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Patricia Smith, Pushcart Prize winner and four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam, will read some of her works at 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 6, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall in UALR’s Fine Arts Building. A reception and book signing will follow.

UALR’s Department of English will offer a new course this fall that will explore how black women’s political activism is reflected in 19th and 20th century literature.

The Cooper Winter Colloquium, celebrating the final projects of English Honors program graduates, will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9, in Ledbetter Hall B in the Donaghey Student Center.

Dr. Matthew Abraham, a fellow in the DePaul University Humanities Center who is focused on the continued relevance of the humanities within the contemporary university, will speak at UALR Tuesday, Nov. 22, at an event sponsored by the William G. Cooper Jr. Honors Program in English.

UALR’s Departments of English and Rhetoric and Writing will sponsor a reading by Kevin Brockmeier, author of “The Illumination,” “The Brief History of the Dead,” and “The Truth about Celia,” from 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 20, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall in the Fine Arts Building.

Three UALR alumni have been selected to participate in the first annual Oxford American Summit for Ambitious Writers to be held at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute later this month.

English scholar Dr. Peter J. Smith will present a lecture, “Something Rich and Strange: The Tempest and the Magic of Authority,” at 2 p.m. Wednesday, April 20, in the Arkla Room in Ross Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public.

UALR’s Department of English and the Cooper Honors Program in English will host lecture by University of Delaware Professor Thomas Leitch, “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change: Revising the Classics,” about the adaptions of classic written texts at 7 p.m. Monday, April 4, in Ledbetter Hall Room C in the Donaghey Student Center. The … Literary Critic Discusses Revising the Classics April 4

Carol Ann Fitzgerald, managing editor of The Oxford  American, will present her lecture, “How to Pitch, Write, and Work for Magazines” at 3 p.m.  Tuesday, March 8, in UALR’s Ross Hall 123.

Dr. C. Earl Ramsey, director of UALR’s Donaghey Scholars Program and professor of English, was recognized at the annual meeting of the National Collegiate Honors Council of the Great Plains Chapter of the National Collegiate Honors Council for his work, “promoting honors education for over two decades.”