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Faculty Emeritus & Alumni Poetry Reading
Reading in 337 Bachelor Hall AND on Zoom Thursday, November 16, 2023 7:30pm Poets Isaac Pickell, an alumnus, and David Schloss, Miami Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing, read from their new books of poetry. They were wonderful readings and it was great to see these familiar faces. I was surprised to hear that David retired in…
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Faculty reading
Visiting Professors Emily Spencer and Jen Sammons, a Miami alumna, gave a wonderful reading to a packed room from poetry and non fiction, which reached many more via live streaming. You can check out their works below. emilyspencer.org jensammons.com
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Faculty Reading Lizzie Hutton
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Creative Writing Faculty Reading
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Faculty and Miami University Press Readings
Two writers read from their poetry, MU Press poet Kathleen Peirce and Miami University Creative Writing Professor, Brian Ascalon Roley. Kathleen Peirce’s awards include The AWP Award, The Iowa Prize, and the William Carlos Williams Award as well as Fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Whiting Foundation. She…
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Meet Your Professors! — Interview Three, Margaret Luongo
To finish out this series, I interviewed Margaret Luongo, Director of Creative Writing, Associate Professor of English, and advisor for my apprenticeship with the CW program. Since my first (and regrettably, only) class with her, I have experienced just how wise and kind she is and I am very glad I got to work more…
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Meet Your Professors! — Interview Two, Patrick Murphy
Last semester, back when things were strange in the way we call “normal,” I was thrilled to be in the course ENG 360B: Comics in Theory and In Practice, co-taught by professors Jody Bates and Patrick Murphy. I had tried making comics before but always stopped short of completing them, but this class gave me…
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Selvage, Diaspora, and Lingual Processes: a Conversation with Hoa Nguyen
National Poetry Month 2020 By: Savannah Trent I sat down, well more accurately sat down and logged into google chat, to talk to poet Hoa Nguyen to ask her about identity, belonging, and the diasporic experience. Nguyen, whose 2016 book length collection of poems Violet Energy Ingots was shortlisted for the 2017 Griffin prize in…
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Meet Your Professors! Interview One — cris cheek
National Poetry Month 2020 At the start of this semester, I wanted to begin a series of interviews with professors; I believe our faculty are what make the entire Miami English department special and I hoped to use the platform to showcase that. Now that so much has changed as a result of the pandemic,…
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“The Time to Play among the Borders of the Possible is a Gift:” An Interview with cris cheek
National Poetry Month 2020 cris cheek is a documentary performance writer, sound composer, and photographer. They worked alongside Bob Cobbing and Bill Griffiths with the Consortium of London Presses in the mid 1970’s to run a thriving open access print shop for little press poets. In 1981 they co-founded a collective movement-based performance resource in…