poets

Honors graduates now classmates again while pursuing MFAs in fiction, poetry

Honors graduates now classmates again while pursuing MFAs in fiction, poetry

Marie Carol Kenney and Jessie Eikmann are each on track for back-to-back UMSL degrees after finishing their undergraduate studies earlier this year....

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Jennifer Tappenden introduces poetry to the public one poem at a time

Jennifer Tappenden introduces poetry to the public one poem at a time

Poetry is a hard sell. It has the rap of being difficult, of being inaccessible, of being something only other poets read. No one knows this better than Jennifer Tappenden,...

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UMSL lecture tells of poet Emily Dickinson’s surprising Irish wake

When the famously reclusive American poet Emily Dickinson died in 1886, she left specific directives for a funeral rich in Irish Catholic motifs – shocking her family and friends. The...

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