Summer Reading List
With comps finished, grades turned in, and seniors graduated, it is officially time to welcome the summer. For most of us, the summer is when we catch up on pleasure…
No Stopping the World!
DATELINE: Bell Field (June 4, 2019) “Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow! / You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout / Till you have drenched our steeples, . . .…
Senior Spotlight: English Majors Teaching on the Fulbright
As another spring meanders to a close, all of us on Second Laird are excited for everyone’s plans for the off-season, in particular our graduating seniors about to pen new…
Fall Term Class Spotlight: The Miscellany
Many are not aware that between the years 1960 and 1980, Carleton was the publisher of a nationally renowned literary magazine, to which this blog owes its name. This coming…
Creative Spotlight: “Transplant” by Mica Bahn
This week, we are excited to share a short story by Mica Bahn (’20). Mica hails from Manhattan and is an English major interested in creative writing. The author that…
Creative Spotlight: “One Form” by David Rubin
This week, we’re thrilled to publish a poem by David Rubin ’21. David is a sophomore English major who hails from Ann Arbor, MI. His favorite writer is a tossup…
Alumni Profile: Amanda Zoch ’10 Wins J. Leeds Barroll Dissertation Prize
The Miscellany is happy to share exciting news: alum Amanda Zoch ’10, who recently completed her Ph.D. in English, has won the J. Leeds Barroll Dissertation Prize at this year’s Shakespeare…
The 2019 English Comps Symposium Preview
Comps is (are?) a strange experience—your room accumulates a landscape of readings, your weeks start to pass in page counts, you wrestle wayward drafts late into the night, wondering at…
Dispatches from London Programs Past
Attention all globetrotters, theatergoers, and bibliophiles: the 2020 edition of the annual London Program is still accepting applications! Professor Constance Walker is leading the program next Winter, and students joining…
Event Preview: Convocation by Bao Phi, “A Vietnamese Exploration of Race, Class, and Colonization Through Poetry”
Performance poet, author, and activist Bao Phi delivers a convocation presentation on May 3.
