Poetry

George Bilgere to discuss relationship between comedy, tragedy in virtual Brown Bag

by Sarah Vest on August 3, 2021

SARAH VEST - STAFF WRITER Bilgere French dramatist Jean Racine once said that “life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.” George Bilgere — Week Six’s poet-in-residence — tries

Cave Canem Fellow Marcus Jackson to discuss exploring identity through poetry in virtual Brown Bag

by Sarah Vest on July 20, 2021

SARAH VEST - STAFF WRITER Jackson Personal identity, whether people mean it to or not, has a habit of slipping

Writers-in-residence Luisa A. Igloria and Jeffrey DeShell to read works with diverse origins

by Sarah Vest on July 9, 2021

SARAH VEST - STAFF WRITER Igloria Inspiration can come from a variety of places. For one, it might be a

Poet Danielle Legros Georges to give Brown Bag on the languages inside everyone

by Sarah Vest on July 6, 2021

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SARAH VEST - STAFF WRITER Georges We all carry different languages inside of us — some that can be spoken

Writers-in-residence Danielle Legros Georges and Zelda Lockhart prepare for week of digital workshops

by Sarah Vest on July 2, 2021

SARAH VEST - STAFF WRITER Georges Lockhart Language makes up the fabric of our communities and connects people across distance and

Click: Prose writer-in-residence Sonja Livingston to share ‘snapshot’ style of mixing poetry and prose in Brown Bag

by Sarah Vest on July 2, 2021

SARAH VEST - STAFF WRITER Livingston “Click” goes the shutter of a camera, capturing a moment in time before it passes by. Just like a camera captures moments in time, so does the memory of

Meeting at the intersection: Poet-in-residence Robert Miltner leads virtual Brown Bag talk

by Sarah Vest on June 28, 2021

MILTNER SARAH VEST - STAFF WRITER Some people see poetry as confusing, jumbled, and hard to understand — or at

Digital, pre-season Writers’ Festival includes Hill keynote

by Sarah Vest on June 27, 2021

Toni Morrison said in her lecture “Unspeakable Things Unspoken” that “we have always been imagining ourselves.” “Personal Geographies,” the theme

Poetry in Motion: J.Y. Song to Combine Spoken Word and Music in Recital in Lenna

by Julia Arwine on July 15, 2019

J.Y. Song From book club discussions to visual arts exhibitions to orchestra performances, literature, art and music all have their

The 16th Annual Writers’ Festival Centers “Writing and Reclamation” with Jericho Brown

by Amy Guay on June 21, 2019

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About a minute into his keynote address for the 2019 Writers’ Festival, poet Jericho Brown began to sing. Punctuating a speech

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