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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 →

[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 →

Alumnus E. Ce Miller Publishes Her Story A Shock to the System in SIXFOLD Fiction Ex Libris caught up with E. Ce Miller to congratulate her on her recent publication in SIXFOLD. She was kind enough to answer a few questions about her thrilling story A Shock to the System, her process, and how the MAWP program at DePaul helped her accomplish her goals. Read A Schock to the System at SIXFOLD by clicking here. Ex Libris: Can you speak a little bit about your process for the piece? E. Ce Miller: This was the… Read Article →

Alia Neaton Publishes Her Poem Cosmogony in SIXFOLD Ex Libris caught up with Alia Neaton to congratulate her on her recent publication in SIXFOLD. She was kind enough to answer a few questions about the poem, her process, and how the MAWP program at DePaul helped her accomplish her goals. Read the poem at SIXFOLD or listen to Alia read it on SoundCloud. Ex Libris: Can you tell us a little bit about your process when composing Cosmogony? Alia Neation: The inspiration for this series of poems began, as with most things, with something very… 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 →

Ex Libris is Proud to Announce That Graduate Alumnus Krystal Baugher has just published an article on The Atlantic.com. The article entitle “Women and Beer: A 4,500-Year History Is Coming Full Circle” traces the timeline of beer from ancient Egypt to modern day. In the process, Baugher dispels the myth that beer is a “man’s beverage” by pointing out that the second oldest alcoholic beverage has been almost solely brewed by women since its inception. Head over to The Atlantic and give the engaging article a read. Be sure to congratulate Krystal by giving her… Read Article →

  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 →

MAWP 2012 graduate Danielle Killgore has had a her story New York City Could Wait published by the Huffington Post Ex Libris asked Danielle to talk a little bit about her process. The story is about my father and his recent bout with depression. The story unfolded quite naturally. I started writing the piece as an outlet for myself and my own understanding, and it formed a story rather easily from there. The main motivation for sharing the story, with my dad’s permission, was to open a dialogue about an issue many shy away from talking… Read Article →

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