Tag: Joyce Bohling
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Humans of Eddy: Joyce Bohling
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Read More: Humans of Eddy: Joyce BohlingFeel like you recognize this week’s Human of Eddy? In a previous life, she was a communications intern for the English department, (as well as a graduate student, which makes her another kind of alumna as well), and we published a lot of great stuff by her here on our…
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Faculty Profile: Nancy Wright
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Read More: Faculty Profile: Nancy WrightWhat brought you to CSU? When my kids were little, I worked online through Johns Hopkins University, but then at a certain point, I wanted to get back into the face-to-face classroom, so I worked at Front Range Community College a couple of years until a spot opened up at…
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National Poetry Month: Sasha Steensen
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Sasha SteensenAs National Poetry Month comes to a close, we’ll spend the final days focusing close to home, on our very own English department poets — Matthew Cooperman, Sasha Steensen, Dan Beachy-Quick, and Camille Dungy. Professor Sasha Steensen has published numerous chapbooks and full-length poetry collections, including correspondence (a collaborative work…
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National Poetry Month: Matthew Cooperman
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Matthew CoopermanAs National Poetry Month comes to a close, we’d like to spend the final days focusing close to home, on our very own English department poets — Matthew Cooperman, Sasha Steensen, Dan Beachy-Quick, and Camille Dungy. CSU professor Matthew Cooperman is the author of four chapbooks and five full-length books…
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MA/MFA Reading, a Reflection from Katie Haggstrom
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Read More: MA/MFA Reading, a Reflection from Katie HaggstromThe Creative Writing Reading Series ended with this semester’s second, and final, thesis reading in the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art. The space was filled with family, peers and faculty members eager to hear the accomplishments of these three students: Joyce Bohling (MA in Creative Nonfiction), KT Heins (MFA in Fiction),…
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National Poetry Month: Billy Collins
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Billy CollinsJohn Updike described Billy Collins’s poems as “more serious than they seem.” And indeed, while Collins’ poems are often laugh-out-loud funny, many end on a touching, sometimes somber note. Billy Collins is one of the most well-known and financially successful poets in the United States. He was the United States…
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National Poetry Month: Mary Oliver
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Mary OliverTell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? ~Mary Oliver, from her poem “The Summer Day” Mary Oliver is a prolific contemporary poet. Her work has received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award,…
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Creative Writing Reading Series MFA Reading Reflection
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Read More: Creative Writing Reading Series MFA Reading Reflection~from intern Joyce Bohling The reading of creative writing master’s theses on March 30 featured creative nonfiction M.A. candidate Dana Chellman and poetry M.F.A. candidates Denise Jarrott and Kylan Rice. Each reading featured unique style and subject matter, showing the diversity and creativity of work produced by students in the…
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David Shields Reading, a Reflection from Joyce Bohling
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Read More: David Shields Reading, a Reflection from Joyce BohlingDavid Shields is a controversial figure in the creative nonfiction world: someone who pushes the boundaries of genre and sometimes inspires strong reactions in his readers. In his introduction to Shields’ reading at the Lory Student Center, first-year M.A. student Caleb Gonzalez emphasized how Shields challenges the conventions of literary…
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Women's History Month: Emily Dickinson
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Read More: Women's History Month: Emily DickinsonPoet Emily Dickinson was born in 1930 in Amherst, Massachusetts. Although she was not famous during her lifetime—only seven of her almost 1800 poems were published while she lived, all heavily edited—she became known after her death as one of the most influential American poets. Dickinson grew up in a…