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-49 posts tagged "Poetry"
Sarah Kikel | Thursday, March 25, 2021
If there were a college poet laureate, I would nominate Maude Latour. A songwriter who studies philosophy at Columbia University, Maude has been deeply inspired by her life on campus, and her music weaves together imagery that is both biographical and derived from her exploration of classic literature. Her lyrics are a lot like Sappho’s
Lexi Kilcoin | Thursday, March 11, 2021
Imagine for me, if you will, the scent of a corpse flower. It likens to a pile of diapers rotting in the sun, mixed with rotten blue cheese dressing. Unfortunately, I’ve never had the pleasure of smelling this infamous stench, but this is the description according to Aimee Nezhukumatathil in her new book of prose,
Colleen Fischer | Wednesday, March 3, 2021
There’s an interview with an aging Allen Ginsberg. I remember watching it as a teenager on my parents’ couch with the impossible close shot and indifference to what they are meant to be talking about when Ginsberg addresses something I had been wondering for years, “Why did so many of the beats die young?” He
Shayla O'Connor | Thursday, February 25, 2021
Chimes is the literary magazine published by Saint Mary’s every year as a collection of art from students, faculty and staff. The magazine is now nearly 130 years old, being first published in the fall of 1892. Chimes exists with The Avenue as the official literary publications of Saint Mary’s. Where Chimes is described on
Emily DeFazio | Tuesday, February 23, 2021
February 22 marked the beginning of Notre Dame’s 2021 Walk the Walk Week. Monday night, as part of this observance, Poet Laureate Joy Harjo performed a live reading at a virtual event sponsored by the Multicultural Student Programs and Services and the new Notre Dame Initiative on Race and Resilience. Professor of romance languages and
Carmen Feucht | Friday, February 19, 2021
Author Philip Matthews and photographer David Johnson hosted a virtual discussion for the Saint Mary’s community to showcase their new collaborative exhibition “Wig Heavier Than a Boot” in the Moreau Center Art Galleries. During the panel moderated by associate professor of art Ian Weaver, Johnson and Matthews shared their experiences about working on the project.
Megan Fahrney | Tuesday, February 9, 2021
It all started with a packet of mustard on a table in South Dining Hall. Club legend has it that before becoming Notre Dame’s official creative writing club, Mustard was an informal gathering of students interested in creative writing. A packet of mustard would be placed on a table in South Dining Hall before each
Show Some Skin | Thursday, November 5, 2020
The indescribable undefinable most admirable passage of time The twisting listing constantly persisting reason for my rhyme It slips and slides, an eclipse of tides, holding me beneath the current Its pull provides unwanted guides to things that were or weren’t Meant for silly little souls with facsimiles of goals that are surely set to
Evan McKenna | Thursday, August 27, 2020
I’m taking my first poetry writing class this semester. Aside from our discussions of avant-garde free-verse that go way over my head, we’ve been talking a lot about attention — what commands our attention, what other poets attend to in their writing and, most importantly, how we allocate our attention within the writing process. One
Evan McKenna | Wednesday, April 15, 2020
I had only read Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” once, but when a menacing black crow began ramming itself repeatedly into my bedroom window at 8:00 a.m. on a Monday morning, you bet I took notice of the poetic parallels. Let me backtrack. It was a dreary, unassuming Monday morning — the beginning of my