April is National Poetry Month and the start of baseball. With today being opening day in Cincinnati, what better poem to read than the classic “Casey at the Bat” by Ernest Lawrence Thayer. And check out this illustrated version. Continue reading
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Rebecca Morgan Frank to Visit Clermont College
On Thursday, April 6, Rebecca Morgan Frank, our National Poetry Month guest, will share about her journey as a poet. Join her for a Q & A from 9:30am-10:30am in Snyder 142, followed by a poetry workshop from 11am-noon, also in Snyder 142.
Later in the afternoon from 2pm-3pm, Clermont College Library will host a reading, signing, and reception with Dr. Frank. Thanks to Professor Phoebe Reeves and the ELF Department for organizing this great event.
We’re excited to celebrate poetry month in April. Please join us for all of the activities.
Penny McGinnis
Technical Services Manager
Celebrating Poetry
Clermont College Library celebrated National Poetry Month with the fifth annual Haiku Contest. Sixty-five students submitted 155 haiku. The poets came from a variety of majors including IT, history, and of course English.
Each morning during the entry period, I opened the portal and collected the poems. Haiku is a poetic form that is dependent on the experiences of the person writing. As I read each one, I admired the uniqueness of each poem.
After I read the haiku, I collected them in a document (sans the authors’ names) and sent them to our wonderful judges, Professors Cassie Fetters and Mike Hampton, who determined the winners.
Grand prize went to Meranda Balkema for:
Darkness cannot win
If I do not let it in
Spring’s sun, makes it run
Three honorable mentions were chosen:
Love, justice, freedom
Sometimes that which gives us life
Can tear us apart
– Tessa Moore
Serendipitous
One word with five syllables
That is pretty cool.
– Evan Tellep
I despise the foes
Who char marshmallows to ash
And say “edible”
– Julia Wahle
Thanks to all who entered. We look forward to the 2017 Haiku Contest.
Penny McGinnis
Technical Services Manager
Poetry at Clermont: A Guide to Writing Poetry
Did you know Clermont College Library
has a Poetry at Clermont research guide for students?
What’s on the guide?
- links to poems
- databases that connect to a variety of poetic information
- a list of books available for check out
- reference sources
- websites that aid in writing and understanding poetry
- information about the annual haiku contest
- proper citations
The guide also gives the poet a source for inspiration from other writers’ work as well as links to poetry associations.
Happy Poetry Month!
Penny McGinnis
Technical Services Manager
Guest Poet, Adam Day
Clermont College Library will be hosting a poetry reading in collaboration with the English, Languages, and Fine Arts departments. Adam Day, guest poet, will be in the library on April 6 at 1:25 to read from his writings, including his latest book, Mode
l of a City in Civil War. We’ll also host a reception, book signing, and Q & A session immediately following.
Adam is the recipient of a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship for Badger, Apocrypha, a PEN Emerging Writers Award, and an Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council.
We hope you will join us for this wonderful event.
Penny McGinnis
Technical Services Manager
Clermont College Haiku Contest
In honor of National Poetry Month, the Clermont College Library is sponsoring its 5th Annual Haiku Contest.
Clermont College students will have the opportunity to write up to 3 haiku and submit them for a chance to win a $50 gift card. Professors Cassie Fetters and Michael Hampton will serve as our esteemed judges.
We have complete contest guidelines and submission page online. You may begin submitting entries on March 16.
The entry deadline is April 8th.
Penny McGinnis
Technical Services Manager
Two Events in the Elliston Poetry Room This Week
On Wednesday, September 16th at 4:00 poet, editor, and translator Claudia Keelan will read from and discuss Truth of My Songs: The Poems of the Trobairitz (Omnidawn, 2015), the new anthology of 12th century female troubadours (or “trobairitz”) that she translated and edited. Her most recent of her seven poetry collections are O, Heart (Barrow Street, 2014), Missing Her (New Issues Press, 2009), and Utopic (Alice James Books, 2001). As part of her visit to Cincinnati, Keelan will also give a reading at Xavier University’s Kennedy Auditorium at 7:30 on Tuesday night.
Photo Credit: Cindy Love
Then, on Friday, September 18th, James McMichael will visit the Elliston Room for two events — a Q&A with Don Bogen at 3:00 and a poetry reading at 4:00. His most recent collections include Capacity (Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2006), a National Book Award finalist, and The World at Large: New and Selected Poems, 1971–1996 (University of Chicago, 1996), and his honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Shelley Memorial Award, and a Academy of American Poets Fellowship.
Look for recordings of this presentation soon in the digital collection, The Elliston Project: Poetry Readings and Lectures at the University of Cincinnati.
Learn more about Events sponsored by the Elliston Poetry Fund.
Professor Joel Peckham Returns to Clermont College for Poetry Reading
Former Clermont Professor, Joel Peckham, opens the 2015-16 Clermont Poetry Series with a reading in the Clermont College Library on Friday, September 11, at 1:25 pm. Professor Peckham’s new book God’s Bicycle will be available for purchase. He’ll be signing books at the reception immediately following the reading.
Joel has published three books of poetry, two chapbooks, and a collection of narrative essays. His works have appeared in academic and literary journals. Currently he is an Assistant Professor of Regional Literature and Creative Writing at Marshall University.
Elliston Poetry Lecture, February 27, 2015, Mary Szybist
The next reading in the Elliston Reading Series will be by poet Mary Szybist.
February 27, 2015 4:00 PM, Elliston Poetry Room, 646 Langsam Library
Mary Szybist is most recently the author of Incarnadine, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Poetry. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress, and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center. Her work has appeared in such publications as Best American Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, and two Pushcart Prize anthologies. Her first book, Granted, won the 2004 GLCA New Writers Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. A native of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, she now lives in Portland, Oregon where she teaches at Lewis & Clark College.
Look for recordings of this presentation soon in the digital collection, The Elliston Project: Poetry Readings and Lectures at the University of Cincinnati.
Learn more about Events sponsored by the Elliston Poetry Fund.
Poetry Month and ARB-Dublin's Easter Rising
By: Kevin Grace
Ninety-eight years ago in 1916, the Irish Republican Brotherhood staged an uprising during Easter Week, the intent being to reclaim Ireland from the British and establish a republic. Though the rebellion failed, as so many others had in the previous two centuries, the rising galvanized the Irish people in a way that would ultimately lead to the country’s independence following a bloody civil war. The Easter Rising and the years following it are complicated ones in sorting out the loyalties and issues, though there has been no shortage of histories and autobiographies and polemics.
In the Rare Books Collection, there is another view of the rising: a poetry chapbook by Maeve Cavanagh. Entitled A Voice of Insurgency, Cavanugh’s collection of verse documents the six days of the rebellion from Monday, April 24 through Saturday,April 29 and the men and women who were in the forefront of it as gunshots and cannon fire reverberated around Dublin. Cavanagh was a dedicated supporter of the republican movement, and friends with many of the leaders of the insurgency. Her poems capture the fear and exhilaration of that Easter week. Continue reading