Writing

Dose of Poetry: Poetry in Translation - A Walk through Time and Space
2023-04-27 17:00 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | SMJC Library – Georgian Court University, 900 Lakewood Ave, Lakewood, NJ, 08701, United States
Join us on a poetry tour of the campus in full bloom. Start at the library and grab a hot cup of poet-tea.

Dose of Poetry: Missing/Missed - An Arts and Advocacy Event
2023-04-18 17:00 - 18:30 | SMJC Library – Georgian Court University, 900 Lakewood Ave, Lakewood, NJ, 08701, United States
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?

Dose of Poetry: A Place of the Genuine - Raw and Real with Marianne Moore
2023-04-13 17:00 - 18:30 | SMJC Library – Georgian Court University, 900 Lakewood Ave, Lakewood, NJ, 08701, United States
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!

Dose of Poetry: Visiting Poet Nicole Homer Reading
2023-04-05 15:30 - 17:00 | Casino Ballroom – Georgian Court University, 900 Lakewood Ave, Lakewood, NJ, 08701, United States
Since graduating from Georgian Court with a B.A. in English Literature, Nicole Homer ‘08 has obtained multiple graduate degrees in English Literature and Fine Arts; served as a Professor of English at Mercer County Community College; and published her first book of poetry, Pecking Order.
Nicole will return to Georgian Court this April as the university’s visiting poet. She plans to read a collection of her published poems, recite works from her next book, and participate in a Q&A with students on campus.
Read the full article here: https://georgian.edu/visiting-poet-2023/
