Congratulations to Zahra Patterson, Development Program Manager in the Office of Development, on two great achievements. Zahra, who is earning her master’s degree in creative writing at Long Island University, has received a scholarship from the Northeast Writing Centers Association and will also have one of her poems published in Downtown Brooklyn, LIU’s literary magazine. [read more]
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Q & A with Jean Gallagher, Poet
Jean Gallagher, Poet & Associate Professor of EnglishIf you didn’t know already, Jean Gallagher, Associate Professor of English, is an award-winning poet who has published two collections, Stubborn (2006) and This Minute (2005). Of her first collection, poet Jean Valentine said, “This Minute is brilliant and surprising, full of history, invention, wit, humor, motion, [and] [read more]
Take a Listen: Jean Gallagher Poetry Reading, Sat., Jan. 26
Jean Gallagher, Poet and Associate Professor of English Come hear Jean Gallagher, Associate Professor of English, at The Ear Inn Reading Series, a weekly reading featuring poetry by established and emerging writers.
When: Sat., Jan. 26, 2008; 3:00 p.m.
Where: The Ear Inn; 326 Spring Street (west of Greenwich Street)
Subway Directions: C/E to Spring Street; [read more]
Musky in 2017, a Poem
The below piece is the result of an assignment asking writers to interview a classmate and then write an essay about meeting that person ten years from today. This piece arrived in the form of a poem. What’s extraordinary about the work is that it comes out of our EN 1080 class, where I prepare [read more]