. In other news: This summer, Jacket2 released a feature on the second-wave…
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News of Note from the Week of May 5th
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Read More: News of Note from the Week of May 5thDid you know that Eddy Hall is undergoing a remodel? It will begin soon and take about 16 months. This week, they put up one panel of the new facade on the south side of the building (see above image), and half of the third floor is packing their things…