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Multilingualism Writing about Writing

National Poetry Month: “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”

This week’s installment for National Poetry Month is the ballad “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” by Goethe, a man best known for his contributions to literature as well as…

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Multilingualism Writing about Writing

Put a Poem in Your Pocket

The Collaborative for Multilingual Writing and Research’s second installment in celebration of National Poetry Month comes from the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. This coming Thursday, April 26th…

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Multilingualism Outreach and Events Writing about Writing

CMWR Celebrates Poetry Across Borders and Boundaries

We text, we tweet, and we Facebook, but do we lyricize? Plato argued that “Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history,” and Robert Fitzgerald contended that…

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Writing about Writing

Submit Your Work to Threshold – Submissions Deadline Now Extended!

Hi all!  Threshold, DePaul’s premier student-run literary journal, is still accepting submissions for its Spring 2012 issue.  Submit your fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, or dramatic literature to…

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Writing about Writing

Looking to Get Published? Submit Your Work to Threshold!

Threshold is DePaul’s premier student-run literary journal, and they’re accepting submissions now for the Spring 2012 issue!  If you’re a poet, a writer, or just someone interested…

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Outreach and Events

This week’s free dose of poetic culture

In celebration of National Poetry Day, W.S. Merwin, the 2010 U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner, will give a free reading at the Cindy Pritzger Auditorium…

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Scrawl Radio

Family Affair (Scrawl S1 E16)

It’s a family affair on today’s Scrawl, as we welcome not one, but two special guests from the UCWbL! Writing Tutor/Fellow Martina Mihelicova reads some short fiction…

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Scrawl Radio

Flask Fiction: Round 2!

Are you a writer? Are you twenty-one or older? Do you like to drink? Got some free time between 5 and 7 pm tonight? (Come on, it’s…

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Writing about Writing

Creative Prompts for Writing

When you’re running short of ideas for your writing, there are a few methods via which you can try to get over the proverbial block that sits…

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New Media Writing about Writing

Writing.com

I know I frequently offer websites to you all that I think will be useful to writers. But today I found one that I myself am going…