UGH Magazine: Battle Cry for Millennial Feminists
Rachel Mead
September 2, 2016
Filed under ARTS, Literature & Poetry
Like many of today’s best ideas, UGH Magazine began with a Google Doc. If you use the internet regularly and your friends are feminist millennials, you might know about RookieMag, Tavi Genison’s online teen magazine. If you’re part of the twenty-something crowd, you might be reading articles ...
Fang First Femme of Color to Win Howell Poetry Prize
Louise Edwards, Arts Editor
May 6, 2016
Filed under ARTS, Literature & Poetry
College senior Dana Fang won this year’s annual Emma Howell Memorial Poetry Contest, awarded by Oberlin’s Creative Writing department. Fang is both the first femme of color and the first Asian-American poet to win the prize, which honors Creative Writing and Comparative Literature major Emma Howell,...
Álvarez Writes on War Trauma, Healing
Matías Berretta, Staff Writer
April 22, 2016
Filed under ARTS, Literature & Poetry
On April 17, a lazy Sunday afternoon, the light of Ohio’s long-missed sun flooded through the French windows of Harvey House. The siesta spell broke as Language Teaching Assistant in Hispanic Studies Gabriela Garcia Greco picked up a microphone to greet the audience and introduce award-winning Venezuelan...
‘Dear Committee Members’ Pokes Fun at Academic Hierarchy
Matías Berretta, Staff Writer
April 15, 2016
Filed under ARTS, Literature & Poetry
Professor of Creative Writing Dan Chaon introduced fiction writer Julie Schumacher, OC ’81, with great pride Wednesday. Chaon informed the audience that Schumacher’s first published story, “Reunion,” was written to fulfill an undergraduate creative writing assignment at Oberlin before it was...
Student Translators Face Ethical, Lexical Challenges
Julia Peterson, Production Editor
April 1, 2016
Filed under ARTS, Literature & Poetry
The Annual Student Translation Symposium, a celebration of language, culture and the art of communicating, allows students to present their original translations and give short talks on their personal translation processes. It has taken place at Oberlin every year for more than a decade. This year,...
Nautical Poetry Tells Tale of Hurricane Sandy
Matías Berretta, Staff Writer
April 1, 2016
Filed under ARTS, Literature & Poetry
Chair of the Creative Writing Program Kazim Ali began a poetry reading by Margaret Ross and Robin Beth Schaer on March 10 by asking those in attendance if they recognized the metrical pattern of the radiator’s rhythmic banging — a trochaic beat. This was a fitting observation, as both Ross and S...
Multimedia Poet Taps into Subconscious Realms
Matías Berretta, Staff Writer
March 11, 2016
Filed under ARTS, Literature & Poetry, Recent Stories
Poetry has long existed as a multimedia art form. Homeric poems, for example, used to be performed with musical accompaniment. The relationship between poetry and other art forms was evident last Thursday in Dye Lecture Hall when New York-based performance poet Adeena Karasick wowed the students present...
Visiting Professor Celebrates Bird Hill Release
Jake Frankenfield
March 11, 2016
Filed under ARTS, Literature & Poetry
The Creative Writing and Africana Studies departments hosted Visiting Creative Writing Professor Naomi Jackson on Feb. 25. She read excerpts from her newly published book The Star Side of Bird Hill. The book, a coming-of-age novel that moves from Brooklyn to Barbados, was characterized by Jackson as “a ...
Smith’s Poetry a Bible Verse, Queer Anthem
Louise Edwards, Arts Editor
March 11, 2016
Filed under ARTS, Literature & Poetry
Slam Poet Danez Smith, hailing from St. Paul, MN, opened their performance at the Cat in the Cream Saturday with “Genesissy,” a piece that was part Bible verse, part hymn and part queer anthem. They balanced humorous lines like, “And on the tenth day, God wore a blood-red sequin body suit, dropped...
Johnson Converts Insults to Compliments in Poetry
Louise Edwards, Arts Editor
February 26, 2016
Filed under ARTS, Literature & Poetry
Editor’s note: This article contains a racial slur. Spoken word poet Janae Johnson opened her performance Saturday at the Cat in the Cream with a “basketball poem.” She filled the room with empowering lines: “She’ll be picked last, but she’ll outshoot the entire team” and “He mad — ...
OSLAM Switches Focus with Love-Centric Slam
Max Van Cooper
February 19, 2016
Filed under ARTS, Literature & Poetry
The night before Valentine’s Day, the Cat in the Cream filled with excited OSLAM fans. The large audience spilled onto the floor; friends huddled in from the cold with coffee and cookies. OSLAM is best known for its gripping political and emotional poetry, but the group’s Feb. 13 performance focused...
WITS Poetry Residencies Expand
Louise Edwards, Arts Editor
December 4, 2015
Filed under ARTS, Features, Literature & Poetry, Recent Stories
Seventh-grader Leo Carter read his poem “Sequoia Trees” at the Langston Middle School poetry reading and book launch at the Cat in the Cream Monday. “So tall, it looks like they could / shishkabob the sky. So wide, / the shadow is like an eclipse / over the ground,” Carter read. His poem, part...