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November 12, 2020

The Pumpkins of Rounds Hall

Today we have a timely poem from Caitlin Andreasen, PSU class of 2018: I graduated in 2018. My English degree has taken me to unexpected places as I now work in the insurance industry as an underwriting assistant. Autumn in Plymouth was always my favorite time of year, with the changing foliage, the poetry reading at First Fire, and of...

Alumni/Plymouth State University/Poetry/PSU Student Works

November 9, 2020

Between Us, Susan Aubin

Between Us is a love story told through poetry. Witness characters Kennedy and Harrison fall for one another and build a life together. Tender and bitter moments fill these pages laced with love. The author, Susan Aubin, focused on the rich descriptive settings of the White Mountains and New York City and left out all physical features of the characters...

Literature/Poetry/PSU Student Works/Submissions

October 30, 2020

NaNoWriGo!

Writers! November is NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month! Several PSU English alumni have participated, sometimes numerous years, in NaNoWriMo, and one of them, Nikole Breault, keeps a blog about her work as a writer. Nikole earned her BA in English Education at PSU and taught for eight years. She also earned her Master of Education degree in the Teaching...

Alumni/Literature

October 29, 2020

Dodge Poetry Festival, Oct 22 – Nov 1

Need some pandemic positivity this week? Check out PSU English faculty member Liz Ahl‘s meditations on growing up, finding your people, and the Dodge Poetry Festival.

Faculty

October 20, 2020

Student Work at PSU: Finding Hope in 2020

By any measure, 2020 is a bleak year. At this point in October, many of us are so Zoom-fatigued and overworked that we’re looking for ways to just survive until winter break. That includes taking hope and inspiration where we can find them! For me, that often comes from the vibrant work my students are doing despite (or in response...

Plymouth State University/PSU Student Works/Students

October 14, 2020

COVID Spring: Granite State Pandemic Poems

PSU English alumni Cara Cristina Chanoine and Josh Nicolaisen, as well as PSU just-about-to-be-alumnus Griffin Nyhan, and PSU English faculty member Liz Ahl all have poems in a new anthology, COVID Spring: Granite State Pandemic Poems, edited by NH poet laureate Alexandria Peary. $2 from each copy sold will be donated to the New Hampshire Food Bank.

Alumni/Poetry/PSU Student Works/Students/Teachers

October 13, 2020

Intersectionality Talks with Dr. Justin Shaw

Co-sponsored by PSU English and the Open Learning and Teaching Collaborative, Intersectionality Talks is a new digital speaker series at Plymouth State University that features intersectional work on literature and culture. The program seeks to provide an interdisciplinary audience and platform for engaged, public-facing work from early career scholars and an opportunity to foster conversations at PSU about new research...

Faculty/Literature/News/Plymouth State University

October 12, 2020

Alumni Updates: Six Years in China

In 2014, Keith R. Bouchard arrived in China one week after graduating from PSU to teach English in Beijing. He worked for two years in an English training center before opening his own private classroom, Keith’s Happy English Classes, which has been in operation since 2016. In 2018 he was also invited to be the guest lecturer on early childhood...

Alumni/Employment/Videos

October 9, 2020

Words Unbound: Reading Globally

The PSU Canon is back! Except that, given PSU English’s commitment to Rethinking literature and blowing up the Western canon, we’re renaming this official blog The Ellen Reeder in honor of Ellen Reed. Check out this wealth of Iranian Writers curated by Niloufar Talebi, author, literary translator, interdisciplinary artist, producer, and teaching lecturer at PSU. Talebi most frequently teaches Writing...

Literature/Plymouth State University/Teachers

June 8, 2018

Spring 2018 Cluster Composition Publications

Wondering how PSU’s new cluster model can revamp courses to be more interdisciplinary and innovative? Check out this round of Professor Taylore Aussiker’s Cluster Composition digital magazines! These student-created, semester-long projects integrate graphic design and publishing components into the discipline-wide required course Composition, effectively giving students the chance to build technical skills while becoming proficient writers. Check out the Spring...

Faculty/PSU Student Works