The Crisis & Creativity Workgroup, comprised of writers, artists, scientists, and community members, has had a proposal exploring species extinction through poetry/art awarded a grant from the School of Environmental Sustainability — Dan Beachy-Quick and Cedar Brant are principal investigators […]
John Updike described Billy Collins’s poems as “more serious than they seem.” And indeed, while Collins’ poems are often laugh-out-loud funny, many end on a touching, sometimes somber note. Billy Collins is one of the most well-known and financially successful […]
~from the TEFL/TESL Student Association We are excited to announce that Advocacy Week is almost upon us! As a registered GSA, the TEFL/TESL Student Association (TTSA) strives to promote linguistic and cultural diversity, both here on campus and in the […]
Artist and poet Rupi Kaur was born in Punjab, India, in 1992. When she was only 4, her parents emigrated to Toronto, Canada. Her artistic and creative ability was something that emerged when she was a young age. Kaur began […]
The work of David Whyte moves between literary, psychological, theological and vocational worlds. As Whyte explains, his poetry and philosophy comes from “the conversational nature of reality.” Born in 1955 in Mirfield Yorkshire, his poetry was influenced by bother his […]
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? ~Mary Oliver, from her poem “The Summer Day” Mary Oliver is a prolific contemporary poet. Her work has received the Pulitzer Prize, the National […]
~from intern Joyce Bohling The reading of creative writing master’s theses on March 30 featured creative nonfiction M.A. candidate Dana Chellman and poetry M.F.A. candidates Denise Jarrott and Kylan Rice. Each reading featured unique style and subject matter, showing the […]
Some poetry connects generations together, drawing them in at an early age through fun rhymes and silly images. Shel Silverstein has become synonymous with children’s poetry, the type of poetry that sticks with its readers well into adulthood. Most children […]
Next Wednesday, Doug Cloud will be giving a workshop for the School of Global Environmental Sustainability (SoGES) Sustainability Fellows titled “Talking Science with Conservative, Religious and Other Potentially Skeptical Audiences.” Tobi Jacobi participated at the recent Conference on College Composition […]
Naomi Shihab Nye is the author of numerous books of poems, as well as the author of several books of poetry and fiction for children. Born to a Palestinian father and an American mother, she spent her adolescence in both Jerusalem and […]