PSU Student Works – Page 2 – The Ellen Reeder

April 19, 2021

So Much Depends Upon Delicious Crêpes and Warm Coffee

By Erik Dow Another day to attend class remotely. Another day for an online zoom call with one of my bosses and fellow coworkers. Another two thousand plus words in total due by next week. Another day, looking at my screen. The amount of time I spend looking at a computer screen throughout the day is not healthy. From class...

PSU Student Works/Students/Submissions

February 9, 2021

The Ellen Reeder’s New Student Editor

Hello to everyone and welcome back to PSU! I hope everyone had a safe and relaxing break. Before the semester takes off, I’d like to take a moment to introduce myself. My name is Asia Merrill. I’m a fourth year English major and, more recently, the student editor for The Ellen Reeder this semester. I’m also the editor of the...

News/PSU Student Works/Students

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 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

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

April 27, 2018

Reading at a Distance: World War I Word Clouds

For the 100-year anniversary of the end of World War I, I decided to write a blog post on poetry written during the war. As I sorted through various war poets such as Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, and Edgell Rickword, a compilation on the Poetry Foundation website stuck out to me. It wasn’t so much the poems themselves that caught...

Literature/PSU Student Works

March 16, 2018

Table Talk: Are Video Games Worth Scholarly Study?

Join Plymouth State University students Jessica, Emily, Peter, and Nick in a discussion on video games in art, academia, and culture! Listen to some of PSU’s best and brightest tackle the topic of video games as a podcast on The Canon’s Soundcloud or watch the video below! [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/414329133″ params=”color=#ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAMZnjzPKTw

Plymouth State University/Students/Videos

March 2, 2018

PSU Student Works: Shayla Locke’s YA Novel “Rise From the Ashes”

This fall, Plymouth State University offered a Special Topics in Writing course on Young Adult Fiction. This writing-intensive class, held by Professor Joseph Monninger (a veteran YA novelist), had students work on a singular, novel-length piece of YA fiction throughout the entire course. Senior English major Shayla Locke was one of the students who dipped their toes into writing for young...