Creative Writing
Jasmine Jay ’14 Receives Prestigious Writers Institute Scholarship
By Shehtaz Huq ’14 Among approximately 400 applications received, English major Jasmine Jay ’14 (Allentown, Pa.) is one of 50 students nationwide to be invited to the prestigious NY State Summer Writers Institute. Jay, a recipient of the institute’s merit scholarship that aims at promoting access and diversity, will spend four weeks over the summer [...]
Rachel LeWitt ’13 and Lindsey Dier ’14 Win Annual Poetry Competitions
Lafayette celebrated National Poetry Month in April with poetry readings, lectures, and sessions recognizing the winners of the College’s annual poetry competitions. The winner of the MacKnight Black Competition is Rachel LeWitt ’13 (Berwyn, Pa.), a double major in psychology and English, for her poem “Forests for the Trees.” English major Alexandra Von Arx ’13 [...]
Ross Gay ’96 Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
Poetry is a craft and a spiritual practice, but it is more, says Ross Gay ’96, the recipient of a prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship 2013 for Creative Arts–Poetry. The craft comes in thinking about form, diction, and “fiddling with syntax and line,” and “it’s a close cousin to prayer, no doubt—but it’s also play [...]
Award-Winning Poet Anthony Caleshu ’92 Mines Experience, Research for Prose
By Kevin Gray Translating inspiration into art involves a bit of magic, says Anthony Caleshu ’92. “For a poem to be outstanding, I’ll echo Harold Bloom’s idea that there has to be a ‘strangeness’ about it,” says Caleshu, professor of poetry and manager of the master’s program in creative writing, University of Plymouth, England. “An [...]
CaPA Students Contribute to Vibrancy of Campus Arts Community
If anyone wonders whether the arts are alive and well in higher education, they need look no further than the College’s Creative and Performing Arts (CaPA) Fellowship program. This year, there are 27 students from diverse academic backgrounds pursuing projects that range from writing to studio art to theater to music. “We find an increasingly [...]
New Novel and Short Story Collection by Prof. Alix Ohlin Receive Critical Acclaim
Every day, or as close to every day as she can manage juggling a busy teaching schedule, Alix Ohlin sits down to write. For the last several years, she’s been hard at work on Inside (Knopf), a novel, and Signs and Wonders (Vintage), a short story collection, both released this month. They are already generating [...]
Michele Tallarita ’12 and Elisabeth Burnor ’14 Win Annual Poetry Competitions
Students, faculty, and community members flocked to the Williams Center for the Arts earlier this month to hear famed poet Matthew Dickman recite his verses on life, love, and grief. Author of All-American Poem and winner of the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize, Dickman was the judge of the H. MacKnight Black Poetry Competition. [...]
Photo Gallery: Students Let Creative Juices Flow during Write-a-Thon
In celebration of the “National Day on Writing,” the College held a write-a-thon in the Williams Visual Art Building. Students wrote with pen and paper, laptops, and a “writing wall” and used live prompts (a juggler, musicians, and performance artists) for inspiration. The program was sponsored by the College Writing program, the Department of English, [...]
Students Stretch Artistic Limits through Creative and Performing Arts Fellowship Program
Artistic creations often exist as lasting monuments to their creators, and each year, a select group of students gets an exciting opportunity to leave their own stamp on the College’s vibrant art community. Now in its third year, the Creative and Performing Arts (CaPA) Fellowship supports students in turning their artistic visions into realities. CaPA [...]
Lafayette Celebrates National Poetry Month: Brian Hall ’11 and Michele Tallarita ’12 Win Annual Poetry Competitions
In celebration of National Poetry Month in April, Lafayette will present poetry readings, sessions recognizing the winners of the College’s annual poetry competitions, and lectures. This year’s winner of the MacKnight Black Poetry Competition is Brian Hall ’11 (Huntingdon Valley, Pa.), a mathematics-economics major, for his poem “Worm Dance.” English major Amanda Whitbred ’11 (Doylestown, [...]
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