[ March 24, 2010; 5:00 PM; ] Use Spring Break to be productive! Apply for the English Department’s and Writing Programs’ Annual Writing Prizes and Fellowships .
The English Department and Writing Programs invite students to submit outstanding poetry, fiction, and prose for consideration for prizes. These prizes recognize exceptional student writing and also support summer projects and graduate study. Prize winners [...]
[ February 27, 2010; 2:00 PM; ]
Come celebrate Purim with the Bayit and Full House! We will be making, baking and eating hamentashen- a delicious Jewish sweet. Drop by the Bayit starting at 2 PM this Saturday. Fly solo, bring a friend, make a friend- it’ll be great!
Date: TOMORROW, February 27th
Time: 2 PM
Place: the Bayit (157 Church Street)
Celebrated author George Saunders will read from his work as Wesleyan’s Jacob Julien Visiting Writer TONIGHT at Memorial Chapel.
George Saunders is the author of six books, including the story collection In Persuasion Nation and the book of essays Braindead Megaphone. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, GQ, [...]
[ February 25, 2010; 7:00 PM; ] Ali San Roman ‘11, the House Manager of Full House writes in:
Interested in living in Full House but have some more questions? Want to see the house, talk with current residents and eat delicious food? Come to our potluck dinner on Thursday, February 25 at 7pm! Full House is located at 202 [...]
[ February 23, 2010; 7:30 PM; ] Are you interested in a legal career? Would you like to hear about public interest law while enjoying your own custom made sundae? Join the Wes Pre-Law Society and the CRC for an ice cream chat with two Wes alumni working in public interest law: Emilia Sicilia ‘95, of the Mental Health Project of the [...]
[ February 22, 2010; 9:00 PM; ]
House Lions, Wesleyan’s Poetry Podcast, is having its second recoding of the semester featuring:
Read their work. Each reading will be followed by a live interview.
Susanna Myrseth ‘10
Randyl Wilkerson ‘12
Leia Jane Zidel ‘12
Date: TONIGHT, February 22nd
Time: 9 PM
Place: The Shapiro Center, 3rd Floor of Albritton. Then [...]
[ February 19, 2010; 4:00 PM; ]
Seniors! Looking for a great job? Come learn about the Ford and Russell House Writing Fellowships at Friday’s information session! Anne Greene, Director of Writing Programs, will give a presentation. Current Fellows, Jessica Posner, Oriana Korol and Charlie Weiss, will be available to answer questions
Date: Friday, February 19th
Time: 4 PM
Place: The Shapiro Creative Writing Center Lounge
[ February 17, 2010; 8:00 PM; ] John Ashbery, The English Department’s 2010 Millett Writing Fellow, will give a reading on Wednesday, February 17th as part of the Writing at Wesleyan series.
JOHN ASHBERY’S recent collections include Planisphere (2009), Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems (2007), and a Library of America edition of Collected Poems 1956-1987. His second book, The Tennis [...]
[ February 13, 2010; 4:00 PM; ] This Saturday, Full House, the cooking house on campus, invites you and your special someone to dine with them. In honor of Valentine’s Day, we are bringing Wesleyan an opportunity to eat delicious food, listen to some amazing jazz tunes, and enjoy wonderful company. For $10, you and your date can enjoy choice of one [...]
House Lions, Wesleyan’s Poetry Podcast is having its first set of live recordings to be featured on the Blargus.
Hear 2011 poets:
Sarah Ashkin ‘11
Camara Awkward-Rich ‘11
Alana Perino ‘11
Read their work. Each reading will be followed by a live interview.
Date: Monday, February 8th
Time: 9 PM
Place: The Shapiro Center, 3rd Floor of Albritton. Then [...]
[ February 2, 2010; 3:00 PM; ] The Writing Workshop opens TOMORROW February 2nd.
Drop-in hours: Sunday–Thursday, 7–11 p.m.
Shapiro Center 306, and the Olin Info. Commons
Sunday 7-11 Downey 104 and SciLi 77
By appointment: Monday–Thursday, 7–11 p.m. SciLi 77 and
Monday–Thursday 1-4 p.m. in Shapiro 306
To sign up: Call x2440, or go to the Writing Workshop Link in [...]
[ February 3, 2010; 4:00 PM; ] The Let’s Get Ready Informational Session will be held this February 3rd at 4:15 in Usdan 108. VOLUNTEER ONE EVENING A WEEK WITH LET’S GET READY! From March 1 through April 28, 2010 on Monday or Wednesday Nights, 6:00- 8:30 PM
As a tutor, you’d be given a class of 5 high school juniors with whom [...]
[ February 3, 2010; 8:00 PM; ] Hilton Als, the English Department’s Distinguished Visiting Writer for 2009-2010, is the author of The Women, a meditation on gender, race, personal identity, and the biographical subject.
A staff writer at The New Yorker since 1996 and a recipient of the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, Als has also edited and contributed to numerous [...]
[ February 2, 2010; 4:00 PM; ] Feeling stressed? Need writing assistance? Apply for a writing mentor!
Provides one-on-one, regular tutoring services
Provides help whenever you are writing a paper
For more information check out the mentor website.
Fill out our online application by Tuesday, February 2nd
[ January 30, 2010; 10:30 PM; ] Barn Party at Farm House!
This Saturday night, dance until the cows come home at Farm House!
Date: Saturday, January 30th
Time: 10:30 PM – 2:00 AM
Place: Farm House- 344 Wash
[ January 28, 2010; 4:30 PM; January 31, 2010; 6:00 PM; ] Jess Posner ‘09 writes in about her power yoga offerings:
Looking for a kick ass workout? Want to get in touch with your spiritual side?
Gone is the myth that yoga is boring or that it’s simply stretching in a quiet room. A Power Yoga class combines heat, music, breath and movement for an [...]
The Journalist as Citizen, offered by the distinguished journalist Jane Eisner, Wesleyan’s first Koeppel Fellow in Journalism, will meet on Thursdays from 7-9:50 PM in PAC 421. Students may register online, the course is open to students from all four class years.
Course Description:
In this weekly writing seminar, we will explore how journalists exercise their [...]
[ December 14, 2009 1:00 AM to December 21, 2009 1:00 AM. ]
Looking for holiday gifts? Want to give a gift that actually makes a difference? Support the Kibera School for Girls with an alternative gift-giving holiday fundraiser! For a donation of just $20 you can send a student to school for a month, provide them with a daily meal, and give them school supplies. You will [...]
[ December 4, 2009; 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM. ] Come join the Wesleyan Friends of Africa for a fundraiser dinner with delicious food cooked by Full House. Professor Mike Nelson and Kennedy Odede will speak. There will also be dancing and music.
All proceeds will benefit The Kibera School for Girls.
Date: TONIGHT, Friday December 4th
Time: 7-9 PM
Place: Top floor of Albritton Center
Price: $5 suggested donation
WES PSA: The Writing Workshop will not be holding drop-in hours from Tuesday, November 24th to Saturday, November 28th. The Writing Workshop will reopen on Sunday, November 29th.
[ November 18, 2009; 8:00 PM; ] Renee Gladman is the author of numerous books, including Not Right Now, Juice, The Activist, A Picture Feeling, Newcomer Can’t Swim, and most recently, To After That (TOAF). Her investigations of genre, which have been called “spectacular instances of art,” are often concerned with the relationship between urban space and the experience of reading.
Gladman sees [...]
Have web design skills? Want to use them to make a difference?
Kennedy Odede ‘12 is looking for someone to help him make a really amazing website for the Kibera School for Girls, a girls school he started with Jessica Posner ‘09 in his hometown of Nairobi Kenya’s Kibera slum. If you’re interested please email [...]
[ November 12, 2009; 7:00 PM; ] Davy Knittle ‘11 will host a kinesthetic grammar workshop this Thursday.
Learn how to improve your command over grammar using action figures, basketballs and paper airplanes:
- tackle misplaced semicolons
- bound across comma splices in a single leap
- expand your control over grammatical usages to improve your writing.
The event is sponsored by the Writing Workshop.
Date: Thursday, November [...]
Jill Hunting will discuss writing memoir at Russell House tomorrow evening.
Jill Hunting is a writer, editor, and radio essayist. Her “Perspective” commentaries for San Francisco NPR-affiliate KQED are posted at her web site. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post Magazine, The Wine Journal, and The Los Angeles Times. She [...]
[ November 7, 2009; 12:00 PM; ] Here’s a quick link to Saturday’s Homecoming/ Family weekend schedule. Enjoy!
[ November 7, 2009; 11:00 AM; ] Hanna Ingber Win ‘03, international journalist, will lead a discussion about global news coverage and internet reporting this Saturday.
Hanna Ingber Win is currently World Editor of the Huffington Post. This fall she will move to Mumbai to work for GlobalPost as international editor and correspondent. Ingber Win has reported from Burma, Ethiopia, South [...]
[ November 7, 2009; 1:30 PM; ]
Love Amy Bloom? Then bring your parents to the reading this SATURDAY!
Amy Bloom’s recent novel Away, an epic story about a Russian immigrant, was a New York Time’s best seller. Her new book of short stories is forthcoming in January, 2010.
She is the author of five books of fiction and nonfiction and she has been [...]
[ November 5, 2009; 9:00 PM; ] Come join UCAB in eating a gigantic amount of ice cream, bring your friends, or just come for the dessert and not the socializing. There will be different flavors of ice cream to choose from. Including refreshments to wash down all that ice cream!
Date: Thursday, November 5th
Time: 9-11 PM
Place: Daniel Family Commons
[ November 6, 2009; 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM. ] Want to be in a “Sight and Sounds” Film? Then come to the multipurpose room in Usdan, this Friday for auditions for “The Perfect Girlfriend.” Shannon Sun-Higginson ‘10 writes in with details about the film:
Synopsis: A man finds a spray can that makes everything perfect, only to discover that his girlfriend has a dark [...]
[ November 6, 2009; 7:00 PM; ] This Friday come see “The Climate Project”, presented by Jeff Wolfe (P’11, P’12), CEO of groSolar.
The Climate Project (TCP) began in June 2006 as a commitment by former US Vice President Al Gore to train 1,000 Americans to become Presenters and to give the slideshow from his Academy Award-winning film “An Inconvenient Truth”. The Class [...]
Masthead: Don't you fucking change it! It's my favorite part of wesleying
MGMT @ Brown's Spring Fling: http://www.browndailyherald.com/snoop-dogg-mgmt-to-headline-spring-weekend-1.2186467
Joe Pesci: wassup
I would be so happy...: If they changed that stupid stupid banner.
wtf: who cares about the masthead
see page 125: http://www.roberts.cmc.edu/PSI/PDF/LiberalArtsColleges2010.pdf
