The Departments of Environmental Studies and English are proud to present a reading event with author Erica Berry at the UP Bookstore on February 26. Berry is the author of the 2024 Oregon Book Award winner “Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear,” which explores our cultural constructions of predator and prey, and what it means to navigate a world in which we can be both, through the lens of a wrongfully misunderstood species. (Read More).
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Reading Event with Kesha Ajose-Fisher (Apr. 2)
Portland fiction writer Kesha Ajose-Fisher will visit our campus for a public reading in the UP Bookstore. Ajose-Fisher was raised in Lagos, Nigeria and her collection of short stories No God Like the Mother won the 2020 Oregon Book Award. (Read More).
“Loaners: The Making of a Street Library” Reading and Book Offer (Nov. 15)
Street Books is a vibrant mobile library that serves Portlanders living outside, and “Loaners” is the story of how that library came to be. Co-authors Laura Moulton and Ben Hodgson will be at the UP Bookstore to offer a reading and talk about the making of the book. (Read More)
2020 “Writers” Magazine: Ready For Readers
The 2020 volume of our campus’s student-made creative writing journal, Writers magazine, made it into print just before campus shut down, according to Lars Larson, English. This year’s edition explores the theme of “Where I’m From,” beginning with a poem by Owen Klinger, and moving through stories, illustrations, verse, essays, and photographs that articulate where […]
2020 NUCL Keynote by Jennifer McDaneld, March 14
The 2020 NUCL keynote speaker will be UP English professor Jennifer McDaneld, who will present “Why We Should Take Literary Studies Public: The Case of the Suffrage Centennial” on Saturday, March 14, at 1:45 p.m., in the Brian Doyle Auditorium. All are welcome to attend her free lecture. McDaneld teaches American literature and core curriculum […]
Reading by Author, Oregon Book Award Winner Tracy Daugherty, Oct. 2
The English department will present its next Reading and Lectures Series writer, Tracy Daugherty, on Wednesday, October 2, at 7:30 p.m., in the UP Bookstore. His reading is free and open to all. Daugherty is the author of four novels, six short story collections, a book of personal essays, and biographies of Donald Barthelme, Joseph […]
Creative Writers Coming to UP this Fall
Faculty, staff, and students are invited to learn about the poets, novelists, essayists, and biographers coming to campus for free readings this semester, according to Lars Larson, English: Pulitzer-winner Marilynne Robinson (this week!), five-time Oregon Book Award winner Tracy Daugherty, Lakota poet and musician Trevino L. Brings Plenty, and the fall Schoenfeldt Distinguished Writer Luis […]
Oregon Book Award for Matthew Minicucci
Matthew Minicucci, English, is the winner of the 2019 Oregon Book Awards Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry for his collection titled Small Gods. Minicucci is the author of two collections of poetry: Small Gods, finalist for the 2016 Green Rose Prize from New Issues Press, and Translation (Kent State University Press, 2015), chosen by Jane Hirshfield for […]
Senior English Capstones, April 24, May 1: Everybody Welcome!
Senior English majors will be presenting their Capstone projects in two sessions open to all members of the campus community on Wednesday, April 24 and Wednesday, May 1, 4:10-6:10, in Franz Hall room 120. Refreshments will be served. Please join us to hear about topics ranging from feminist dystopias to ghosts in American literature! For […]
2019 NUCL Conference Held in Seattle, March 23
For the first time since its inception sixteen years ago, UP’s Northwest Undergraduate Conference on Literature (NUCL) was organized and hosted by the English Department of Seattle University on March 23, 2019. The submissions of ten UP students were accepted, and eight students were able to attend and present their critical and/or creative work: Tayler Bradley, […]