Follow the link below to see dozens of professional photos of the 2019 Big Prize Poetry Slam! Congratulations again to the participants and winners!...
Tess McRae and Morgan Mullings, both award-winning student poets in the English department, will be representing UMBC at the Baltimore Book Festival next week. During the University Writers...
This Friday, get engaged on campus through English department-related activities. Look over the list below and follow links for more information. We hope to see you there! 10:00 AM -12:00 PM -...
Part of 21st annual book festival at George Mason University
This week, Lia Purpura will be joining an impressive lineup of authors at George Mason University's 21st annual Fall for the Book festival! See below for a press release from the festival with...
New Chaucer Society Congress, July 2020 in Durham, England
English faculty Dr. Kate McKinley and two English students, Corbin Jones and Joe Smith, will be presenting papers at the New Chaucer Society Congress in Durham, England in July 2020. The New...
Illuminating the Tradition of Banning and Contesting Books
Each year, Banned Books Week aims at celebrating our freedom to read and to engage with the wealth of information--some considered taboo or transgressive--that diversifies our perspectives and...
Tanya Olson will be reading poetry, including selections from her 2019 book Stay, at the Central Library Creative Arts Center on Wednesday, September 25. The "Poetry & Conversation" event...
English faculty members Earl Brooks and Keegan Cook Finberg have recently published new essays. Follow the links below to read their work! Earl Brooks published "Charles Mingus, Rotary...
September 26, 6:30 PM, Enoch Pratt Library, Baltimore
On Thursday September 26, UMBC English faculty Lia Purpura will be reading at Enoch Pratt Library in Baltimore, 6:30 PM. Come and hear selections from her new book, All the Fierce Tethers!...
Big Prize Poetry Slam entry deadline EXTENDED to Friday 9/20! You have a few more days to enter UMBC's annual BIG SLAM! By the end of this FRIDAY 9/20, email a print and a video version of no...
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