Tag: Tobi Jacobi

  • News of Note: March and April

    News of Note: March and April

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    Genesea Carter facilitated a half-day workshop with Kelly Bradbury and other cross-institutional colleagues at the March 2019 Conference on College Composition and Communication titled “Responding to Anti-Intellectualism in the Classroom: Developing Positive Emotions and Facilitating Student Engagement.” Genesea also gave a panel presentation titled “Unacknowledged Performers: How Supersystems Affect Antiracist Strategies.” …

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  • Apply: Outstanding Undergraduate & Graduate Writing Awards in Writing, Rhetoric, & Literacy

    Apply: Outstanding Undergraduate & Graduate Writing Awards in Writing, Rhetoric, & Literacy

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    You are Outstanding (and so are your ideas!)  Undergraduate & Graduate Student Writing Awards The English Department is pleased to announce the Outstanding Undergraduate & Graduate Writing Awards in Writing, Rhetoric, & Literacy. These awards recognize innovative ideas, critical thinking, and stellar communication in the broad area of writing studies.…

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  • News of Note: March 2019

    News of Note: March 2019

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    A poem from Dan Beachy-Quick’s new project, “Canto,” has been accepted by TriQuarterly. He also be participated in a conversation about John Keats and negative capability at the University of Denver. Genesea Carter attended the Spilman Symposium on Issues in Teaching Writing at Virginia Military Institute. The Spilman Symposium is a…

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  • News of Note

    News of Note

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    Harrison Candelaria Fletcher had a triptych lyric essay, “Dawn,” published in The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, and another lyric essay, “Open Season,” selected for the upcoming Best of Brevity anthology. Both are part of a book-length project on mixed-ness. Ricki Ginsberg and Wendy Glenn were invited to adapt their study for the National Council of Teachers…

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  • News of Note for November

    News of Note for November

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    The Community Literacy Center was featured in a podcast on KCSU. “On this episode, [Christian Rhea, digital director in VP Research Office] sat down with the Director of the Community Literacy Center, Tobi Jacobi, and one of the center’s [former] interns, Bree Jones, to discuss the CLC’s mission to create alternative…

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  • News of Note Weeks of September 24 and October 1

    News of Note Weeks of September 24 and October 1

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    Leslee Becker’s story, “The Airman,” has been accepted for publication in Fiction War Magazine. Matthew Cooperman and Aby Kaupang shared their new book, NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified), at Naropa University, on Tuesday, September 25. Matthew also has new poems out in Posit, which can be found here: https://positjournal.com/2018/09/13/matthew-cooperman/ Debby Thompson’s essay…

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  • News of Note April 2018

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    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 Pushcart Prize; it will appear in the 2019 Pushcart PPXLIII…

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  • News of Note January 2018

    News of Note January 2018

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    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 Friends.” Doug Cloud’s article, “Toward a Richer Rhetoric of Agency:…

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  • News of Note Week of October 23

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    An essay of Dan Beachy-Quick’s, “Even,” about Marcel Duchamp and the underworld, won the 2017 Zone 3 price in nonfiction. On October 20th, Kelly Bradbury served on the Editorial Roundtable at the Conference on Community Writing in Boulder. She also attended the TYCA-SW Conference in Loveland last week. Matthew Cooperman has…

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  • News of Note Week of October 2

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    There’s a short interview with Dan Beachy-Quick up at the New England Review’s website about the poem they recently published, “Memory-Wax, Knowledge-Bird”: http://www.nereview.com/category/behind-the-byline/. Matthew Cooperman and Aby Kaupang (MFA ’07) recently gave three readings in Utah, courtesy of the Utah Humanities Book Festival, and its Director, Michael McLane (MFA ’08)-one at…

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