Dept. of English
![Poet Gerald Barrax sits at his desk.](https://chass.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Barrax.jpg)
‘The Job of a Poet Is to Tell the Truth’: Remembering Gerald Barrax
![Understanding James Baldwin held in front of Talley](https://chass.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/baldwin-talley-book.jpg)
Wolfpack Writers: Marc Dudley
![two asian-american girls walk down the street](https://chass.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/gordon-q-and-a-screen-shot-from-the-challenge.jpg)
A Largely Untapped Universe: Exploring Race in Nontheatrical Films
![cover photo of "What the Dog Knows" young readers edition](https://chass.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/book-cover-16x9.jpg)
Wolfpack Writers: Cat Warren
![book cover photo on Court of North Carolina](https://chass.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Book-cover-Web-crop.jpg)
Wolfpack Writers: Christopher Ruocchio
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Submit Your Stories to the 2019 NC State Fiction Contest
!["Swimming Between Worlds" book cover](https://chass.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Book-cover-photo-2.jpg)
Wolfpack Writers: Elaine Neil Orr
![Students walking in Brickyard](https://chass.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/CAMPUS.FALL_.111017.4118.jpg)
Two NC State Professors Awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Grants
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