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It’s an occasion to celebrate some big wins for the student-staffed university press at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Dozens of writers and student staff of Cornerstone Press spend all year immersed in the editing and creative process of book publishing. The press now publishes between 45 and 50 titles yearly in creative nonfiction, short […]
The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point’s Cornerstone Press, one of five publishing houses in the United States staffed by undergraduate students, will mark 40 years with a gala event next month. Open to alumni, students and community members, the free event will be held from 6:30-9 p.m. Friday, April 5, in the Alumni Room of the […]
For the past 40 years, a small central Wisconsin publishing house has produced more than 100 titles in various genres, from short fiction to poetry collections, which have won awards and brought authors national and international recognition. But what really makes Cornerstone Press stand out is that it is one of five publishing houses in […]
Cornerstone Press, the student-staffed teaching press at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, recently launched four new books of poetry. Cornerstone Press released “Naming the Ghost” by Emily Hockaday (New York), “Mourning” by Dokubo Goodhead (Georgia and Nigeria), “The Found Object Imagines a Life” by Mary Catherine Harper (Ohio), and “The Walk to Cefalu” by Lynne […]
Students, faculty and staff members at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point have been recognized for excellence and achievement: Voice students were honored by the National Association of Teachers of Singing, with seven students advancing to the national preliminary rounds and one advancing to the national semi-formal round. Chris Eaton, a second-year baritone studying with Professor […]
Assistant Professor of English Erica Ringelspaugh is described often as an extremely supportive, dedicated educator. Teaching is second nature to her, having eavesdropped on the conversations between her parents. Her mother, Betty, taught family and consumer economics and her father, John, taught auto mechanics and drafting. While her parents were finishing work in the Tomah […]
Over the course of a semester, Professor Robert Sirabian said his 19th century literature students will discover that issues and debates our communities wrestle with today—related to, for example, housing, pollution, labor, gender, and education—have parallels to the passionate debates about these topics during the 19th century. He became enthralled with the vibrant Victorian period […]