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The ASU Department of English's MFA in Creative Writing Program celebrates its 30th year with poetry readings and the opening of "Write Now," a photographic and letterpress exhibition. Featured poets are Alberto Ríos, Jeannine Savard, and Sally Ball. Artists include photographer Rebecca Ross and printmaker Karla Elling.
Sponsored by the ASU Department of English and its Program in Creative Writing, with support from the Katharine C. Turner Chair in English, the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry, the ASU Library, and the Humanities division of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
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By Ryan Johnston -
Too far away, and so unclear
It's hard to believe
It was ever, even there
But these scars I can't see
Remind me of everything
I wish I could just forget
Laid to rest when you left town
These words still sleep underground
At night, I dig around
And resurrect the alphabet, with my pen
But some things are best
Left alone, and dead
And our eyes would meet, in between
The oxygen, that I found hard to breathe
We could have landed so many different ways
I guess on our feet, won't be one of them
And these unholy lines
These plain white sheets
A body of words, buried underneath
Everything that I conveyed
I tried so hard just to bring you, to me
As I fill in the blanks, I can only guess
To what you really meant, if anything
I'm just not sure what to throw away
Or what to keep
Exhuming the decaying remains
Of everything we used to be
When all we ever had is gone, and dead
It only leaves more mystery
To what lived inside your head
Embalming the memories
Prolongs the misery
All you love, that you won't see again
And it just wont rest in peace
You traded truth for air
And a semester spent
In the Gem State, with former friends
I'd rather choke to death
On diamond coated razor blades
Than live through that again
And our eyes would meet, in between
The oxygen, that I found hard to breathe
You land in me so many different ways
Now we're burning to death
I guess we overshot the runway
You're the queen of hearts,
Princess to the stars
In the kingdom of the clouds,
They made you into a golden harp
You play on demand, truth in every verse
But I am still humming the tune
Of the sweetest lies my ears have ever heard
And how are things, in your new town?
How is my old best friend?
Did he walk on water?
Turn coal into diamond rings?
Or did he fall off his beanstalk?
In a tragic accident
Chasing after things he'll never understand
I would rather choke to death
On the ashes of this end
Than burn this way again
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On Friday, the College of Liberals Arts welcomed the class of 2016 to Temple University at the Freshman Convocation assembly. More than 600 incoming freshmen gathered to hear words of encouragement, advice and wisdom from Dean Teresa Scott Soufas, Vice Dean for Academic Affairs Jayne Drake, and fellow CLA students.
Two outstanding CLA students addressed the freshmen. D’Juan Lyons, a senior majoring in Spanish Linguistics, emphasized the importance of taking advantage of resources and opportunities here at Temple University. He challenged fellow classmates to avoid shortcuts and to go forth on their new journey “wholeheartedly and with full force.” Speaking from experience, political science major Grace Osa-Edoh shared three powerful lessons with CLA freshmen. Grace encouraged her classmates to “take it one step at a time, be ready to adapt to move forward, and ask for help along the way.”
The College of Liberal Arts wishes all of its students continued success. As Vice Dean Jayne Drake said, “enjoy and embrace your time here at Temple University."
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On Friday, the College of Liberals Arts welcomed the class of 2016 to Temple University at the Freshman Convocation assembly. More than 600 incoming freshmen gathered to hear words of encouragement, advice and wisdom from Dean Teresa Scott Soufas, Vice Dean for Academic Affairs Jayne Drake, and fellow CLA students.
Two outstanding CLA students addressed the freshmen. D’Juan Lyons, a senior majoring in Spanish Linguistics, emphasized the importance of taking advantage of resources and opportunities here at Temple University. He challenged fellow classmates to avoid shortcuts and to go forth on their new journey “wholeheartedly and with full force.” Speaking from experience, political science major Grace Osa-Edoh shared three powerful lessons with CLA freshmen. Grace encouraged her classmates to “take it one step at a time, be ready to adapt to move forward, and ask for help along the way.”
The College of Liberal Arts wishes all of its students continued success. As Vice Dean Jayne Drake said, “enjoy and embrace your time here at Temple University."
Knox College professor Robin Metz with students in the Senior Writing Portfolio course, before setting out on a mile-long "pilgrimage" from the Carl Sandburg statue on the Public Square, to Old Main, and then to the Sandburg Birthplace historic site; gathering at the square. More on writing at Knox: www.knox.edu/academics/majors-and-minors/creative-writing
SAA-uk joined Leeds Library in October 2014 for a day of culture to celebrate Black History Month. Presenting Bharatanatyam and Kathak dance, Indian classical music and poetry in Urdu and English.
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The automatic writing project started out as an activity among friends and locals. I would write a line someone else would write a line and so on... Then people would overhear us and ask if they could participate and write something too (which surprised me) of course I said "yes!" At that point I realized that lots of people have something to say. I started asking strangers to add entries, then I graduated to offering people $1.00 to participate, some people do not accept the dollar and some pay me a $1.00 (paying it forward). It's becoming quite a lovely, surprising and compelling project. People from many walks of life are participating: homeless, a news reporter, academics, students, doctors, drug addicts, lawyers, tourists etc... People have written things in my journal that they'd never say out loud, not to anyone. Some of it's so sad, some intriguing, hilarious and so on... At the end of the day, every one of these people understand that their entries are being uploaded to the internet and are comforted in knowing that they will be heard. I have no idea where this is going, but it's going just fine! FYI: English is not everyone's first language here. I will be illustrating the book/journal after the text is done. I hope that everyone who reads these entries learns something about people, mostly that we never know what someone else is going through.
Feel free to stop by my facebook page:
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they only come out at night - a creative writing "rock concert" to raise money for a summer mission project in south africa
On Friday, the College of Liberals Arts welcomed the class of 2016 to Temple University at the Freshman Convocation assembly. More than 600 incoming freshmen gathered to hear words of encouragement, advice and wisdom from Dean Teresa Scott Soufas, Vice Dean for Academic Affairs Jayne Drake, and fellow CLA students.
Two outstanding CLA students addressed the freshmen. D’Juan Lyons, a senior majoring in Spanish Linguistics, emphasized the importance of taking advantage of resources and opportunities here at Temple University. He challenged fellow classmates to avoid shortcuts and to go forth on their new journey “wholeheartedly and with full force.” Speaking from experience, political science major Grace Osa-Edoh shared three powerful lessons with CLA freshmen. Grace encouraged her classmates to “take it one step at a time, be ready to adapt to move forward, and ask for help along the way.”
The College of Liberal Arts wishes all of its students continued success. As Vice Dean Jayne Drake said, “enjoy and embrace your time here at Temple University."
Julian Wicks reads during the Uncanny Senior Symposium for Literature Majors was held in the Old Main Lincoln Room on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020.
A unique opportunity is presented to our friends - on our blog and site pages we offer a full preview of short stories that are part of the book that is going to be published in hardcopy and as an e-book during this year. If you love to read, and you love crystals and gemstones, understand and feel that extraordinary power that they possess, you shouldn't miss it.
The tale we link this post to is a creative work of RubyCharm author and friend Wolfgang Whael. It is about one famous myth from Roman ages, a folk tale seen from a slightly different perspective - one that involves a unique attribute of stone we know as Agate. The story is called: Light of Agate.
This story will excite, sadden and rejoice you in a glimpse of an eye. It will tell you about how the energy of the Universe gathered in stones may have influenced two different beings. It will teach us how light of Agate can help us understand true nature of souls around us, so we never miss out on true happiness. But there is no more time to wait - come and see for yourself.
All you have to do is to follow one of these links:
Here to read the story on our site,
www.rubycharm.com/en/Light_of_Agate_(PART_I)_i109.html
or here to read it, comment it, like it...on our blog
I ask you once again: please let me fall,
The season is not right to change my mind
You have to wait. Someone will make the call.
Writing or drawing, it all seems a scrawl
Reading a book sometimes makes me feel blind
I ask you once again: please let me fall,
I stand upright only because a wall
Is at my back. I am here to remind
You have to wait. Someone will make the call.
Falling is easier for a reckless soul.
That’s what I understand and what I find;
I ask you once again: please let me fall.
The world is now so large it has me in thrall
Of powerful emotions - at times unkind -
You have to wait. Someone will make the call.
I sing against the wind, I catch the ball,
I play with my dolls, keeping them aligned.
You have to wait. Someone will make the call.
I ask you once again: please let me fall.
(Villanelle by SiRiChandra)
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Yes please, I’d love a cuppa coffee with my tea! trulyjuly.wordpress.com/2018/05/28/yes-please-id-love-a-c... ;)
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Your scaled beauty was my only fault
And when I saw you I could only think
Of holding you, scraping off the salt
From your lean body, restoring the pink.
And as I tried to reach you, with a stroke
You swam away, but you were well assured
That I was after you. You would provoke
My fierce reaction, and my lust endured.
I reached you in the fountain, near the sea.
I tried to grab you, but you turned to vapour,
And I decided - in my fantasy -
To turn to water to became the raper.
Arethusa, my lover, is this my hand or yours?
Liquid we are in water, stretching to reach the shores.
(Sonnet by SiRiChandra)
I discovered that a guy called Percy B. Shelley wrote something about Alpheus and Arethusa too! Check it out
A gift for the artist/writer in your family. These are little journals with a prompt on each page, suitable for creative writing or sketching.
Plenty of options available: original print on hard covers (raw board with fabric spine and fabric corner protection, ) - these are good for those who want to sketch or write on the go; bright coloured soft covers available with original print, digitally remastered print in medium or small.
I lack the time to list them in my shop right now, but you are welcome to contact me directly if you are interested. -- Hope you'll like them. And the prompts of course.
SAA-uk joined Leeds Library in October 2014 for a day of culture to celebrate Black History Month. Presenting Bharatanatyam and Kathak dance, Indian classical music and poetry in Urdu and English.
Photos by Amardev Gahir
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The Creative Writing Program in the Department of English at ASU presents a reading and book signing by two of its star alumni: Renee Simms, who earned a Master of Fine Arts in 2007, and Dustin Pearson, who earned a Master of Fine Arts in 2017.
About the authors
Renee Simms received her MFA from Arizona State University, a JD from Wayne State University Law School, and a BA from University of Michigan. She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, was a John Gardner Fiction Fellow at Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and received fellowships from Ragdale and Vermont Studio Center. In addition to teaching in the Rainier Writing Workshop, Renee teaches at University of Puget Sound where she is an associate professor of African American Studies and contributing faculty to English. Renee’s debut story collection Meet Behind Mars was a Foreword Indies Finalist for Short Stories and listed by The Root as one of 28 brilliant books by black authors in 2018. Renee is currently at work on a novel and a collection of linked essays.
Dustin Pearson is the author of Millennial Roost (C&R Press, 2018) and A Family Is a House (C&R Press, 2019). He is a McKnight Doctoral Fellow in Creative Writing at Florida State University. The recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, Pearson has served as the editor of Hayden’s Ferry Review and a Director of the Clemson Literary Festival. He won the Academy of American Poets Katharine C. Turner Prize and John Mackay Graduate Award and holds an MFA from Arizona State University. His work appears in Blackbird, Vinyl Poetry, Bennington Review, TriQuarterly, [PANK], Fjords Review, and elsewhere.
ENGL 016-301
Instructor: SUSAN BEE
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Studio visit with Amze Emmons in South Philadelphia.
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Amze Emmons is a Philadelphia-based, multi-disciplinary artist with a background in drawing and printmaking. His images evoke a sense of magical/minimal realism inspired by architectural illustration, comic books, cartoon language, information graphics, news footage, consumer packaging, and instruction manuals.
Emmons received a BFA from Ohio Wesleyan University and a MA and MFA from the University of Iowa. He has held solo exhibitions in, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, and San Francisco, among other locations. His work has been included in group exhibitions in innovative commercial galleries, artist-run spaces, and non-profit institutions. Emmons has received numerous awards including a Fellowship in the Arts from the Independence Foundation; an Individual Creative Artist Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Arts Council; and a Fellowship at the MacDowell Colony. His work has received critical attention in The Huffington Post, Itsnicethat.com, Coolhunting.com, New American Paintings, as well as many other print publications. He is currently an Associate Professor at Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia. Emmons is also a co-founder and co-contributing editor of the popular art blog, Printeresting.org.
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