For all those who want to share their poetry or prose, The Writer’s Den Open Mic Night on April 9th was a great opportunity. Whether or not part of The Writer’s Den, this was a chance for all Bruins ...
My Feelings: Poems, Nick Flynn's new collection, starts with an epigraph from Emily Dickinson, and like her, he isn't kidding around. When you have been through a lot, "You cannot fold a Flood—/And ...
As is his custom at the annual senior thesis reading, creative writing adviser Rob Farnsworth blessed the graduating Bates poets and novelists whom he has advised during the academic year. A poet and ...
A startling revelation and a stunning cataclysm have buffeted J. Chester Johnson's life of bountiful achievements. They've also helped bring the creativity of this polymath to fuller flower as an ...
The critic William Hazlitt (1778–1830), known best in his lifetime for his writing on Shakespeare, was a jack of all trades and a master of none too few, trying his deft hand at painting, philosophy, ...
We are told not to judge a book by its cover. A cover may be garish, while the narrative is sublime. Or, the other way round - the cover striking and provocative; the narrative middle-of-the-road and ...
Who glorifies poets better than Latin American novelists? For Roberto Bolaño, Valeria Luiselli, César Aira, Isabel Allende, and José Lezama Lima, bards are politically oppressed geniuses, horny teens, ...
SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. – Elaina Decker was full of rage, and if anyone gave her a hard time in prison, she'd act on her anger. But, she's gentler now. Decker has put aside her anger and worked on ...
Sandra Kingery, Ph.D., Logan A. Richmond Endowed Professor and chair of the department of modern language studies at Lycoming College, and 18 students in her upper-level Spanish translation class ...