Return of Colloquium

~from English Department Communications Coordinator Jill Salahub After a brief hiatus, the English department Colloquium has returned. For those of you who don’t know, colloquium is an event where we gather, with fine appetizers and drinks in hand, to enjoy one another’s […]

Why Yoda: An explanation of the strange plastic action figure I got for John Calderazzo for his retirement

~From Assistant Professor Todd Mitchell Sixteen years ago I took a class that changed my life. I think, even then, I knew that something special was happening in John’s graduate creative nonfiction course. Several people had recommended it to me, […]

News of Note Week of March 21

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 […]

Changing Climates @ CSU

Changing Climates was founded and is directed by SueEllen Campbell and John Calderazzo, both writers and professors in the CSU English Department. Concerned about the potential impacts of climate change and the lack of knowledge among the public, the initiative […]