Knox College Caxton Club

08/03/2015

A look ahead, folks. Pretty dreamy, from where we're standing:

Caleb Curtiss is the author of A Taxonomy of the Space Between Us, which won the Black River Chapbook Competition and will be published by Black Lawrence Press in 2015. His poetry has appeared in Hayden's Ferry Review, Passages North, New England Review, The Literary Review, TriQuarterly, and elsewh…

05/08/2015

A late-night verse for you, from "That Old Useful Trouble of the Rain" by Carolina Ebeid:

A bad weather is miles coming: announces
like a circus with flash and groan.

Tomorrow we'll be glad for the rain and for Carolina Ebeid, who reads tomorrow at 4 pm in the Alumni Room of Old Main.

05/07/2015

An evening poem for you:
"Theory of the Final Girl" by Carolina Ebeid, who will read at 4 pm this Friday in the Alumni Room of Old Main.
We hope you will join us there, for an afternoon of May flowers and poetry.

05/04/2015

A lunch break poem for you:
"The First Age of a World Economy"
by Carolina Ebeid

"A girl reading a letter at an open window,
the air scented with wet pavement.

She’ll curve the paper into the shape of a shell
and listen into the sea, its stammerings.

She’ll read the hand not the words: brazen
strokes of signature; letters that graph
the cursive cityscape; hasty peaks then
hesitation; then the black pond of a blotted pause.

The tongue of the bell, too, speaks: Someone
has been buried. Come, come home, it clangs.

Music busies the street at noon.

And always pigeons calling from the roof.
Clear chatter of girls—like falling coins.
And under this a desperate noise like wounded
horses carted off, and under this the sound
of something opening: row upon row

of tulips showing their brilliant throats."

Carolina Ebeid comes to Knox this Friday for a rainy spring reading, and we hope you'll join us there.

4 pm - Alumni Room - Old Main

04/20/2015

TOMORROW: former Poet Laureate NATASHA TRETHEWEY at 7 PM in Petrovich Auditorium, Alumni Hall

10/20/2014

TODAY / 4PM / ALUMNI ROOM

10/11/2014

In 10 days, poet & translator Peter Cole will be gracing the alumni room. Here's a sneak peek, a poem published in the June 2008 issue of Poetry:

And so their pounded hearts / were worn— / like a badge / or talisman,

10/02/2014

If you're interested in playwriting or screen writing, check out the Mosque Alert Workshop tomorrow at 7:30 pm in CFA 209! Knox Theater and playwright in residence Jamil Khoury are working together to produce a new play, which is premiering this winter term!
Check out their facebook, tumblr or twitter for more info!

10/02/2014

thank you soup, thank you flashlight--

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09/19/2014

UPDATE & TIME CHANGE: Though not technically a Caxton event, all of you should check this out. Peter Orner will be giving a talk about his work with McSweeney's in Haiti, where he has been working as a voice of witness interviewing survivors of the earthquake.

Instead of the 26th, the event will occur on Saturday the 27th.

4pm. Old Main. Be there.

09/12/2014

Thank you to all who came, who watched the parade of chairs, listened to our two charming readers!

09/11/2014

It's nearly time for Clay & Lemon! There's a spread, books for sale, and the best windows in town. 7pm. The Space. Be here.