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April 27, 2022

Scholarship Opportunity: 2022 Jack and Hannah McCarthy Scholarship

A scholarship that may be of interest to our students! This scholarship is named after brother and sister, Jack McCarthy, a much-loved spoken word poet from New Hampshire who died in 2013, and Hannah McCarthy, retired college president, lifelong advocate for students and resident of Amherst, New Hampshire. The scholarship provides $1,000 to a New Hampshire resident pursuing a college...

News

April 22, 2022

Eagle Pond presents Susan Lilley

Cover of Susan Lilley’s Venus in Retrograde alongside a photo of the author. Eagle Pond is back next Tuesday! Susan Lilley is the author of Venus in Retrograde (Burrow Press 2019) and the chapbooks Satellite Beach and Night Windows. A Florida native, she served as Orlando’s inaugural Poet Laureate. Her poetry and non-fiction have appeared in American Poetry Review, Gulf...

Events/Poetry

March 9, 2022

Eagle Pond Authors’ Series: Jeff Oaks

Eagle Pond Authors Series Welcomes Poet Jeff Oaks After a two-year hiatus, the Eagle Pond Authors Series returns to the Silver Center at Plymouth State University on March 17, with a 7:00PM reading and book-signing by poet, essayist and painter Jeff Oaks. Oaks is the author of the poetry collections The Things (2022) and Little What (2019), both from Lily...

Events/Faculty

February 21, 2022

Poets and Writers Open Mic

Poets and Writers will be having an Open Mic in the HUB Fireplace Lounge on Thursday, March 24th, starting at 7:00. Any PSU student can go and read—or just watch.

Events/Plymouth State University/Poetry/PSU Student Works

February 17, 2022

PSU Centripetal Returns

After a Covid-infested year and a half of hibernation, the PSU literary magazine, Centripetal, is back in business! Please send your poetry, prose, or dramatic writing to: psupoetsandwriters@gmail.com by the end of the day on Tuesday, March 1st.

Literature/Plymouth State University/PSU Student Works

December 9, 2021

Scholarship for NH Students

The New Hampshire Poet Laureate 2022 Jack and Hannah McCarthy Scholarship is accepting applications! The scholarship is for $1,000 to a student studying writing. Students are encouraged to apply here.

Plymouth State University/Students

December 1, 2021

PSU English Alum’s Research

Check out this fantastic piece by PSU English major alum and former “American Food Issues” student, Jared Gendron. The piece is published in the The Columbia Missourian, a community newspaper staffed by Missouri School of Journalism students. Jared is working on his graduate degree in journalism, and he continues his important research on food insecurity in college students. “Students are...

Alumni/Submissions

November 17, 2021

Thinking about Classes for Next Spring?

Class registration is here once again! We would like to highlight a couple course offerings from the English department for this Spring! EN 3685 Scriptwriting (4 credits) Tues/Thurs 2:00 – 3:40 taught by Paul Rogalus This is an Advanced Study in Writing course which focuses on the writing and analysis of dramatic scripts, primarily of theatrical plays, but also with...

Faculty/Plymouth State University

November 4, 2021

Share a Memory

Message from Professor, Paul Rogalus Dear Plymouth State English Alumni and Friends:(really, anyone who’s taken an English class here over the past 30 years) I am writing to invite you all to reconnect with us, and to help us celebrate the teaching careers of three of our most dedicated and popular professors, all of whom retired earlier this year: Joe...

Alumni/Faculty/Plymouth State University/Submissions

November 3, 2021

Bellee Jones-Pierce

The CoLab’s Intersectionality Talks will be hosting Bellee Jones-Pierce on Wednesday, November 11 at 7pm. This will be an informal conversation about disability poetics; specifically how lived experience can be used to understand literature. The event will be virtual in Zoom. Register for the event here. Her primary research areas are early modern literature, disability, and poetics. Her work as...

Events/Literature/Plymouth State University