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-41 posts tagged "Poetry"
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
Gabriel Niforatos | Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Let me tell you a story. It was a yawning New Mexican evening, the desert breeze running its fingers delicately through our living room blinds and the last spears of golden light playing across the tiled floor. My computer sat in front of me, a blank page glaring at me as I thought of what
Margaret Cicchiello | Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Students and faculty gathered to hear professor of English Rebecca Lehmann and Sister Eva Hooker read their poetry Tuesday. This event, co-sponsored by the English and gender and women’s studies departments, recognized two gifted members of Saint Mary’s faculty and also served as book launch for Lehmann’s book, “Ringer.” Laura Haigwood, chair of the English
Mike Donovan | Friday, April 26, 2019
Stephen Dedalus, the young protagonist of James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” approaches Sandymount (a long, skinny strip of beach in East Dublin) engulfed in a swirl of images — “Snotgreen, bluesilver, rust: coloured signs.” These visions — “Limits of the diaphane” — clog the young man’s mental pathways, holding his creative faculties hostage. “Shut your eyes and
Sarah Kikel | Thursday, April 4, 2019
Okay, Paul McCartney, sure there’s nothing wrong with silly love songs — but don’t undermine music that flows like divinely-crafted poetry, songs that are so refined they resonate deep within the listener. While poetry worked into music enables poets to better disseminate their work to the public, it also adds another dimension to the art,
Show Some Skin | Thursday, February 14, 2019
I want you all to meet a man who needs no introduction. Please stand. Introducing the Modern American. The Modern American is a long-awaited soy latte, lots of sugar, lots of cream. Actually, throw in some whole milk, after today we’ll deserve the treat. The Modern American gets high on the hidden caffeine; They appropriate
Ryan Israel | Thursday, January 17, 2019
Just the name Earl Sweatshirt conjures up a certain image: taking the surname literally, a lanky teenager, hunched over with a sweatshirt hood covering most of his face, sullen, brooding, “stand-offish and anemic” and possibly depressed. It’s an image that can nearly be found on the cover of the California artist’s 2015 single “Grief.” It’s
Sara Schlecht | Thursday, November 15, 2018
It’s 2018, and nearly everything is political. Terrance Hayes’ sixth poetry collection, “American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin,” uses that as energy to explore the current political climate. This collection of 70 sonnets was written during the first 200 days of the Trump presidency, and attempts to grapple with what it means to
Show Some Skin | Thursday, November 8, 2018
At some point much sooner than when the Sun explodes and becomes a white dwarf The Milky Way will collide with the Andromeda galaxy. when this happens, there is a very small chance almost no chance that the Earth or our sun will crash into matter from Andromeda and be destroyed in the collision because