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  • Ross Gay – Toni Morrison Day Keynote Speaker

    Ross Gay is the author of the poetry collections Against Which (2006), Bringing the Shovel Down (2011), Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (2015), winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and Be Holding (2022), winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award. As an essayist, he has published The Book of Delights, a 2019 New York Times bestseller, Inciting Joy (2022), and The Book of (More) Delights (2023). Gay is founding co-editor of the online sports magazine Some Call it Ballin’ and an ardent gardener and founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard, a non-profit, free-fruit-for-all food justice and joy project.

    Visit the Toni Morrison homepage for the complete program: https://www.monmouth.edu/department-of-english/toni-morrison-day/

    Co-Sponsored by the Department of English, Intercultural Center , Wayne D. McMurray School of Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Social Work, Leon Hess Business School, History & Anthropology, Guggenheim Memorial Library, Monmouth Review

    Special thanks to community partner Project Write Now

    Questions can go to english@monmouth.edu

  • Music Industry Network Event

    The Monmouth University Music and Theatre Arts Department and Blue Hawk Media Group is hosting a networking event to connect students with alumni working in the music and entertainment field and expand their knowledge of the music industry. Come meet with alumni at Warner, Sony, SiriusXM and more!

  • Bilingual Poetry Reading and Q&A with Salgado Maranhão and Alexis Levitin

    Join us for a bilingual reading (Portuguese and English) and Q&A with Brazilian poet Salgado Maranhão and translator Alexis Levitin.

    Salgado Maranhão

    Salgado Maranhão

    Born in the impoverished interior of Maranhão, in northeast Brazil, Salgado Maranhão became one of the most prominent Afro-Brazilian poets. Twice winner of Prêmio Jabuti, he has been awarded major prizes from the Academy of Brazilian Letters and the Writers’ Union. Five collections of his work have appeared in English: Blood of the Sun (2012), Tiger Fur (2015), Palavora (2019), Mapping the Tribe (2020), and Consecration of the Wolves (2021), all in Alexis Levitin’s translation. In addition to seventeen books of poetry, he has written song lyrics and made recordings with some of Brazil’s leading jazz and pop musicians.

    Maranhão’s poetry explores, via metaphor, the various kinds of devastation we bring upon our lands and thus upon ourselves.

    Alexis Levitin

    Alexis Levitin

    Alexis Levitin translates works from Portugal, Brazil, and Ecuador. His forty-eight books of translation include Clarice Lispector’s Soulstorm, Eugenio de Andrade’s Forbidden Words, Astrid Cabral’s Cage and Gazing Through Water, and five collections by Salgado Maranhão, including the most recent, Consecration of the Wolves. He has served as a Fulbright Lecturer at the Universities of Oporto and Coimbra (Portugal), The Catholic University in Guayaquil (Ecuador), and the Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil) and has held translation residencies at the Banff Center (Canada), The European Translators Collegium (Germany), and the Rockefeller Foundation Study Center in Bellagio (Italy).

    This presentation is co-sponsored by the Department of English, Monmouth Intercultural Center, Institute for Global Understanding, and Department of World Languages and Cultures

  • School of Communications Career Networking Fair

    Career Networking Fair for Communications Majors

    Contact careerdevelopment@monmouth.edu to register.

  • Major League Baseball: A Discussion of Legal and Social Issues With Rob Manfred, Commissioner, MLB

    Special Guest Speaker

    Rob Manfred, Commissioner, MLB

    Program Moderator

    Professor Lawrence R. Jones (Law and Society)

    Welcoming Remarks:

    Provost Pamela Scott-Johnson
    Dean Richard Veit
    Dr. Kevin Dooley

    Free and Open to University students, faculty, administration, employees and alumni

    USA Today article on MU presentation

    Monmouth’s Presentation to Major League Baseball

    Recording

  • Toni Morrison Day

    Details are forthcoming. View the 2022 program.

  • Throws and Prose

    Throws and Prose

    Can you SPARE a night to write with us? The English M.A./M.F.A. Program will be holding a fun, exciting event on campus on November 11 from 5-7 p.m.

    What’s more fun than bowling AND writing? This event is right up your alley. Join us as a bowler or a spectator…we’ll spend time in the alley and then move to the gym for some writing, refreshments, and an open mic. There is a limited amount of bowlers allowed, so please, RSVP to attend. Shoes and ball are included in your registration. RSVP to mmcbride@monmouth.edu.

  • Mothermotherland Created by Slovo. Theater Group

    Slovo. Theater Group is a group of Ukrainian and American actors and directors who have developed an original performance based on the work of Ukrainian author Mykola Khyvylovy.

    Mothermotherland, by Slovo. Theater Group, is an original devised theater performance developed over the last three months by Ukrainians artists-in-residence with playwright Audrey Rose Dégez. The performance is based on the artists’ personal experiences, the war in Ukraine, and takes inspiration from Mykoly Khyvylovy’s 1924 novella I am (a Romantic), where the head of the local Cheka, a communist law enforcement agency, must decide whether or not to sentence his mother to death in the name of the ideals of the Commune.

    Performance run time is approximately 60 minutes and will be followed by a talk-back with the artists.

    FEATURING: Audrey Rose Dégez, Lili Maritchka Dégez, Daria Holovchanska, Yuliia Linnik, Olesia Zakharova, and Veronika Shuster

    Monmouth University Sponsors:  School of Humanities & Social Sciences, The Department of Communication, The Center for the Arts, Dr. Johanna Foster (Helen Bennett McMurray Endowed Chair of Social Ethics), The Intercultural Center

  • Monmouth Hawk Night

    Calling All Storytellers

    Have you ever woken up laughing from a funny dream? Do you dream of what the future might hold? Had a terrifying nightmare? Gotten caught daydreaming in class?

    Tell Us Your Dreams

    Come for a night of storytelling and fun as The Monmouth Review and Commworks Present: Monmouth Hawk Night

    There will be snacks and prizes!

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