On Friday, May 14, Professors Travis Dolence (Library) and Kevin Zepper (English) taught 9th graders from the Detroit Lakes School District. Using a short poetic form, Dolence and Zepper encouraged students to hike briefly through the Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge near Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. More than one hundred students wrote up to three short poems on their experiences with nature. […]
New Rivers Press’s most recent nonfiction book We Are No Longer Babaylan by Elsa Valmidiano was named a finalist for the Big Other Award in nonfiction.
New Rivers Press publication We Are No Longer Babaylan by first-generation Filipina-American author Elsa Valmidiano received a fantastic review in RHINO magazine.
Two New Rivers Press titles, We Are No Longer Babaylan by Elsa Valmidiano and Survivor’s Guilt: Essays on Race and American Identity by Artress Bethany White, were featured in the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses’ Year-End Roundup of nonfiction books published in 2020.
Travis Dolence and Nayt Rundquist (New Rivers Press) have had an innovation grant-related article published in Academic & Student Affairs at Minnesota State (ASA) Newsletter. “Attack of the Pod People – Establishing and Maintaining a Student-Created Podcast” discusses the opportunities and challenges of establishing and maintaining a student podcast.