Listen to Garrison Keillor read Thom Tammaro’s (English, MFA Program) poem, “Closing the Cabin,” on Keillor’s popular radio program “The Writer’s Almanac” on Friday, September 14. Local listeners can tune in to “The Writer’s Almanac” at KCCM 91.1 at 6:14 a.m. and 6:14 p.m. and KDSU-FM 91.9 at 2:54 p.m. “The Writer’s Almanac” is a daily radio and on-line program […]
Sharon Scapple, English, and Carol H. Sibley, Library, recently participated in the International Board on Books for Young People Congress in London, England. The Congress theme was “Crossing Boundries: Translations and Migrations.”
Jennifer Karmin has published, performed, exhibited, taught, and experimented with language across the U.S., Japan, Kenya, and Europe. Her multidisciplinary projects have been presented at festivals, artist-run spaces, and on city streets. Some of her work includes 4000 Words 4000 Dead, Revolutionary Optimism, and Utopic Monster Theory. Jennifer is the author of the text-sound epic Aaaaaaaaaaalice (Flim Forum Press, 2010), […]
A new novel by John Early, English, is available from Amazon for the Kindle reader. The Little Lame Balloon Men tells the story of “Two men and a woman struggling with the consequences of silence. Emsland, a chemist and a teacher, has lost his wife, and too many of the words in his world no longer make sense. He responds […]
Sandy Pearce, English, presented a paper at the James Joyce International Symposium in Dublin this June. After a week of scholarly presentations and plenary lectures, the Symposium ended with hours of festivities on June 16th, Bloomsday, the day that Joyce’s fictional character Leopold Bloom walks the streets of Dublin.