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Ohio University alumnus Dr. Stanley Plumly reads from his latest work, “The Immortal Evening: A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb,” on Tuesday, Feb. 2, in the 1951 Lounge on the fourth floor of Alden Library,   Plumly is Maryland’s award-winning poet laureate and distinguished university professor at the University […]

Graduate students from English, Philosophy, and Education are hosting the first annual Graduate Student Pedagogy Conference, “Perfecting Pedagogical Practices,” on Friday, Feb. 12, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Friends of the Library Room, Alden 319. The event is an interdepartmental effort to generate conversation among graduate instructors […]

The Ohio University Creative Writing program announces Writer in Residence and American essayist Steven Church, who reads from his work on Thursday, Feb. 18, at 7:30 p.m. in the Walter Hall Rotunda. A reception follows the event, which is free and open to the public. Church is the author of […]

The community is invited to meet Athens’ new Poet Laureate, Ohio University alum Alison Stine, and view the Dairy Barn Arts Center’s 2016 OH+5 Exhibition on Thursday March 3, from 5-8 p.m. Admission is free, with a cash bar and hors d’oeuvres. At meet and greet with Stine is at 6:30 […]

John Swarr, a teacher at the Washington County Joint Vocational School District, is already putting his master’s courses to work in his high school classrooms. Ohio University’s online master’s degree in English is designed for working secondary language arts instructors who are preparing to teach dual-enrollment—now called College Credit Plus—classes […]

The year 2015 proved a good one for New Ohio Review, the national literary journal of Ohio University’s Creative Writing program. Its contributors secured multiple “Best American” anthology appearances and numerous online recognitions, further evidence that NOR continues to be regarded as a go-to journal for emerging and prestigious writers. […]

In the first grant announcement of its 50th anniversary year, the National Endowment for the Arts has awarded individual creative writing fellowships of $25,000 each to 37 fiction and creative nonfiction writers, including Alison Stine, a 2013 graduate of Ohio University’s Ph.D. program in Creative Writing. “I’m enormously grateful to @NEAarts for supporting […]