Professor Ann Siegle-Drege meets with a group of students in her office.
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Featured Events
SUNY Fredonia hosted two poets, Dr. Ross Gay and Mr. Patrick Rosal, as part of the Mary Louise White Visiting Writers Series.
Mr. Rosal is the author of award-winning poetry collections, My American Kundiman, which won the Association of Asian American Studies 2006 Book Award in Poetry and 2007 Global Filipino Literary Award, and Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive, which won the Members' Choice Award from the Asian American Writers' Workshop. His reading was infused with the energies of a former break-dancer turned poet-performer. And yes, we got a brief demonstration of his former dancing skills, in addition to an energetic selection of his poems. Highlights included a litany on hands, and a basketball poem that detailed his close friendship with Ross Gay.
Dr. Gay is a member of the Creative Writing faculty at Indiana
University and the author of the poetry collection Against
Which. His work has appeared in various publications such Atlanta
Review, American Poetry Review, and the Harvard Review. He has been a
Bread Loaf Tuition Scholar and is a Cave Canem fellow, a community
dedicated to the expression of African-American poetry. Dr. Gay's most memorable poems included elegiac explorations of father/son relationships, and a wonderful lengthy meditation on two Harley-Davidson-type biker dudes observed in a deep and prolonged embrace.
To find out what other interesting things we do, see the English Department Events Calendar, or check out our department newsletter.
Special announcement from the staff of The Trident, our student literary journal.
In October 2009, students studying Modernism in European Literature had the opportunity to work with archival materials in Reed Library, which has the world's largest collection of documents relating to the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. Students in the class studied letters and manuscripts from Zweig's personal papers, and also attended the international symposium titled "Transatlantic Zweig," which brought scholars from Brazil, Austria, Canada, Germany, and the United States together to discuss Zweig's work at SUNY Fredonia on October 1-3, 2009. Assistant Professor of English Dr. Birger Vanwesenbeeck was the conference co-organizer.