University Staff Con and Grants Specialist, Mark Castillo, put his creative mind to work with this submission in honor of the start of the Badger Football season…. Ode to Football By M.F.Castillo Aaaah the smell …
Arts
Race, Poetry and Struggle
9 September, 1934, marks the birthday of poet, playwright, activist and Professor, Sonia Sanchez. In 1969, Sanchez published her first book of poetry for adults, Homecoming. She followed that up with 1970’s We a BaddDDD …
Norman Mailer – This Week’s “Profile in Jewish American Heritage”
Author Norman Mailer was born to a Jewish family and raised in Brooklyn, NY. He entered Harvard University at age 16. Mailer wrote 12 novels over a 59-year span and twice won the Pulitzer Prize. In …
The Month of May Begins
The 1st of May, or “May Day” and sometimes called “International Workers Day,” has the unusual distinction of being a holiday that was born in the United States, but rarely receiving any official recognition here …
Found Poetry
Found Poems are those that are culled from others works, not intended as poetry, but slightly edited and restrung so they take on a poetic form. Found poems are all around us. One of the …
Poets and Cinema
Poets do not often figure as central characters in motion picture dramas, but the 1994 film, Il Postino, proved to be the exception to that rule:
The Power of a Young Voice
April is Poetry Month, please take a moment to listen to Natasha Vargas recite the poem, “Ecology” by Jack Collum, a poet native to Illinois.
Heeding the call of Carl
April is Poetry Month, we hope you take a moment to listen to this Carl Sandburg selection as read by Kula Kane… Chicago
Poems and Memory
Please take a moment to view this brief video in which Professor Richard Dawkins reads a selection from A.E. Housman, and explains why it is meaningful to him…
Words of Walt
April is Poetry Month, so today we bring you an American classic from Walt Whitman as read by Will Geer… Pioneers! Oh Pioneers!