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Professor of English and Creative Writing Naomi Guttman read from her work at a Four Way Books event at Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop in Brooklyn on March 3.

“I’d rather die than suffer another day as one of the obedient, silent ones,” said award-winning poet and writer Jimmy Santiago Baca during his public reading in the Chapel on March 1.

Here’s a question worthy of Final Jeopardy! — From the East Coast’s northernmost state to the one at its southernmost tip, who are the poets laureate of Maine and Florida? Hope you wagered big and answered, “Who are Stuart Kestenbaum and Peter Meinke?”

The 14 students taking part in the New York City Program this spring began their semester with a whirlwind tour of the art, food, history and culture that New York City has to offer. The program, directed this semester by Professor of English and Creative Writing Naomi Guttman, is titled “Eating the Big Apple: Global Food and Food-writing in New York City.”

Mark R. Green ’89 wrote a memoir and creative nonfiction book, Void if Detached, which will be published in the fall by DCDesign Books. Renowned American filmmaker Ken Burns is currently reading Green's book and plans on endorsing it. It will be available on Amazon starting September 23, 2016.  

The play Jenna Langbaum ’15 wrote for her senior project at Hamilton, The Night of Blue and Salt, will be featured in the New York International Fringe Festival in the Iati Theatre in New York City this August. She will be directing it, and will also be performing in it along with two other Hamilton College alumni, Andrew Gibeley ’16 and Anna Jastrzembski ’14.  

The adjustment to college life is something that many remember as perhaps overwhelming and, at times, confusing. As a Writing Center tutor, Fain Riopelle ’17 has tracked this transitional period by reading first-year students’ essays.  Through an Emerson research grant this summer Riopelle hopes to identify common issues with high school writing and create a curriculum that addresses them.

Culinary Nutritionist, author, consultant, speaker and food firebrand, Stefanie Sacks ’91, wrote a book called What the Fork Are You Eating? This book is an action plan to help people lead a healthier lifestyle from shopping to cooking at home.

Claudia Rankine, award-winning poet and essayist, read from her nationally acclaimed book, Citizen: An American Lyric, in the Chapel on Feb.  8. This work is a collection of stories conveyed mainly as prose poems and mixed media images.  Rankine explained that she had asked her friends to tell her a story about a time “where you were doing something ordinary […] and suddenly somebody said something that reduced you to your race” in order to explore the “white supremacist foundations inside this culture.

The Banquet of Donny & Ari: Scenes from the Opera, by Professor of English and Creative Writing Naomi Guttman, was named the winner of the CNY Book Award in Poetry for 2015. The announcement was made on Dec. 3 in Syracuse, N.Y., at the CNY Book Awards reception.