Events

Celebrate National Poetry month with a talk on Marianne Moore and a creative writing workshop. Get Raw and Real: grab a pen and a friend!

Inspired by the journalism of Erika Marie Rivers, Our Black Girls, and Derrica and Natalie Wilson, producers of the HBO docuseries Black and Missing, Missed is a piece of participatory action research dedicated to the countless women (and their families) who go missing each year. Police reports reduce the missing person to “the last thing she was seen wearing”; somehow, in the moment of going missing, the person becomes a stereotype, label, profile that can be stapled on telephone poles: absent and obsolete. According to the National Crime Information Center, 268,884 women are reported missing each year. We turn to social media and popular culture to see which stories receive airtime, exposure, and thus, attention, and which faces do not. Please, join us on April 18th in the SMJC Library. The art project will include applying redaction to missing ads and newspaper articles to create a series of erasure poems—to find the person missing from the text and make visible the person behind the text. In this excavation of voices, writers play the role of grief doula and critical witness, but, also, peace medium and generous listener. The limits of the work are unbearable: not being able to bring the body of the person back. The reach of the work offers promise: how can we bring the essence of a person home?

Join us on a poetry tour of the campus in full bloom. Start at the library and grab a hot cup of poet-tea. 

Check out the Creative Writing Club table at the New Student Orientation Lionpalooza Event!

Join Creative Writing Club President, Belynnda King, for the first group meeting of the semester. It's time to write! (Hence, the write time, right?)

Please, join Dr. Paul Cappucci, Department of English, Christine Stevenson, Outreach and User Engagement Librarian, and student leaders Nathalia Garica and Kayla Latendresse on Thursday, October 12th @ 3:00 PM in the SMJC Library for a celebration of the work of doctor/poet (and New Jerseyian) William Carlos Williams.

The Humanities Forum Presents: Revisiting Mary Shelley's Legacy Faculty Panelists: Dr. Pamela Rader (English), Moderator Dr. Jonathan Kim-Reuter (Religious Studies/Philosophy) Dr. Russell McDonald (English)

Hosted by Ms. Debbie Snyder from the School of Education and Dr. Anthony Brano from the Writing Center. This workshop will provide valuable tips and resources to aid in passing the Praxis! We will discuss how to study for the reading and writing portion of the test. We will also discuss tips and tricks for ... Read more

Join us on Wednesday mornings in November from 8:00 -9:00 AM in the SMJC library to engage in creative and reflective writing. What should I do with an idea? Incubate it! Come write your idea into being and stock up on some characters, questions, and plot twists to write out the winter!

Please join faculty in a discussion of how to avoid plagiarism in student writing. What are we already doing now to aid in student learning and to make plagiarism harder to accomplish? What are the policies currently in place? Finally, what are the latest trends in the generative AI landscape? A Flyer explaining topics for ... Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court, the 14th Amendment and Social Justice: Rethinking the Court's Role in 2023 Professor Marny Requa Date: Tuesday, December 5, 3 pm to 4:15 pm The Little Theater Cohosted by the Department of CJ, Anthropology, Sociology & Human Rights, the Social Justice Committee, and the Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. This ... Read more

Creative Writing Club and Fountain Spray are hosting an end of semester open mic on Wednesday, December 13th @ 3:00 PM in the Geis Gallery (Jeffries Hall). Let's gather, share, and celebrate the words we have written and the words to come.