Tag: News of Note

  • News of Note Week of May 9

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    Camille Dungy has just signed a contract for her next book of poetry, Trophic Cascade, which will be published by Wesleyan University Press in the Spring of 2017. Roze Hentschell has published an essay, “The Cultural Geography of St Paul’s Precinct” in The Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare (Oxford…

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  • News of Note Week of May 2

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    Dan Beachy-Quick will be on Colorado Matters on the Denver NPR station on May 11. Ellen Brinks has been invited to give a plenary talk at the conference “Forgotten Geographies in the Fin de Siècle, 1880-1920,” at Birkbeck College, University of London, in early July. Doug Cloud’s article, “Talking Climate Change…

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  • News of Note Week of April 18

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    Leslee Becker received the University’s Jack E. Cermak Award for Advising. Stephanie G’Schwind is very proud to announce that Colorado Review will make a second Best American debut this year: Jonathan Franzen has selected “Namesake,” by Mason Stokes (Summer 2015 issue) for Best American Essays 2016. You can read the…

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  • News of Note Week of April 4

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    Mary Crow’s poetry has been translated for a literary magazine in Chile.  Nine poems from her latest book, Addicted to the Horizon, appear in both their original English and in Spanish translation in Aerea: Revista Hispanoamericana de Poesia, Numero 10, Segunda epoca 2016, with an introduction in Spanish by Francisco Leal.…

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  • News of Note Week of March 28

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    Nancy Henke learned this week that she’s been chosen as a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Scholar. She will spend two weeks in June at the NEH Summer Institute on “Westward Expansion and the Constitution in the Early Republic,” at the University of Oklahoma. Todd Mitchell will be delivering…

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  • News of Note Week of March 21

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    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 the week of spring break at the University of Montana…

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  • News of Note Week of March 7

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    Antero Garcia has a new chapter titled “Teacher as Dungeon Master: Connected learning, democratic classrooms, and rolling for initiative” in the book The role-playing society: Essays on the cultural influence of RPGs (MacFarland). Antero Garcia has been announced as a judge for the art and writing youth “Twist Fate” challenge.…

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  • News of Note Week of February 29

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    Dan Beachy-Quick’s book of poems, gentlessness, was named a finalist for the Rilke Prize. Matthew Cooperman recently gave a number of readings in North Carolina to support his new book. He’ll be reading at the University of Wyoming this Friday, March 4, 7pm. He also has new poems up at Word/for…

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  • News of Note Week of February 22

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    On Friday, February 5th, Pam Coke gave two invited presentations at the Colorado Council International Reading Association (CCIRA):  “Teaching as Close Reading: Igniting a Sense of Wonder about Why I Teach” and “If I Stay: Developing a Plan for Keeping a Sense of Wonder about Why I Teach.”  Dr. Coke was thrilled…

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  • News of Note Week of February 15th

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    Dan Beachy-Quick will be the Hurst Visiting Professor at Washington University from Feb 22 to March 3. Hannah Caballero (aka Nizam-Aldine – she got married and changed her name!) will present the results of her year-long classroom-based research project, “L2 English Writers’ Perceptions of Audio Versus Written Summative Feedback,” at…

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