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It's OFFICIAL! "Literature, Language, Culture" is now avail. as a #podcast via Apple, Spotify, & more! 🎉 if you prefer your #publicscholarship audio-style to video, use the below link to subscribe! Quoted in below image: Dr. Michelle Liu from Ep. 2. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lit…

#UW Sarah J. Ghasedi's recent @TheScotsman article describes an archival discovery that she made while conducting dissertation research in Edinburgh. @EdinburghUni

The Lee Scheingold Lecture is now up on our channel! An important moment of this is the land acknowledgment presented by, Owen Oliver. Owen has recently created the Indigenous Walking Tour for our campus. We highly encourage you to support this project and watch the lecture!

The recording of the 3rd Annual Lee Schiengold Lecture featuring Naomi Shihab Nye and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is now up on our YouTube channel for a limited time! You can watch this event through the link in our bio!

Meet MA/PhD English Rhetoric and Composition student Rebecca Taylor, who helped us create lesson plans to complement the LLC series videos. You can find our YouTube here: youtube.com/channel/UC9j84…

One of our PH.D. candidates, Brittney Frantece has curated a group exhibition. "Queer Imagination" will be open until July 8th in the Jacob Lawrence Gallery. You can find out more about the exhibition and schedule a viewing here: art.washington.edu/news/2021/05/2…

Keep an eye on our page because the recording of the 2021 Lee Scheingold Poetry Lecture is going to be on our YouTube soon for a limited time! Award-winning poet, Naomi Shihab Nye is a featured speaker in this lecture.

One of our very own professors, Shawn Wong has been given the exciting opportunity to lead the "Abandonment & Arrival: Readings in Asian American Literature" reading group this summer. You can find out more about this project and his novels here: shawnwongwrites.com/about/

PhD student, @fondofdancing 's 19th-century women's writing and public humanities work on Frankenstein led to her being asked to write the Introduction to Flame Tree Publishing's new Collector's Edition. You can find the book here: simonandschuster.com/books/Frankens…

The newest video in our Dialogue Series features our sponsor, Lee Scheingold! You can watch this special episode here: youtu.be/Vi_LnOnqctE

In this episode, we spoke with Lee Schiengold about her relationship with grieving her late husband, poetry as a way through grieving, and why she believes in poetry and humanities scholarship. You can watch this special episode here: bit.ly/ytscheingold

Celebrate 150 years of George Eliot’s Middlemarch with a digital symposium featuring a keynote from @ronjaunee, plus presentations and readings. Join us on Friday, May 21, 2021 from 9:00am to 12:10pm PDT. Register now at uw1819.org/middlemarch-15….

And, this is the initiative Naomi just referenced: globalvaccinepoem.com <-- open to all to contribute #spp21

For those who didn't catch the reference Naomi just made, it's this wonderful project, Traveling Stanzas. Learn more here: travelingstanzas.com #spp21

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha opening the discussion with a timely query -- how to navigate community and solitude. #spp21

"I love, Lee, what you said: 'As we read poems, the poems somehow read us.' I think that's my new motto in life. My new anthem.... That sense of our own lives being given back to us." -- Naomi Shihab Nye #spp21

"There is also a poetics of listening, encountering, and dwelling in the words, conditions, experiences of others. This poetics invites us to ask, how and on whose terms do we become legible to one another?" <-- Anis Bawarshi in the #spp21 opening remarks. #PoetryDayIRL

"All kinds of poetry can be empathetic scaffolding for us, helping us to have a sense of ourselves and our loved ones as continuous over time." <-- Lecture Sponsor Lee Scheingold #spp21

Rae Paris opened the Scheingold Lecture with a beautiful comment on how this time needs space to breath, and how poetry is so much about breathing -- so beautiful and accurate #spp21

The University of Washington English Department and the Lee Scheingold Lecture in Poetry and Poetics are thrilled to host Naomi Shihab Nye tomorrow, Thursday, April 29 at 5:00-6:30 PM (PT). You can find out more about the event here: fb.me/e/g2WsZ4vZl

E.J.Koh is a PhD student with UW English and her "Seattle City Literary Guide" essay, featuring UW's Libraries, Shawn Wong, UW Press and others was just published at Poets & Writers! You can find this essay here: pw.org/content/seattle