Category: Events
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Equal Pay Day
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Read More: Equal Pay DayToday is Equal Pay Day. It originated with the National Committee on Pay Equity (NCPE) in 1996 as a public awareness event to illustrate the gap between men’s and women’s wages. Equal Pay Day falls on a different day, depending on the year and the country, as it is meant…
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National Poetry Month: Motivation Monday
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Motivation Monday~from Katie Haggstrom Great poets have a way with words. To help you with your Monday, we’ve found some inspiring quotes from poets. “Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.” -Lucille Clifton “We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones…
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National Poetry Month: Hannah Johnson
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Hannah Johnson~from Michaela Hayes I found this poem several years ago when I was going through my obligatory English major spoken word poetry craze. I was struck by it then and I’m still struck by it now. It’s been hanging out in my laptop bookmarks and I watch it every few…
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National Poetry Month: Theodore Roethke
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Theodore Roethke~from Michaela Hayes I love the circularity of “The Waking.” The poem is a villanelle, a strict and rather complicated poetic form, so by definition it is pretty circular. It discusses the inescapable monotony of life as it interacts with the inescapable uncertainty. The poem is ambiguous and beautiful; it…
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National Poetry Month: Happy Birthday Maya Angelou!
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Happy Birthday Maya Angelou!Maya Angelou (April 4, 1928–May 28, 2014) would have been 90 years old today. We featured her last year during Black History Month, but when such a “phenomenal woman” and poet has a birthday during National Poetry Month, it’s hard to not celebrate that and feature her again (and again). I…
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National Poetry Month: Joy Harjo
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Joy HarjoToday’s poem comes from Joy Harjo. She was born in Oklahoma and received her MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop in 1978. She is part of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation, an identity that is also reflected in her poetry, including her collections The Woman Who Fell from the Sky (1996), How…
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National Poetry Month April 2018
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Read More: National Poetry Month April 2018We’ve loved having monthly themes here on the blog. February was Black History Month, an opportunity to profile amazing authors, scholars, educators, and speakers who enrich our studies, our understanding, and our lives. Then March was Women’s History Month, a chance to honor the wisdom, innovation, determination, creativity, compassion, humor, and strength of…
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Women’s History Month: Our Community of Women
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Read More: Women’s History Month: Our Community of WomenToday we feature our “local” women – alumna, current students, faculty, and/or staff – and all the good things they do. Tomorrow will be a reading list of “local” authors. This list is by no means complete, and even for those included we have not given a full account of…
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Women’s History Month: Lorrie Moore
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Read More: Women’s History Month: Lorrie Moore~from Michaela Hayes Lorrie Moore, born January 13 1957, is an American novelist and short story writer. She was born in Glens Falls, New York, and later attended St. Lawrence University, a small liberal arts college in Canton, New York. Like Sylvia Plath, she won Seventeen magazine’s annual fiction award…
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Women’s History Month: Girl Power
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Read More: Women’s History Month: Girl PowerWatching some of the speeches from various recent March for Our Lives* events made it clear that kids — in particular girls — have a voice, can be activists and create change. Considering the theme of this year’s Women’s History Month, “Nevertheless, She Persisted: Honoring Women Who Fight All Forms of…