The Valentine’s Day interactive installation at the Creative Arts Kiosk was a chance for the University of Detroit Mercy community to express their love (like it’s never been expressed before!). Members of the University community were invited to post anonymous messages of love for anyone or anything. Messages included “I …
English Professor Nick Rombes read from his forthcoming novel The Rachel Condition at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference in Kansas City, Missouri on Feb. 10. Rombes also had the essay “Future Tense: My Stalker” recently published in the literary journal The Cimarron Review.
Detroit Mercy’s English Department brings poet Donika Kelly to the virtual stage as the second author in the 2024 Triptych visiting author series on Thursday, Feb. 15 at 6:30 p.m. This event is hosted by Detroit Mercy Poet-in-Residence Stacy Gnall and is co-sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts & …
English faculty members Michael Lauchlan, senior adjunct instructor, and Stacy Gnall, Poet-in-Residence, will be performing poetry at Book Suey on Friday, Feb. 16 at 7 p.m. In addition to sharing work from their most recent books, they will also share new poems in progress. If you have a love for …
Mona Alawie ’23, Political Science major and Women’s and Gender Studies and Leadership minors, wrote a post for the English Department’s blog, Between the Pages titled “For a School that Cares.” The post highlights the Write Something desk at the Creative Arts Kiosk, which earlier this year invited the University …
Inspired by his experience in ENL 2550 Study of Film with English Professor Nick Rombes and ENL 2450 Study of Poetry with Detroit Mercy Poet-in-Residence Stacy Gnall, Mechanical Engineering major Colin Gaddey created Poetry in Picture, a film-poem that is available on the English Department’s blog, Between the Pages.
Isaac Pickell, adjunct instructor, and Stacy Gnall, Detroit Mercy poet-in-residence, will be performing poetry at Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor on Thursday, January 25 at 6:30 p.m. The reading is being held to celebrate Pickell’s new collection of poetry, It’s not over once you figure it out, which focuses on …
Detroit Mercy undergraduate students are invited to submit a poem to the Dudley Randall Poetry Prize competition. Each year, the Detroit Mercy English Department honors Dudley Randall, the late poet, publisher and University of Detroit Mercy librarian and poet-in-residence, by sponsoring a poetry competition in his name. Now in …
Detroit Mercy’s English Department welcomes back its Triptych series by hosting Srikanth Reddy, author of Facts for Visitors, on Thursday, Jan. 18 at 6:30 p.m. Reddy will read his work virtually followed by audience questions. Interested participants are asked to register beforehand. The Triptych series is hosted by Detroit Mercy’s …
Assistant Professor of English Stephen Pasqualina was awarded an honorable mention honor for the 1921 Prize in American Literature for his essay, “Before the Ship and the Plantation: Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon and Blackness as Totality.” “I’m grateful and wowed that my essay on Hurston’s ‘Barracoon’ received an honorable mention …
