In what was no doubt the highlight of last week’s edition of the Bowdoin Orient, the first entry into the column “Poetic Vistas” argued for the reemergence of democratic poetry. There is, of course, validity to this argument. However, there …
Last Saturday, Dylan Richmond ’24 transformed Pickard Theater into a portal, inviting a packed crowd to join him in exploring an emergence out of oppression and toward joy. His performance, entitled “I am Bearing Myself in the Mouth of the …
On Tuesday, a crowd gathered in the Massachusetts Hall Faculty Room to hear the poetry of J. Drew Lanham at the latest installment of the Franklin Burroughs Environmental Writers Series. Lanham is currently a professor of wildlife ecology at Clemson …
Last night, the Parable Path Maine initiative brought conversation to Pickard Theater through the blending of multiple media forms encapsulated under the name “‘Are There Any Rights I’m Entitled To?’ Carceration and Liberatory Futures.” The event was inspired by discussions …
This February, the Brunswick Downtown Association and other local organizations like Curtis Memorial Library and the Pejepscot History Center partnered to host their annual month-long program in commemoration of one of the two literary giants who grace the College’s main …
Queer theory, American literature, religion and Prince all take center stage in the mind of nonfiction writer Peter Coviello. In addition to being department head and Professor of English at the University of Illinois Chicago, the author of six books …
“This big curiosity and joy came out after this concert,” Selima Terras ’26, a performer at the event, said. “I’m hungry for more, and to hear from more people, and to have …
Thursday evening, in the Massachusetts Hall Faculty Room, the Alpha Delta Phi Society’s Visiting Writers Series returned with a reading from acclaimed Irish poet Micheal O’Siadhail. O’Siadhail’s career has spanned multiple decades and explores an even greater number of topics …
Last fall, WBOR station manager Mason Daugherty ’25 stumbled upon a number of old magazines—or more specifically, zines, a more counterculture, grassroots type of publication reserved for freer, more unfiltered media that might not be published elsewhere. Daugherty’s discovery spurred …