In our final event of English Week, MSU creative writing professor will read from his work in Plaster Student Union, Room 400 (Union Club) at 7:30 p.m. Born in Michigan, he left Pennsylvania for the Ozarks, where he now teaches poetry as a Professor in the English department's Creative Writing Program. Cafagña is the author of three books of poetry, The Broken … [Read more...] about Marcus Cafagña Poetry Reading
The Undergraduate Literature Conference (ULC), held annually each spring, welcomes undergraduate students from across the region to present their research in a public forum. This years conference features students from MSU, OTC, Drury, and NYU Shanghai sharing their work. The two day conference begins on Thursday, April 20, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., and concludes on … [Read more...] about Undergraduate Literature Conference
The Workplace Writing Student Conference, sponsored by the Workplace Writing Forum, a student organization in the English Department, will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in Glass Hall, Room 486. The conference will feature topics for students interested in professional and technical writing. This year's speakers include Dr. Rhonda Stanton, MSU, "What TPW Is, … [Read more...] about Workplace Writing Student Conference
The Workplace Writing Forum, a student organization in the English Department, is proud to host another annual faculty workshop for writing faculty across all disciplines, but in particular technical and professional writing. This year we'll have two main sessions: "Leveraging Skills-Based Microcredentialing to Enhance Student Learning" with Dr. Tim Ponce in the … [Read more...] about Workplace Writing Faculty Workshop
As part of English Week, MSU Libraries' Special Collections and Archives is sponsoring a panel discussion, "Introducing Robert Wallace, Poet, Prosodist, and Literary Editor," led by Christine Wallace, Tracie Gieselman France, and Jim Baumlin. This event will also serve as the launch of The Orbit of Meter: Writings on Poems and Prosody by Robert Wallace, edited by MSU's James … [Read more...] about Panel discussion and book launch: The Orbit of Meter