Creative Writing
Elizabeth Cortese ’10 and Ross Burlingame ’09 Win Annual Poetry Contests
Poets Carolyn Forche and Katie Ford served as judges and will read their work along with the student winners April 8 and 22 This year’s winner of the MacKnight Black Poetry Competition is English major Ross Burlingame ’09 (Lancaster, Pa.). Rachel Heron ’09 (Downingtown, Pa.), an English and geology double major, and Daniela Duca ’09 [...]
Lee Upton, Lafayette’s Writer in Residence, is Honored
Her new novella and a poem from her most recent award-winning volume are cited By Courtney Morin ’10 Along with publishing a new novella this year, Lee Upton, professor of English and writer-in-residence, has received a number of honors. Upton’s novella, The Guide to the Flying Island, received the Miami University Press Novella Award and [...]
M.K. Asante Jr. ’04 Films ‘The Black Candle,’ Publishes Third Book
Documentary on Kwanzaa will be screened in U.S. and Africa Author and filmmaker M.K. Asante ’04 has created the documentary The Black Candle, which uses Kwanzaa as a vehicle to explore and celebrate the African-American experience. It traces the holiday’s growth out of the Black Power movement in the 1960s to the present global, pan-African [...]
Professor Lee Upton’s Latest Book Receives National Recognition
Undid in the Land of Undone is the recipient of the silver medal for poetry in the ForeWord Independent Book of the Year Awards By Elizabeth Hall ’10 The latest book by Lee Upton, professor of English and writer in residence, has been awarded the silver medal for poetry in ForeWord Magazine’s Independent Book of [...]
Shoshana Cohen Stopek ’00 Pens Scooby Doo Books
She previously did editing and research on ER, The West Wing, and Star Trek: Enterprise If asked to name the inspiration behind our career success, few of us would cite a pair of magic scissors. Not so for author Shoshana Cohen Stopek ’00. The story she wrote at eight years old of a tailor and [...]
Imaginative Writers’ Room Opens
It’s a new writing and meeting place dedicated to imaginative literature The newly-opened Imaginative Writers’ Room in Hogg Hall is open to any member of the Lafayette community as a place for writing any sort of imaginative literature: fiction, poetry, drama, screenplays, song lyrics, or hybrid forms. The room, located on the lower level of [...]
Lafayette Celebrates National Poetry Month in April
Kyle deCant ’10 and Megan Kaesshaefer ’08 win annual poetry competitions Lafayette’s celebration of National Poetry Month includes readings from students, open mic nights, and interaction with the acclaimed poets who judged Lafayette’s student poetry competitions. All events are free and open to the public. This year’s winnerof the Jean Corrie Poetry Competition is government [...]
Award-Winning Poet Anthony Caleshu ’92 will Hold Reading Jan. 31
English graduate received the Forward Poetry Prize English graduate, poet, playwright, and fiction writer Anthony Caleshu ’92 will present a poetry reading at 4:10 p.m. Jan. 31 in Skillman Library, Gendebien Room. The reading is being co-sponsored by the English department and the Friends of Skillman Library. A question-and-answer session and reception will follow his [...]
Students Collaborate to Create Art
Sculpture as Poetry exhibit runs in Skillman Library through Jan. 25 Last semester students of English and art joined together on a creative endeavor. Students from the Advanced Creative Writing course, taught by Lee Upton, professor of English and writer-in-residence, and the Fundamentals in Sculpture course, taught by Alastair Noble, assistant professor of art,teamed up [...]
Lee Upton Explores Ambition and Failure in her Latest Book
Undid in the Land of Undone is English professor’s 10th book and fifth volume of poetry In Undid in the Land of Undone, Lee Upton, professor of English and writer-in-residence, ponders the concepts of ambition and failure. The book, which has just been published by New Issues Press, is her fifth volume of poetry and [...]
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