Three from CSU

Three Colorado State University highlights this week:  Two readings on Thursday and a notable poem in the New Yorker Magazine. 

First, the events (so that you don’t miss them).

At 8:00 p.m. (Mountain Time) on Thursday, April 29, John Calderazzo will be interviewing Fort Collins author, CSU alum, and Mount Everest climber Jim Davidson. The Next Everest: Surviving the Mountain’s Deadliest Day and Finding Resilience to Climb Again is Davidson’s latest book. Registration is free, but required; visit https://www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/live-zoom-jim-davidson-next-everest

That same evening, beginning an hour earlier (maybe you can catch both?), The CSU English Department Reading Series features another alum:  Jacqueline Lyons.  Now an Associate Professor at California Lutheran University, Lyons has been recognized for her poetry and prose.  Her collection The Way They Say Yes Here (Hanging Loose Press 2004), won a Peace Corps Writers Best Poetry Book Award. (The award itself sounds interesting!)  Join this reading live online at 7 p.m. Mountain Time Visit https://english.colostate.edu/events/jacqueline-lyons/ for the link. 

And now to the poem in the The New Yorker!  Camille Dungy poem “Let Me” is featured in the April 12 issue and was the product of another honor Dungy received, a Guggenheim Fellowship. To hear Dungy reading the poem, visit the online version of “Let Me” which was recorded in the CSU Center for Literary Publishing’s podcast recording studio in the Tiley House.  Dungy is a University Distinguished Professor in the English Department at CSU.