Florida SouthWestern State College English Department

Last minute post, but GCL is looking for some poets for Saturday night. If you are not familiar with them, they are extraordinary people, FSW Alum, and help FSW every year with our Poetry, Prose, and Rhythm open mic.

Please share and happy grading!

This Saturday! Enjoy the performances of SWFL’S emerging artists at our Artist Showcase🎤

Grab your family and lawn chairs to enjoy the cool weather at the courtyard of Gulf Coast Town Center . Let’s end 2021 with a bang 💥

This Friday!

“Folklore is the arts of the people before they find out that there is any such thing as art.” - Zora Neale Hurston

For centuries, Black and indigenous people have passed down stories across generations. From bedtime stories, to stories told on corner blocks, the stories we have told one another have often sustained our lives among colonial violence, becoming our guiding night lights in the darkness.

➡️➡️ This Friday at 7pm EST, we welcome our Haitian sister writer, Edwidge Danticat, for a live conversation on Folklore, Spirituality and Storytelling.

As we approach the end of this white facist presidency, one that denied Haitian immigrants their right to refuge under TPS, what are the stories of possibility we need right now? What can we learn from our Haitian sisters, descendants of the Haitian Revolution, priestesses of ancestral magic? How do we preserve and stay close to our sacred tradition of oral storytelling?

Edwidge Danticat is the author of several books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, Krik? Krak!, The Farming of Bones, and Everything Inside. She is the editor of The Butterfly’s Way: Voices from the Haitian Diaspora in the United States and Haiti Noir and Haiti Noir 2. She has written seven books for young adults and children, Anacaona, Behind the Mountains, Eight Days, The Last Mapou, Mama's Nightingale, My Mommy Medicine, and Untwine, as well as a travel narrative, After the Dance, A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel.

Stay connected and join us for these thought- provoking conversations this week!

Stage Two Return to Campus details now available!
1) Face coverings and social distancing required in all FSW buildings.
2) Students are allowed to return to campus beginning Monday, July 13th for enrollment services.
Student enrollment services availability details here:
https://www.fsw.edu/remote/contact
Read more about our Return to Campus plan here:
https://www.fsw.edu/reconnect