The Department of English at BGSU
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- Ohio Medieval Colloquium
315 Bowen-Thompson Student Union, B...
Saturday, October 24 at 10:45am
bgsuenglish Congratulations to Mike Czyzniejewski for his 2010 NEA Literature grant award!!
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We are very pleased to announce that fiction writer Michael Czyzniejewski, Instructor in Creative Writing and General Studies Writing and one of two Editors-in-Chief of the Mid-American Review, has been awarded one of just 42 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowships for 2010. ...
Seth Berg
if you haven't seen this...well, just take a peek: http://www.darkskymagazine.com/2009/12/0
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Congrats to the following creative writers who have been nominated for the 2010 AWP Intro Awards:
Poetry:
Courtney Jade Ramsey, “The Rain Taps the Concrete Like Piano Keys”;
Rachael Sample, two poems, “Remember” and “Temperance”;
Fiction:
Anne Valente, “Minivan”;
Non-fiction:
Courtney Ramsey, "Things Not Seen.”
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Mark Berman, an alumnus of both the BA English and MFA Creative Writing programs (MFA 1976), has received a letter from the President’s Office informing him that he has been named one of the 100 most prominent BGSU alumni, as part of BGSU’s Centennial. ...
bgsuenglish Winter Wheat: The Mid-American Review Festival of Writing today through Sunday!
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Winter Wheat: The Mid-American Review Festival of Writing began last night and continues today through Sunday. For those who have never attended Winter Wheat before, each day has a different flavor. Friday ...
bgsuenglish BGSU-UIUC MFA exchange reading tonight at Prout Chapel, 7:30 p.m.
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Tonight (Thursday, November 5) at Prout Chapel, as part of the ongoing Creative Writing Reading Series, students in the M.F.A. program here at BGSU will take part in an exchange reading with their compatriots from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ...
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Check out the 2007 documentary "Fully Awake: The Black Mountain College Experience" tonight at the Gish (7:30 pm).
Black Mountain College was an experimental college based in North
Carolina from 1933-1957 and was the location for such events as
Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic dome, John Cage’s first multimedia
happening, and... the publication of early Beat poets in the Black
Mountain Review. This documentary looks at the unique educational style
and long-term significance of Black Mountain College through interviews
with students, teachers, historians, and current artists, which serve
to illuminate this school’s emphasis on balancing academics, art, work
programs, and community living.
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Tucked in the mountains of Western North Carolina, Black Mountain College (1933-1957) was an influential experiment in education that inspired and shaped 20th century modern art. Through narration, archive ...
bgsuenglish MFA candidates David Spiering and Anne Valente read at Prout Chapel tonight!
Stephannie Gearhart In honor of Halloween (and finishing a unit on early modern Revenge Tragedies), some students from English 4060 are getting together to see Peter Greenaway’s “The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover” (1989). Please join us! We'll be in East Hall 114 at 6pm on Friday (10/30). Contact me (stephsg@bgsu.edu) if you plan on attending or have any questions.
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Writer/Director Peter Greenaway teams up again with cinematographer Sacha Vierny and composer Michael Nyman, delivering a banquet of sound and colour, light and dark.
bgsuenglish Culture Club (Cultural Studies Scholars' Assocation) is showing "I Walked With A Zombie," Jacques Tourneur's classic 1943 adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre" tonight (7:30) at the Gish.
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"I walked With a Zombie" was released April 30, 1943 in the US.
bgsuenglish Come to the fourth annual Halloween reading hosted by Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society, this Friday!
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Please come to the Fourth Annual Halloween Reading hosted by Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society, BGSU chapter. Questions? Contact Dr. Erin Labbie, , or Amanda Taylor, .
bgsuenglish RIP Ray Browne, 1922-2009
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Dr. Raymond B. Browne, who was instrumental in establishing the first full-fledged department of popular culture in the United States at BGSU in 1973, died Oct. 22 at home in Bowling Green. He was 87.
bgsuenglish We are co-sponsoring the Ohio Medieval Colloquium on campus this weekend. Check the link for details.
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This Saturday (October 24), BGSU will host the Ohio Medieval Colloquium which is sponsored by the Departments of English and History. Literature professor and medievalist Dr. Erin Labbie, one of the organizers of the colloqium, writes:
bgsuenglish Poet Rachel Zucker reads at Prout Chapel tomorrow night (Thursday) at 7:30 pm.
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bgsuenglish Blog for the National Day of Writing!
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The BGSU Writing Center, COBL, and International Writing Centers Association have put together a blog (a series of blogs really—one for each time zone) to celebrate the National day of Writing.
