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"Summer Song" by William Carlos Williams Wanderer moon smiling a faintly ironical smile... at this brilliant, dew-moistened summer morning, a detached sleepily indifferent smile, a wanderer's smile, if I should buy a shirt your color and put on a necktie sky-blue where would they carry me? -------------------------------------------- #POTW our poem of the week.

FWS Student Worker Wanted for English for 2021-2022! Love all things English? Writing? Literature? Want to hang out in the English Dept. all the time? The English Dept. is looking for a new FWS (Federal Work Study) undergraduate student worker for the 2021-2022 academic year. You’ll be assisting the department executive assistant and all the faculty of the department. You’ll be working in close proximity to and have great access to English faculty members! If interested, pl...ease email [email protected] for a job description and application. Applications are currently being accepted, and will be reviewed in early July. The position will be filled by mid-August. Must be FWS. All majors or undeclareds welcome! University of San Diego: College of Arts and Sciences USD Career Development Center USD Humanities Center USD Torero Parents and Families

A literary feast of books for Summer 2021... https://time.com/6049551/best-books-summer-2021/

The College of Arts and Sciences' Dean Norton's involvement and perspective on the liberal arts educational model: https://www.sandiego.edu/news/cas/detail.php University of San Diego: College of Arts and Sciences USD Humanities Center... USD - Copley Library: Explore, Discover, Succeed See more

Color palette from the Tudor era. The names of the colors are fantastic!!!

Adjei-Brenyah takes the absurdities of racism and other ills to comic-dystopian extremes. Vulture, To Do: Oct 17-31, 2018 Stunning . . . Adjei-Brenyah grapples with many of the most complicated, essential issues of today, from the evils of racism and capitalism to the ways in which violence and inequality are expected parts of life for so many people in America. Adjei-Brenyah's prose grabs you from the beginning and doesn't loosen its grip, as it takes you into the dark... corners of the American experience, with a lyricism, dark wit, and palpable emotional weight. Nylon Adjei-Brenyah’s collection promises a searing, exacting look at injustice in America, from the quotidian to the systemic, delivered in a way that makes it impossible to look away. Huffington Post "Striking and topical...This high-concept and morally rich collection is discomfiting and moving, savage in its social critique yet generous towards its characters. It ends with a lovely, tempered note of hope...The stories that Adjei-Brenyah tells are terrifying. But, in our reading them, at least we’re not alone." Boston Globe One of the most anticipated literary debuts of the fall, Friday Black veers between the surreal and the satirical in its bold take on being young and black in America. Entertainment Weekly, Most Anticipated Books of October Imagine a cross between ‘Get Out’ and Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man,’ and you’ll have a sense of what awaits readers of this audacious debut: darkly absurdist tales that take the horrors of racism to surreal new levels. O, the Oprah Magazine Reading Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s debut short story collection Friday Black is like being shaken awake. These stories exist in a sort of hyperreality, ordinary characters living in the not-so-unbelievable, Black Mirroresque future of a culture that doesn't hesitate to commodify cruelty or monetize revolution . . . Adjei-Brenyah skewers the ways we brush past racism and injustice, making the absurdity of the rhetoric around both impossible to ignore. BuzzFeed - Join us Thursday, October 29, 12:30 PM for our Lindsay J. Cropper Memorial Writers Series craft talk and reading with NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH! Free and open to public. Zoom info at: https://www.sandiego.edu/events/cas/detail.php?_focus=77665 If questions, please email: [email protected] More info on fall series at: www.sandiego.edu/cropper University of San Diego: College of Arts and Sciences USD - Copley Library: Explore, Discover, Succeed

NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH is one week away!! Thursday, October 29, 12:30 p.m.: Lindsay J. Cropper Memorial Writers Series Craft Talk and Reading with Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black. Originally from Spring Valley, New York, he graduated from SUNY Albany and went on to receive his MFA from Syracuse University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming from numerous publications, including the New Yor...k Times Book Review, Esquire, Literary Hub, the Paris Review, Guernica, and Longreads. He was selected by Colson Whitehead as one of the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 honorees, is the winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award for Best First Book and the Aspen Words Literary Prize. Go to event page for zoom link: https://www.sandiego.edu/events/cas/detail.php?_focus=77665 Free and open to the public. Full details of the fall series and speakers at: www.sandiego.edu/cropper. If you have any questions, please contact Professor Brad Melekian, director of the Cropper Center, at [email protected]. University of San Diego: College of Arts and Sciences USD Humanities Center University of San Diego

TODAY! Won’t You Celebrate With Me?: Poetry Reading and Discussion Thursday, October 22, 2020 from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Virtual Event. An exploration of Lucille Clifton’s famous poem, Won’t You Celebrate With Me?, and what it means for the lives of Black Women.... * Alexis Jackson, MFA | Department of English * Michele Watkins, PhD | Department of Theology and Religious Studies Register to attend at: http://bit.ly/usd-celebrate-with-me Sponsored by the Humanities Center.

The latest issue of the English Department Newsletter is now out: http://catcher.sandiego.edu//engl_dept_newsletter_10-21-20 Students, Alumni, & Faculty, send us your submittals & photos to: [email protected]!... View past issues at: https://www.sandiego.edu//www.sa/cas/english/publications/

A BIG round of applause to seniors Emily Jewett, Alex Montalvo, Rachel Valdez, & Wes Sundberg who presented their English Senior Projects on October 19, 2020!! An outstanding exhibition of their research projects from Dr. Marcelle Maese’s ENGL 495 Senior Project course! To view their project titles and abstracts, go to event page: https://www.sandiego.edu/events/cas/detail.php?_focus=78434, and click on View or download the program (PDF). Thank you to all who attended, ...including families! Weour English majors! USD Humanities Center University of San Diego: College of Arts and Sciences

TODAY! Earn Compass points and join us for our fall career event, Create Your Future in Content Creation & Production from 12:30 to 1:30pm (Tues Oct 20), featuring three alumna panelists: Lauren Cody Hoffman (2013, English, with Creative Writing emphasis), Content and Copy Consultant, Lauren Cody Creative; Alyssa Powers (2012, Communication Studies), Content Marketing Manager, Karl Strauss Brewing Company; and Melanie Ordonez (2017, Marketing), Senior Content Strategist,... NuVasive. Learn how USD alumni have created thriving careers in content creation! Content is what we see when we search the internet for information, browse social media, watch YouTube videos, view viral memes and gifs, and read news stories, blogs, and other highly entertaining and/or carefully researched genres. Content connects us to ideas, images, lifestyles, and trends so we can imagine how brands and products can enhance our lives. By crafting ideal situations and personas to captivate and inform, content creators have surpassed traditional marketing as the number one driver of consumer spending and brand imaging. In the process, they have blazed exciting new career paths using their talent and skills in English/Communication and creative writing. Join us to learn how to meet the challenges and pursue the rewards of a career in content creation! Register for this virtual event at: bit.ly/CYFCCP. For more information, please contact Dr Timothy Randell at [email protected], or C-Dev at [email protected]. USD Communication Studies USD Career Development Center University of San Diego: College of Arts and Sciences

TODAY! Join us for English's annual Senior Project Conference at 4:00 PM (Mon Oct 19) via Zoom. Seniors presenting are: -Emily Jewett -Alex Montalvo... -Wes Sundberg -Rachel Valdez Diaz Senior Project features research works in progress by English Majors and Minors. Projects include computer algorithms as literary analysis; the multiple anime forms of Makoto Shinkai’s "Weathering With You" (film, novel, and magna), Oscar Wilde’s "The Picture of Dorian Gray," and a comparative study of the films "Kids" and "The Virgin Suicides." Friends and family are welcome! Free and open to the public. Event page: https://www.sandiego.edu/events/cas/detail.php?_focus=78434 Register at: https://sandiego.zoom.us//tJUvcuuqrTkpG9Ala4oXJOxQno_0lg2H For more information, please email: [email protected]. See you on at 4:00 PM! University of San Diego: College of Arts and Sciences USD Humanities Center

TUESDAY! Our fall career event Create Your Future in Content Creation & Production is on Tuesday, October 20, 12:30 PM, featuring three alumna panelists: Lauren Cody Hoffman, 2013 (English, with Creative Writing emphasis), Content and Copy Consultant, Lauren Cody Creative, is a writer and content specialist who prides herself in being a chameleon of industries. Working with a client roster of big players in entertainment, fashion, CPG and tech, Lauren combines her mastery o...f the written word with a backing in business strategy to connect consumers to the brands that enrich their lives. When she’s not working, you can find her in the boxing ring, on the water or shopping online. Alyssa Powers, 2012 (Communication Studies), Content Marketing Manager, Karl Strauss Brewing Company, is a content marketer and copywriter with a passion for expressing a brand’s voice through the written word. Empathetic by nature, she enjoys being part of a team and collaborating on projects. With nearly ten years of craft brewery marketing experience, Alyssa is extremely well versed in all things beer. Her copywriting projects include beer descriptors and labels, menu copy, beer and food pairings, email marketing, and press releases to name a few. Alyssa’s love for the brewing industry permeates her professional and personal life, and she can regularly be found at tasting rooms all over town, IPA in hand. Melanie Ordonez, 2017 (Marketing), is a Senior Content Strategist at NuVasive. (NuVasive is a medical devices company based in San Diego, California.) Learn how USD alumni have created thriving careers in content creation! Content is what we see when we search the internet for information, browse social media, watch YouTube videos, view viral memes and gifs, and read news stories, blogs, and other highly entertaining and/or carefully researched genres. Join us to learn how to meet the challenges and pursue the rewards of a career in content creation! Earn Compass points! Register for this virtual event at: bit.ly/CYFCCP. Event info info at: https://www.sandiego.edu/events/cas/detail.php?_focus=77740. For more information, please contact Dr Timothy Randell at [email protected], or C-Dev at [email protected]. Sponsored by the English Department and the Career Development Center. USD Communication Studies USD Career Development Center University of San Diego: College of Arts and Sciences

Getting excited for Monday’s English's annual Senior Project Conference!! Join us Mon Oct 19, 4:00 PM via Zoom. Seniors presenting are: -Emily Jewett -Alex Montalvo... -Wes Sundberg -Rachel Valdez Diaz Senior Project features research works in progress by English Majors and Minors. Projects include computer algorithms as literary analysis; the multiple anime forms of Makoto Shinkai’s "Weathering With You" (film, novel, and magna), Oscar Wilde’s "The Picture of Dorian Gray," and a comparative study of the films "Kids" and "The Virgin Suicides." Friends and family are welcome! Free and open to the public. Register at: https://sandiego.zoom.us//tJUvcuuqrTkpG9Ala4oXJOxQno_0lg2H For more information, please email: [email protected]. We'll see you on Monday! USD Humanities Center University of San Diego: College of Arts and Sciences

The Red Poppy by Louise Glück The great thing... is not having a mind. Feelings: oh, I have those; they govern me. I have a lord in heaven called the sun, and open for him, showing him the fire of my own heart, fire like his presence. What could such glory be if not a heart? Oh my brothers and sisters, were you like me once, long ago, before you were human? Did you permit yourselves to open once, who would never open again? Because in truth I am speaking now the way you do. I speak because I am shattered. From "The Wild Iris," published by The Ecco Press, 1992. -------------------------------------------------------------- #POTW our poem of the week. Louise Glück is the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature.

English’s Alexis Jackson is reading at the Humanities Center’s Won’t You Celebrate With Me?: Poetry Reading and Discussion next week! University of San Diego: College of Arts and Sciences

Coming up! Author NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH joins us on Thurs day, October 29, 12:30 PM, for a craft talk and reading! Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black. Originally from Spring Valley, New York, he graduated from SUNY Albany and went on to receive his MFA from Syracuse University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming from numerous publications, including the New York Times Book Review, Esquire, Literary Hub, the Paris Revie...w, Guernica, and Longreads. He was selected by Colson Whitehead as one of the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 honorees, is the winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award for Best First Book and the Aspen Words Literary Prize. Free and open to the public. Zoom link and passcode at: www.sandiego.edu/cropper. If you have any questions, please contact Professor Brad Melekian, director of the Cropper Center, at [email protected]. University of San Diego: College of Arts and Sciences

Next week!! English's annual Senior Project Conference is Monday, October 19, 4:00 PM via Zoom. Seniors presenting are: Emily Jewett Alex Montalvo... Wes Sundberg Rachel Valdez Diaz Senior Project features research works in progress by English Majors and Minors. Projects include computer algorithms as literary analysis; the multiple anime forms of Makoto Shinkai’s "Weathering With You" (film, novel, and magna), Oscar Wilde’s "The Picture of Dorian Gray," and a comparative study of the films "Kids" and "The Virgin Suicides." Friends and family are welcome! Free and open to the public. Register at: https://sandiego.zoom.us//tJUvcuuqrTkpG9Ala4oXJOxQno_0lg2H For more information, please email: [email protected]. We'll see you on October 19th! USD Humanities Center University of San Diego: College of Arts and Sciences

Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to poet Louise Gluck. https://www.washingtonpost.com//c245ad38-08bd-11eb-859b-f9