“The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus

“The Song of Wandering Aengus” by W.B. Yeats

“Snail” by Langston Hughes

“I, Too” by Langston Hughes

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

“The Lake Isle of Innisfree” by W.B. Yeats

“Chicago” by Carl Sandburg

“Caged Bird” by Maya Angelou

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Elliot

“A New National Anthem” by Ada Limón

“I Go Back To May 1937” by Sharon Olds

“Having a Coke with You” by Frank O’Hara

“Dream Song 14” by John Berryman

“Because I could not stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson

“Anyone lived in a pretty town” by E. E. Cummings

“High Flight by John Gillespie Magee



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I saw University President Sarah Mangelsdorf decked out in a black robe, sitting on a quite luxurious office chair in an otherwise empty room with a giant window overlooking the campus. Read More

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Performed at Lynne Lovejoy Parlor in the Memorial Art Gallery, “Dealbreaker” by Lauren Kee is a one woman show about her experience dealing with the social stigma of contracting genital herpes after a one-night stand. Read More

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URochester’s 2026-27 Medical Amnesty Policy now includes student organizations seeking medical help on behalf of their members. The policy says that students, and now student organizations, who reach out for help with substance-related medical emergencies will not suffer consequences for the possession or consumption of alcohol and other drugs in violation of University policy. Read More