“In my writing, I’m trying to resurrect the way I grew up hearing language,” says the poet Linda Susan Jackson. “How do you explain ‘Don’t trade a monkey for a black dog’? How do you find a literal translation? I remember saying that to my son once, and he said, ‘Mom, just answer this: Am I the monkey, or the black dog?’”
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For many creatives, the last step of their work — getting it published — remains elusive and confusing. This is where literary agents, like Kate McKean, come in.
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Lycoming College will welcome author Zara Chowdhary to its third annual Lycoming College Undergraduate Research Conference for a reading from her debut memoir, “The Lucky Ones.” The event is slated for Saturday, April 5, at 5 p.m. in the Trogner Presentation Room in Krapf Gateway center on the Lycoming campus. The event is open to the public and free of charge.
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Lycoming College released the second volume of its Mid-Atlantic Humanities Review: A Journal of Undergraduate Research (MHR), featuring fifteen essays from undergraduate students from the mid-Atlantic region, including three from Lycoming College. The annual publication is available in both print and on the Lycoming website.
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Lycoming College today announced the availability of its Fall 2024 digital version of The Tributary, a student-run publication comprised of student-created fiction, poetry, and art. The issue can be accessed free of charge at https://thetributaryjournal.com.
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“Most African American poets, if they had their druthers, would rather be musicians,” says Everette Hoagland, the first Poet Laureate of New Bedford, Massachusetts. “Ours is a spirituality with what we call flava. In every subgenre—be it the spirituals that come out of work songs, be it the blues, be it jazz—one follows the other, takes its trajectory from the other.”
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Lycoming College’s annually published, student-run literary journal, The Tributary released its second national issue this afternoon.
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More than 100 attendees from 24 colleges and universities joined Lycoming College’s second annual Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference on April 6 on the Lycoming campus to celebrate the region’s bright minds who are dedicated to furthering the humanities through high-level research.
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Fulfilling the requirements of a $150,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in support of the Humanities Research Center, Lycoming College today launched the Lycoming College History Podcast Series. The podcasts serve the dual purpose of functioning as one component of a larger strategy to digitally preserve the institution’s 200+ year history, as well as providing research experiences for student interns as they prepare to embark on careers or graduate studies.
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Due to unforseen circumstances, this keynote address has been cancelled.
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Kathryn Palmer writes: Lycoming College is providing more research and experiential learning opportunities for students in hopes of setting itself apart in a tough enrollment environment.
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Celebrated radio host Dick Golden first met Tony Bennett in 1964, and they remained exceptionally close until the singer’s death this past summer. “One thing that really exasperated Tony,” Golden explained, “was when people used calculations to measure how many dollars were made on a song. ‘How many records did it sell?’ It’s not the litmus test of great art, or the lens to see it through.”
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Celebrated poet Rita Dove will present recent works during a reading at Lycoming College, Monday, Sept. 25, at 7:30 p.m., in Trogner Presentation Room in the Krapf Gateway Center. Dove was named the Himes/Sweeney Visiting Scholar in Creative Writing this year at the College. The event is free and open to the public.
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Lycoming College welcomed several new faculty members to campus for the 2023-24 academic year, bringing a breadth of knowledge to classrooms at the nationally-recognized liberal arts and sciences institution.
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