Michael Perry is a New York Times bestselling author, humorist, singer/songwriter, and self-professed amateur pig farmer. It's a different path than he may have thought he would take when he graduated from UW-Eau Claire with a nursing degree in 1987. But as he tells us, what he learned in nursing college, combined with a love for writing he discovered in a creative writing class, made him realize he could be a healer AND a humorist.
healer AND humorist
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Devroy event set for April 15
Philip Rucker, a senior Washington correspondent at The Washington Post, will present “Lessons from Reporting in the Age of Trump” during the virtual 2021 Ann Devroy Memorial Forum April 15 at UW-Eau Claire.
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Virtual International Poetry Reading scheduled for April 28
In previous events, community members, faculty and staff read and listened to poetry written in as many as 40 languages, including Korean, Hmong, Icelandic and many more.
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Blugolds in sports industry to discuss COVID’s effect on business
“It will let people talk with insiders about what it was like the day sports stopped,” says Dr. Brewer Doran, dean of the College of Business who will moderate the panel discussion.