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Meet the Outreach Team!

A big project for the Outreach team this quarter is reaching out (like we do) to every corner of the university, and one of our goals in…

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Writing about Writing

Peer Tutor and Mentor Summit 2014: Interview with Keynote Speaker, Raul Palma

The Outreach Team is excited to start talking about DePaul University’s fifth Peer Tutor and Mentor Summit, which will be taking place on Friday, October 31, 2014…

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Happy Thirtieth Anniversary, Banned Books Week!

Banned Books Week is observing its thirtieth anniversary at the end of the month, and we at the UCWbL will be hosting some great events during this…

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Writing about Writing

Pockets, Public Readings, and Prompts for Poems

Last Thursday, April 14th, was Poem in Your Pocket Day, and we at the UCWbL got into the act. Poem in Your Pocket Day has been a…

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Writing about Writing

Happy National Poetry Month!

Welcome to a new quarter, everyone, and welcome as well to April, National Poetry Month! In 1996, the Academy of American Poets designated the first National Poetry Month, and it…

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A Weekend at the East Central Writing Centers Association Conference

On this past Friday, I traveled by Amtrak to Kalamazoo, Michigan. It was early in the morning and the landscape was stark and gray, but due to a…

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Writing about Writing

Social Cataloguing, Books, and Snow Days

You might ask what these things have in common. Books are often enjoyed in solitude, but on one of DePaul’s snow days earlier in February, I found…

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Love Across Languages

What are you doing on the afternoon of February 14th? We hope that you’re coming to Love Across Languages, a multilingual poetry reading in the Loop’s North Cafe!

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A New Word in Your Inbox

While my email inbox seems to fill up pretty quickly most days, there is one thing that I am always happy to receive: a new word. The Oxford English Dictionary…