University of Cincinnati English Department

Thank you to everyone who came to the English Department Awards Ceremony to celebrate our wonderful English Department community! We wish you all a wonderful end of semester and stay tuned for more to come!!

Thinking ahead and class shopping? Check out this new class offering from Dr. Jena DiMaggio!

Please join us on April 14, 2:00pm, in ARTSCI Room 252 for a Disability Studies and the Arts special event featuring poet and professor Rebecca Lindenberg!

Professor Lindenberg will introduce her work, share a few of her favorites, and engage questions and requests from graduate students before opening up to general conversation.

Rebecca Lindenberg is the author of dozens of poems in multiple prestigious journals and three books of poetry. In her most recent work, Our Splendid Failure to do the Impossible (BOA 2024), she poetically reconfigures relationships with and around diabetes experience.

Event is hosted by the Advanced Topics in Disability Studies graduate students.

Don't miss the LCS mini-conference happening next Wednesday 2:00-6:20PM at the Elliston Poetry Room!! Refreshments will be served!!

We've got one more event for you this year for our Visiting Writers Series! The Department of English and the Elliston Poetry Fund are thrilled to present Kathryn Cowles and Donald Revell:

Poetry Reading
April 23, 5:30 PM
Elliston Poetry Room, 646 Langsam Library

Kathryn Cowles’s third book of poems, The Strange Wondrous Works of Eleanor Eleanor (Fence Books, 2026), won the Fence Modern Poets Prize. Poems from this book won the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay di Castagnola Manuscript-in-Progress Award. Her other books include Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World (Milkweed Editions, 2020) and Eleanor, Eleanor, not your real name (Bear Star, 2008), which won the Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize.
Donald Revell is the author of fifteen collections of poetry, six volumes of translations from the French, and three volumes of critical writings. A former Fellow of the Ingram Merrill and Guggenheim Foundations, he is the winner of the PEN USA Translation Award and two-time winner of the PEN USA Award for Poetry. His latest book of poems, Canandaigua (Alice James Books), was named a must-read book of 2024 by both Publishers Weekly and LitHub.

Free and open to the public
For more information visit www.artsci.uc.edu/creativewriting or our link in bio!!

The final set of selected submissions from the 2024-2025 Writing Showcase will focus on personal stories and research. Coming from a blend of courses (099, 1001, and 2089) these writers capture the attention of readers through their use of vivid descriptions, the integration of data into storytelling, and use of interesting genres. A few of the submissions take the form of newspaper articles, while the others reflect more academic structures. Together, they represent the multiple forms that storytelling can take in composition courses and beyond. Read works from:

Emellia Pavlac, Health Information Systems major, Freshman
Evie McDonough, Art History major, Freshman
Kay Jimenez, Public Health major, Sophomore
Tessa Hodge, Pre-Business Administration major, Sophomore

Check them out and the details on how to submit for this year's Writing showcase at our link in bio linktr.ee/uc_english!