Tag: Todd Mitchell
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"The Last Panther" by Todd Mitchell, a Q&A
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Read More: "The Last Panther" by Todd Mitchell, a Q&AA powerful tale. ~Kirkus Told in vivid, heartbreaking detail and filled with strong, developed characters, this novel tackles an important theme in a compelling way. In Kiri, young readers will find a protagonist who, although at times afraid, finds the courage to do what she believes to be right. ~Booklist…
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Events around Fort Collins, August edition
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Read More: Events around Fort Collins, August edition~From intern Katie Haggstrom The beginning of August means that fall classes start in less than three weeks. But there are still plenty of literary events happening around Fort Collins, both before and after school starts. From Fort Collins own Comic Con to a release party for English Professor Todd Mitchell’s…
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News of Note Week of April 24
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Read More: News of Note Week of April 24Matthew Cooperman has a new poem up at The Awl. You can read it at https://theawl.com/a-poem-by-matthew-cooperman-7676e273da85 Camille Dungy’s poem, “Trophic Cascade,” was featured on Poetry Daily on April 25. http://poems.com/poem_print.php?date=17282 Camille Dungy received an advance copy of Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood and History (W.W. Norton), her debut collection of essays.…
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News of Note Week of April 17
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Read More: News of Note Week of April 17CSAL Roundtable Discussion Sue Doe wishes to announce that the Center for the Study of Academic Labor (CSAL) will host a roundtable discussion of the CSU “Proposal for Re-Envisioning Faculty Appointments” (authored by the Committee on Non Tenure-Track Faculty –CoNTTF) featuring leaders of the academic labor movement on April 27…
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News of Note Week of March 27
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Read More: News of Note Week of March 27Matthew Cooperman currently has new poems out in The Laurel Review and Saltfront, in print. Online, Mary: A Journal of New Writing, is featuring three of his poems at http://maryjournal.org/fall2016/?page_id=416 On Wednesday, April 5, Camille Dungy will present at the Newberry Library, Chicago as part of a panel in celebration of the…
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News of Note Week of February 6
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Read More: News of Note Week of February 6On Thursday, February 9, the Community Literacy Center hosted Kay Adams, Founder and director of the Center for Journal Therapy in Denver as part of their spring SpeakOut! facilitator training event. Fourteen students, faculty, and community members participated in dialogue on writing through times of chaos. Beth Lechleitner’s collaborative poetry/visual…
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News of Note Week of January 23
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Read More: News of Note Week of January 23SueEllen Campbell has three recent publications: “Making Climate Change Our Job,” the lead article in Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities, eds. Siperstein, Hall, and LeMenager, Routledge, 2017; the forward, “Sunrise, Celebration,” to Ellen Wohl, Rhythms of Change in Rocky Mountain National Park, Univ. of Utah Press, 2016; and “The…
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News of Note Week of November 14
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Read More: News of Note Week of November 14On November 16 and 17, Camille Dungy spoke at the University of Arizona Poetry Center as part of their Climate Change & Poetry Series. “Starting in October 2016, the UA Poetry Center features eight world-class poets as they address what overlaps, contradictions, mutual challenges, and confluences the categories of Climate Change & Poetry share…
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News of Note Week of September 19
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Read More: News of Note Week of September 19Tony Becker recently had an article, “L2 Students’ Performance on Listening Comprehension Items Targeting Local and Global Information,” published in the Journal of English for Academic Purposes. For those interested in reading the article, it is currently available at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S147515851630042X. Judy Doenges’ story “Promised Land” was listed in Other Distinguished Stories…
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Why Yoda: An explanation of the strange plastic action figure I got for John Calderazzo for his retirement
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Read More: Why Yoda: An explanation of the strange plastic action figure I got for John Calderazzo for his retirement~From Assistant Professor Todd Mitchell Sixteen years ago I took a class that changed my life. I think, even then, I knew that something special was happening in John’s graduate creative nonfiction course. Several people had recommended it to me, and I’d never before encountered such an intimate and productive…