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After receiving her MFA in fiction in 2004, Emily Van Kley quickly switched to writing poetry. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, The Iowa Review, Best New Poets, and Best American Poetry among others. She’s a recipient of the Iowa Review Award, the Florida Review Editor’s Award, and the Loraine Williams Prize from…

2018 graduate of Eastern’s MFA in poetry, Kimberly Povloski’s debut poetry collection Hell of Birds won the Adrift Chapbook Contest by Driftwood Press and was published in January 2019.    

Tom C. Hunley  graduated from the MFA in 1996. He is a professor of English and Creative Writing at Western Kentucky University, where he has taught since 2003. His latest books are Adjusting to the Lights (winner of the 2020 Rattle Chapbook Prize) and What Feels Like Love: New and Selected Poems (C&R Press 2021).…

Kathryn Smith graduated from Eastern’s MFA program in 2004 with a focus in poetry. She is the author of Book of Exodus, which was published by Scablands Books in 2017. Her poems have appeared in Mid-American Review, Bellingham Review, Redivider, Southern Indiana Review, Carve Magazine, Third Coast, Rock & Sling, Ruminate, and elsewhere, and her work has been nominated for Best American…

Summer 2019 The College of Arts, Letters and Education is always excited to share some of the successes of those affiliated with the college, including students, faculty, staff and alumni. Below are just some of those amazing accomplishments. Art Student: Destiny Vaught will be interning at Entity magazine in Los Angeles for a month this…

About NEW Leadership™ is a program developed by the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, to educate, empower, and encourage college women to become politically active and to take on leadership roles. We are thrilled that Eastern Washington University’s Women’s and Gender Education Center and Women’s…

The EWU Women’s & Gender Studies Program presents for Spring 2019 “Contemporary Issues in Feminist Research,” featuring faculty and staff presenting research in their disciplines from a feminist perspective. Revisiting the Body as Home Ryan Parrey, PhD Director of Disability Studies Wednesday, Apr. 24 Noon to 12:50, 207 Monroe Hall Developing the notion of “the…

Over the summer, four philosophy majors traveled to Greece to present their research at two international conferences – The World Congress of Philosophy in Athens and the 25th International Conference of Philosophy in ancient Olympia. Each student crafted an insightful, coherent and creative take on a key political or ethical concept in the writings of Aristotle…

This year’s Get Lit! Festival is April 22-28 at venues in downtown Spokane, Cheney and Coeur d’Alene. The full schedule of more than 40 events and panel discussions, along with a roster of some 50 festival authors, is available on www.getlitfestival.org. Most events are free; tickets to headlining events are available here (TicketsWest). Authors highlighting this premier literary festival…

Los Angeles artist Matt Lipps will be on campus at noon on Thursday, Apr. 18, 2019, in the Art Building Auditorium (room 116) to talk about his work. Matt Lipps has collected photographs from both high and low sources like Time and Life magazines, and art history books since childhood. With these images, Lipps builds three-dimensional collages…