Calling WashU students! Are you interested in museum education? Want to contribute to our educational programs by designing and teaching gallery lessons and digital resources? Apps are now open for the Spring 2022 Museum Education Internship, due Nov. 15: https://t.co/EDEhPSzgXa
"Trump’s MAGA hat is an extremely potent reminder of our political landscape, a symbol of the deep divides in this country and a reminder of the evolution of white supremacy." Read Bleur Endom's breakdown of the MAGA hat—from Issue 2: https://t.co/2a26lfwc9Y
"If you could pack a bag—and you were going to live in that bag for your whole life—what would you pack in it?" Watch Rent Eats First, a short film by Madison Singleton from Issue 2: https://t.co/k4xGjwaRDQ
"[F]or artists, writing is an opportunity to help organize, contextualize, & elaborate on your ideas — to really take that kernel and to turn it into something.”
Honored to share this conversation with Heather Bennett for the 2nd edition of @remakejournal https://t.co/7Y2THAiG03
"Let there be light—And I thought I was the light.”
@speakdeadly, an alum of the MFA program & Chancellor’s Graduate Fellow, reads “Copernicus”. Originally published in the @NewYorker, the poem will be featured in Tran’s debut collection, “All the Flowers Kneeling." #WashUpoetry
“All the Flowers Kneeling,” the debut collection by alum @speakdeadly will be published by @PenguinBooks in Spring 2022 as part of the Penguin Poets Series. Launched in 1993, the series supports a broad range of contemporary poets. #WashUpoetry https://t.co/H7uzMTCbss
“You broke it. Now wear it broken.”
Professor of English @CPhillipsPoet reads his poem “Dirt Being Dirt” for #NationalPoetryMonth. He is the highly acclaimed author of 14 collections of poetry. #WashUpoetry
"To be black and uniformed defines my body as a sacrifice."
For #NationalPoetryMonth Aaron Coleman, a PhD student in comparative literature, returns to the field to recite from memory his poem, “American Football.” #WashUpoetry
“Poetry creates new spaces in language."
To highlight #WashUpoetry, four renowned poets shared their work as only they can, in their own voice. As #NationalPoetryMonth comes to a close we hope you enjoyed our celebration of the power of the written word. https://t.co/REZcO71Y8z
"A lot of prison education programs like to talk about how education is transformative, and I agree with that statement. But I think it’s important to recognize that it’s the students themselves who are the agents of change." -Natasha Narayanan https://t.co/JFaqotluTN
"I had to find a way into the mind, the heart and the soul, what my teachers taught to me as 'interiority.'"
@speakdeadly discusses their WashU experience, the publishing journey and the role of poetry. "All the Flowers Kneeling" comes out in Feb 2022!
https://t.co/6V1MNBsN7b
"Obstacles to becoming need-blind, however, do not explain or justify the University’s inability to deliver a tangible plan for achieving it in the future." @studlife https://t.co/QODP3bLULK
“In the end, when a group of a whole bunch of men own a house where you throw a party to mix with women, it can't really be safe.”
— John Harry Wager, former member of Beta Theta Pi
As Wash U Students Reckon With Greek System, Some Want It Gone For Good
https://t.co/hMslVTxEqw