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Currently I’m sitting in bed on the bottom floor of my aunt’s apartment in Portland, OR (not the other Portland, the one in Maine where I go to school). It’s almost a hundred degrees outside. I angle the shades to …
Unbeknownst to many, within the white house with green shutters at 63 Federal Street in Brunswick, one of the most consequential novels in American history was written.
This house is none other than the former residence of the author Harriet …
“Colonizers write about flowers.”
The first line of Noor Hindi’s poem “F–k Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying,” comments on the way in which flowery language is used to talk about colonialism, genocide and Palestine.
Noor Hindi is …
On Wednesday afternoon, students and faculty gathered in the Shannon Room for the latest installment of the Alpha Delta Phi Society’s Visiting Writers Series: a reading from novelist Mona Awad.
Standing before a packed room—many attendees were forced to sit …
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 …
On Monday evening, approximately 45 minutes before he was set to speak, Jamel Brinkley had not decided what to say.
Brinkley, a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, is currently assistant professor at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the …
On Tuesday, writer K-Ming Chang visited the Bowdoin community virtually to speak about her work and her experiences in the writing world as a queer woman of color. Prior to a webinar in the evening, Chang hosted a small writing …
Enduring the stresses of the pandemic last school year, Paul Russo ’23 needed to de-stress and wanted to give other students the opportunity to do the same. Combining his love of poetry with a need for community, Paul formed the …
When Anneka Williams ’21 started her first year at Bowdoin, she never expected to write a book during her time at the College, let alone co-publish one with someone nearly 60 years her senior. However, Williams, who is currently pursuing …
On Wednesday, the Office of Gender Violence Prevention and Education (OGVPE) and the Sexuality, Women and Gender Center (SWAG) held the first Women’s Journaling Break of the semester. The group plans to meet every Wednesday evening, from 6 to 7 …
