Why I Chose to Major in English
One of the most urgent skills we develop during a liberal arts education is how to distribute our time among all the problems we are confronted by, both inside the…
Where to Submit Your Creative Writing for Publication
For young writers looking to start attempting to get published outside of campus publications — like many English majors and creative writers on campus, or recent alumni who completed creative…
Introducing our New Editor!
If you’ve had the chance to read our most recent post on Elizabeth Freeman’s talk, you’ve heard from our fabulous new editor, Kathleen Danielson. As is made clear from the…
A Brief Summary: Elizabeth Freeman’s Talk “Committed to the End: On Care Work and Rereading”
Last Friday, September 20, UC Davis English professor and associate dean Elizabeth Freeman delivered a moving talk on caretaking, rereading, and queer theory. After an introduction by Carleton Women and…
Introducing Corrine Collins, Scholar-in-Residence
A warm hue of red and orange has begun to spread throughout the trees of Northfield, marking the arrival of fall term at Carleton College. Here on second Laird, the…
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…
