Category: Uncategorized
-
Pierrettes Preview: “Collective Rage” Unites Women Through Theatre
SAV FRANZ Salem College Pierrettes will be putting on a dark romantic comedy, running Oct. 3-6, bringing together five very different New Yorkers expressing their love, rage, and passions together through the art of theatre (or as they call “the thea-tah!”). The five characters— all named Betty, each come from distinct backgrounds but together discover…
-
The New Poetry Review: The Best American Poetry 2019
NATALIE PATTERSON The Best American Poetry 2019 Major Jackson, Guest Editor David Lehman, Series Editor Though the question, “What is the best poetry in America?” is virtually impossible to answer, the Best American Poetry series seeks nonetheless to compile some of the finest American poems in one volume each year, edited by a different renowned…
-
Sexy Suzy ;-) Livin’ with Low Libido!
SEXY SUZY 😉 So you’re dealing with low libido, AKA low sex drive, AKA little drive in the hanky-panky department. First off, that is perfectly normal in every sense; not everyone wants to have sex, and other people do not have the physical or emotional ability to be having sex at certain points in their…
-
The Center for Women Writers welcomes Natalie Eilbert and Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
NATALIE PATTERSON Salem professor Metta-Sáma Melvin and the Center for Women Writers hosted poet Natalie Eilbert and author Mecca Jamilah Sullivan on Friday, March 1st, as a part of the Beverley Pritchard Lecture Series. The writers were each informally introduced by Metta-Sáma before presenting a short lecture on their work and on writing and performing…
-
Black History Month Concludes with Celebration of Students and Community
LAUREN KAY CHIARADIO On March 1st and 2nd, Black Americans Demonstrating Unity (BADU) celebrated the end of Black History Month in dual events honoring black excellence and culture. The first of the two events was BADU’s first Awards banquet on March 1st,t which was catered by Winston-Salem restaurant Prime Tyme and given a donation by…
-
What’s New Book Review
SAM SHAW The Night Tiger By Yangsze Choo pp. 384 Flatiron Books Published Feb 12, 2019 “The Night Tiger” by Yangsze Choo is a highly acclaimed fantasy novel that National Geographic so aptly called “A lushly detailed novel imbued with folklore, mystery, and romance.” It was dubbed one of the Best Books of the Year…
-
The New Poetry Review: Oculus by Sally Wen Mao
NATALIE PATTERSON Oculus Sally Wen Mao 2019 Sally Wen Mao’s second poetry collection, Oculus, is a meeting of past, present, and future, at once a work of historical imagination and speculation for the digital age. Mao, born in Wuhan, China and raised in northern California, crafts an immense undertaking with Oculus, weaving together contemplations of…
-
Special Election to Occur in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District
LAUREN KAY CHIARADIO For months North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District has suffered from turmoil revolving around the results of the 2018 midterm. Upon discovering these results as fraudulent, the North Carolina Board of Elections ordered a special election to be held in September of 2019. In November of 2018, election results came back from North…
-
Lucy Rose Center builds relationships with Network 1772
OLIVIA CHIPI On Feb. 15, the Lucy Rose Center for Global Leadership and Career Innovation hosted a launch event for the new Network 1772 mentoring platform. “It’s an advising, advisee mentoring platform with alum,” said Collier Lumpkin, the executive director for the career center. The platform Network 1772 runs through Firsthand, a website dedicated to…
-
Reflections on “Leaving Neverland: Michael Jackson and Me”
DENAE RABINETTE “Leaving Neverland: Michael Jackson and Me” Directed by Dan Reed Released Jan. 25, 2019 Now streaming on HBONow “Leaving Neverland: Michael Jackson and Me,” the documentary detailing two particular cases in Michael Jackson’s alleged dark history of sexual abuse on children was released this January at the Sundance Film Festival, and later aired…
The Salemite- Salem College's Newspaper 