This Week in Photos: Tiny, but Mighty</h1> <article> <h1>This Week in Photos: Tiny, but Mighty</h1> <p>ygay — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 15:42:28 +0000</p> <span>This Week in Photos: Tiny, but Mighty</span> <span><span>ygay</span></span> <span><time datetime="2022-03-04T10:42:28-05:00" title="Friday, March 4, 2022 - 10:42">Fri, 03/04/2022 - 10:42</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><div class="obj-center"> <figure class="captioned-image"> <figcaption>Jake and Eliza Balmuth speak with their peers at the end of the concert. Photo credit: Yvonne Gay</figcaption> </figure> </div> <p>The <a href="/news/concerts-library" target="_blank">Tiny Ref Desk Concerts</a> are modeled after the popular <a href="https://www.npr.org/series/tiny-desk-concerts/" target="_blank">NPR Tiny Desk concert series</a>: 20-minute intimate performances in a noise-free environment. </p> <p><a href="/kathy-abromeit" target="_blank">Abromeit</a> launched �鶹��Ƶ’s rendition of the concerts in the fall of 2018. By December 2019, 10 guest performers, faculty, and students had taken the tiny concert stage, fulfilling what Abromeit had hoped: challenging the stereotypes of a library and bringing it to life. The last concert—given just before the height of the pandemic—was held in March 2020 by a group of women who performed suffrage songs as part of �鶹��Ƶ’s Women's Leadership and Suffrage programming.</p> <p>On March 1, after a small delay to allow for more guests to make their way to the conservatory library, Abromeit welcomed siblings Jake and Eliza Balmuth to the tiny stage. After the concert visitors were invited to a pop-up Women’s History Month exhibit in the Special Collections room. A woodwinds quintessence concert is scheduled for April 28. See more photos from the March concert on <a href="http://flic.kr/s/aHBqjzEdw9" target="_blank">�鶹��Ƶ's Flicker page</a>.</p> <p>Our tour continues with stops at <em>Olympus</em>, <em>The Puppy Episode</em>, a Festival of Ideas, Allen Mercy Hospital, and Dye Lecture Hall</p> <p> </p> <hr> <div class="obj-center"> <figure class="captioned-image"> <figcaption>In the premiere of <a href="https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjzEkBK" target="_blank"><em>Olympus</em></a> by Cyril Amanfo ’22, young people of color recognize their spiritual, mental, and emotional immortality—and in claiming their power, they discover their ability to heal themselves and others. Photo credit: John Seyfried</figcaption> </figure> </div> <div class="obj-center"> <figure class="captioned-image"> <figcaption>The Winter Term opera—<a href="https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjzE5YV" target="_blank"><em>The Puppy Episode</em></a>—was performed in Warner Concert Hall. The opera was based on the two-part episode of Ellen DeGeneres’ eponymous sitcom that aired in spring 1997. “The Puppy Episode” marked—in hilarious fashion—the long-rumored coming out of the program’s central character as well as the comedian who portrayed her. Photo credit: Yevhen Gulenko</figcaption> </figure> </div> <div class="obj-center"> <figure class="captioned-image"> <figcaption><br> The Festival of Ideas in the Science Center Commons celebrated <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/oberlin/collections/72157720412304151/" target="_blank">research and projects </a>performed by students during Winter Term. Students at this table demonstrate their “In or out” project—an automated tennis line calling system. Members in the project included Suvan Agarwal ’23, Ben Chermside ’25, Griffin O’Neal-Freeman ’24, Sydney Paunan ’25, and Katie Siegfried ’25. Photo credit: Courtesy of the Office of Communications</figcaption> </figure> </div> <div class="obj-center"> <figure class="captioned-image"> <figcaption><br> Award-winning author and �鶹��Ƶ College Writer-in-Residence Molly Antopol gave <a href="https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjzEtVv" target="_blank">a public reading</a> of her book, the UnAmericans, in Dye Lecture Hall. Antopol was joined on stage by Associate Professor of Creative Writing <a href="/emily-barton" target="_blank">Emily Barton</a> and Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies <a href="/sheera-talpaz" target="_blank">Sheera Talpaz</a> for a discussion and question and answer session. During her week-long residency, Antopol also workshopped with students in classes taught by Barton and Talpaz. Photo credit: Yvonne Gay</figcaption> </figure> </div> <div class="obj-center"> <figure class="captioned-image"> <figcaption>Jackie Brick ’24 stands next to the emergency entrance of the Allen Mercy Hospital in �鶹��Ƶ. Brick interned as an ER assistant at Mercy during Winter Term. Photo credit: Yvonne Gay</figcaption> </figure> </div> <p> </p> <p><em>This Week in Photos is a selection of images and is not meant to represent a weekly timeline. Images highlight campus, community, people, and events related to �鶹��Ƶ College.</em></p> <p> </p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">Campus News</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2022-03-04T12:00:00Z">Fri, 03/04/2022 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Yvonne Gay</div> <div class="text-content field field--name-field-intro-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>After a five minute delay to the start of the program, Public Services Librarian Kathleen Abromeit inches her way to the back of the conservatory library, then pauses. “Should we give it another five minutes,” she asks, looking around the room. She’s excited. After a two-year hiatus Abromeit will announce the library’s first Tiny Ref Desk Concert. The program’s return also serves as inspiration for this week’s photo series.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2379">Student Life</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2402">Winter Term</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2546">Photo Feature</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=3450">Conservatory Library</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-programs field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25326">Creative Writing</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25386">Jewish Studies</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=32971">Opera Theater</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-faculty field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/emily-barton" hreflang="und">Emily Barton</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-departments field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/creative-writing" hreflang="und">Creative Writing</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/jewish-studies" hreflang="und">Jewish Studies</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/conservatory/divisions/strings" hreflang="und">Strings</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-caption field--type-string-long field--label-hidden field__item">Third-year students Jake and Eliza Balmuth perform on violin and guitar in the conservatory library.</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-pin-school-page field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">Off</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-photo-gallery-top field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">false</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-credit field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Yvonne Gay</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Creative Writing Program Founder Stuart Friebert Dies</h1> <p>hhempste — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 21:39:52 +0000</p> <span>Creative Writing Program Founder Stuart Friebert Dies</span> <span><span>hhempste</span></span> <span><time datetime="2020-07-01T17:39:52-04:00" title="Wednesday, July 1, 2020 - 17:39">Wed, 07/01/2020 - 17:39</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Stuart Friebert, poet, translator, emeritus professor, and founder of the �鶹��Ƶ College Creative Writing Program, died on June 23, 2020.<br> <br> Friebert began his �鶹��Ƶ College career in 1961, first teaching German. In 1975, he founded �鶹��Ƶ’s <a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/creative-writing">Creative Writing Program</a>, which he directed until his retirement in 1997. Friebert also co-founded the poetry periodical <a href="https://www2.oberlin.edu/ocpress/field.html"><em>FIELD</em></a>, the FIELD Translation Series, and <a href="https://www2.oberlin.edu/ocpress/default.html" target="_blank">�鶹��Ƶ College Press</a>. During his career, he published 15 books of poems, 16 volumes of translations, and four books of prose. </p> <p>A celebration of life in honor of Friebert will happen Saturday, June 28, 2025, from 1 to 4:30 p.m. at �鶹��Ƶ Community Services (500 East Lorain Street in �鶹��Ƶ). All are welcome, food will be served, no RSVP is necessary, and guests are encouraged to bring memories to share. Photos may be shared in advance with daughter Sarah Friebert at <a href="mailto:sfriebert@akronchildrens.org?subject=Stuart%20Friebert%20celebration%20of%20life">sfriebert@akronchildrens.org</a>.</p> <p>Read Friebert’s obituary in the <em><a href="https://chroniclet.com/news/217015/stuart-friebert/">Chronicle-Telegram</a></em>. </p> <hr> <p><em>This story was updated April 25, 2025, to included information about the memorial celebration.</em></p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-subhead field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">The prolific poet, translator, and emeritus professor began his �鶹��Ƶ career teaching German.</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">Campus News</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2020-07-01T12:00:00Z">Wed, 07/01/2020 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Communications Staff</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2414">Faculty</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2544">In Memoriam</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-programs field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25326">Creative Writing</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-departments field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/creative-writing" hreflang="und">Creative Writing</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-caption field--type-string-long field--label-hidden field__item">The exterior of Peters Hall.</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-pin-school-page field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">Off</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-photo-gallery-top field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">false</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-credit field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Matthew Lester</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Teaching in the New Normal: The Practice of Writing with Emily Barton</h1> <p>hhempste — Tue, 26 May 2020 18:12:36 +0000</p> <span>Teaching in the New Normal: The Practice of Writing with Emily Barton</span> <span><span>hhempste</span></span> <span><time datetime="2020-05-26T14:12:36-04:00" title="Tuesday, May 26, 2020 - 14:12">Tue, 05/26/2020 - 14:12</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><a href="/emily-barton">Emily Barton</a>, assistant professor of <a href="/creative-writing">creative writing</a>, describes how students in her course, The Practice of Writing, successfully completed a demanding schedule of assignments even through upheaval and the move to online learning. Originally, the class final project was to be a physical book they made to house each students’ favorite piece, but with students in different locations this plan had to be rethought. Barton shares their process of creating, instead, a <a href="https://scalar.oberlincollegelibrary.org/the-practice-of-writing/index">digital anthology</a> that will live online indefinitely in the libraries’ digital archives.</p> <hr> <p>From Barton:</p> <p>The creative writing course The Practice of Writing (CRWR 195) has a simple but rigorous premise. Each week, students read two texts that approach a topic or element of craft from different perspectives. They then write five short pieces in response to prompts, engaging with and springing off from those source texts. Later in the week, they break into small-group workshops to discuss their responses.</p> <p>In any semester, writing 45 such pieces to deadline would be an accomplishment—each student had a full course load, with other classes demanding time and attention, as well as jobs, extracurriculars, and the demands of everyday life. But spring 2020 offered new challenges when we made the unprecedented mid-semester pivot to online learning. Suddenly, some students who had formerly dragged themselves out of bed for a 9:30 a.m. class were calling in from the West Coast at 6:30 a.m. For a student who had gone home to Singapore, our class started meeting at night. Working from home, often with little privacy and without their peers’ fellowship to sustain them, these students still managed to read, write their own work, and read each other’s stories with support, care, and keen eyes. I was grateful for the students’ continued commitment to each other and the work of the class and delighted to see that we could transfer our working community online.</p> <p>One challenge remained, however. Our plan at the semester’s beginning had been to hand-produce a chapbook of student work as a collaborative final project. One student volunteered to design a cover, and another offered to do the layout. We were ready to photocopy, bone fold, saddle staple, and distribute. But when we scattered to the far corners of the globe, we had to rethink this plan. Thanks to Megan Mitchell, academic engagement and digital initiatives coordinator for the <a href="https://libraries.oberlin.edu">�鶹��Ƶ College Libraries</a>, we were able to make a digital version of our chapbook, which is now housed in the libraries’ digital archives.</p> <p>We invite members of our community to enjoy this anthology, which the students have titled <a href="https://scalar.oberlincollegelibrary.org/the-practice-of-writing/index"><em>I Have Not Adhered to the Honor Code on This Assignment</em></a>. In it, you’ll find one short piece of writing from each student in the class. The pieces represent diverse styles, subjects, and points of view.</p> <p>As much as we would have loved to give each of you a handmade zine, we are glad to have been able to produce this work, even given these extraordinary circumstances.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">Campus News</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2020-05-25T12:00:00Z">Mon, 05/25/2020 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Communications Staff</div> <div class="text-content field field--name-field-intro-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>These days, the classroom has taken on new meaning for both faculty and students at �鶹��Ƶ. In this series we are sharing stories from faculty on how they are navigating this new normal. Please share an <a href="mailto:communic@oberlin.edu">example or anecdote</a> that addresses one of these areas.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2410">Students</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2384">Libraries</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-programs field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25326">Creative Writing</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-faculty field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/emily-barton" hreflang="und">Emily Barton</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-departments field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/creative-writing" hreflang="und">Creative Writing</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-caption field--type-string-long field--label-hidden field__item">Students created a digital anthology that will live online indefinitely in the libraries' archives.</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-pin-school-page field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">Off</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-photo-gallery-top field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">false</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-flex-content field--type-entity-reference-revisions field--label-hidden vertical-spacing--basic field__items"> <div class="field__item"> <div class="field field--name-field-bio-card-el-biography field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> <div class="biography-card"> <figure> </figure> <div class="biography-card__content"> <h2><span>Emily Barton</span> </h2> <ul class="item-list list--clean" style="margin-top: 0px;"> <li class="professional-title">Associate Professor of Creative Writing</li> <li class="professional-title">Chair of Creative Writing</li> </ul> <a class="view-more" href="/emily-barton">View Emily Barton’s biography</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Creative Writing Program 2020 Poetry Competition Winners</h1> <p>hhempste — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 22:05:44 +0000</p> <span>Creative Writing Program 2020 Poetry Competition Winners</span> <span><span>hhempste</span></span> <span><time datetime="2020-04-28T18:05:44-04:00" title="Tuesday, April 28, 2020 - 18:05">Tue, 04/28/2020 - 18:05</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Each spring, �鶹��Ƶ students are celebrated for their writing through the <a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/creative-writing">Creative Writing Program’s</a> annual poetry competition. This year, four students were honored: fourth-year Sheng Kao; fourth-year Molly Bryson; third-year Sierra Jelks; and third-year Olivia Guerriero. Watch a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=995428707520533">recording of their readings</a> <span aria-hidden="true" class="fa fa-external-link"></span>, or read the full text of their works below. </p> <hr> <p><br> <strong>Emma Howell Memorial Poetry Prize</strong></p> <figure class="captioned-image obj-right"> <figcaption>Molly Bryson received an Emma Howell Memorial Poetry Prize Honorable Mention </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="captioned-image obj-right"> <figcaption>Sheng Kao, Emma Howell Memorial Poetry Prize recipient</figcaption> </figure> <p><strong>Winner</strong>: Sheng Kao is a fourth-year biology major from Virginia. </p> <p><br> <strong>Honorable Mention</strong>: Molly Bryson is a fourth-year creative writing and art history double major from Chicago. </p> <p>“Guest”<br> By Sheng Kao </p> <p>Girls in school uniforms apply lipstick at the café. Sometimes talk becomes birdsong. I’m red with envy, though no one can tell. Muscle memory of our mouths. How do you hold an apple?</p> <p>Like this. Flesh soft on the palate, a prayer. It’s raining at the temple but we sit with the gods anyway. I’m silent as a stray cat, strange skin, all ear-twitch and hopeless eyes. I can’t speak for want of pity. I can’t speak for fear of ghosts listening in.</p> <p>They dance, spirits, in the lush dark, the lush gleam of cities that were once rice paddy. An ecosystem of unnamed bodies. Our species consisting of daylight limning fog, droplets suspended. A beautiful girl I could pass my hand through. My tongue swollen apple. I walk like light and talk like air. A guest is defined by their inevitable departure.</p> <p>Ode to jetlag: the light pooling in all my joints and refusing to leave. I’m waking up in water. You can’t cross an ocean without getting clean.<br> </p> <hr> <figure class="captioned-image obj-right"> <figcaption>Sierra Jelks, Battrick Fellowship Prize recipient</figcaption> </figure> <p><br> <strong>Battrick Fellowship Prize</strong></p> <p><strong>Winner</strong>: Sierra Jelks is a third-year art history major from Denver, Colorado.</p> <p>“Surviving by the Brine”<br> By Sierra Jelks </p> <p>“We survive here by the brine of our brutish blood”–Xandria Phillips </p> <p>I.</p> <p>I’m from a brutish people—hustlers, robbers, murderers--<br> <em>If we’d kill each other what makes you think we won’t kill you?</em><br> Regardless of fleeing East, West, or North, quick deaths find us.</p> <p>I’m from a gilded people—a singular dazzling incisor or canine.<br> <em>Ladies love the gold tooth!</em><br> A flashy fang is the exceptional similarity between paternal and maternal branches.</p> <p>I’m from an ironic people—generations earlier we sprinted from the plantation--<br> <em>Maybe it’s painful, people don’t like remembering painful things.</em><br> Now we doggedly run back, tracing seeds to find roots,<br> holding tight to names that don’t belong to us.</p> <p>I’m from crafty people—corn husk dolls, frayed fabric quilts, grass baskets.<br> <em>Don’t nobody today know how to sew…</em><br> We weave narratives out of mere glimpses.</p> <p>I’m from a ravenous people—we are connoisseurs of crumbs,<br> Survived centuries by devouring scraps:<br> When the salt pork was finished, we’d eat the brine.</p> <p>II.</p> <p>We’re a quilt, one fraying at the ends--<br> Threatening to unravel patch by patch.<br> The story is pieced together, rearranged and sewn.</p> <p>When I found you it wasn’t on another continent--<br> It wasn’t Alex Haley-ian joy, dancing as the puzzle pieces fit together.<br> I found you in a crime, a side hustle, and a memory.</p> <p>I found something that wasn’t simply a census, a draft record,<br> a one line directory entry.<br> No--I found something with weight.</p> <p>I wonder if Patrolman Schroeder’s descendants have found<br> Him on the very same front page.<br> Their grandfather the raceless hero--<br> My grandfather the Negro hustler.</p> <p>Let’s treat this moment as if it is crucial.<br> We know it isn’t, but let’s act as if it is:</p> <p style="margin-left: 40px;"><br> ● A bottle of whiskey and $12.10 stuffed in an empty talcum box.<br> Shiny coins contaminated and dulled by the white powder.<br> $12.10 in 1916 is worth damn near $300 today.<br> ● The excuse (or is it the truth?): A fishing trip.<br> My father, your great-grandson adores fishing.<br> If the last name and the location weren’t enough, I take this tidbit as proof I come from you.<br> ● Patrolman Schroeder, in his whiteness, was rendered raceless.<br> It was world of Black—no—Negro porters and raceless Patrolman.<br> A world of brown skin and in its absence, a consuming nothingness.</p> <p>Let me tell you that nothing about this comes as a shock or a shame.<br> I knew the state of your descendants before I knew you.</p> <p>They fled Louisiana with their pinched up cheek-bones,<br> and landed in the slums of Southern California.<br> Their sigil became a single gold tooth.</p> <p>And like you they ran into the police.<br> One killed during a robbery, she was the robber.<br> Like you, they found their paths blocked by steel bars<br> Or they live brief, violent lives.<br> </p> <hr> <p><br> <strong>Lucy Pope Wheeler Prize</strong></p> <p><strong>Winner</strong>: Olivia Guerriero is a third-year creative writing and dance double major from New Hampshire. </p> <p>“Date”<br> By Olivia Guerriero </p> <figure class="captioned-image obj-right"> <figcaption>Olivia Guerriero, Lucy Pope Wheeler Prize recipient</figcaption> </figure> <p>As I pick and shred and tear the hangnail<br> under the table so he won’t see, I think<br> that he must clip stray skin and hair clean<br> of his body with silver blades,<br> doesn’t pop pimples or blisters,<br> rubs bug bites with antihistamine cream<br> instead of scratching them til the red welts bleed.<br> I bet he flosses between his teeth every night<br> before brushing, then swishes mouthwash, too. I bet<br> he washes his dishes right after using them<br> and dries them and puts them away<br> and each dish has a place. He would never<br> put glasses in the cabinet with the plates,<br> never let a spoon and a knife<br> bed together in the drawer.<br> I bet he would cut my hangnail for me.<br> Sit me on the bathroom counter,<br> wash the blood from my cuticle<br> with an antiseptic wipe<br> (he has a whole box under the sink)<br> and cut the string of skin at its root.<br> Flush it down the toilet.<br> Bring my hand to his mouth and lick<br> my raw thumb<br> with his clean pink tongue.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">Campus News</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2020-04-29T12:00:00Z">Wed, 04/29/2020 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Communications Staff</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2410">Students</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2373">Awards and Honors</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-programs field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25326">Creative Writing</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-departments field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/creative-writing" hreflang="und">Creative Writing</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-caption field--type-string-long field--label-hidden field__item">Peters Hall</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-pin-school-page field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">Off</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-photo-gallery-top field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">false</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-credit field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Janine Bentivegna</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Teaching in the New Normal: 18+ Ways of Looking at Mt. Fuji</h1> <p>hhempste — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 14:59:52 +0000</p> <span>Teaching in the New Normal: 18+ Ways of Looking at Mt. Fuji</span> <span><span>hhempste</span></span> <span><time datetime="2020-04-28T10:59:52-04:00" title="Tuesday, April 28, 2020 - 10:59">Tue, 04/28/2020 - 10:59</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><a href="/lynn-powell">Lynn Powell</a>, director of <a href="/news/writers-schools-program-cutting-edge-poetry-instruction">�鶹��Ƶ Writers in the Schools</a> (WITS) and visiting assistant professor in creative writing, describes how her class worked with the <a href="https://amam.oberlin.edu/">Allen Memorial Art Museum’s</a> Office of Academic Programs to remotely view Japanese woodblock prints as a companion activity to reading several poems. Powell shares that a surprising benefit of digital presentation of images is the ability to look at artwork much closer than during an in-person viewing. The resulting class discussion was so meaningful that the students wrote haiku inspired by the art.</p> <p>From Powell:</p> <p>About a quarter of the time, my creative writing class Word & Image: Poetry in Dialogue with Visual Art meets in the Allen Memorial Art Museum (AMAM). We spend class sessions in the galleries, and also in the Print Study Room with works I have requested that are not currently on view. The visit I most look forward to is the session we spend looking closely at woodblock prints by the Japanese masters Hiroshige and Hokusai. We always prepare for this visit by reading a range of poems—including Etheridge Knight’s haiku sequence about prison life and Wallace Stevens’ “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”—that illustrate how poets can explore a subject from multiple points of view. At the museum, we examine how artists use similar strategies. When we enter the Print Study Room, we’re met with more than a dozen gorgeous Mt. Fujis, from the famous, looming “Red Fuji,” to views where the distant mountain shrinks beneath a cherry blossom, is glimpsed through a barrel rolled by a workman, or is dwarfed by a foreground kite. </p> <p>So how, I wondered, could we capture the magic of those prints without being in their presence? The answer was to work collaboratively with Hannah Kinney and Emma Laube ’17 of the museum’s Office of Academic Programs, along with Kevin Greenwood, the Joan L. Danforth Curator of Asian Art, to create an online experience that was remarkable in its own ways. Hannah and Emma produced a Prezi document of high-definition images of the prints for me to share with my students. During our online class discussion, Kevin provided salient cultural context and deftly guided us through a close look at those artworks.</p> <p>But something special happened that couldn’t have happened in the Print Study Room: Kevin was able to zoom in on exquisite and illuminating details we might not have noticed on our own, and all 20 of us—Kevin, the 18 students, and myself—had equally perfect, front-row views of every detail. Our close engagement sparked such lively and meaningful discussion that at the end of class I invited the students to create haiku in response to one or more of the prints. During the next few days, as they added their haiku to a Google doc, a poetic sequence emerged that feels as vivid and communal as our experience of looking and talking together about art. <br> <br> You can <a href="https://vimeo.com/411031264/34a5e18a3a">watch the class give a reading</a> of the collaborative poem or read the haiku sequence, below, and see the print at the AMAM that inspired it. </p> <hr> <p>See an image of each of these works by clicking on the title.</p> <p>Tree peers over ledge<br> watching boats float towards Fuji —<br> trio doesn’t heed.</p> <p>(after <a href="https://allenartcollection.oberlin.edu/objects/6202"><em>View of Konodai, no. 95</em></a>, Hiroshige)</p> <p>Do the waves wish they <br> were mountains, or do they want<br> to become the clouds?</p> <p>(after <a href="https://allenartcollection.oberlin.edu/objects/5229"><em>Fuji between High Waves</em></a>, Hiroshige)</p> <p>— Kierra Nguyen</p> <p> *</p> <p>Mountain rises, floats<br> on yellow clouds, sun-lit sky.<br> Shoppers carry on. </p> <p>(after <a href="https://allenartcollection.oberlin.edu/objects/12614"><em>Fuji from Surugacho</em></a>, no. 8, Hiroshige) </p> <p>— Anna Kozler</p> <p> *</p> <p>Blossoms frame the light<br> The sleepless river flows towards— <br> and away from you</p> <p>(after <em><a href="https://allenartcollection.oberlin.edu/objects/14317">Cherry Blossoms at Koganei in Musashi Province</a></em>, no. 12, Hiroshige)</p> <p>— Evan Lindberg</p> <p> *</p> <p>In the shadow of <br> bleak peaks, a valley blooming <br> with life’s rich color.</p> <p>(after <em><a href="https://allenartcollection.oberlin.edu/objects/6068">Autumn Flowers on the Otsuki Plain in Kai Province</a></em>, number 31, Hiroshige)</p> <p>— Alfie Parr </p> <p> *</p> <p>Spying on heaven<br> through an old cherry tree’s eye—<br> will it know my gaze?</p> <p>(after <a href="https://allenartcollection.oberlin.edu/objects/14317"><em>Cherry Blossoms at Koganei in Musashi Province</em></a>, no. 12, Hiroshige)</p> <p>Ruddy mountain waits<br> for evergreen to encroach,<br> patient and willing.</p> <p>(after <em><a href="https://allenartcollection.oberlin.edu/objects/15017">Fuji in Clear Weather [Red Fuji]</a></em>, Hokusai)</p> <p>— Jen Gallagher</p> <p> *</p> <p>A beautiful kite<br> soaring higher than Fuji—<br> maybe it’s grander.</p> <p>What way does the wind blow here?<br> Cloud fingers reach up and out.<br> Grip tight, lay-men work.</p> <p>All distinct until<br> ocean skies meet snow cap tops,<br> a beautiful blend. </p> <p>(after <a href="https://allenartcollection.oberlin.edu/objects/1730"><em>Fuji from the Roof of Hongan Temple</em></a>, Hiroshige)</p> <p>— Kaitlyn Rivers </p> <p> *</p> <p>A lone turtle hung<br> in isolation heeds the<br> holy missed vistas. </p> <p>(after <a href="https://allenartcollection.oberlin.edu/objects/3805"><em>Turtle Dangling from the Pole of a Vendor’s Tub on Mannen Bridge in Fukagawa</em></a>, Hiroshige)</p> <p>— Fudi Fickenscher</p> <p> *</p> <p>Big fish, you are here. <br> Through your immaculate blue <br> eye - see your sea seep.</p> <p>(after <a href="https://allenartcollection.oberlin.edu/objects/6942"><em>Uidō Bridge and Surugadai</em></a>, no. 63, Hiroshige)</p> <p>— Elia Tzoukermann</p> <p> *</p> <p>Men crawling like ants<br> camouflaged on the sloped roof.<br> Behind them: a kite. </p> <p>(after <a href="https://allenartcollection.oberlin.edu/objects/1730"><em>Fuji from the Roof of Hongan Temple</em></a>, Hiroshige)</p> <p>— Diana Montero </p> <p> *</p> <p>Mountain, drift over<br> to mourning that has no lease.<br> Wee townsfolk meet blue.</p> <p>(after <a href="https://allenartcollection.oberlin.edu/objects/14743"><em>Dawn at Izawa in Kai Province</em></a>, Hokusai)</p> <p>— Ariana Hughes</p> <p> *</p> <p>Look! I am flying<br> high above the red blaze sky, <br> the white-capped ant hill.</p> <p>(after <em><a href="https://allenartcollection.oberlin.edu/objects/3805">Turtle Dangling from the Pole of a Vendor’s Tub on Mannen Bridge in Fukagawa</a></em>, Hiroshige)</p> <p>— Molly Bryson </p> <p> *</p> <p>Crystal clear expanse –<br> Elevate upon two peaks –<br> A moment of breath</p> <p>(after <a href="https://allenartcollection.oberlin.edu/objects/1730"><em>Fuji from the Roof of Hongan Temple</em></a>, Hiroshige)</p> <p>— Anna Scott</p> <p> *</p> <p>Throng of faceless men, <br> backs turned to the darkest blue, <br> find her eye again. </p> <p>(after <a href="https://allenartcollection.oberlin.edu/objects/4970"><em>Fuji from the Ford on the Oi River at Kanaya on the Tōkaidō</em></a>, Hokusai)</p> <p>This your canary <br> light that folds like fine fabric. <br> Mark her gaze of lonely ice. </p> <p>(after <a href="https://allenartcollection.oberlin.edu/objects/12614"><em>Fuji from Surugacho</em></a>, no. 8, Hiroshige) </p> <p>— Maeve Woltring </p> <p> *</p> <p>The sky lays weary. <br> Heavy head meets sunken shoulder,<br> cradled by easing wake.</p> <p>(after <a href="https://allenartcollection.oberlin.edu/objects/16472"><em>Sunset over Ryogoku Bridge</em></a>, Hokusai)</p> <p> — Toby Cochran</p> <p> *</p> <p>Briny arms of waves<br> raise holy sea-foam fractals<br> to birds’ blood-red sky.</p> <p>(after <a href="https://allenartcollection.oberlin.edu/objects/6623"><em>Waves off the Satta Pass in Saruga Province</em></a>, no. 23, Hiroshige)</p> <p>— Claire Jenisch</p> <p> *</p> <p>You hide your greatness<br> through the eye of a needle<br> threaded by water. </p> <p>(after <a href="https://allenartcollection.oberlin.edu/objects/14317"><em>Cherry Blossoms at Koganei in Musashi Province</em></a>, no. 12, Hiroshige)</p> <p>Unfurled before you,<br> sapphire-cerulean hue.<br> Reverence in blue.</p> <p>(after <a href="https://allenartcollection.oberlin.edu/objects/1730"><em>Fuji from the Roof of Hongan Temple</em></a>, Hiroshige)</p> <p>Is your wind the same<br> as that which crashes the waves<br> lapping below you?</p> <p>(after <a href="https://allenartcollection.oberlin.edu/objects/5229"><em>Fuji between High Waves from Shichiri Beach in Sagami Province</em></a>, Hiroshige)</p> <p>— Maya Rose Bater</p> <p> *</p> <p>My arms unanchored,<br> my shell betrays me, as it<br> ties me up, not down.</p> <p>(after <a href="https://allenartcollection.oberlin.edu/objects/3805"><em>Turtle Dangling from the Pole of a Vendor’s Tub on Mannen Bridge in Fukagawa</em></a>, Hiroshige)</p> <p>— Xander Lee</p> <p> *</p> <p>A reclining arch, <br> fish scale walls, morning sunshine.<br> Reach out and touch it.</p> <p>(after <em><a href="https://allenartcollection.oberlin.edu/objects/3805">Turtle Dangling from the Pole of a Vendor’s Tub on Mannen Bridge in Fukagawa</a></em>, Hiroshige)</p> <p>— Cyrus Thelin</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">Campus News</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2020-04-28T12:00:00Z">Tue, 04/28/2020 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Communications Staff</div> <div class="text-content field field--name-field-intro-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>These days, the classroom has taken on new meaning for both faculty and students at �鶹��Ƶ. In this series we are sharing stories from faculty on how they are navigating this new normal. How have you adapted instruction to a remote learning environment? How have students shifted how they learn and participate? What’s changed, what’s stayed the same, or what has come as a pleasant surprise? Please <a href="mailto:communic@oberlin.edu">share an example or anecdote</a> that addresses one of these areas.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2378">Allen Memorial Art Museum</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2377">Arts & Humanities</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2583">College of Arts and Sciences</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-programs field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25326">Creative Writing</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-departments field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/creative-writing" hreflang="und">Creative Writing</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-caption field--type-string-long field--label-hidden field__item">Professor Lynn Powell's class reads haiku inspired by art in the Allen Memorial Art Museum's collection.</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-pin-school-page field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">Off</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-photo-gallery-top field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">false</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-credit field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Courtesy of Lynn Powell</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-flex-content field--type-entity-reference-revisions field--label-hidden vertical-spacing--basic field__items"> <div class="field__item"> <div id class="o-flex--video-embed"> <div class="video-embed-field-provider-vimeo video-embed-field-responsive-video"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Winter Term in �鶹��Ƶ: 2020</h1> <p>ygay — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 15:35:06 +0000</p> <span>Winter Term in �鶹��Ƶ: 2020</span> <span><span>ygay</span></span> <span><time datetime="2020-02-24T10:35:06-05:00" title="Monday, February 24, 2020 - 10:35">Mon, 02/24/2020 - 10:35</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">Campus News</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2020-02-24T12:00:00Z">Mon, 02/24/2020 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Yvonne Gay</div> <div class="text-content field field--name-field-intro-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p><a class="view-more" href="https://photo-stories.oberlin.edu/winter-term-in-oberlin/">Browse Winter Term in �鶹��Ƶ: 2020</a></p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2356">Conservatory</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2413">Social Sciences</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2378">Allen Memorial Art Museum</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-programs field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25346">English</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=33031">TIMARA</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25411">Physics</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25326">Creative Writing</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25456">Russian</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a 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href="/conservatory/divisions/winds-brass-and-percussion" hreflang="und">Winds, Brass, and Percussion</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/conservatory/divisions/vocal-studies" hreflang="und">Vocal Studies</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/dance" hreflang="und">Dance</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/history" hreflang="und">History</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/russian" hreflang="und">Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/creative-writing" hreflang="und">Creative Writing</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/physics-and-astronomy" hreflang="und">Physics and Astronomy</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/art" hreflang="und">Studio Art</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/english" hreflang="und">English</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/conservatory/divisions/contemporary-music" hreflang="und">Contemporary Music</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/latin-american-studies" hreflang="und">Latin American Studies</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-caption field--type-string-long field--label-hidden field__item">Students in the Practicum in Exhibit Design project work on a community-informed exhibit of Alaska Native cultural objects that will be displayed in the Mary Church Terrell Library in the spring.</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-pin-school-page field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">Off</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-photo-gallery-top field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">false</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-credit field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Yvonne Gay</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Suzanne Overstreet Discusses Debut Novel</h1> <p>anagy — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 18:18:55 +0000</p> <span>Suzanne Overstreet Discusses Debut Novel</span> <span><span>anagy</span></span> <span><time datetime="2016-11-07T13:18:55-05:00" title="Monday, November 7, 2016 - 13:18">Mon, 11/07/2016 - 13:18</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>As the creative writing program coordinator, Suzanne Sanders Overstreet has been the backbone to the program’s faculty and students for 14 of her 28 years as an �鶹��Ƶ employee. Now, she’s a published novelist.</p> <p>Overstreet’s book, <em>Wait for Me</em> (eLectio Publishing), was released August 16. The work is a historical fiction based on true family events and the letters her father wrote to her mother while he was deployed in the army during WWII.</p> <p>In July 1942, Dorothy Carlin says goodbye to her boyfriend Clyde Justin as he leaves for boot camp. Through a twist of fate, she meets Duane Sanders. Duane’s family has been through many challenges and hardships during their lifetime, but somehow they always manage to look forward without bitterness. The country at the time is immersed in the war and doing their part to defeat the enemies and bring home their sons and daughters.</p> <p>“The book is about core family values and a family that went through several hardships—some of which I didn’t know about, my relatives didn’t know about either, or weren’t fully aware. It was very emotional for me to find out the actual truth,” Overstreet explains.</p> <p>Her family is rooted in Lorain County. Her mother, a long-time �鶹��Ƶ College employee, was originally from Elyria and moved to �鶹��Ƶ in the eighth grade. Her father was born in LaGrange and moved to �鶹��Ƶ when he was a very young boy. Both of her parents graduated from �鶹��Ƶ High School, as did the other major character in the book, her father’s best friend Clyde Justin. Overstreet also was raised in �鶹��Ƶ and graduated from OHS in 1974.</p> <p>In addition to her full-time job, she and her husband manage a grain farm in Grafton. She has seven children ranging in age from 37 to 19.</p> <p>She says the initial idea for the book started when her father died about 17 years ago, and her youngest son was just a toddler. “It concerned me that he would not remember his grandfather. So I started thinking that I should put down in writing some of the stories he told. That simmered for a while, then I learned that my mother kept some of the letters my father wrote to her during WWII. After reading those, I decided I wanted to write a story based off of that.”</p> <p>As the book’s title suggests, Duane Sanders asks her mother to wait for him during the three-plus years he was stationed around the world: first in Iran, transporting supplies for the allies, then in Germany and France, and finally in Okinawa at the war’s end.</p> <p>“Reading those letters, I could feel my father’s emotions about how much he missed home, how he would appreciate simple things like eating on a regular plate and not out of a can. It was helpful to be reminded how fortunate we are. We have FaceTime and new technology, but they had to wait for the letters. Sometimes I think we take that for granted.”</p> <p>The book took about 4 ½ years to complete. “People tell me that’s an acceptable amount of time to do a book, but for me it felt like I was never going to complete it,” Overstreet says. “One of my biggest difficulties was carving out the time to work on it. I felt frustrated when I wanted to move forward with the project and really couldn’t. Then, there were surprising times when I thought I wouldn’t have time, and it turned into a block of hours that went well and I would get a lot done.”</p> <p>In 2007, Overstreet took advantage of her employee benefits by enrolling in some creative writing courses to further develop her craft. When the time was right, she shared her completed manuscript with �鶹��Ƶ creative writing faculty Sylvia Watanabe and Lynn Powell, as well as Azita Osanloo, a former visiting assistant professor, for editing and advice.</p> <p>Upon reading the manuscript, Powell says she discovered that Overstreet had devoted herself to a labor of love.</p> <p>“It's always exciting to get to read what a colleague has been writing in those hours you don't see them,” Powell says. “Suzanne had to do the work of a nonfiction writer by researching and piecing together the unspoken and forgotten history of her family; she had to do the work of a fiction writer by recreating that story as if it were happening right before our eyes. I'm thrilled that Suzanne's moving story is now, beautifully produced, in our hands.”</p> <p>Overstreet says she wrote the book mostly as a tribute to her parents, but as she started writing the story it became apparent that the book would also memorialize her father’s friend Clyde Justin. She hopes readers come away with a sense of resilience that was particular to a bygone era. “You find out when you look back into history, specifically this story… they may have had issues to deal with and difficult challenges to get through, but they didn’t run away; they didn’t use alcohol, they didn’t do other things to cope. They worked through it, they made the best of it, and they progressed forward.”</p> <p>Overstreet will read passages from the book during a <a href="https://calendar.oberlin.edu/event/fiction_reading_by_suzanne_sanders_overstreet?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=widget&utm_source=�鶹��Ƶ+College#.V9b8KGPVT0E">launch party</a> at 4 p.m. Saturday, September 24, at Mindfair Books.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">Campus News</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2016-09-20T12:00:00Z">Tue, 09/20/2016 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Amanda Nagy</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2551">Staff</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-programs field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25326">Creative Writing</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-departments field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/creative-writing" hreflang="und">Creative Writing</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-caption field--type-string-long field--label-hidden field__item">Suzanne Overstreet sits in the space where she did most of her writing, which used to be a playhouse for her kids.</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-pin-school-page field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">Off</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-photo-gallery-top field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">false</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-credit field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Jennifer Manna</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> <article> <h1>AMAM Seeks Poems Inspired by Museum Art</h1> <p>Anonymous — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 18:20:09 +0000</p> <span>AMAM Seeks Poems Inspired by Museum Art</span> <span><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span><time datetime="2016-11-07T13:20:09-05:00" title="Monday, November 7, 2016 - 13:20">Mon, 11/07/2016 - 13:20</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>The Allen Memorial Art Museum (AMAM) and the Creative Writing Program are asking students, faculty, staff, and members of the greater �鶹��Ƶ community to submit poems written in response to, describing, or inspired by works of visual art currently on view in the museum. Select poems will be chosen by AMAM staff and creative writing faculty to be read by the poets at the AMAM’s <a href="https://calendar.oberlin.edu/event/amam_first_thursday_5397#.VS0tkZTF-9U">First Thursday event on May 7</a>.</p> <p>Interested poets may submit up to two poems, with the total entry not exceeding six pages. Submissions should be sent in a Word document and should include the poet’s name, address, email, and phone number; the title of the museum work and the artist; and the title of the poem.</p> <p>Submissions should be emailed to Jason Trimmer, Eric and Jane Nord Family Curator of Education, at jtrimmer@oberlin.edu by 5 p.m. on Friday, April 17. For questions or more information, contact Trimmer.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">Campus News</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2015-04-14T12:00:00Z">Tue, 04/14/2015 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Communications Staff</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2378">Allen Memorial Art Museum</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-programs field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25326">Creative Writing</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-departments field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/creative-writing" hreflang="und">Creative Writing</a></div> </div> </article> <article> <h1>�鶹��Ƶ Professor Wins Ohioana Award</h1> <p>Anonymous — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 18:20:35 +0000</p> <span>�鶹��Ƶ Professor Wins Ohioana Award</span> <span><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span><time datetime="2016-11-07T13:20:35-05:00" title="Monday, November 7, 2016 - 13:20">Mon, 11/07/2016 - 13:20</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Associate Professor of Creative Writing Kazim Ali has won the 2014 Ohioana Book Award in Poetry for **Sky Ward88, a collection of poetry. </p> <p>Published by Wesleyan University Press, <strong>Sky Ward</strong> is Ali's fourth book of poetry. He has also published five books of prose, two books of nonfiction, and three books of translations. Ali and Presidential Scholar of Islam Jaraf Mahallati's translation of Iranian poet Sohrab Sepheri’s <strong>Oasis of Now</strong> was recently selected as a finalist for a Best Translated Book Award by Three Percent, an initiative by the University of Rochester to increase readership of translated texts in the United States. Ali's work has appeared in journals including <strong>American Poetry Review</strong> and <strong>Boston Review</strong>.</p> <p>First awarded in 1942, Ohioana awards recognize individuals that contribute to the state's culture. Ohioana Book Awards are awarded in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, juvenile literature, poetry, and "about Ohio or an Ohioan". The winners were selected from 4,000 eligible books and 29 finalists, David Weaver, executive director the Ohioana Library, told the Wesleyan Press blog.</p> <p>"It means a great deal to me to have such a personal book be recognized, especially among such other poets whom I hold in high esteem," says Ali.</p> <p>The award ceremony will take place on Friday, October 10, at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus. </p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">Campus News</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2014-08-15T12:00:00Z">Fri, 08/15/2014 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Office of Communications</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2373">Awards and Honors</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-programs field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25326">Creative Writing</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-departments field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/creative-writing" hreflang="und">Creative Writing</a></div> </div> </article> </main></body></html>