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Month: September 2016

Writers Read: Poet Gary Dop

Barbara ByerSeptember 27, 2016October 13, 2016Uncategorized

Thursday evening started off with a bang — literally. “The hunter, my father, a Marine, pops two shots / at a young buck from too far.” These lines begin “A Brief Argument,” which poet Gary Dop read with no introduction, kicking off the evening with a poem about a boy trying to kill a deer....

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Landscape: First Year Reflections

Barbara ByerSeptember 23, 2016October 13, 2016Uncategorized

This year the entire EMU campus is reading Memory of Water by Emmi Itaranta, a speculative fiction account of Noria, a teen who has been entrusted with the knowledge of a secret source of water in a world where water is scarce.  First year students were asked to examine the author’s description of a particular....

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