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Sam Chanse play premieres at Sloan Performing Arts Center
Tue, 27 Sep 2022
Fellowship is the latest production commissioned as part of the New Voice Initiative supporting early-career playwrights
Continue ReadingPlutzik Reading Series opens 60th anniversary season with Jericho Brown
Wed, 31 Aug 2022
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.
Continue ReadingA baseball call for the ages: Hank Aaron’s record-breaking home run
Mon, 29 Aug 2022
Baseball broadcasting expert Curt Smith penned an essay for the Library of Congress about Milo Hamilton’s memorable home run call.
Continue ReadingRochester’s Curt Smith remembers Vin Scully
Fri, 19 Aug 2022
The author of multiple books on baseball, its storied stadiums and legendary broadcasters, recalls a baseball broadcasting legend.
Continue ReadingJames Longenbach ‘made a central and rich place for poetry’ at Rochester
Tue, 16 Aug 2022
The English professor and acclaimed poet devoted his life’s work to studying, teaching, and writing poetry.
Continue ReadingRemembering J. W. Johnson: ‘dynamic’ and devoted English teacher
Fri, 24 Jun 2022
In a University career of more than 45 year, the professor emeritus’s research interests included Restoration biography, the Earl of Rochester, and 18th-century literature.
Continue ReadingDigital justice through data dictionaries
Wed, 08 Jun 2022
A seed grant from the American Council of Learned Societies launches a project that has the River Campus Libraries helping to diversify the digital domain.
Continue ReadingIs this the year you’re going to read Ulysses by James Joyce?
Mon, 06 Jun 2022
Here are a few things to know about the literary masterpiece that has exhilarated and confounded its readers for 100 years.
Continue ReadingEnglish professor’s cotranslation of poetry wins PEN American Literary Award
Tue, 01 Mar 2022
Everything I Don’t Know, translated from the Polish by Jennifer Grotz and Piotr Sommer, takes top honors for poetry in translation.
Continue ReadingNovelist Joanna Scott returns to short stories in Excuse Me While I Disappear
Thu, 09 Dec 2021
The acclaimed writer and University of Rochester English professor explores the theme of ‘lost stories.’
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