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The Student Voice of Fordham Lincoln Center

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MATT PETRONZIO, Literary and Copy Editor Emeritus

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Open Studio: Performing & Telling Your Life

April 24, 2012
On Thursday, April 26, Fordham University English Professor Alvin Eng will host an "open studio" performance in room 109 of McMahon Hall with his creative writing class, Performing & Telling Your Life.
(Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

Whitewash Revolution

August 25, 2011

The Bride of the Sea has torn her nuptial cloth, ripped a band from the waist to wear above the brow as a crown stained with rebel wounds. Oil bleeds from the scars of the innocent, discontent...

Vero Eretico

August 3, 2011

Academy of American Poets Prize Award Co-Winner Profilo Continuo del Duce, Renato Bertelli, 1933 Renato gives birth to Benito a second time, a thousand times over. From every angle, in every light,...

(Matt Petronzio/The Observer)

Haiku Summer, in Four Stanzas

August 3, 2011
Summer is a hand- washed bedsheet hung out to dry, sunstarched and rippled ...

Poet-in-Residence Janet Kaplan Publishes New Book, Leaves Room for Chaos

July 23, 2011

Published: March 2, 2011 “Chaos and Order shared a house of lines,” writes Fordham’s Poet-in-Residence Janet Kaplan in her latest collection “Dreamlife of a Philanthropist.” Winner of the...

Condition

July 23, 2011

Published: August 25, 2010 Endless fields and urban streets Adorn the minds of sour poets— Fields that cover a corner of the earth So that we cannot fathom what a wall is, Streets that undulate...

Haiku For You

July 22, 2011

Published: May 5, 2010 By MATT PETRONZIO Asst. Literary Editor Heart is made of glass Bare feet march on humble shards Mind is made of stone ______________________________ By GRACE WEISS Contributing...

Polished

July 9, 2011

Published: April 15, 2010 Ah, I see: You say I’ve made a mistake. Oh, Margaret, Leave my regrets to me. It’s so hip not to care, To pour rum in my shoe, And we savor every bit But I’m...

Haircut

June 28, 2011

Published: November 19, 2009   In this life, we wear rain And pray to brew the courage that he has, She has. Fragile bones in a sack over my shoulder, I attend your funeral. You’re...

Tarnished

June 23, 2011

  Published: August 27, 2009 It fades, it fades. The dark, it fades. The scent ascends. Existentialism.  Manure. Your black heart is Bitter on my tongue, Your tongue. Your...

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