The English Channel The English Channel Volume 17 Issue 2 Spring 2017 | Page 8

Department Events
On March 27, Visiting
Author Danielle Deulen,
gave a reading and held a
craft talk. Prof. Deulen
teaches at Willamette
University and is the poetry
series editor at Acre Books.
She is author of the essay
collection The Riots (AWP
Prize in Creative
Nonfiction), poetry
collections
Our Emotions Get Carried
Away Beyond Us (Barrow
Street Book Contest),
and Lovely Asunder (Miller
Williams Arkansas Poetry
Prize). Her work has been
called “a triumph of wis-
dom and great art” by Luis
Alberto Urrea and “fiercely
intelligent and unpreten-
tiously profound” by
Denise Duhamel.
Special Screening
On January 18, Oakland University Creative Writing proudly presented a special
screening of As You Are with Special Guest, Screenwriter Madison Harrison. As
You Are was an official selection at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. Set in the early
1990s, it is the telling and retelling of a relationship between three teenagers as it
traces the course of their friendship through a construction of disparate memories
prompted by a police investigation. A Q and A session with Madison Harrison
followed the film. View the Trailer HERE!
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