Tag: Sean Lovelace

Sean Lovelace Recommends “Coming into the Country” by John McPhee

August 30, 2013 by bsuenglish

In the latest installment of our Recommended Reads series Professor Sean Lovelace recommends Coming into the Country by John McPhee. Author John McPhee is a technician, from the micro to the macro. He is a meticulous architect, with a keen emphasis on structure, but he’s the type of designer that bends the boundaries, a Frank […]

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2011 Outstanding Creative Endeavor Award: Sean Lovelace

November 21, 2011 by bsuenglish

Each year, Ball State University honors one of its faculty members with the Outstanding Creative Endeavor Award. We are proud to announce that this year the award has been given to our very own Associate Professor of English Sean Lovelace. To read a full write up about Professor Lovelace’s recent award on BSU’s website, click […]

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Slash Pine Poetry Festival: Day #2

April 26, 2011 by bsuenglish

I was most excited for the second day of the Slash Pine Poetry Festival. My nerves were operating at a low hum, as I didn’t have to read, and had logged a day’s worth of experience in Alabama, so I could operate the whole day with just my wonder gaze on. The belly full of […]

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Slash Pine Poetry Festival: Day #1

April 8, 2011 by bsuenglish

The Slash Pine Poetry Festival is organized and executed by a mix of University of Alabama faculty, interns, and students. On March 31st of this year, four creative writing undergraduate students, including myself, descended on Tuscaloosa, Alabama to fulfill our part of a literary exchange with the University of Alabama. We were chaperoned by creative […]

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Good News #2

April 6, 2011 by bsuenglish

This is the second post of our “Good News” series—a series to highlight the accomplishments of the English Department’s graduate students and faculty. Here’s what they’ve been up to: Adam R. Beach’s essay “Global Slavery, Old World Bondage, and Aphra Behn’s Abdelazer,” was accepted for publication in Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, and will appear in […]

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Undergraduate Literary Exchange with the University of Alabama

February 16, 2011 by bsuenglish

February 21 and 22, the University of Alabama faculty/writer Brian Oliu and four Alabama undergraduate writers will visit Ball State University to exchange ideas about creative writing, visit our Creative Writing in the Community program, and also visit the Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry. On Tuesday night, February 22, BSU will host a […]

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Guest Post: The Nurse Who Can Write

January 14, 2011 by bsuenglish

Before my employment as an English professor I had another career: RN, Registered Nurse. In nursing, writing was not only necessary; it was at the core of our very system of accountability. One key statement was hammered into students during nursing school, the same doctrine practiced every day as a working nurse: “If it wasn’t […]

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Two events this weekend starring our very own BSU professors!

January 13, 2011 by bsuenglish

Looking for a way to round out your first week? Well, we’ve got a couple of events that should help. This Friday, January 14th, Professor Cathy Day will read from her memoir Comeback Season: How I Learned to Play the Game of Love. The event will be held at the E.B. & Bertha C. Ball […]

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Interview with Christopher Newgent on the independent publishing world, the web’s effect on literature, and balancing work with passion

December 3, 2010 by bsuenglish

Christopher Newgent graduated from Ball State with a Bachelor’s Degree in Creative Writing in 2006. Newgent puts his degree to use trying to improve his city environment of Indianapolis by bringing independent literature to the public at art and music events. He generously agreed to share those experiences with us here at the English Department […]

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Guest Post: Tyler Gobble on chapbooks, a DIY medium allowing a variety of options concerning publishing and creativity

October 21, 2010 by bsuenglish

You might be asking yourself two things: how in the world did they let you back on here, Tyler Gobble? And what in the world is a chapbook? I can’t really answer the first one, but the second one I’m gonna try. Avoiding the long history of the chapbook, the way it developed, its historical […]

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Sean Lovelace Recommends “Coming into the Country” by John McPhee

2011 Outstanding Creative Endeavor Award: Sean Lovelace

Slash Pine Poetry Festival: Day #2

Slash Pine Poetry Festival: Day #1

Good News #2

Undergraduate Literary Exchange with the University of Alabama

Guest Post: The Nurse Who Can Write

Two events this weekend starring our very own BSU professors!

Interview with Christopher Newgent on the independent publishing world, the web’s effect on literature, and balancing work with passion

Guest Post: Tyler Gobble on chapbooks, a DIY medium allowing a variety of options concerning publishing and creativity