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The Third Annual Poetry. Out. Loud. competition (POL3) brought crowds of eager listeners to Margaret Jacks Hall again this past May. Growing each year since its launch in 2012, POL has now become a department tradition that emphasizes poetry’s…
Only three years old, Stanford's poetry performance competition, Poetry Out Loud, has already inspired a San Mateo high school to create its own version.
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On Tuesday, February 25, 13 PhD students in the English department gathered over pizza to discuss the challenges and joys of teaching writing at Stanford. Sponsored by the department’s graduate pedagogy committee. the event followed a similar…
Stanford Professor Emeritus Wesley Trimpi died March 6 from pneumonia at Stanford University Hospital, where he had been admitted after a fall in his Woodside home. He was 85.
A professor of English at Stanford for almost 40 years, Trimpi'…
Adam Johnson wins The Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story prize, which is the world's most valuable prize for a short story. Johnson's riveting story, "Nirvana," stems from being inspired by his own personal life.