Threshold, DePaul’s award-winning, student-run literary magazine is recruiting! As new co-editors, Rachel Harthcock (undergraduate) and Borja Cabada (graduate, MAWP) are excited about the prospects of putting together a terrific team that will help them create another great issue this year. They are looking for committed students (both graduate and undergraduate) to fill the editor positions in fiction, non-fiction, poetry and dramatic literature. Candidates should have relevant experience in their own fields as well as an eye for literary criticism. If you’re interested please send them your resumé, a brief cover letter, and a link to… Read Article →
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Please note that Ex Libris has made a few changes to the way that MAE course requirements are listed on the “Classes” pages. The new information reflects the fact that MAE course requirements are based solely on time period regardless of country, as well as the program’s more recent decision to replace the term “Modern” with “20th/21st Century.” And as always, we continue to add more course descriptions for Winter and Spring quarters as they come in, so if you’re still wondering what classes to take, have a look! *** There’s just one week left… Read Article →
DePaul University is excited to announce the formation of the new Black Graduate Student Community. This organization was formed by a small group of graduate students to create a sense of community and fellowship and to be a pillar of support for black graduate students, and they are now ready to open the organization to the entire DePaul community. The Black Graduate Student Community’s inaugural event, a Mix and Mingle, will take place on November 2nd at 6:30 p.m. The event will be held at the Center for the Black Diaspora in the Schmitt Academic… Read Article →
Faculty News: One of the duties of Illinois Poet Laureate Kevin Stein is to feature outstanding Illinois poets in order to “highlight the poetic legacy of Illinois and showcase the bevy of fine poets currently writing within the state.” We are pleased to announce that Stein’s most recently selected Featured Illinois Poet is DePaul’s own Mark Turcotte. To mark this occasion, five of Prof. Turcotte’s poems are featured on the state poet laureate Website– including brand new audio recordings of several of them. You can see Prof. Turcotte’s Featured Poet bio and read and listen… Read Article →
DePaul’s Visiting Writers’ Program is thrilled to announce an extraordinary literary event this week at DePaul. On Thursday, May 3rd, the celebrated poet Campbell McGrath reads at 6 p.m. in Rosati Room 300 of the John T. Richardson Library. Campbell is the author of nine books, including Spring Comes to Chicago and the recently released In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys. His work has received many of America’s most significant literary honors, including the Kingsley Tufts Award and fellowships from the MacArthur and Guggenheim Foundations. Originally from Chicago, he teaches at Florida International University,… Read Article →
While everyone is busy with the mid-quarter workload and getting ready for registration or Commencement, allow us to recommend a few links to DePaul/literature/writing-related content around the web. Enjoy! *** Two weeks ago, DePaul University welcomed five University of Alabama poets to campus as part of an exchange program between DePaul and the University of Alabama, and luckily for us, DePaul Radio’s Student Writer Series was there to document it. DePaul SWS recorded the five University of Alabama poets reading some of their own work, and talking about their small press, Slash Pine Press for… Read Article →
This Friday, April 27th is the final One Book One Chicago Spring event at DePaul. Details are as follows: Chinese Literary Forms and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl Friday, April 27, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. DePaul University, Lincoln Park Campus John T. Richardson Library 2350 N. Kenmore Avenue, Room 300 (Rosati Room) James Shea (Nebraska Wesleyan University) and Dorothy Tse Hiu Hung (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) discuss classical literary forms as background to the stories in Gold Boy, Emerald Girl. Shea’s lecture, “Classical Chinese Poetry and Yiyun Li’s Gold Boy, Emerald Girl,” explores the Chinese quatrains that were popular… Read Article →
Do you have an old computer lying around and don’t know what to do with it? Then you should consider donating it to a local nonprofit. DePaul’s University Center for Writing-based Learning is collecting old and less-than-perfect computers on behalf of Mujeres Latinas en Accion (Latina Women in Action), a nonprofit that can put any donated computers to use in their Project Youth and Peace Program initiatives. Donating your computer through the UCWbL is easy: just fill out this form and someone will contact you shortly. Also, feel free to share this form to others… Read Article →
Chicago Public Library’s Poetry Fest is coming up on April 28th. Poetry Fest is a free, day-long festival of entertaining poetry readings, workshops, performances and discussions taking place from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Harold Washington Library Center. Join us for a day filled with fresh voices, unique perspectives and compelling artists. For more information about Poetry Fest visit chipublib.org/eventsprog/programs/poetry_fest . Award-winning poet Jimmy Santiago Baca appears as the keynote speaker, replacing Les Murray, at the Chicago Public Library’s 13th Annual Poetry Fest on Saturday, April 28 at the Harold Washington Library Center,… Read Article →
Reminder to current students: Tomorrow, April 6th, DePaul University will be closed and classes will not be held. See you Monday! *** Presenters of Enlightenment Through Spoken Word (POETS), the DePaul student poetry club, has invited poet Meg Kearney to read on Lincoln Park Campus next week. Kearney will read from 6 to 7 pm in Munroe Hall 115/116 on Wednesday April 11th. The reading will be followed by a question and answer session and light refreshments will be served. The event is free and open to all DePaul students. *** The Guild Literary Complex… Read Article →
Yesterday on Ex Libris we featured an event hosted by the Guild Literary Complex which called for students from each of Chicago’s creative writing graduate programs to read at an open mic. Today we are happy to announce that two students have stepped forward to represent DePaul’s MAWP: Mellissa Gyimah and Jim Shadid. Please join the Guild Complex for this open mic event (see yesterday’s post and/or the flyer for details) on Wednesday April 11th to support Jim and Mellissa– and bring a student ID! *** All are invited to join DePaul’s Center for African… Read Article →
The MAWP is pleased to announce an exciting opportunity for graduate students in both fiction and creative nonfiction to work with visiting writer Eileen Pollack. In addition to her reading on the evening of April 12, Pollack has agreed to conduct a Master Class, in which she will discuss the work of three graduate students in the MAWP. Anyone may attend the actual class, but the work of only three graduate students will be discussed. Mark your calendars for Thursday, April 12, 2012: Master Class with Eileen Pollack 3:30-5:00 Location (on Lincoln Park campus) TBA… Read Article →