Tag: university

• Lovingly Grateful: An Interview with Ross Gay; Interview conducted by Laine Derr

  Recipient of the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (2015), Ross Gay shapes language, roots fused with variegated ash, to chronicle experiences, the profane crafted sacred through simple gestures of doing and undoing, buttoning and unbuttoning, while resisting the need to dissect his artistry with “an X-Acto knife.”  When asked what…

  Jessica

  July 27, 2017

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  amwriting, author, Education, fiction, Laine Derr, nonfiction, poetry, ross gay, university, writer, writing

• Emily, Beside Herself by Jennifer Fliss

  Emily was beside herself. Literally, beside herself. She wasn’t sure what happened or how it was even possible. One minute she was on the 2 train sitting between a woman reading The Alchemist (cliché) and a business suit with a cell phone clipped to his belt. (Also cliché. Also tacky and gauche). The next minute…

  Jessica

  July 27, 2017

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  amwriting, fiction, Jennifer Fliss, school, university, writer, writing

• The Spectrum of Safety in Trumpland, by Katy Sperry

  Northern Arizona University is located on an island of blue in an ocean of red in the state of Arizona¹. Since November 8, 2016, this island has felt much smaller to me. The day after the election I was walking to teach my 9:10 AM composition class, when I saw, for the first time on…

  Jessica

  June 10, 2017

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  Education, feminism, flagstaff, Katy Sperry, language, LGBTQ+, politics, trump, university, women

• Humankind v. Mankind: Freedom of Speech and Classroom Policies, by Katy Sperry

  Recently my university got national spotlight because an alt right (read: nazi) website posted an article about a professor deducting a single point from a student’s essay for using the word “mankind” twice. A faculty member of the English department is being sent threats of death and rape for enforcing MLA language guidelines. The students’…

  Jessica

  June 10, 2017

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  Education, flagstaff, free speech, Justice, Katy Sperry, language, politics, school, university