Poetry
Interfaith Chapel
Poet Catherine Barnett comes to the University for the Plutzik Reading Series
Barnett possessed a grounded, calm, yet complex air when presenting her work. Read More
on campus
National Book Award Finalist Maureen McLane Comes to UR
McLane was a National Book Award finalist for her collection “This Blue,” her work merges past and present, drawing on ancient texts — notably Sappho fragments — a contemplation of how human experiences are mediated by encounters with language and literature. Read More
Poetry
Painting with words
If prose is a picture, capturing scenes with as many sentences as possible like pixels on a screen, poetry is a painting with artful brush strokes that demonstrate the skill of the artist and leave questions for the mind to fill. Read More
Allen Ginsburg
What we can learn from Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’
As members of a liberal industrialized society, we claim to try to make everything inclusive. Instead, we find labels for those who do not fit in. The segmentation of our “inclusive” society, determined by the 51 percent, has been a labored topic for those who poet Allen Ginsberg called “the great minds” in his 1956 […]
