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Why I Hire English Majors by Steve Strauss

29 Saturday Jun 2013

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I love English majors. I love how smart they are. I love their intellectual curiosity. And I love their bold choice for a major. Most of all, I love to hire them.

A recent article by the great David Brooks in the New York Times about the changing nature of the Humanities in higher education just reinforced why, when given my druthers, English majors are my employee of choice.

And the reason is not that I am a writer; I more consider myself an entrepreneur than anything else. I run a small business and the people I hire do a variety of tasks — SEO, project management, social media, and so forth.

For my money (literally and figuratively), for my needs, and I suggest the needs of most small businesses, English majors are easily the top choice when it comes to getting the type of teammate who can make us all better, as they say in basketball.

Read the rest of the article by Steve Strauss at the Huffington Post

Announcing The 2012 Atlantis Award Winner and Runner-Ups

14 Friday Dec 2012

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Francine Witte – Atlantis Award Winner

Breaking Sky

A piece of the sky breaks off
and falls into your coffee cup.

It makes you wonder how shabby
heaven might be getting and what will

it look like when you get there, if,
in fact, you do.  You spoon

the piece from your cup and hold
it between your fingers.  It is perfect
Click to finish the poem

 

 

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