English professor and travel writer W. Scott Olsen will launch his 11th book, “A Moment With Strangers,” a book about the apparent — but brief — impact of people we meet. Olsen said that whether in the local grocery store or an English market, strangers can surprise. “Every now and then we wind up in a…
Probably just by reading the title of this editorial, most people will already be able to guess what it will be about (“Oh, not another lecture about the importance of using our words carefully!”)—which is, in itself, a testament to the power that language has over people. We can dream, build, and destroy profoundly with…
She meant it to be brief. Joan Kopperud’s unit on six-word memoirs, that is. This semester in her English 421 course titled “Traditions in Literary Genre – the Memoir,” Kopperud, a professor of English, put the six-word memoir on her syllabus as a one-day topic. But the class of 11, made up of students from…