Professor of English, Dr. Ellen Sayenga Riek joins Prof Talk. We discuss how literature can be woven into first-year writing courses, the amazing opportunity she had to teach English with her father, and music dreams.

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Show Notes

Poems

• Amanda Gorman, "An Ode We Owe" at the UN General Assembly 
• Pablo Neruda, "Sweetness Always"
• Gloria Anzaldua, "The New Speakers"

Books

• Zora Neale Hurston, "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
• Shelley Read, "Go As a River"
• Rachel Carson, "Silent Spring"

Short Stories

• Kate Chopin, "The Storm"
• Sandra Cisneros, "Woman Hollering Creek"
• Louise Erdrich, "Fleur"
• Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Direction of the Road"

Essays

• Annie Dillard, "Total Eclipse"
• Leslie Marmon Silko, "Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination"
• Martin Luther King, Jr, "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

Authors

• Gloria Anzaldua
• Kate Chopin
• Sandra Cisneros
• Annie Dillard
• Louise Erdrich
• Ursula K. Le Guin

Bookstore

• Bookmans Entertainment Exchange