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Poetry in the Schools event for local school children.Poetry in the Schools event for local school children.Creative Writing Workshop for local school children
 

The Creative Writing program at Colby offers students the opportunity to exercise their imaginations through disciplined work in the craft of writing.  Staffed by dedicated, practicing, published writers committed to teaching creative writing as a craft and an art and to teaching technique as a way of seeing as well as a way of saying, it welcomes the novice writer as well as more advanced students.  For more detailed information about the program, please click here.

 
Program News, 2007-08

Patrick Donnelly will be joining the Creative Writing Program as our Poetry Fellow for 2007-2008. His book The Charge was published by Ausable Press in 2003. He is an Assistant Editor at Four Way Books and has taught writing at Smith College and the New School University, Clark University, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. He has published poems in The American Poetry Review, The Yale Review, The Massachusetts Review, and many other magazines.  We welcome him to the horde.

 
Upcoming Events
 
Visting Writers Series
Mike Paterniti
Writer of Creative Nonfiction
March 18, 7 PM
Robinson Room, Miller  Library
 
 
Pequod: Liz O'Neill
Suppertime in Arlington, MA

The stars are strapping themselves in.
Ripe screams from the underground
train yawn up through the dirt.
The ravens at the edge of your yard cackle.

And I am ten, barefoot in the garden
digging for caterpillars.

You half-eye me from your porch, swinging.

When I have a whole fistful of green
glow-worms, tangled and fat and pulsing
I hold them up for you.

Because you never wished for a wedding
a garden, or even the flickering thought of a grandchild
floating forsaken in it
you do not smile.

The shirts on the clothesline whip the air.
The trees twitch.

I stare stiffly back and watch
the grained trenches of your face wire with fear
of the folding light
 
 
Caleb Dolan, '96
Caleb Dolan co-founded KIPP Gaston College Preparatory with Tammi Sutton (NC '96) in 2001-2002.  KIPP Gaston College Preparatory has grown to server overt three hundred students as one of only two rural KIPP Schools in the nation.  KIPP Gaston College Preparatory have earned the fourth highest math scores, third highest writing scores, and twelfth highest reading scores in the state of North Carolina.  90% of KIPP Gaston College Preparatory's students are African-American, 70% receive free/reduced lunch, and 100% of the Pride is dedicated to earning a college degree and the power to change the world.
 
 
Adrian Blevins
Adrian Blevins, poet. Author of The Brass Girl Brouhaha (Ausable Press, 2003), which won the 2004 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and The Man Who Went Out for Cigarettes (Bright Hill Press, 1996). She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writers' Foundation Award for Poetry and the Lamar Yark Prize for Nonfiction. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, 88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry, and other magazines.
Past
Visiting
Writers
 
Sherman Bitsui
 
Edward Albee
Sherman Alexie
John Ashbery
Toni Cade Bambara
Jocelyn Bartkevicius
Charles Baxter
Marvin Bell
Eavan Boland
Gwendolyn Brooks
Raymond Carver
Lan Samantha Chang
Lucille Clifton
Leo Connellan
Robert Coover
Carl Dennis
Michael Dorris
Peter Filkins
Alice Fulton
Robert Frost
Brendan Galvn
John Gardner
Jorie Graham
Ross Gay
Donald Hall
Michael Harper
Seamus Heaney
Jane Hirshfield
Tony Hoagland
Richard Howard
Marie Howe
Cynthia Huntingtovn
John Irving
Honoree F Jeffers
Gish Jen
Rodney Jones
Laura Kaischke
Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Lily King
Galway Kinnell
Yusef Komunyakaa
Tom Lux
Paule Marshall
Cleopatra Mathis
Mekeel McBride
James McConkey
Heather McHugh
Wes McNair
Jane Mead
William Meredith
Clair Messud
Jane Miller
Sue Miller
Czeslaw Milosz
Susan Minot
Lorrie Moore
Carole Muske
Howard Norman
Nuala O’Foalain
Steve Orlen
Greg Orr
Tom Perrotta
Robert Pinksy
Stanley Plumley
Bill Roorbach
Mary Rueffle
Stephen Sender
Joan Silber
Gary Snyder
William Stafford
Gerald Stern
Steve Stern
Mark Strand
Elizabeth Strout
James Sullivan
James Tate
David Wagoner
Derek Walcott
Dara Weir
C.K.Williams
Monica Wood
Baron Wormser
Dean Young