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Virtual Student Reading — “Annabel Lee” read by Cosette Gunther
National Poetry Month 2020 To kick off this week, we have another virtual student reading! Today, Cosette Gunther (a first year and member of the editorial staff for inklings) is reading a favorite poem of hers — “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allen Poe — and discusses a little bit about why she loves Poe’s poetry.
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Virtual Student Reading: 19 by Madi McGirr
National Poetry Month 2020 Here is the first in a series of student creative writing readings. Sophomore Madi McGirr reads her poem “19” which is after the poem “21” by Patrick Roche. You can read this poem as well as other poems and art by Madi in this year’s forthcoming issue of the Femellectual.
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Encountering Each Other in New Ways by Venturing into “Canyons” — A Video Review
National Poetry Month 2020 To continue celebrating National Poetry month, today we have a video review of Canyons by Jessica Poli conducted by apprentice, Lauren Miles. To learn more about Canyons and BatCat press, check out their website.
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Meet the 2019 Writer’s Harvest Readers!
As the days begin to shorten and the air begins to chill, once again we welcome a return of the annual Writer’s Harvest! Here is a sneak peek at who will be reading this year and what they have in store for us:
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Great chemistry: Creative Writing collaborates across disciplines
Hurray for successful collaboration across disciplines! Check out this wonderful book of short stories, or “fictional essays,” written by chemistry capstone students to help them think about ethical dilemmas in science. As the preface by Prof. Heeyoung Tai says, imaginative writing enabled students to “see the future—not just the benefits that scientific advances would bring,…
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Undergraduate Reading Series: Report from a First-time Reader
On Monday, March 5th, at the weekly meeting of Sigma Tau Delta, I signed up to write a blog post about the Happy Captive Magazine/Howe Writing Center Undergraduate Creative Writing Reading on the 15th of February. Little did I know that I would be presenting my own work at that reading. I had never read…
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Rodrigo Toscano performs with MFA students
Last semester, on Tuesday, November 6, acclaimed poet (and labor organizer by trade) Rodrigo Toscano, along with five Miami Creative Writing MFA students, performed for a full house in the Bachelor Hall reading room. (Pictures here.) Toscano has lived a double life, splitting his time between working in the labor movement and weaving his poetry.…
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First Annual Graduate Student Choice Reading Brings Alexandra Kleeman to MU
“She was truly happy for the first time in her life, and it felt just like living in a small room painted all white…” So begins Alexandra Kleeman’s Jellyfish, the short story she read this past Thursday to a crowd of people in the Miami University Bookstore.
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The Writing Process: Finding What Works
When I sit down to work on a story I think, “Wouldn’t it be nice if I could just write a draft from beginning to end and be done for a day, then return to the thing, plow through another draft like a farmer tilling a field?” A field would be good. A field has…
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Can’t Go Over It: Dismantling the Writing Wall
Creative Writing MA student Katy Shay talks the writing life and about how to beat the writer’s wall.