Author: Blythe

Come find where the “Crazy Apple” comes from April 3!

Q&A about Poetry with Marvin Bell
and Stephen Kuusisto 

Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 12:00 pm
Hinds Hall, Rm 347, Katzler Room
Bring your Bag Lunch, Drinks Provided
Free and Open to the Public

Steve Kuusisto writes: “No one knows where the crazy apple comes from. My friend Marvin Bell once wrote a poem called “Crazy Apple”. Meanwhile the fruit, the literal, non-Miltonic, Luther Burbank fruit ticks and ticks in the orchard like thought itself. The world “worlds” as Heidegger would say–or he did say it, past tense, the world in the act of becoming but always yesterday. But the crazy apple is turning toward the future, sun baked in the pure silence of its growing. Look at it: imperfect and dark as an ancestor’s shoe.”

 

Marvin Bell Poetry Reading and Book Signing on April 2

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Celebrated poet Marvin Bell will read from his latest work, Vertigo: The Living Dead Man Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2011) at 7 p.m. Monday, April 2 in Syracuse University’s Hall of Languages, Room 107.

The event is free and open to the public. Parking is available in SU’s paid lots. The events are presented by the Renée Crown University Honors Program, which is administered by SU’s College of Arts and Sciences.

Vertigo is Bell’s 23rd book of poetry and his fourth collection of “dead man poems,” a form he invented and about which author and critic Judith Kitchen has written: “Bell has redefined poetry as it is being practiced today.”

SU Debate Team has been very successful this year!

Recently the Syracuse Creme de la Kremlin team, consisting of David Kopel and Samm Costello, won in the Franklin and Marshall tournament in Lancaster, PA on March 10, 2012. The judging panel for finals consisted of 5 judges and all 5 voted for them. Their case was about Vladimir Putin dueling Tupac Shakur, and was written in the 15 minutes before the round (usually people bring cases they’ve spent a lot of time on to such important rounds). This win places David and Samm in 15th place in the Team of the Year competition and makes Syracuse 14th in the Club of the Year competition.

Nationals will take place on April 20-22 at Wesleyan University located in Middletown, Connecticut.

Catholic Charities Refugee Resettlement – a living classroom for our students!

Honors students help in the Catholic Charities Refugee Resettlement kitchen.

Honors students in HNR 340/360 “Folk Arts, Festival and Public Display”  had a cultural history lesson while they learned to cook traditional foods with refugees from Burma, DR Congo and Somalia at the Catholic Charities Refugee Resettlement here in Syracuse. Not only did they chop, slice and dice the ingredients but after their shared meal, they also washed all the dishes, pots and pans–while singing a traditional Congolese song with new neighbors, Kiza and Makere.

 

Scholarship Reception

The NCSC (Nationally Competitive Scholarships Committee) held an afternoon reception for recipients, applicants and finalists for prestigious scholarships from around the University.  On hand were faculty members of the committee, students and their supportive advisors and sponsors.  The reception featured student speakers Steve Barton and Paul Worden discussing their journeys through the application process, and also highlighting the amazing support systems that are here at Syracuse for students who want to take advantage of these opportunities!  More information on the NCSC? See their website at http://nationalscholarships.syr.edu 

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