Join professor Chris Green and student Clare Stuber on Tuesday, September 16, at 7 p.m. for this month’s installment of the Poetry Foundation’s Open Door Readings. Open Door Readings take place on the third Tuesday of every month from September through May at 61 West Superior Street. The one-hour readings feature two Chicagoland college and graduate writing program instructors and two of their current or recent students. The series is free and open to the public.
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Letter from Acting Director of the MAWP, Ted Anton Dear MAWP-ers, Congratulations on a great year of work, of reading your peers and writing your own essays, poems, stories and novels. I’m sure everyone is looking forward to summer and an opportunity to relax and think about nothing, which I highly recommend. We have had numerous accomplishments, with many more to come. I try to look on my colleagues’ accomplishments as a spur to pursue my own. We teachers need and support your success! I recall that some of the least successful writers in my… Read Article →
Professor Sneed and Anton Recognized by the 2014 Awards for Books Published in 2013 Professor Christine Sneed recently won the award in Adult Fiction for her book Little Known Facts published by Bloomsbury. Professor Sneed worked at DePaul as an Assistant Visiting Professors from autumn of 2003 to autumn of 2012. She’ll be teaching, ENG 492 Writing Fiction this coming autumn. Professor Ted Anton was a Finalist in Adult Nonfiction for his work, Longevity Seekers: Science, Business, and the Fountain of Youth published by the University of Chicago Press. About the Prize Each year since… Read Article →
Dear colleagues, In Sunday’s papers, two of our colleagues, Barrie Borich and Michele Morano published occasional essays, meditating on matters of the moment: Barrie’s “What Lily Tomlin’s Marriage Means to Me and My Partner” was published in the Washington Post and Michele’s “Learning To Be Your Own Best Valentine” appeared in the Chicago Tribune. Please join me in congratulating them both! Both essays were written with the support of the DePaul’s second session of the OpEd Project’s Public Voices Thought Leadership Greenhouse. For more information on DePaul’s participation in the OpEd Project, see http://newsline.depaul.edu/Pages/OpEdProject.aspx Michele… Read Article →
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[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text] Top Ten Reasons You Should Take the Spring 2014 Literary Magazine Glass. Because you’ll have a chance to read and talk about the work journals are publishing right now, written by both big names and authors you haven’t heard of yet. Because you’ll have the chance to read and talk about work that little magazines published a very long time ago, by writers who turned out to be a big deal but weren’t at the time some editor, not unlike yourself, decided to publish them. Because you’ll have the chance to consider… Read Article →
Prof. Rooney Reads at the Poetry Foundation’s Open Door Series The Open Door series presents work from Chicago’s new and emerging poets and highlights the area’s outstanding writing programs. Each hour-long reading features two Chicagoland college and graduate writing program instructors and two of their current or recent students. Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press. She is the author of the essay collection For You, For You I Am Trilling These Songs (Counterpoint, 2010) and the poetry collection Robinson Alone (Gold Wake Press, 2012). John Wilkinson is a British poet who chairs the… Read Article →
The Department of English Digital Humanists Will Present at the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science The 8th Annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science will take place December 5-7, 2013, on the Lincoln Park Campus of DePaul University. The conference will consist of a plenary address by a significant Digital Humanist, as well as panels, roundtables, or other kinds of sessions proposed by scholars relating to recent issues and advances in the digital humanities. Professor John Shanahan and GA Josh Fisher will be presenting at the conference. Prof. Shanahan will be… Read Article →
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DEPAUL UNIVERSITY’S ENGLISH DEPARTMENT INVITES YOU TO THE LAUNCH OF THE FIRST BOOK PUBLISHED BY Join us for beverages, hors d’oeuvres, selected readings and conversations with the many contributors who made this book possible. rsvp by 11/12/13 HERE 7:00 – 10:00 pm THEATRE SCHOOL at DEPAUL UNIVERSITY 2350 N Racine Ave Chicago, IL 60614 HOW LONG WILL I CRY? In 2011 and 2012, while more than 900 people were being murdered on the streets of Chicago, creative-writing students from DePaul University fanned out all over the city to interview people whose lives… Read Article →
Introducing The Open Door: The Chicago Writing Program Reading Series The Poetry Foundation Inaugurates a New Event Series The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, inaugurates its new monthly writing program reading series, The Open Door, on Tues., Nov. 19 at 7 pm. The new series celebrates the teacher/student dynamic and is named after Harriet Monroe’s edict in the first issue of Poetry (October 1912): “The Open Door will be the policy of this magazine—may the great poet we are looking for never find it shut, or half-shut, against his ample genius!” The Open Door… Read Article →
In Chicago, on Thursday Oct. 24, at 6:30 pm, Professor Ted Anton will speak about the latest discoveries in longevity research at the National Hellenic Museum at 333 North Halsted. Food and drink in a beautiful venue, all invited. If you’re planning to come, let Prof. Anton know and he’ll put you on the guest list.