After dark vapors have oppress’d our plains

by John Keats

After dark vapors have oppress’d our plains

For a long dreary season, comes a day

Born of the gentle South, and clears away

From the sick heavens all unseemly stains.

The anxious month, relieved of its pains,

Takes as a long-lost right the feel of May;

The eyelids with the passing coolness play

Like rose leaves with the drip of Summer rains.

The calmest thoughts came round us; as of leaves

Budding– fruit ripening in stillness– Autumn suns

Smiling at eve upon the quiet sheaves–

Sweet Sappho’s cheek– a smiling infant’s breath–

The gradual sand that through an hour-glass runs–

A woodland rivulet– a Poet’s death.

Due to much controversy regarding Google Calendars, here is the list of all the department requirement due dates in March, plus other important dates:

Thursday, 3/8 – Mykel’s Birthday

Monday, 3/12 – Literary Reviews due

Tuesday, 3/13 – 10-minute plays first draft due

Thursday, 3/15 – CW Spring Potluck

Monday, 3/19 – Submissions/Reading due

Friday, 3/23 – Art&Film due

If you are not able to view Google Calendar, click on the provided link (or go to the Google homepage and click “Calendar” in the top bar), and you should see this:

Click Sign Up. It should take you here:

You do NOT need a Google Email account for this! Enter your current email address, which has (theoretically) already been inputted into the list of accounts allowed to access our calendar. If you still can’t view the Creative Writing calendar after that, email Midori. I will go to Heather at lunch tomorrow to input the emails of those who still can’t see.

The Creative Writing Calendar is also accessible from this blog. In the navigation bar right beneath the banner, under Event Calendar, is a widget set to display our calendar to those with permission to view it.

Any questions or issues, contact me, and I’ll try to walk you through it. If it still doesn’t work, we can try again from the library tomorrow at lunch.

Leap Year Poem
by Mother Goose

Thirty days hath September,
April, June and November.
All the rest have thirty-one,
Excepting February alone,
And that has twenty-eight days clear
And twenty-nine in each leap year.

Cdubs are a truly fantastic bunch, in which we are writers and poets in our entirety, not simply by virtue of being in the Creative Writing program. Last Friday, the Poetry OutLoud competition took place in 202, and after an intense hour and a half of reading the poems they learned by heart, Abigail emerged as the winner for the second year running, and Lizzie as the runner up. In another recitation competition on Saturday, our very own Hosanna took home the second place title.

Hi All:

Hosanna took second place with her recitation on Saturday morning!

Congratulations to Hosanna–and to Abigail and Lizzie, who took first and second in the POL competition. I am very proud ofeveryone who participated in POL. I hope that you will all participate next year and that others are inspired to do so as well.

Heather

And that’s not all, for we’ve also had a series of publications from students Flavia, Lizzie, and Midori. Congratulations, all!

Cdubs, I know you must be tired of hearing it by now, but seriously! Send Rebecca and I an email if you get published in anything. In the words of Rita Skeeter, “The public has the right to know!” (Or something like that– I don’t make a point to remember the quotes of a sleazy, fictional reporter.)