The English Departments of Minnesota State University Moorhead and North Dakota State University will host the Midwest American Conference for Irish Studies this week, with most events taking place on the MSUM campus. Two conference events are free and open to the public. On Friday, Francis Carroll, a retired professor of Irish history at the University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Man., […]
Poet Steve Healey will read from his books of poetry–10 Mississippi and Earthling– at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 26 in CMU 101 as a feature of MSUM’s Tom McGrath Visiting Writers Series. It’s free and open to the public.
Shari Scapple, English, has been elected to the Article Award Committee of the Children’s Literature Association. She will serve a three-year term on the committee, which reviews all published articles dealing with children’s literature in a year’s time and selects one as the best. Children’s literature is Scapple’s specialty. She has been a member of the international organization since 1978 […]
The MFA Department will have a series of readings this year showcasing MFA students and visiting readers. It is free and open to the public. The first reading is Thursday, September 22 at 8:00 p.m., featuring MFA candidates John Powers, Megan Bartholomay and Ryan Christiansen. (Spirit Room: 701.237.0230)
There are still a few available spaces, but time is running out! “And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.” —W.B. Yeats, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” […]