October was National LGBTQ+ Month, and also the 20 year anniversary of CSU’s Pride Resource Center. Because of the double celebration, there’s lots of great events happening on campus. To see more about those, visit the Pride Resource Center events […]
~by Michaela Hayes To wrap up CSU English’s celebration of LGBT history month, today we are taking a look at arguably two of the greatest poets of American history, and certainly the most influential of the 19th century– Emily Dickinson and Walt […]
Noel Alumit is a novelist, actor, and activist. He was born in Baguio City, The Philippines, and grew up in Historic Filipinotown, Los Angeles. Alumit earned his BFA in Drama from the University of Southern California and is currently working toward […]
Tonight, Kay Ulanday Barrett will be on-campus as the keynote speaker for CSU’s on-campus LGBT Month celebrations, coordinated by the Pride Center. Door open at 5pm and Barrett speaks at 5:30pm in the Lory Student Center’s Ballroom A. Friday, Oct […]
~by Michaela Hayes Allen Ginsberg changed the world. There is really no way around this one. Ginsberg was hugely influential in so many areas of American life it is nearly impossible to believe that he was a real person and not a […]
~by Michaela Hayes Summer is an exciting time for me. I always craft an extensive list of books that I want to read and then get through about half of them. In early August, with a good chunk of books […]
Virginia Woolf was born as Adeline Virginia Stephen in 1882. Like many other great authors, Woolf’s path to literary fame was not ordinary. Her parents were both intelligent and social within their community, resulting in ample connections and opportunities for […]
~by Michaela Hayes Scott Heim has had a varied and somewhat quiet career. He was born in Hutchinson, Kansas in 1966 and later attended the University of Kansas in Lawrence to earn a B.A. in English and Art […]
Federico Garcia Lorca was born in 1889 in Spain. Throughout his life, he worked as a playwright, a theatre director, and a poet. He gained recognition when he joined Generation of ‘27, a group predominantly comprised of Spanish poets who […]
Spring semester of 2017 we ran a series of features on the blog. We celebrated Black History Month (February), Women’s History Month (March), and National Poetry Month (April). For Black History Month, we focused in particular on the role of […]