IN PERSON: Kwame Dawes at The Writers House
Kwame Dawes has authored 36 books of poetry, fiction, criticism, and essays, including, most recently, Nebraska, Bivouac, and City of Bones: A Testament (Northwestern, 2017).
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Kwame Dawes has authored 36 books of poetry, fiction, criticism, and essays, including, most recently, Nebraska, Bivouac, and City of Bones: A Testament (Northwestern, 2017).
No Shelf Control is a student-led book club focused on great books from every genre and time period. We meet bi-weekly and discuss chapters of our voted-on books. Join us if you enjoy reading, want to read more, or would like to meet a great new group of people who love the written word! For […]
The Slam Poetry Team is a weekly-meeting group that allows poets and writers to take their creations to the spoken-word stage. This group is currently non-competitive, which allows aspiring poets to begin at the absolute basic level of slam within a welcoming and engaging environment. Â Join at any point in the semester! For more information, […]
Our Writers’ Circle is a student-led, open-genre writing workshop on Monday nights. Whether you’re a poetry buff, a fiction writer, or an avid journaler, there’s a place at the table for you. We begin with prompt-based freewriting for 20-30 minutes, and then students are free to share their work, while giving and receiving constructive feedback. […]
No Shelf Control is a student-led book club focused on great books from every genre and time period. We meet bi-weekly and discuss chapters of our voted-on books. Join us if you enjoy reading, want to read more, or would like to meet a great new group of people who love the written word! For […]
The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, two Pushcart Prizes, and the inaugural May Sarton Poetry Prize, among her many other awards, O’Rourke writes for The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and is the editor of The Yale Review. O’Rourke resides in Brooklyn, where she grew up, and Marfa, TX. She is currently a National Book Award finalist for nonfiction for her latest book, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness.
The Slam Poetry Team is a weekly-meeting group that allows poets and writers to take their creations to the spoken-word stage. This group is currently non-competitive, which allows aspiring poets to begin at the absolute basic level of slam within a welcoming and engaging environment. Â Join at any point in the semester! For more information, […]
Our Writers’ Circle is a student-led, open-genre writing workshop on Monday nights. Whether you’re a poetry buff, a fiction writer, or an avid journaler, there’s a place at the table for you. We begin with prompt-based freewriting for 20-30 minutes, and then students are free to share their work, while giving and receiving constructive feedback. […]
No Shelf Control is a student-led book club focused on great books from every genre and time period. We meet bi-weekly and discuss chapters of our voted-on books. Join us if you enjoy reading, want to read more, or would like to meet a great new group of people who love the written word! For […]
The Slam Poetry Team is a weekly-meeting group that allows poets and writers to take their creations to the spoken-word stage. This group is currently non-competitive, which allows aspiring poets to begin at the absolute basic level of slam within a welcoming and engaging environment. Â Join at any point in the semester! For more information, […]
No Shelf Control is a student-led book club focused on great books from every genre and time period. We meet bi-weekly and discuss chapters of our voted-on books. Join us if you enjoy reading, want to read more, or would like to meet a great new group of people who love the written word! For […]
The Slam Poetry Team is a weekly-meeting group that allows poets and writers to take their creations to the spoken-word stage. This group is currently non-competitive, which allows aspiring poets to begin at the absolute basic level of slam within a welcoming and engaging environment. Â Join at any point in the semester! For more information, […]
Merrimack College, and the McCoy Gallery proudly presents, Little Green, new works by renowned artist Resa Blatman! Blatman’s exhibition opens September 20th and runs through November 8th