Sarah Lord

“The child is the father of the man.”

This is one of the celebrated eighteenth century romantic poet William Wordsworth’s most famous lines from the poem “My Heart Leaps Up." This line illustrates Wordsworth’s reverent and nostalgic attitude toward childhood and the lessons we learn during that impressionable time.

With one season in the books, our Literally Literary podcast keeps expanding. We now have listeners in eleven countries, including Germany, South Korea, and Saudi Arabia.

Among the great pleasures of our William Wordsworth in the El Paso Schools project are the connections we continue to forge between fifth-grade student writers in our borderland community and the scholars, students, and community engagement professionals working in the small English village of Grasmere, where Wordsworth lived and wrote his most famous poems.

The United States has been struggling with the definition of voting rights ever since its founding, and the right to vote continues to be of crucial importance in 2020. This is an important voting year for several reasons. It not only marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, but it also celebrates the 200th birthday of Susan B. Anthony, who was an influential activist in the woman’s suffrage movement. 

Poet José Olivarez, author of Citizen Illegal, was scheduled to visit El Paso Community College for The Humanities Collaborative at EPCC-UTEP planned Humanities Week at the end of April 2020.  Sadly, the COVID-19 pandemic forced cancellations and postponements of all Humanities Week events.