Stories about "English"
Soldier-poet Brian Turner to appear in Bates, downtown readings

Friday, September 14, 2012 2:04 pm

An Army veteran whose service included a year in Iraq, poet Brian Turner reads from his work in a Language Arts Live event Sept. 27.

Longstanding Bates-L/A Arts partnership picks up pace with theater, poetry, music

Friday, September 14, 2012 1:11 pm

Bates and the local arts agency L/A Arts have been collaborators for years, but the partnership has gained a new intensity for autumn 2012.

Peasants Revolt included women, too, Federico proves

Monday, June 18, 2012 9:54 am

"They were not shy to pick up staffs, sticks, and staves and wield them against perceived oppressors."

In NAACP project, students get fresh lesson in value of old papers

Tuesday, June 5, 2012 12:44 pm

Thanks to a two-year collaboration among the Portland branch of the NAACP, the University of Southern Maine and Bates, valuable papers of the Portland branch are being made accessible to researchers and the public for the first time.

Audio: poems and prose from Bates’ creative writing majors

Friday, May 18, 2012 4:15 pm

Their adviser, Rob Farnsworth, praised them for their "dedicated commitment to the life of the imagination."

‘red, black & GREEN: a blues’ breaks boundaries April 27-28

Tuesday, April 24, 2012 1:22 pm

Bates College and the Bates Dance Festival present this widely acclaimed multimedia production "red, black & GREEN: a blues" April 27-28.

Language Arts Live to present novelist Justin Tussing

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 1:46 pm

"A talented young voice on the contemporary fiction scene" according to The Boston Globe, Justin Tussing reads from his work on March 8.

English Lillian Nayder, with the help of Bates music faculty colleague James P. Parakilas, is about to give Fanny that introduction, or reintroduction, through the voice Fanny was known for in her day: the music, both vocal and instrumental, that she composed and performed for admiring (and often paying) audiences.
High time for performance of works by a different Dickens

Friday, February 3, 2012 8:21 am

Bates professor rediscovers music by Dickens' older sister.

Poets Kearney, Potter to read in Language Arts Live event

Tuesday, January 24, 2012 2:08 pm

Award-winning New England poets Dawn Potter and Meg Kearney read from their work at Bates on Feb. 9.

Jackson Poetry Prize winner opens 2012 Language Arts Live

Wednesday, December 21, 2011 2:22 pm

James Richardson, winner of the coveted Jackson Poetry Prize, reads from his work in the Language Arts Live series.

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