Thursday, May 06, 2010
Robin Becker, professor of English and women's studies in the College of the Liberal Arts and a nationally acclaimed poet, has been named the 2010-11 Penn State laureate. Becker is the third Penn State laureate, a full-time University faculty member in the humanities or fine arts who is assigned half-time for one academic year to bring an enhanced level of social, cultural, artistic and human perspective and awareness to a broad array of audiences. (more)
Friday, November 13, 2009
Robin Becker, professor of English and women's studies, is featured on the cover of the November/December issue of The American Poetry Review. Several of Becker's poems are published in the printed issue as well. Becker is the author of five collections of poems including The Horse Fair and Venetian Blue. She serves as Poetry Editor of The Women's Review of Books. (more)
Monday, February 09, 2009
Acclaimed as one of the premier spoken word recording artists in the music industry today, Ursula Rucker brings an intimate glimpse of urban reality to Penn State Harrisburg at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 17. (more)
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Julia Kasdorf, a nationally recognized poet and associate professor of English at Penn State, has received a 2009 creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts to complete her current manuscript of poems, "Poetry in America." A faculty member in the College of the Liberal Arts, she is a poet and writer with strong interests in religion, culture and the relationship between writers and communities. (more)