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By studying and creating literature in English, we enlarge our understanding of the human condition and the power of the creative imagination.

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Recent News

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Q & A with Screenwriter, Novelist and Alumna Rachel Koller Croft

Rachel Koller Croft (BA '08, English, minor in SCMC) spoke to the Minnesota Daily about finding luck in Hollywood, battling online sexism, and working toward your passions.

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Grad Studies: Questions of Empire and Transpacific Migration

PhD student Nyla Numan was awarded an inaugural Early Career PhD Merit Award from the Department of English.

The Poetry of Life

For Pulitzer Prize-winning alumnus Carl Dennis (B.A. ’61), poetry brought contentment and a connection to the arts.

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Douglas Kearney Awarded Griffin International Poetry Prize

The professor's poetry collection Sho is "the crowning achievement of Kearney’s body of work to date," according to the judges' citation.

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New Pages Summer 2022

Explore recent publications from English and Creative Writing faculty, students, and alums!

Upcoming Events

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October 19, 2022

Joy Harjo and Layli Long Soldier: Poems in conversation

The US Poet Laureate reads and talks with the author of WHEREAS, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.