Tag: Katie Haggstrom
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Fall 2017 Interns: Katie Haggstrom and Michaela Hayes
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Read More: Fall 2017 Interns: Katie Haggstrom and Michaela HayesFrom Jill Salahub, English Department Communications Coordinator: I am so happy to introduce the English Department’s Communications Interns for Fall 2017 — Michaela Hayes and Katie Haggstrom, (who was also with us last semester and over the summer, and is so great we asked her to stay on). Just like the…
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OpenSpace Music and Reading Series
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Read More: OpenSpace Music and Reading Series~From intern Katie Haggstrom While the school year is over, there are still plenty of local events happening throughout the summer. The OpenSpace: A Music and Reading Series will have their next event this Saturday, June 17th at 7:30pm. The event will feature some familiar faces from the CSU English…
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Putting the Humanities to Work
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Read More: Putting the Humanities to Work~From intern Katie Haggstrom Recently the English department hosted a workshop, “Putting the Humanities to Work,” to help graduate students explore potential career paths. As the event description explained, “one of the things we don’t talk enough about is how your English graduate degree prepares you for a wide range of interesting…
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National Poetry Month: Camille Dungy
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Camille DungyWe’re coming to the end of National Poetry Month. It has been a challenge to limit ourselves to just a month’s worth of influential poets and poetic forms, while including space for CSU’s own poets. We’ve barely brushed the surface. If we’ve learned anything this month, it would be that…
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National Poetry Month: Dan Beachy-Quick
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Dan Beachy-QuickAs 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. Poet, professor and essayist Dan Beachy-Quick is next up for our local poets. He is an…
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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: Shane Koyczan
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Shane KoyczanFor this week of National Poetry Month, we are featuring spoken word poetry and poets. Hearing a poem read by its author adds an additional dimension to any work.The inflection, the empty spaces, the tone. All of these pieces work together to create the art of spoken word. Shane Koyzcan…
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National Poetry Month: Rupi Kaur
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Rupi KaurArtist and poet Rupi Kaur was born in Punjab, India, in 1992. When she was only 4, her parents emigrated to Toronto, Canada. Her artistic and creative ability was something that emerged when she was a young age. Kaur began to draw and paint, inspired by her mom and would…
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National Poetry Month: David Whyte
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Read More: National Poetry Month: David WhyteThe work of David Whyte moves between literary, psychological, theological and vocational worlds. As Whyte explains, his poetry and philosophy comes from “the conversational nature of reality.” Born in 1955 in Mirfield Yorkshire, his poetry was influenced by bother his mother’s Irish heritage and what he called his “Wordsworthian childhood”…
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National Poetry Month: Shel Silverstein
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Shel SilversteinSome poetry connects generations together, drawing them in at an early age through fun rhymes and silly images. Shel Silverstein has become synonymous with children’s poetry, the type of poetry that sticks with its readers well into adulthood. Most children are familiar with poet Shel Silverstein’s work and the fun…