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Campus Poetry Walk: (Re)Creating And Reconnecting A Community (Presentation), Lisa Villa

Staff publications

In January 2020, the Outreach and Engagement Team at the College of the Holy Cross began preparing a poetry walk, which was reconfigured to a social media “poetry event” due to COVID-19. With the anticipated return of students to campus for the Spring 2021 semester and a need for the community (especially students) to have recreational opportunities that were safe, socially distanced and preferably outside, the Team attempted for a second time to plan a poetry walk. CrossWorks, the institutional repository for the College, was a part of this plan from the beginning. Foremost, CrossWorks would support the scholarly and …

An Anthology Of Holy Cross Verse, College Of The Holy Cross

Holy Cross Bookshelf

A collection of poetry compiled from The Holy Cross Purple, a literary publication produced by the students of the College of the Holy Cross. The selections included in this anthology appeared in The Holy Cross Purple between 1920 and 1937.

The volume's endpapers are an illustrated map of the college campus circa 1937.

Spine title: Anthology of Holy Cross Verse: 1920-1937

The Verse Of Edward V. Killeen, Jr., Edward V. Killeen, College Of The Holy Cross

Holy Cross Bookshelf

Edited by The Holy Cross Purple staff

The Purple is a student magazine published by the College of the Holy Cross. In 1919, the editors endeavored to commemmorate the publication's Silver Jubillee by establishing a book series of college verse drawn from The Purple.

"The Purple Poets: Volume One" is the first in the series and features the poetry of Edward V. Killeen, Class of 1919. Killeen had been a major contributor to The Purple and was to serve as editor-in-chief of the magazine his senior year. He died before returning to Holy Cross in the fall of 1918. …