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  • Course Descriptions ENGL 213 : Topics in Literature: Themes and Authors - IT A variable-content course that focuses on the act of reading and interpreting texts. (4) ENGL 214 : Introduction to Major Literary Genres - IT Introduction to one or more of the major literary genres (fiction, poetry or drama). Focus of course varies with instructor and term. May be taken more than once for credit with approval of department chair. (4) ENGL 216 : Topics in Literature - IT, GE A variable-content course

  • books of poems by Mexican-Zapotec poet Irma Pineda, with whom she shared the 2022 John Frederick Nims Prize for Translation from the Poetry Foundation: In the Belly of Night and Other Poems (Pluralia/Eulalia, 2022) and Nostalgia Doesn’t Flow Away Like Riverwater (Deep Vellum, 2024). Her co-translation of How to be a Good Savage and Other Poems (Milkweed, 2024), by Zoque poet Mikeas Sánchez, was called “a significant work in more ways than one” by the New York Times. Wendy has received grants and

  • Embrace?: On Whether Computers Can Create Poetry and Art” Joe Norton, “Poetry: A Response to Modern Technology” Robert Shaw, “Passing the Turing Test: Machines, Minds, and Inquiry” Stu Weaverling, “How Does Technology Encourage Evil?” McKenzie Williams, “Complexity in the American Food System: A Relativist Response to Martin Heidegger” Back: Philosophy and Economics in Opole

  • and as faculty in PLU’s low-res MFA program are my dream jobs! What was your favorite part about majoring in English? That part of my job as a student was to read literature and write poetry—I still do that for fun on my own!

  • Pictured from left: Alex Woodside, Emily Fisher, Julia French, Eleora Hughes, Sarah Lynn Seabreeze, Anna Strobel, Dailyn Cooks, Victoria Schultz, Eden Standley The 2024 issue of Saxifrage (#50) is now available on campus! This special 50th anniversary issue features poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art from 22 talented PLU students. It also includes a special editor’s note from the student editorial team that reflects on the impact of fifty years of Saxifrage. Read this special editor’s

  • Our Low-Residency ModelThe low-residency MFA in Creative Writing offered by The Rainier Writing Workshop is a three-year program in the study of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Each new cohort starts the program on June 1st, the beginning of the summer term. The summer term culminates in the 10-day residency on the PLU campus in early August. The degree is awarded after completion of the following: four residencies, three years of mentorships, a successful “Outside Experience,” a Critical

  • Preview Day (When you RSVP for Latinos Unidos, we will automatically register you for Fall Preview Day) Latinos Unidos ScheduleSaturday, October 3 12:00pm – Registration opens Karen Hille Phillips Center Lobby 12:30pm – Welcome from student club Amigos Unidos Karen Hille Phillips Center 1:15pm – Class with Professor Emily Davidson Voices from The Nuyorican Poets Café: Bilingual Poetry/Bicultural Identities Hauge 101 2:30pm – Campus Tour Departing from Hauge 101 3:45pm – Admission Presentation

  • November 5, 2010 Visiting Writer Series By Kari Plog ’11 Rick Barot, assistant professor of English at Pacific Lutheran University, was a political science major as an undergraduate before accidentally discovering his passion for poetry. Matthew Dickman came to PLU as part of the Visiting Writer’s Series. He hopes students will gain a similar experience from the annual Visiting Writer Series. “You never know what you will learn from an event,” Barot said. Barot discovered his passion for

  • Arts, the Ragdale Foundation and the MacDowell Colony. His work appears in GQ, Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, Travel & Leisure, Saveur, and several anthologies. For the past decade, Goodman has directed the undergraduate and graduate creative writing program at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. During that time he has organized and staged three major literary festivals: Diversity in African American Poetry; Translating Cultures: Latin American and Latina/o Writers Festival; and Miami

  • - 1:00PM Tour Seattle Chinese Garden, Poetry Reading1:00PM - 1:30PM ``Two Arias from Tacoma Method`` (composed by Gregory Youtz) 1) This Is My Home 2) My Little Cup 1:30PM - 2:30PM Lunch2:45PM - 4:00PM Panel 3: Educational Connections Lü Chan Associate Professor, University of Washington Matthew Burke Chinese Language Instructor, Lincoln High School Tracy Ge Chinese Language Instructor, Sammamish High School Sun Burford Chinese Language Instructor, Tyee Middle School 4:15PM - 5:30PM Panel 4