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		<title>We&#8217;re getting ready to migrate to a new site&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Gibson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our 2009-2010 news and events will be on the new website.  Meanwhile, please note the groups and projects links to the right!
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		<title>And what have we been doing this summer?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Gibson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the summer months, it might seem like things are quiet here.  But we&#8217;ve been plenty busy with &#8220;backstage&#8221; work to make sure the rest of the year goes smoothly.  Usually it&#8217;s not the sort of work that makes for interesting reading, but this lighthearted bit of email exchange about office moves was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NASSR Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Gibson</dc:creator>
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May 21 &#8211; 24, the English Department hosted the 17th Annual Conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR).  For four days, over 250 participants from all over the U.S. Canada and Europe gathered at the Washington Duke Inn.  The theme of this year&#8217;s conference was Romanticism and Modernity, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conversations</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Gibson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We checked in with the graduate students who help to organize working groups, reading series, and other events, to get the latest updates on the widely diverse and interdisciplinary life of the English Department community.  We also asked them what’s it like to organize major department events.
Astrid Guigni helped put together the Ordinary Language Philosophy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fledgeling EMU</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Gibson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have nothing but admiration for the newly formed English Majors&#8217; Union, a very welcome addition to the intellectual community of the English Department.  EMU president Cynthia Chen (&#8217;10) decided to take the initiative in forming a majors&#8217; union because, as she says, the Student Government had been &#8220;working hard to jumpstart Majors&#8217; Unions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blackburn Visiting Fiction Writer Howard Norman</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Gibson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Howard Norman was the Blackburn Visiting Fiction Writer during the week of Feb. 15-21. Norman gave a public reading Thursday Feb. 19th in the Rare Book Room, in which he read from a new (unpublished) work.  He also visited creative writing and literature classes, and held a Master Class on Friday.   In his introduction to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Infection in the Sentence: A Festival of Poetry</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Gibson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What happens when poets form a committee to organize a conference for other poets?  Metaphorical herds of cats come to mind, at the least.  But in the end the event itself was a dream come true.  The faculty and graduate students who organized this year&#8217;s poetry working group imagined a &#8220;dream team&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday, John Milton!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Gibson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Dec. 9th, Special guest Richard Brodhead guest-starred in a dramatic reading from Paradise Lost, joining Dean Gregson Davis and Professors Sarah Beckwith and Reynolds Price as the English Department wound up the end of semester festivities with a celebration in honor of the 400th birthday of John Milton.
Dean Davis took the role of narrator, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrated Poet Rocks the English Department</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Gibson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The English Department celebrated the semester’s end with a poetry reading by Paul Muldoon, &#8220;the most significant English-language poet born since the second World War&#8221; (Times Literary Supplement).  Prof. Michael Moses, introducing the event, described his first encounter with Muldoon’s poetry with a quote from Meeting the British:
“We met the British in the dead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jane Hirshfield:  The Poems Are What&#8217;s Important</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Gibson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even under the glare of florescent lights, poet Jane Hirschfield managed to transform the stark Von Canon B into a Zen haven, all by the power of her spoken word.  
As it happens, inner peace is also an area of Hirshfield’s expertise: during a temporary hiatus from the writing world, she studied Soto Zen [...]]]></description>
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