Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: January 21, 2016 Southern Methodist University is bringing former U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan to campus next month. Ryan served as laureate from 2008 through 2010, then won the Pulitzer Prize and a $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship grant. She’ll speak at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 25 at Dedman Life Sciences Building Room 131, 6501 Airline Court, […]
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Poets and Writers Originally Posted: February 10, 2016 While Cave Canem’s annual retreat for African American poets has been changing the literary landscape for the past twenty years, the writing community has lacked a similar resource for African American fiction writers. That is, it did until 2013, when writers David Haynes and Sanderia Smith launched […]
SMU News Originally Posted: February 11, 2016 Fresh off contributing to SMU being named The Most Beautiful Campus in America by the Huffington Post, SMU’s campus centerpiece, Dallas Hall, has inspired a homespun poem that was published Tuesday alongside the works of Pulitzer prize winners in the poetry anthology Monticello in Mind: Fifty Contemporary Poets […]
University of Virginia Press: “In Monticello in Mind, poet Lisa Russ Spaar collects fifty contemporary poems–most original to this anthology–that engage the complex legacy of Thomas Jefferson and his plantation home at Monticello. The anthology features a roster of poets both emerging and established–including Lucille Clifton, Rita Dove, Claudia Emerson, Terrance Hayes, Robert Hass, Yusef […]
Imprint Originally Posted: February 3, 2016 The following is an excerpt from an article written by Dedman College alumnus Matt Alexander featuring Valentine’s day gift idea’s from Bumble, a company founded by another Dedman College alumna, Whitney Wolfe. Over the past year or so, it’s been a pleasure to watch the rapid rise and success of Bumble, an innovative […]
Originally Posted: February 1, 2016 WORDS OF WITNESS by Angela Ards, an Associate Professor of English at SMU, explores how black women writers craft life stories to engage and shape our politics. In it, she argues that these autobiographers offer counter-memories to official, and often nostalgic, understandings of the civil rights and Black Power movements; […]
Dallas Innovates Originally Posted: January 29, 2016 The Dallas literary renaissance is upon us—and it has arrived quickly. “There was a huge gap here even just two and a half years ago,” says Will Evans, founder of Deep Vellum Publishing. “It’s happened really fast that Dallas has started to feel like a literary city.” Evans […]
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Save the date: SMU Research Day Feb. 10
Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: January 19, 2016 A doctor’s mission: Showing why literature matters to medicine During four years of medical school, Dr. Susan Oh kept herself from reading books other than those related to her studies. “Even though I wanted to, it would be like, ‘No, I need to further my knowledge and […]
Event Date: Jan 18, 2016 Time: 11 am-1 pm Free and open to the public MLK Day Symposium at University of Dallas. “The ‘Birthright of Freedom’: Reading ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ in Light of #BlackLivesMatter and Missouri” with guest speaker Professor Darryl Dickson-Carr, Chair of the SMU English Department. RSVP to agthompson@udallas.edu by Jan. 14 […]