The Department of English hosted Michigan Poet Laureate Nandi Comer and Detroit poet Brittany Rogers for an evening of poetry and conversation in October. CLAE students also shared their poetry. Comer, a Detroit Native, is the author of American Family: A Syndrome (Finishing Line Press) and Tapping Out (Triquarterly), awarded …
To kick off an exciting year of literary events on campus, Senior Adjunct Instructor Molly Barlow (fiction), Adjunct Instructor Isaac Pickell (poetry), and Senior Adjunct Instructor Ann Eskridge (musical theater) shared their original creative writing during a September evening event hosted by Poet-in-Residence Stacy Gnall and Senior Adjunct Instructor Michael …
Assistant Professor of English Stephen Pasqualina’s essay “Before the Ship and the Plantation: Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon and Blackness as Totality” was published in the Summer 2023 issue of MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. He also presented a paper on W.E.B. Du Bois and transnationalism at the Modernist …
