poetry
April 8, 2010
Finding Atlantis: Poet and feminist critic Gilbert visits campus
Undiscovered, deep within the ocean, the lost continent of women's literature, "Atlantis," awaits new explorers to map its typography. Thus began the 39th annual S.A. Yoder Memorial Lecture featuring Sandra Gilbert who spoke about the lost writings and analysis of women authors, the female literary canon she compared to the mythological continent, Atlantis. Gilbert, professor emeritus of Columbia University, is well known for her multiple books of poetry, and also her extensive work developing the female literary canon of English literature. It was this collection of lost female authors that Gilbert focused her lecture on this past Tuesday evening. In...
January 20, 2010
Weekend Workshop Inspires Poets
This past weekend, Latina poet Brenda Cardenas led a workshop for the English Department. Student Jamie Parker was one of the participants. Parker’s major is Journalism with a minor in Creative Writing. She didn’t begin writing poetry until her first semester at Goshen College. She now has approximately 83 poems, including the poems that she wrote this past weekend. Her writing and poetry have been previously published in the Record, and she looks forward to creating more works for Broadside and PinchPenny Press. The inspiration for one poem came from one of Cardenas’ workshop activities—writing a poem about a photo....
December 2, 2009
“What Am I: a Conversation of Identity With the Divine”
You ask me What am I? What am I? What am I? I am what eyes would perceive as a vanishing point of humanity That couldn’t be Because you go all the way from A to Z Alpha omega someone once put it to me Me a reflection of this cosmic poet’s imagery Caught in-between the boundaries Of metaphysical realities And spiritualists technicalities of identity And you ask me What am I? What am I? What am I? I am what isolated and segregated senses would reject I am love Love that would in fact infect Like the fall of...
November 19, 2009
Haarer seeks breath of God through radio, poetry
Carl Haarer, one of Boston’s top radio reporters, can play the guitar and piano, sing, write poetry and speak theology. He did all these things – and talked about journalism -- on Tuesday in his Umble Master Class keynote address. Haarer, who works for WBZ, said he had no idea he would become a journalist when he graduated from Goshen College with an English major in 1979. He described his job as a radio reporter as similar to being a student: you listen, learn, process and try to find meaning in new-found knowledge. The key, he said, is to be...
November 19, 2009
POETRY: “What Am I: a Conversation of Identity With the Divine”
You ask me What am I? What am I? What am I? I am what eyes would perceive as a vanishing point of humanity That couldn’t be Because you go all the way from A to Z Alpha omega someone once put it to me Me a reflection of this cosmic poet’s imagery Caught in-between the boundaries Of metaphysical realities And spiritualists technicalities of identity And you ask me What am I? What am I? What am I? I am what isolated and segregated senses would reject I am love Love that would in fact infect Like the fall of...
November 11, 2009
Boston’s best: Carl Haarer, Radio Man
Carl Haarer, award-winning reporter and radio poet for WBZ in Boston, is this year’s featured Umble Master Class speaker. He will be on campus on Monday and Tuesday next week to speak in classes and deliver the keynote address. The keynote address, entitled “Breathe on me, breath of God” will be held in Umble Center on Tuesday, Nov. 17 at 7:30 p.m. The lecture is free to the public and will include a reception. Haarer’s career began at Goshen College, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. He now goes by the professional name of Carl Stevens, and...
March 18, 2009
Poetry to slam campus on Friday
If you think poetry is too sophisticated and boring, think again. Students will compete in a poetry slam contest on Friday at 7 p.m. in Newcomer Center 17. While some poetry slams include works read by other people, all the poems that are read at this event will be original works by students and faculty (although faculty are not eligible for prizes). "The poems are written with intent to be spoken, so they're more fluid, colloquial and dramatic than poems on a page," said Hillary Watson, a senior who is coordinating the event. "It's not like reading poetry for your...
March 4, 2009
Senior writes home
Although e-mail and cell phones have long since replaced handwritten letters to parents of college students in faraway places, Peter Miller, a senior, uses the concept as inspiration for his new collection of poetry to explore his changing relationship to home while at Goshen College. Miller, an English and music double major, will release his collection “Writing Home,” on Sunday at 7:30 p.m. in the Koinonia Room in the Church-Chapel. “The title of the collection … is a play on words,” Miller said. “Apart from the obvious meaning of communicating over a distance, it also means something like ‘contemplating home’...