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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."
Jane Hamilton, visiting professor in the English department, taught a J-Term class on creative writing during the 2012-20-13 school year. January 24th, 2013. Photo by Aaron Lurth
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:
Knox College professor Monica Berlin talking 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 for remarks by Berlin. More on writing at Knox: www.knox.edu/academics/majors-and-minors/creative-writing
Jaynee Bowker reads during the Uncanny Senior Symposium for Literature Majors was held in the Old Main Lincoln Room on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020.
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
Dorothy Chan
The Creative Writing Program in the Department of English at ASU presented a reading and book signing by two of its stellar alumni: Dorothy Chan (MFA 2015) and Dana Diehl (MFA 2015).
About the Authors
Dorothy Chan is the author of Revenge of the Asian Woman (Diode Editions, Forthcoming March 2019), Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold (Spork Press, 2018), and the chapbook Chinatown Sonnets (New Delta Review, 2017). She was a 2014 finalist for the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Academy of American Poets, The Cincinnati Review, The Common, Diode Poetry Journal, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. Chan is the Editor of The Southeast Review. Visit her website at dorothypoetry.com
Dana Diehl is the author of Our Dreams Might Align (Splice UK, 2018) and TV Girls (New Delta Review, 2018). Her collaborative short story collection, The Classroom, is forthcoming from Gold Wake Press in early 2019. She earned her MFA in Fiction at Arizona State University and her BA in Creative Writing at the Susquehanna University Writers Institute. She has been an artist in residence at the Sundress Academy for the Arts, Signal Fire, and the Rutgers Camden Summer Writers' Conference. She lives and works in Tucson.
Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018
ASU Tempe campus
This event was open to the public and free.
This event was presented with the support of the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing.
Where can I taste and smell
The winter cold oozing
Rolling off my tongue like
Licorice candy melting
On my lips like nonpareils
Dripping on my shirt like
That mug with a crack
Leaking hot chocolate
Hot like a fire of dried colored
Leaves at the height of the
Fall I fall you fall
But we do not fall together
Like crackling sizzling splintering
Bubbling steaming logs in a red
Glazed hearth all surrounded by
Wet leaves and cold branches and
Slippery trees and the
Rust-stained swing set that
Slides through the air as it
Swings in the wind and
Creaks and creaks and creaking
It throws off a shadow
I see in the light of
The flames that are shadows too
Shadows of a force that
Murmurs below it and blows
Off steam in red and orange and
Yellow like leaves as they
Leave the trees weightlessly
Tumbling and falling
Mere silhouettes showing us
Too the howling wind all
Around us and everywhere
Hiding in the shadow
Of sound a mere shadow too
Like us two shadows
Tumbling and wrestling
And falling but not
Falling together just
Forming two neat little piles
Of red leaves raked
Clean and apart and left there
To mold on the ground in the
Yard where the fall fires burn
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We got a sneak peek at Wayde Compton's new book this morning! The Outer Harbour Stories comes out in October.
For those who don't know Wayde, in addition to being an accomplished author, he's the director of our creative writing programs, including The Writer's Studio and The Southbank Writer's Program.
Congratulations, Wayde!
This is something I wrote a long time ago. It is based on an idea that I had back in High School in the mid/late 1980s. It was initially only one short paragraph about the sand. I gave it to my British English teacher and after mulling it over for a minute she said, "the repetition works, you should develop this into something more." Somewhere around a week later, the piece of paper I wrote it on went missing. The possibilities were: I just lost it somewhere, someone liked it and stole it, or my father found it and burned it in the woodstove, dismissing it as stupidity. In any case I always kept the idea in my head.
At the time I wrote this I was at work, I finished for the day and punched out and returned to my desk. There was no one else there, i.e., I was alone, perfect conditions to go to my "dark place" and write. I purposely didn't put any paragraph breaks so it would be easy to lose your place to help you identify with the character. This took about six hours. You need to read the whole thing to get the twist at the end. For those of you who do manage to read the whole thing, thank-you and congratulations for having a superior attention span. lol
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Creative Writing Program Director, T.M. McNally
Poets Sarah Vap, Dexter L. Booth, and Patricia Colleen Murphy read from their recent work at the Hayden Library on the Tempe Campus. This public reading was followed by a book signing and reception with light refreshments.
Sarah Vap received her MFA from Arizona State University. Vap is the author of six collections of poetry. Her most recent book, "Viability," was selected by Mary Jo Bang for the National Poetry Series, and was released by Penguin in 2016.
Dexter L. Booth earned an MFA in creative writing from Arizona State University. His collection "Scratching the Ghost" was selected by Major Jackson for the Cave Canem Poetry Prize.
Patricia Colleen Murphy, a graduate of ASU's MFA Program in Creative Writing, founded Superstition Review at Arizona State University, where she teaches creative writing and magazine production. Her collection, "Hemming Flames," was selected by Stephen Dunn for the May Swenson Poetry Award.
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North Melbourne
Book release (and lots of music) of a book about Goan writing in Portuguese. Authored by Dr (Fr)Eufemiano Miranda.
A page of a play I wrote during the summer of 1971, just after I'd graduated from Davidson College. The characters were obsessed with contractions and elliptical language.
I like the idea behind "closet dramas", which are dramas designed to be read, rather than performed. The problem is, I ran into know-it-alls in college who performed them anyway. My goal was to write a closet drama no one could perform--so the way words were written or spelled became crucial to understanding the play.
The drama opens with two couples discussing contractions, ellipses, and alternate ways of spelling simple words--"we'll" for "we will", for instance, and "colour" for "color". One of my characters got carried away early, though, and started to laugh by first saying "haw-haw", then "ha-ha", "a-a", " - ", and, finally, " ", much to the amusement of the others. But he went too far, eventually contracting himself out of existence altogether.
The play gets better. It had to. Yeah, it was pretty dopey, but lots of fun. I wrote it in about 10 minutes. Thirty years later I found it at my mom's house in a drawer.
When I went to visit Maggie in November 2005 she asked me if I still had a copy of the play. I couldn't believe that after three decades she'd still remembered it vividly. When I visited her again in early December 2005, I gave her as a gift my only remaining copy, along with "Zoo Story", a poem I'd written that same summer for Lost In The Alone.
drawing of items in Freedom Train, which traveled throughout United States during bicentennial celebration in 1976
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Κύπρου 91Α & Σικίνου 35Α, 11361, Κυψέλη, Αθήνα / 91Α Kyprou & 35Α Sikinou, 11361, Athens
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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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Jane Hamilton, visiting professor in the English department, taught a J-Term class on creative writing during the 2012-20-13 school year. January 24th, 2013. Photo by Aaron Lurth
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Κύπρου 91Α & Σικίνου 35Α, 11361, Κυψέλη, Αθήνα / 91Α Kyprou & 35Α Sikinou, 11361, Athens
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Professor Tara Ison hosted the event.
The Creative Writing Program in the Department of English at ASU presented a reading and book signing by two of its stellar alumni: Dorothy Chan (MFA 2015) and Dana Diehl (MFA 2015).
About the Authors
Dorothy Chan is the author of Revenge of the Asian Woman (Diode Editions, Forthcoming March 2019), Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold (Spork Press, 2018), and the chapbook Chinatown Sonnets (New Delta Review, 2017). She was a 2014 finalist for the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Academy of American Poets, The Cincinnati Review, The Common, Diode Poetry Journal, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. Chan is the Editor of The Southeast Review. Visit her website at dorothypoetry.com
Dana Diehl is the author of Our Dreams Might Align (Splice UK, 2018) and TV Girls (New Delta Review, 2018). Her collaborative short story collection, The Classroom, is forthcoming from Gold Wake Press in early 2019. She earned her MFA in Fiction at Arizona State University and her BA in Creative Writing at the Susquehanna University Writers Institute. She has been an artist in residence at the Sundress Academy for the Arts, Signal Fire, and the Rutgers Camden Summer Writers' Conference. She lives and works in Tucson.
Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018
ASU Tempe campus
This event was open to the public and free.
This event was presented with the support of the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing.
We had the lethal pills. The world at end
Did not give us the time to say goodbye.
Thinking of ourselves, not of our friends,
We put our pets to sleep, we did misspend
The precious moments, hoping to deny
We had the lethal pills the world to end.
I had no strength and no way to suspend
This condemnation. I muttered my outcry
Thinking of ourselves, not of our friends.
You were at home. Your travel case at hand,
Calmly you folded clothes, your eyes dry:
We had the lethal pills the world to end.
“I’m leaving. There’s no reason to expend
What’s left in here: so hurry, we must fly.”
Thinking of ourselves, not of our friends,
We had the lethal pills the world to end.
(Villanelle by SiRiChandra)
Words of wisdom are sometimes found in strange places.
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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
Uncanny Senior Symposium for Literature Majors was held in the Old Main Lincoln Room on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020.
The Creative Writing Program at Arizona State University presents the Stellar Alumni Reading Series, a mixed-genre reading of poetry and prose with Iliana Rocha (MFA 2008) and Vedran Husić (MFA 2013).
About the Authors
Iliana Rocha earned her PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing from Western Michigan University. Her work has been featured in the Best New Poets 2014 anthology, as well as The Nation, Virginia Quarterly Review, Blackbird, and West Branch. Karankawa, her debut collection, won the 2014 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and is available through the University of Pittsburgh Press. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Central Oklahoma and lives with her three chihuahuas Nilla, Beans, and Migo.
Vedran Husić was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina and raised in Germany and the United States. His collection of stories, Basements and Other Museums, won the St. Lawrence Book Award and was published by Black Lawrence Press in 2018. He has work published in The Gettysburg Review, The Massachusetts Review, Mississippi Review, Ecotone, Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of fellowships from The Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the National Endowment for the Arts.
ASU Tempe campus
Thursday, Mar. 14, 2019
Santorini!
Where the sun is always shining,
Where the sea is always purring.
Where the girls are wearing short short dresses,
Where the tourists are having long long nights,
Where the barkeepers mix strong strong shots,
Where the greek coffee is hot hot at the bar.
Where every restaurant offers good food,
Where everybody is in a good mood!