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March 25, 2024 | 01:02 pm

7 rare books to celebrate the solar eclipse

Although you can’t technically check out these volumes—ranging from a medieval anthology to a mid-20th century how-to guide—they’re still worth ‘checking out.’

topics: Department of Rare Books Special Collections and Preservation, events, literature, River Campus Libraries,
The Arts
February 20, 2024 | 07:56 am

A poet’s meditation on loss, light, and legacy

Still Falling, English professor Jennifer Grotz’s fourth collection of poems, illuminates the connection between art and time.

topics: Department of English, Jennifer Grotz, literature, School of Arts and Sciences,
The Arts
December 12, 2023 | 08:42 am

Provoking and coping through light verse

Rochester English instructor ‘explores the lighter side of dark times’ with her latest collection of poems.

topics: Department of English, featured-post-side, literature, Melissa Balmain, School of Arts and Sciences,
The Arts
October 6, 2023 | 09:42 am

How Nobel Prize–winning author Jon Fosse was found in translation

Open Letter’s Chad Post on discovering the Norwegian author for English audiences—and the importance of foreign translation presses today.

topics: Chad Post, Department of English, featured-post-side, literary translation, literature, Open Letter, School of Arts and Sciences,
The Arts
April 18, 2023 | 09:05 am

When fictional children become stranger things

Teaching an undergraduate class on ‘dangerous’ children in literature inspired English professor Kenneth Gross’s latest book.

topics: Department of English, featured-post-side, Kenneth Gross, literature, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,
The Arts
August 31, 2022 | 12:45 pm

Plutzik Reading Series opens 60th anniversary season with Jericho Brown

The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet will give a reading as part of the University of Rochester’s 202–23 Hyam Plutzik Memorial Reading Series—one of the nation’s oldest literary reading series.

topics: Department of English, featured-post-side, Hyam Plutzik, literature, Meliora Weekend, Plutzik Reading Series, School of Arts and Sciences,
The Arts
April 12, 2022 | 11:37 am

Local publisher’s papers to live at Rochester

The Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation has acquired a 30-year writing and editing archive from author, poet, and BOA Edition, Ltd. publisher Peter Conners.

topics: Department of Rare Books Special Collections and Preservation, literature, poetry, River Campus Libraries,