Last Black Swamp Literary Society meeting of the semester

The Black Swamp Literary Society will be having its last meeting of the semester tonight, at 9:00PM in Olscamp 119. Samantha Meyers of the BSLS Executive Board writes that “we will be watching Wonder Boys and there will be pizza, pop and other snacks. Hope to see everyone there!”

Mid-American Review welcomes Alexis Levitin

Mid-American Review is welcoming translator and SUNY Plattsburgh professor Alexis Levitin to BGSU. He will deliver his presentation “Translating the Music of Poetry,” and also offer a short reading.

Levitin is the translator of hundreds of works of Portuguese poetry and fiction, as well as several English works into Portuguese. He has had his work published both in the form of whole collections and individually in over 200 magazines and journals, including Kenyon Review, New England Review, Partisan Review, Prairie Schooner, New Letters, and, of course, our own Mid-American Review. Levitin tells Miriam N. Kotzin of Per Contra magazine in their Spring 2007 issue:

I have always been a para-literary person, surrounded by writers all my life, yet never writing myself. Translation gave me the joy of a deep engagement with language, an anchor to cling to (the original text), and the rewards of literary activity, without that overwhelming and terrifying leap into space that primary creative writing requires. In a word, I never had to face a blank page alone.

Please come and enjoy this special free event, this Wednesday, April 25th, from 4:30-6 pm in Room 207 of the Bowen-Thompson Student Union.

"Who Owns Experience?" – Final Spring Colloquium

The final installment of our Spring Colloquia series will take place tomorrow, April 24. Dr. Lance Massey, Assistant Professor in Rhetoric and Writing will give a talk entitled “Who Owns Experience?: The Disciplinary Politics of Politicizing the Personal in Composition Research.” Lance’s talk runs from 11-12:15 p.m. and will take place in East Hall 206.