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The Oberlin Review
Established 1874.

The Oberlin Review
Established 1874.

The Oberlin Review
Roya Hakakian

Roya Hakakian: Jewish-Iranian poet, writer, and activist

Ava Miller, Senior Staff Writer
April 21, 2023

“Hell Portal”

Henry Pincus
April 21, 2023

“STOP Throwing Out Your Pomegranate Peels!”

Peter Fray-Witzer
April 14, 2023

“A Memory”

Loie Schiller
March 31, 2023

Oberlin Footpath

Jada-Leigh McGregor
February 24, 2023

An Opalescent Amalgamation

Sierra Jelks, OC '21
February 17, 2023
Man in Tidal Blue by Derrick Adams, 2017

Man in Tidal Blue

Chanda Feldman
February 10, 2023
Courtesy of Reggie Goudeau

College second-year Reggie Goudeau: The Musician

L. Joshua Jackson, Arts and Culture Editor
February 26, 2021
Courtesy of Vera Grace

College first-year Vera Grace Menafee: Writer, Musician, Actor, Activist

L. Joshua Jackson, Arts and Culture Editor
February 26, 2021
Courtesy of Jasmine Roberts

Black History Month Artist Spotlight

L. Joshua Jackson, Arts and Culture Editor
February 24, 2021
The Cat in the Cream was packed on Monday night, as middle schoolers, family members and Oberlin students gathered to hear Langston Middle School students read poetry from anthologies of their work. The subject matter ran the gamut, touching on times they felt powerful, people that are important to them, advice they don’t like to hear, and their relationships with their hometowns, among other sources of inspiration. This work came out of seven-day residencies in the middle school Language Arts classes, taught by college students through the Writers in the Schools Program. This program, directed by Visiting Assistant Professor in Creative Writing Lynn Powell, is the focus of her Teaching Imaginative Writing course. College students compiled the culminating anthologies of middle school poetry, will be on shelves at the school and the Oberlin Public Library. “I preach to my Oberlin students that to teach well you must prepare yourself as well as you can, and then go have an authentic conversation with your students,” Powell wrote in an email to the Review. “Staying curious and learning together is what keeps both teaching and poetry alive.” College third-year Elmo Tumbokon participated in the class last year, and taught again as a practicum this fall. “If you’ve heard the poems that eighth-graders read, it’s literally the most profound thing in the world,” said Tumbokon. “And [to help] kids have access to poetry over and over again, and all I have to do is volunteer my time. … It means the world to me.” Another student teacher, College fourth-year Jack McMillin, participated in WITS when he was a student at Langston Middle School. In his final year at the College, he’s come full circle with the program. “As a middle school student, the program was such a joy because it allowed me to think imaginatively in a school setting,” McMillin wrote in an email to the Review. “For me, it’s early chances like the poetry [residency] where I could play around and experiment with my voice that made writing a liberating world, and the more this expanded during my time at Oberlin, the more I wanted to pursue creative writing.”

Middle School Students Celebrate Poetic Accomplishments

Rachel Fang
December 6, 2019
Professor of Hispanic Studies Ana Cara, Amanda Dargan, and Steve Zeitlin.

Ana Cara, Professor of Hispanic Studies, Amanda Dargan, Steve Zeitlin, “In the Moment” Co-directors

Klara Jacobs and Kate Fishman
November 15, 2019
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