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UA to host creative writing camp, reading for high school students

UA to host creative writing camp, reading for high school students

Patrick Smith June 3, 2015

High school students from all over Tuscaloosa County will gather on campus next week to participate in the kind of creative writing normally reserved for English students at the University.The UA Creative...

Poetry book focused on Kanye West's humanity

Poetry book focused on Kanye West's humanity

Tori Linville April 21, 2015

When Kanye West is mentioned, people know where they stand. Love him or hate him, West is a force to be reckoned with. As someone who was never swayed to love or hate the man who stole Taylor Swift’s...

Creative Campus develops community arts project

Creative Campus develops community arts project

Alana Norris April 7, 2015

Maxwell Hall is the oldest building on campus and only one of a few buildings to make it through the Civil War. At one point, it was a celestial observatory, explaining the dome that rises above the front...

Lang Leav's second installment spellbinds reader

Lang Leav's second installment spellbinds reader

Tori Linville March 9, 2015

The second installment of Lang Leav’s writing, “Lullabies,” is desired to “sing to your present,” “echo of your past” and “whisper of your future.”Leav prefaces the poems with an introduction...

Leav explores themes of loneliness, happiness, doubt in short poems

Leav explores themes of loneliness, happiness, doubt in short poems

Tori Linville March 1, 2015

Lang Leav’s writing should probably come with a warning sticker: feelings will be felt.Her debut book of poetry, “Love and Misadventure,” is composed of 75 poems that make a reader want to listen...

Poetry programs vital for education, promotion of literacy nationwide

Carolyn Duke February 16, 2015

The “Changing the World, One Word at a Time” video is a moving recording of Belissa Escobedo, Rhiannon McGavin and Zariya Allen reciting their poem, “Somewhere in America.” Emerging from the nonprofit...

Omar Pérez to perform poetry reading downtown

Omar Pérez to perform poetry reading downtown

Drew Pendleton October 20, 2014

While the United States works to improve relations within Cuba, the University has built connections here, one of which will be on display Tuesday when Omar Pérez, a Cuban poet and musician, will...

Zen Buddhist priest, poet promotes Interfaith dialogue

Zen Buddhist priest, poet promotes Interfaith dialogue

Jordan Cissell January 17, 2012

Zen Buddhist priest and poet Norman Fischer is taking a step beyond simply enlisting the monk and the rabbi for a walk into the proverbial bar. Instead he is bringing interfaith dialogue and understanding...

Poets to read at Green Bar

Poets to read at Green Bar

Judah Martin November 7, 2011

A University of Alabama creative writing professor has invited poets Maureen Thorson, Anne Boyer and Shanna Compton to read selections of their work at Green Bar on Tuesday. Daniela Olszewska facilitated...

UA, will you please by my valentine?

John Davis February 9, 2011

Hi Alabama, it’s me, John. We’ve had a few classes together over the years, I’m not sure if you remem- oh, you do? Ah, yes, that was me. No, it was embarrassing, but I still think it needed to be...

Night of sights and sounds

Stephanie Brumfield August 24, 2010

How does one start a poem? With a question? With a pause? These were the beginning phrases of the collective storytelling board at Get Creative Night hosted by Creative Campus. The board, which included...

Get Creative Night displays student talent

Stephanie Brumfield August 22, 2010

By 6 p.m. Tuesday night, Creative Campus headquarters Maxwell Hall will be completely transformed. For one night only, Maxwell Hall won’t just be an office and workspace for the Creative Campus interns....