English Events

Memorial and Celebration of Life for Katherine "Katy" Pivoda, Nov 16

Nov. 10, 2021

5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Open to All 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Content to Include Adult Language and Themes Jake Jabs Event Center, Business School Building RSVP and More Information Here Masks Required Katherine Pivoda was a cherished member of the English Department for many years, starting as a...

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Virtual Book-Launch and Reading for Where We Lay Down, by Jeffrey Franklin September 30

Sept. 17, 2021

7:00pm Registration link Sponsored by BookBar Denver, this event is free and open to all.

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Books@Work: Winter Counts, Sept 29

Sept. 17, 2021

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Register here Once you register you’ll get details on when/where to pick up your book Join the Center for Teaching and Learning to discuss this exciting debut from a local Denver author, David Heska Wanalbi Weiden. An addictive and groundbreaking debut thriller set on a...

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English Department Open Mic on Thursday, April 22

April 15, 2021

6:00 pm Everyone is invited to come, listen, and, if you would like, share your poetry, short/flash fiction, or memoir writing. This will be the last Open mic event of the academic year, so please do come if you can and partake in the warmth, creativity, and supportive environment that...

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English Department Open Mic, Oct 29

Oct. 15, 2020

6:00 pm A Monthly Virtual Showcase of student creative work. Regiter here . For questions contact Christina Tegrotenhuis ( CHRISTINA.TEGROTENHUIS@UCDENVER.EDU ) or Caleb Sanford ( CALEB.SANFORD@UCDENVER.EDU ).

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Nobel @ Noon Speaker Series

Nov. 5, 2019

11/14 – MEDICINE, Presenter : Professor Jeff Knight, Chemistry Department 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Room 2005, CU Denver Building 11/21 – LITERATURE, Presenter: Professor Cynthia Wong, English Department 12:00 noon – 1:00 pm Student Commons Building #1300 A weekly lunch-and-learn series spotlighting each Nobel Prize in an informal presentation...

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Poetry reading, Q & A, and book signing by Catherine Pierce, Oct 17

Oct. 10, 2019

6:30 pm Tivoli 640 Catherine Pierce is the author of three books of poems: The Tornado Is the World (Saturnalia 2016), The Girls of Peculiar (Saturnalia 2012), and Famous Last Words (Saturnalia 2008), winner of the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. Both The Tornado Is the World and The Girls of...

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Jake Adam York Memorial Reading, April 11

March 26, 2019

6:30pm St. Cajetan’s Free and open to the public Q&A, book signing, & reception to follow: ALEXANDER CHEE is the author of the novels Edinburgh and The Queen of the Night , and the essay collection How To Write an Autobiographical Novel , all from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He has...

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Center for Faculty Development Books@Work, February 6

Jan. 14, 2019

12:30 - 2:00pm LSC, Suite 320 Join us as we read and discuss "There There" by Tommy Orange. This novel is an ambitious mediation on identity and belonging. It is one of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the 2018. After you sign up we will deliver a...

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