poetry Archives - The Mac Weekly

Poet Ross Gay offers inspiration to the Macalester community

February 13, 2020

MacSlams celebrates its ten-year anniversary

February 7, 2019

Snyder lectures, reads poetry in Kagin

October 25, 2018

Acclaimed poet and environmentalist Gary Snyder visited Macalester last week, and, on Wednesday, Oct. 17, delivered the annual Engel-Morgan-Jardetzky Distinguished Lecture on Science, Culture and Ethics. Snyder has published...

Beat poet and activist Gary Snyder to speak at Macalester

Sarah Hoffman

October 14, 2018

88-year-old Gary Snyder is a Beat poet, Zen Buddhist, environmental activist and Pulitzer Prize winner. This month, Snyder will leave the house he built in the Sierra Nevada mountains for an evening of poetry and discussion at...

Frances Stark & Sohrab Mohebbi Talk Art Studios and Domesticity at the Walker

Malcolm Cooke

October 11, 2018

Sohrab Mohebbi, a museum curator based in New York, began his conversation with artist Frances Stark at the Walker Art Center on Wednesday, September 26, by reading a poem: I think I'll Serve some toast today Oh no, there is ...

Guante performs at the MacSlam poetry competition. Photo by Izzy Gravano ‘22

Guante Performs at Mac’s September Slam

October 11, 2018

Annie Sumpunkulapak ’19, who created Home magazine. Photo by Summer Xu ’20.

Home magazine showcases international students’ talents

April 26, 2018

Assistant Director of the Lealtad-Suzuki Center Demetrius Colvin (he/him) presents the poets for one final round of applause at the conclusion of the slam.

Photo Story: 21st Annual Cultural House Poetry Slam

November 13, 2015

Sherman Alexie addresses the crowd Monday night in Kagin Ballroom. Though his poems were viscerally emotional, the anecdotes he shared in between had the whole room laughing—sometimes at themselves. This performance seemed to be its own form of poetry; as Alexie put it,

Sherman Alexie and Robert Hershon give poetry reading

October 9, 2015

MACSLAMS

November 7, 2014

Poet Carlos Andrés Gómez speaks about masculinity

September 26, 2014

Mac Slams: Semester Slam Preview

December 6, 2013

Macalester poets have been working all semester long on writing and performing spoken-word poems, competing against one another for a spot on the Mac team going to this year’s College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI). Af...