Dispatches from the 2018 Dictionary Game

3 October 2018

Last Wednesday, Second Laird played host to Fall festivities, welcoming English majors back to campus with seasonal pie and some word-nerdy fun. Headlining the event was the Dictionary Game, a…

Meet the New Miscellany Editors!

28 September 2018

Fall is upon us, and ringing in another year of Miscellany madness are two new editors. Lulu Mourning (’20, she/her/hers) and Gab Torres (’20, she/her/hers) bring fresh voices and a heap…

Meet Paula Stowe!

27 September 2018

Visitors to Second Laird this term will notice a new face in the English Department. While our unswerving office regular Meggan Clapp is on maternity leave this fall, it’s business…

(Picnic, Lightning): Change of Venue Favors the World

30 May 2018

Dateline:  Bell Field (May 29, 2018) The English Department gathered this evening for its annual picnic under lowering skies with the sound of distant thunder rumbling across the green fields of…

Alumni Profile: Faisal Mohyuddin (’00)

28 May 2018

The Miscellany recently caught up with Faisal Mohyuddin (’00), whose debut poetry collection The Displaced Children of Displaced Children (Eyewear Publishing, 2018) won the 2017 Sexton Prize for Poetry and is one of…

Event Preview: Hanif Abdurraqib, American Lyric and the Politics of Genre

7 May 2018

Poet, essayist, and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib will be reading in the Athenaeum on Tuesday, May 15th, from 5-6 pm! Ahead of his visit to Carleton, he kindly agreed to…

The English Comps Symposium 2018 Edition

4 May 2018

Spring—frost recedes, sunsets stretch, baby birkenstocks take tentative first steps into a brave new world. And all over campus echoes the sound of hundreds of students breathing a single sigh…

Creative Spotlight: “Lifesong” by Kathleen Danielson

2 May 2018

This week, the Miscellany has a poem by Kathleen Danielson (’20) to share! Kathleen is a sophomore English major from Woodbury, MN and is currently abroad on the London program. She has…

Claire Seymour (’20) Wins 2018 Nick Adams Short Story Contest

26 April 2018

The Associated Colleges of the Midwest recently announced the results of this year’s edition of the Nick Adams Short Story Contest, and our very own Claire Seymour (’20) was named…

Event Preview: Greg Smith Discusses the Story Behind the Story

23 April 2018

Hello, astute Miscellany readers; here’s a riddle for you: What’s “staggeringly brilliant,” a “high-wire act,” a “tour de force,” and read all over? Come find out when Greg Smith talks…
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