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Courses Taught

  • Introduction to Creative Writing, Engl 050
  • Introduction to Poetry Writing, Engl 213
  • Reading Poetry, Engl 263
  • Introduction to Fiction Writing, Engl 212
  • The Poet in America, Engl 437
  • Twentieth-Century Poetry, Engl 438
  • Literary Magazine Practicum, Elish 002
  • Advanced Poetry Workshop, Elish 430
  • Creative Writing Theory, Elish 484W
  • Advanced Poetry Writing, Elish 427

    For eight years, George Looney served as Editor-in-Chief of Mid-American Review, a journal he still serves as Translation Editor.  He taught in the BFA and MFA programs at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio for eleven years before coming to Penn State Erie.  For the last several years of his time at Bowling Green, he was in charge of the BFA program, and was advisor to the BFA students.  He is currently working on several collections of poetry in various stages of preparedness, a novel, and on a collection of fiction. He directs the creative writing program at Penn State Erie, and designed the newly accepted BFA degree program at Penn State Erie

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 Wendy Kallgren
Penn State Erie-The Behrend College
5091 Station Rd.
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