By RILEY SPELLMAN On March 26th, Viebranz visiting Professor of Creative Writing, Mark Slouka, read at SLU, from his fiction and nonfiction. His work is insightful and personal, and his prose is stunning and fluid. Slouka’s literature and responses last Thursday suggest that he is a family man, and also intrigued by moments of confusion [...]
By RILEY SPELLMAN On March 22nd, poet Joanie Mackowski had the audience in stitches and in awe. Mackowski is working on her third collection of poems after publishing her first two, View From a Temporary Window and The Zoo. It’s also Mackowski’s chance, she discussed, to write about herself and her experiences in her poetry [...]
