By Keaton Gaughan In anticipation of her up-coming campus reading, I sat down with poet and esteemed UP alum, Sarah Bokich, to learn a bit more about her, her newest chapbook, and life after UP. You can peruse our exchange below. Come hear Sarah read from her newest publication on Thursday, February 8th at 7:30pm…
Submit Your Creative Pieces to Writers Magazine
By Keaton Gaughan Hey all you creative-minds. You know that profound poem, striking short story, or perfect photograph you have just sitting there in some file on your desktop? Well, Writers Magazine wants it. Send your creative writing and visual art to up.writersmag@gmail.com by February 9th for the chance to be published in UP’s…
Spring 2018 Course Preview
by Laura Misch Percy Bysshe Shelley once wrote, “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” Well, English majors, winter will soon be upon us, and registration for the spring semester has officially begun. The race is on to sign up for courses, and here’s hoping you get the schedule you want. But what exactly are you signing up for? I corresponded with each of our lovely professors…
Summer 2018 Course Preview
by Amanda Zazueta It’s that time of year again—Halloween? Thanksgiving? Christmas? Nope—registration! As you navigate the stress of trying to figure out next semester’s classes, while still taking tests and writing essays for your current ones, do you ever wish you could just get away? Well, what if I told you that you can? (Sort of. Please…
Interview with Leni Zumas
by Keaton Gaughan Leni Zumas, author of the upcoming fiction novel Red Clocks (selected for Publishers Weekly’s “Top 10 Literary Fiction” list), will be visiting campus later this month as part of the University of Portland’s 2017-2018 Readings and Lectures Series. Her reading will be November 15th at 7:30pm in the campus bookstore. Zumas teaches in the MFA creative writing program at Portland State University. She is also the author of the story collection Farewell Navigator, and…
Curriculum Changes: A Conversation with Dr. Larson
Registration for the spring semester is fast-approaching, and the times they are a-changin’. As you astute English majors have probably already noticed, the English department has undergone major curriculum changes. Graduation requirements along with the English courses themselves have been revised, and this leaves many students confused. That’s why I sat down with English Department Chair Dr. Lars Larson to talk about the new changes. Hopefully, this conversation answers some questions and explains why change can be a good thing. LM: As the new…
An Interview with Dr. Hill on the German novelist Julia Franck
by Monica Salazar Award-winning, contemporary German author Julia Franck will be visiting campus for the University of Portland’s Readings & Lectures Series this November. In her writing, Franck explores Germany’s dark, complex history and how major political events shaped the lives of everyday German citizens—especially women—during the twentieth century. I sat down with Dr. Alexandra Hill, a German professor here at UP who has written extensively about Franck in her academic publications, to ask her a bit about…
An Interview with O. Alan Weltzien
by Elizabeth Barker As students at the University of Portland, we are fortunate to have many amazing artists share their work with us. Recently, UP alumni Kunal Nayyar, from the primetime TV show The Big Bang Theory, came to share some wisdom at a Q and A before midterms. O. Alan Weltzien is going to join this list of speakers, and you definitely do not want to miss this one. Weltzien, a current English…
Fall 2017 Course Preview
Welcome back from break, English majors! We hope you had fun adventuring, resting, and maybe even reading (Moby Dick, anyone?). Now we’re back in the throes of Spring semester and need to think about next Fall! That’s right, it’s time for registration. Get ready for new classes and the return of our beloved Dr. Hersh and Dr. Weiger! This preview of…
The Wounds of Care and the Pleasures of Ordinary Devotion: One Editor’s Encounter(s) with Maggie Nelson
This summer, my car was broken into the one night I left my backpack in the passenger seat. I wasn’t upset about my laptop, the intimate mementos of a senior recital, a poem remembered, a notebook of observations–at least not immediately. Instead, I was in despair over the loss of a signed copy of a book…