The English Department offers our campus the following quartet of items: For those who missed writer Mitchell S. Jackson’s talk “From the Prison to the Pen,” a link to the 70-minute presentation can be found here (though it will expire after Nov. 24). The English Department has put out its first-ever Newsletter, which it will offer each semester. […]
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2021 Writers Magazine Published Online
The English Department is proud to announce the publication of UP’s student-run creative writing journal Writers Magazine. This year’s all-online 2021 edition is built around the theme of “Good Bones” and gathers the year’s best writing and images by students from across campus. It’s now available here. Additionally, we are excited to announce that beginning fall 2021, […]
How to Use “How To Be An Antiracist”: TLC Tip of the Week
How might this year’s ReadUP/Schoenfeldt selection inform our teaching? In this week’s Teaching & Learning Collaborative tip, Lars Larson gathers a few ideas from Ibram X. Kendi’s powerful work How to Be an Antiracist. Please note that electronic copies of Kendi’s book can be accessed through the Clark Library here, and paper copies will be […]
2020 “Writers” Magazine: Ready For Readers
The 2020 volume of our campus’s student-made creative writing journal, Writers magazine, made it into print just before campus shut down, according to Lars Larson, English. This year’s edition explores the theme of “Where I’m From,” beginning with a poem by Owen Klinger, and moving through stories, illustrations, verse, essays, and photographs that articulate where […]
2020 NUCL Keynote by Jennifer McDaneld, March 14
The 2020 NUCL keynote speaker will be UP English professor Jennifer McDaneld, who will present “Why We Should Take Literary Studies Public: The Case of the Suffrage Centennial” on Saturday, March 14, at 1:45 p.m., in the Brian Doyle Auditorium. All are welcome to attend her free lecture. McDaneld teaches American literature and core curriculum […]
Schoenfeldt Writer Luis Alberto Urrea, Nov. 7
Author Luis Alberto Urrea joins our campus as the fall 2019 Schoenfeldt Distinguished Writer on Thursday, November 7, in Buckley Center Auditorium at 7 p.m. He will also join us from 4-5 p.m. that day in BC 120 for an informal Q & A session, so bring your questions! A member of the Latino Literature Hall of Fame, […]
Schoenfeldt Writer Luis Alberto Urrea to Visit, Nov. 7
Author Luis Alberto Urrea joins our campus as the fall 2019 Schoenfeldt Distinguished Writer on Thursday, Nov. 7 in Buckley Center Auditorium at 7pm. He will also join us from 4-5pm that day in BC 120 for an informal Q&A: bring your questions! A member of the Latino Literature Hall of Fame, Urrea is the critically acclaimed, best-selling […]
Poet and Musician Trevino Brings Plenty, Oct. 29
Join Lakota poet and musician Trevino L. Brings Plenty for a reading at the UP Bookstore on Tuesday Oct. 29 at 7:30pm. A longtime resident of the Portland area, he has two poetry collections Wakpá Wanáǧi, Ghost River (2015) and Real Indian Junk Jewelry (2005), and was featured in the recent anthology New Poets of Native Nations (2018). A […]
Reading by Author, Oregon Book Award Winner Tracy Daugherty, Oct. 2
The English department will present its next Reading and Lectures Series writer, Tracy Daugherty, on Wednesday, October 2, at 7:30 p.m., in the UP Bookstore. His reading is free and open to all. Daugherty is the author of four novels, six short story collections, a book of personal essays, and biographies of Donald Barthelme, Joseph […]
Creative Writers Coming to UP this Fall
Faculty, staff, and students are invited to learn about the poets, novelists, essayists, and biographers coming to campus for free readings this semester, according to Lars Larson, English: Pulitzer-winner Marilynne Robinson (this week!), five-time Oregon Book Award winner Tracy Daugherty, Lakota poet and musician Trevino L. Brings Plenty, and the fall Schoenfeldt Distinguished Writer Luis […]