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Q&A With Richard Blanco, Poet And Visiting Artist, Colby College

Colby Magazine

For the spring 2018 semester, Richard Blanco, inaugural poet at Barack Obama's second inaugration, is the artist in residence at Colby's Lunder Institute for American Art. He's teaching a one-credit course to Colby Students who use works in the Colby museum to teach poetry to area children.

Question And Answer, Elly Bookman

Colby Magazine

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Educating By Poetry: In A Too-Literal World, Metaphor Makes Magical Connections, Adrian Blevins

Colby Magazine

I often rouse students in my poetry classes through hypothetical exams. Sometimes the subject of the exam is quite narrow: Is this image of something "falling light as a thistlebloom" effective in Heather's gritty Manhattan poem? Or the question is vast, universal: What is the purpose of poetry? Why are we sitting here doing this? Shouldn't we cease our literary indulgences right this instant and find some hungry kids to feed?

The purpose of the exam that I don't give and don't grade is just a way to generate discussion, of course, but the fact that it is imaginary could …

A Poem- Inspired By Alex Katz, Margaret Sargent

Colby Magazine

Margaret Sargent '14 wrote this poem last year as an assignment in Introduction to Poetry. The project asked students to write ekphrastic poetry, work that collaborates with visual art, inspired by a piece of their own choosing in the Colby College Museum of Art.

Front Matter

Colby Magazine

The Fifty Percent Solution
Chapter 2: Watt's Up, Doc?

The Last Page, Bill Roorbach

Colby Magazine

Writer Bill Roorbach finds that reality casts a strange light on his fiction.

Front Matter

Colby Magazine

The Fifty Percent Solution is the last chapter in Colby's Alumni Fund participation challenge (announced in a special mailing to alumni and parents last fall).

Choosing A Poet's Life: Despite Daunting Obstacles, Colby Poets Pursue Their Solitary, Creative Craft, Gerry Boyle

Colby Magazine

Solitude, sacrifice, self-examination: Colby poets follow their muse and their craft, and they wouldn’t have it any other way.

The Biographer's Craft: Writers Discuss The Art Of Capturing Lives With Words, Frank Bures

Colby Magazine

Working in what one calls the highest form of nonfiction, Colby biographers labor to recreate the lives—and essence—of their subjects. Chronicling figures ranging from Lincoln to Van Gogh, these writers strive to create the definitive biography.

The Last Page: Love Story, Lucy Dotson

Colby Magazine

“Love Story” a poem by Lucy Dotson ’13J