News of Note May 2019
The latest issue of Interim was devoted in part to Sasha Steensen’s work. The issue includes six poems by Sasha, as well as an essay she wrote on Magurerite Duras. The issue also includes a book review of her latest […]
National Poetry Month: English Department “Professor Poets” Favorites
As part of our celebration of National Poetry Month, we sent out an email to the English department and asked them a single question: “What is your favorite poem, and/or who is your favorite poet, and why?” In this edition is […]
News of Note Week of October 8
Aparna Gollapudi presented a paper titled “The Other Eighteenth Century Child: Personhood and Property in Locke’s Two Treatises and Defoe’s Fiction” at the Rocky Mountain MLA conference in Cheyenne on October 4th. Kristina Quynn presented at &NOW, Notre Dame, on a […]
News of Note April 2018
Dan Beachy-Quick has a short essay up at The Brooklyn Rail, part of a critic’s section curated by Ann Lauterbach, on Why Poetry Now: https://brooklynrail.org/2018/04/criticspage/Crisis-of-the-Poetic-Now EJ Levy’s hybrid essay, “Natural World,” which appeared in Passages North, has been awarded a […]
National Poetry Month: Sasha Steensen
As we continue highlighting our “local” poets (faculty and alumni), today we feature Associate Professor Sasha Steensen, and in particular her latest book of poetry, Gatherest. Sasha Steensen is the author of four books of poems: House of Deer, The Method, and A Magic […]
News of Note for March 2018
Stephanie G’Schwind’s National Endowment for the Arts grant application, on behalf of the Center for Literary Publishing, was funded for $15,000. The grant will fund two issues of Colorado Review and the most recent title in the Mountain West Poetry […]
News of Note January 2018
There is a review of Dan Beachy-Quick’s new book up at Michigan Quarterly Review: http://www.michiganquarterlyreview.com/2017/12/required-reading-dan-beachy-quicks-of-silence-and-song/ and he has three poems just published at BOMB: https://bombmagazine.org/authors/dan-beachy-quick Leslee Becker won 1st prize in the Broad River Review Fiction Contest for her story, “Such […]
News of Note Weeks of November 6 and 13
Genesea Carter’s edited collection Class in the Composition Classroom: Pedagogy and the Working Class was just published by Utah State UP. She has co-written the introduction with her co-editor, Bill Thelin, and has a single-author chapter in the collection titled […]
News of Note Week of October 16
Leslee Becker has been named a Finalist for the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Award in Short Stories. Doug Cloud’s co-authored essay, “How People Make Sense of Trump and Why It Matters for Racial Justice” has been accepted for publication in the Journal […]
National Poetry Month: Sasha Steensen
As 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 […]