English & Creative Writing News
December 19, 2011Drawing from the strength and rich history of its English department, next fall Cornell College will launch an academic enrichment program known as the Center for the Literary Arts. The center will foster the cultivation of imaginative writing and communication across departments and disciplines. Four donors have pledged nearly $100,000 over five years to fund [...]
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December 8, 2011Glenn Freeman, associate professor in the department of English and creative writing, has published a new book of poetry, “Traveling Light.” Freeman, who teaches creative writing, American poetry and American Nature Writers, grew up in Maryland and has since lived in Vermont, Minnesota, and Florida. He now lives with his wife and two cats in Iowa [...]
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November 2, 2011What is the role of urban agriculture in a 21st century sustainable food system? Are urban farms gimmicks, distractions, or key ingredients in a better agriculture? On Nov 9th, with slides and clips from his films and travels, filmmaker and environmental advocate Ian Cheney explores the wild world of urban farming, blending humor and whimsy [...]
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October 6, 2011Wendy Call will read from her work on Tuesday, Oct. 11, at 7 p.m. in Shaw Lounge, Thomas Commons. Wendy Call is a writer, editor, translator, and teacher of creative writing. Call’s narrative nonfiction book, “No Word for Welcome” (University of Nebraska Press, 2011), explores how economic globalization intersects with village life in a region [...]
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October 5, 2011The Cornell College English and creative writing department is hosting a reading by an Iraqi poet and translator and a Hatian fiction writer and filmmaker on Tuesday, Oct. 18 at 7 p.m. The reading will take place in the Shaw Lounge in the Thomas Commons on Cornell’s campus. Naseer Hassan is the manager of a [...]
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May 4, 2011Michael Berube, Paterno Family Professor in Literature at Pennsylvania State University, will give a talk on May 12th “Life as Jamie Knows It.” The title of his talk alludes to his book, “Life As We Know It: A Father, A Family, and an Exceptional Child,” a blend of memoir and cultural studies that tells the [...]
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April 7, 2011Anne Sanow and Wendy Call will read from their work and take questions from the audience this April 14th. Anne Sanow is the author of the story collection “Triple Time,” winner of the 2009 Drue Heinz Literature Prize and the 2010 L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award for fiction. Her book has been selected as [...]
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March 12, 2011Join Lyrically Inclined this March 18th for The Sage on Fire Tour, an artist collective featuring national indie poets and musicians and includes poet Seth Walker and singer/songwriters Lauren Begent and Solomon Schneider. Since 2006 Seth Walker has been ascending through the ranks of American performing poets. After becoming the 2007 Houston Grand Slam Champion [...]
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March 7, 2011Angie Estes, author of four books of poetry, will speak at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 16, in the Shaw conference room in the Commons on Cornell’s campus. Estes’ most recent book, “Tryst” was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Her many awards include a Pushcart Prize and the Cecil Hemley Memorial Award from [...]
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March 4, 2011Emma Ramey will speak in Hedges conference room in the Commons at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 8. Ramey is originally from the Seattle area. She received her MFA from the University of Alabama and now teaches at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She is the Assistant Poetry Editor for DIAGRAM. Her [...]
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February 17, 2011Visiting Writer Rob Schlegel will read from his work. He is the author of BLOOM, which won the Midwest Chapbook Series Award in 2010, and The Lesser Fields, which won the 2009 Colorado Prize for Poetry.
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February 3, 2011Shannon Reed, associate professor of English, will speak this Thursday Feb 10th about “Crusoe’s Friday” with respect to the famous novel of Defoe and its later adaptations, such as NBC’s 2008 television series “Crusoe.” When adaptations of Defoe’s novel attempt to revise its racial politics, the biggest changes occur in the character Friday, whereas Robinson [...]
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November 22, 2010English and creative writing Professor Glenn Freeman had three poems published in the latest edition of Connotation Press. The poems are part of an extended sequence Freeman calls “Stumbling Home From Woodstock.” The poems can be read in their entirety on the Connotation Press website.
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October 28, 2010Gary Gilson, distinguished visiting journalist for Block 2, will deliver a lecture on Oct 5th titled “Whose News? Whose Truth? Whose Ethics?” He will consider effects on the news business of technological change and political polarization and their impact on democracy. Gilson, whose students are reporting and writing on the quality of life among people [...]
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October 1, 2010Open Field seeks applicants for three editorial positions: Editor, Assistant Editor, Art Editor. Applicants should submit a brief statement of relevant experience and the names of two faculty references to Professor Rebecca Entel by email at rentel@cornellcollege.edu or submitted directly to her office. Deadline: October 22, 2010. Interviews will be held during Block 3.
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September 20, 2010John T. Price is the author of the memoirs “Man Killed by Pheasant and Other Kinships” (Da Capo Press, 2008) and “Not Just Any Land: A Personal and Literary Journey into the American Grasslands” (U. of Nebraska Press, 2004). He will speak in Shaw Lounge on Thursday, October 14th at 7 p.m. A recipient of [...]
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September 15, 2010Kristin Caskey ’84, won first place in the international Peacock Standard Thai Silk Design Competition. The competition was co-sponsored by Thailand’s Queen Sirikit Institute of Sericulture and the International Textile and Apparel Association. The purpose of the competition is to showcase the Thai government’s “Peacock Standard” for Thai silk. The standard was established by Queen [...]
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September 7, 2010Writers from the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program will read from their work and take questions from the audience on Sep 14th. Alan Cherchesov is a fiction writer from Russia at work on his fourth novel. The recipient of a number of literary prizes, he was a finalist for the 2001 and 2006 Russian [...]
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September 1, 2010Experience Southern Africa, The Boundary Waters of Minnesota, or Chicago’s Newberry Library with the English Department. Interested students should speak with their advisors during registration, or contact the respective professors, about these 2010-2011 off-campus opportunities: Southern African Art, Literature, and Culture in Context (ENG 3-374, Reed), will focus on the literature of Southern African, examining [...]
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June 18, 2010Professor Glenn Freeman (English) will be an artist in residence this year at two national parks this summer: Rocky Mountain National Park and Isle Royal National park. Freeman was one of six artists were selected out of one hundred and four applicants. The other artists selected, along with their art medium, are: Steve Gifford, Photographer [...]
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March 25, 2010MOUNT VERNON – Tim Wise, one of the most prominent anti-racism writers and activists in the country, will deliver the lecture “Between Barack and a Hard Place: Challenging Racism, Privilege and Denial in the Age of Obama” on Monday, April 19, at 7 p.m. in King Chapel. The event is free and open to the [...]
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March 15, 2010Award-winning poet Angie Estes will read from and discuss her work, inspired by Dante and the medieval arts. She will appear on Thursday, April 8th at 4:30 p.m. in the second floor of Cole Library. Estes is the author of four books of poetry, most recently “Tryst” (2009) and “Chez Nous” (2005). Her many awards [...]
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March 10, 2010Two poets, Patrick Rosal and Kiki Petrosino, will read at a benefit for Haiti relief at Cornell College at 7 p.m. on March 17. In addition to the reading, there will be music and a raffle to raise relief money. The event is free, but there is a suggested donation of $5. The benefit is [...]
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March 8, 2010Award-winning spoken-word artist Gabriela Garcia Medina will perform at Cornell College on March 12. Born to Cuban parents, Medina has seen the world through eyes most haven’t. As an international spoken word artist and award-winning poet, her poetry has taken her to places such as South Africa, Cuba, Brazil, Switzerland and all over the United [...]
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February 8, 2010The writer who revived the North American Review in the 1960s and went on to serve as Iowa’s Poet Laureate from 2004 through 2008, Robert Dana, died on Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010, at Mercy Hospice in Iowa City. The cause was pancreatic cancer. A memorial service will be held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, March 28, [...]
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January 6, 2010MOUNT VERNON – Award-winning poet Patrick Rosal will read from and discuss his works at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 20, in Shaw Conference Room in the Commons at Cornell College. The event is free and open to the public. Rosal is the author of “Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive” and “My American Kundiman,” both full-length [...]
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October 23, 2009Hitting the library is a habit most first-year students adopt. But Ellie Gione took this notion much deeper than most, digging into primary sources more than 450 years old at one of the world’s premier research libraries. Gione’s passion for Medieval and Early Modern Literature led her twice to the archives of Chicago’s Newberry Library, [...]
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October 19, 2009Every other year Cornell English professors lead 20-30 students on an 18-day exploration of Great Britain. They tour London and the English countryside, stopping to explore iconic sites such as Westminster Abbey, Dover Castle, the cathedrals of Canterbury and York, the Lake District, and Hadrian’s Wall. Along the way, the class views and reflects on numerous [...]
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October 19, 2009MOUNT VERNON – Sarah Prineas, author of The Magic Thief and The Magic Thief: Lost, will read from and discuss her work at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4, at Cornell College. The reading will be held in Hedges Conference Room in The Commons. It is free and open to the public. Prineas is an Iowa [...]
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October 5, 2009MOUNT VERNON – Fiction Writer Sarah Shun-lien Bynum will read from her new novel Ms. Hempel Chronicles and discuss her work Thursday, Oct. 15, at 7:30 p.m. in Shaw Conference Room of The Commons at Cornell College. Admission is free and open to the public. Bynum is the author of Madeleine is Sleeping, a finalist [...]
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September 16, 2009MOUNT VERNON – As one of the four winners of the Bright Lights Big Verse: Poems of Times Square national poetry contest, Ben Miller ’86 will showcase his winning poem “Pipe Birds” in an unusual location: Times Square. Miller and the three other contest winners will read their poems on Sept. 29 at the “Crossroads [...]
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September 1, 2009MOUNT VERNON – A South African fiction writer and a Croatian poet will discuss their works and hold readings on Tuesday, Sept. 15 at the fourth annual Global Voices, an event featuring international writers. The event will start at 7 p.m. in Hedges Conference Room and is free and open to the public. Novelist and [...]
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September 1, 2009MOUNT VERNON – John Peterson, the subject of the documentary The Real Dirt on Farmer John, will visit Cornell College on Sept. 11. There will be a free public screening of the award-winning film at 7 p.m. in West Science 100 followed by an open discussion with “Farmer John.” Peterson is the founder of Angelic [...]
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April 20, 2009MOUNT VERNON – Cornell College will host “An Evening with Poet Robert Dana” on Tuesday, April 28, at 7:30 p.m. in Kimmel Theatre. Admission is free and open to the public. The evening will celebrate Dana’s contributions to the world of poetry as a Cornell professor and Poet-in-Residence, as Iowa Poet Laureate, and as a [...]
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April 15, 2009What can you do with an English major? One great way to find out is through an internship at a major publishing house. A number of Cornell English students have recently completed rewarding internships, usually with support from the Cornell Fellows program. Jenelle Sombret, Teacher Created Materials In the summer of 2008, Jenelle Sombret worked [...]
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April 13, 2009MOUNT VERNON – Three Cornell College professors have been invited to participate in three prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminars for 2009. Associate Professor of English Katy Stavreva, Professor of Music James Martin, and Assistant Professor of English Shannon Reed were all selected by the NEH to receive grants to travel and participate [...]
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March 10, 2009Shakespeare’s words were intended for the stage, and every other year students in “Shakespeare after Shakespeare” bring one of the Bard’s plays to life. Within five weeks of intense engagement with Shakespeare’s language, the class mounts a full-scale production, with students working as actors, set designers, stage managers, costumers, and more. Click here to open [...]
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January 9, 2009MOUNT VERNON – Environmental writer Scott Russell Sanders will perform a reading at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 18, in Hedges Conference Room, Cornell College. The event is free and open to the public. Sanders is the distinguished author of more than 20 novels, collections of stories, and works of personal nonfiction, including Staying Put, Writing [...]
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January 7, 2009MOUNT VERNON – In celebration of the double anniversary of Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday and 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species, Cornell College will host a number of speakers and events commemorating Darwin’s life and work. All lectures are free and open to the public. Dr. Robert T. Pennock will kick [...]
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January 5, 2009Visiting poet Kathleen Halme will read from and discuss her most recent collection “Drift and Pulse” on Thursday, January 15 at 7:30 p.m. in Shaw Lounge. In “Drift and Pulse,” her third book of poems, Halme is fascinated with the domain where matter is experienced as mind. Drawing upon brain science, anthropology, and biology, these poems take [...]
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January 5, 2009Campus groups devoted to creative writing, literacy, and literature—Q.Ink, Lyrically Inclined, Wordsmiths, The Literary Society, and Open Field—will come together on the OC over lunch on Wednesday, January 14 and Friday, January 16, providing exciting and interactive opportunities to learn more about each group. The events will culminate in an Open Mic reading Friday evening [...]
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January 4, 2009Internet editor and librarian Alan Cordle will lecture on issues of Internet privacy and security on Thursday, January 15 at 3:30 p.m. in Cole Library 108. On the same day he will also lead a small, hands-on workshop on these issues from 11:30 a.m to 12:45 p.m. in the Cole Library Computer Lab. Mr. Cordle has [...]
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January 3, 2009Poet Rick Campbell will read and discuss his work on October 28 at 7:30 p.m. in Shaw Lounge. Campbell is the author of three collections of poems, “Dixmont” (2007), “The Traveler’s Companion” (2004), and “Setting the World in Order” (2001), and he edited “Isle of Flowers” (1995) and “Snakebird: Thirty Years of Anhinga Poets” (2004). His [...]
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October 21, 2008MOUNT VERNON — The Cornell College English department will stage Shakespeare’s gender-bending comedy As You Like It, directed by award-winning actress, teacher, playwright, and artistic director of the Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company Lisa Wolpe, Oct. 31 to Nov. 2 in the Plumb-Fleming Studio Theatre at Cornell. Shows are at 8 p.m. on Oct. 31, [...]
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October 15, 2008MOUNT VERNON—On the cusp of All Hallows Eve, the “Hogwarts Professor” comes to Cornell to explain both how Harry cast his spell over readers around the world and the edifying magic of traditional English literature and fantasy. John Granger, author of The Deathly Hallows Lectures, will explore the meaning of J.K. Rowling’s eye imagery in [...]
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May 28, 2008MOUNT VERNON – Two poems by Robert Dana, poet-in-residence and English professor emeritus as well as Iowa’s Poet Laureate, will be part of dedication ceremonies taking place in Des Moines and Coralville on May 30 and 31. Dana’s poem “In Praise” is scheduled to be read at the dedication of the Iowa Workers Monument in [...]
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February 20, 2008Independent investigations and an investigation of independence: Alison Scharmota found a perfect opportunity for both during a semester in Chicago. Scharmota recently completed a Newberry Seminar in the Humanities, a semester-long program that led her deep into 18th century research at the Newberry Library while exploring life on her own in a large, vibrant city. [...]
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February 15, 2008Nature-based writing and art can certainly be appreciated inside brick buildings. But for Cornell English students, the Wilderness Field Station in northern Minnesota provides a much richer experience. Courses are taught against a backdrop of tall pines and clear lakes, with the silence punctuated by the call of loons, crackling fires, and lapping water. Here [...]
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January 15, 2008Scholarly research in English is typically a solo affair. But during a unique course at the Newberry Library in Chicago, professor Katy Stavreva serves as guide, mentor, and colleague as students dig into the archives at one of the North America’s premier research libraries. “For me, the most rewarding part of working at the Newberry [...]
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July 10, 2007MOUNT VERNON — Two Cornell College professors are authors of a piece on information literacy that has been selected as one of the top 20 library instruction articles by the American Library Association Library Instruction Round Table (ALA LIRT). The article, “Layering Knowledge: Information Literacy as Critical Thinking in the Literature Classroom” [Pedagogy 6.3 (2006)], [...]
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