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Zoe Fay-Stindt, MFA writer, has been awarded the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize for her chapbook, Bird Body.

 Cordella Press will publish Bird Body in August 2022. From Cordelia Press Bird Body wrestles with the gray space of girlhood: learning how to have a body, how to weather sexual evolution and trespass, and how to become, inspite, despite. Through a surrealist lens, the speaker moves through the lessons violence has taught them, wrangling … Continue reading Zoe Fay-Stindt, MFA writer, has been awarded the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize for her chapbook, Bird Body.

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Creative Writing Postdoc Fellow, Romeo Oriogun, has “Nomads”, a new collection published from Nigerian Publisher, Griots’ Lounge.

Nigerian Publisher, Griots’ Lounge, publishes Nomad, a new collection from Creative Writing Postdoc Fellow, Romeo Oriogun. Blurbs Romeo Oriogun’s poetry explores alterity and displacement – of location, of intimate physical spaces, of color/race, the remnant music of Caliban. He does this with a deft hand and an instinctive feel for the cadences of the lyric. … Continue reading Creative Writing Postdoc Fellow, Romeo Oriogun, has “Nomads”, a new collection published from Nigerian Publisher, Griots’ Lounge.

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English 441: Seminar in American Literature (Theme: American Literature and Innovation)

Fall 2022; T/Th 2:10-3:25 pm Dr. Rochelle Raineri Zuck Have you ever wondered what it was like to write with a quill pen or to make books using a letterpress printing press? How literary “technologies” shaped the development of American literature? How networks of writers and readers created innovative and impactful literary genres? We’ll explore … Continue reading English 441: Seminar in American Literature (Theme: American Literature and Innovation)