Written by Anna Stowe, Hope College Creative Writing Major, and Student Managing Editor for the English Department Dr. Susanna Childress, DuMez Associate Professor of English, has taught at Hope College since 2006. Since 2014, she has served as an advisor of Opus, the campus literary and arts magazine, and in 2017, she became the director …
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Written by Candace Williams, Hope ’28 On the evening of February 17th, as snow blanketed campus, people filed into Schapp Auditorium. The rustling of coats and the stamping of boots obscured low conversations as the audience waited for the two Visiting Writers, both first-time visitors to Michigan. Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones was the first reader of the …
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Written by Anna Stowe, Hope College Creative Writing Major, and Student Managing Editor for the English Department Alumni Interview: Ben Opipari, PhD ‘91 What would you describe as your creative life? Like anyone who creates, I consume. I read every day and I listen to music. Now that the book is out, I’d like to do …
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Written by Anna Stowe, Hope College Creative Writing Major and Student Managing Editor for the English Department It’s 7 pm on November 13. Dusk has etched its colors across the sky, grayish-purply blues gathering in the shadows. The first stars glisten in the sky, soon to be obscured by dense cloud cover and drumming rain. …
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Written by Anna Stowe, Hope College Creative Writing Major and Student Managing Editor for the English Department What class(es) are you teaching this year? What do you love about teaching? Likewise, could you describe what drew you to this field? I love helping emerging writers cultivate a sense of their own authorship and move in …
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By Anna Snader ‘26, English Literature Major and Political Science Minor On September 30th at 7:00 pm, the Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series welcomed Heather Sellers, a former Hope professor, and Anna Gazmarian, a 2014 Hope alum, to read their work. After reading Devout by Anna Gazmarian and You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know …
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Written by Anna Stowe, Hope College Creative Writing Major and Student Managing Editor for the English Department For many writers, the name Heather Sellers is a familiar one—we’ve all used her textbook, The Practice of Creative Writing, in an Intro to Creative Writing class. This, however, is often the only contact we have with her …
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Discovering Chasing Beauty Written by Anna Stowe, Hope College Creative Writing Major and Student Managing Editor for the English Department Deep in the basement of the Van Wylen Library, you’ll find the Rare Books Room. Lining its walls are hundreds of books ranging from first-edition novels to tomes of Michigan history. It’s both atmospheric and …
Written by Anna Stowe, Hope College Creative Writing Major and Student Managing Editor for the English Department On September 11, Winants Auditorium was filled with members of the Holland Community, students, professors, and friends, all gathered to discover the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner. Light filtered through the stained glass windows as the room rumbled …
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