Tag: poetry
Feature Fiction: Beginning’s Eve
A woman walked in the garden
Her footsteps marked the infant ground
Ideas coiled around her heart
Voices hissed within her head
A woman plucked an apple
She thought...
KUCR Off the Record: Quaransingles
‘Cholla’ by Jerry Paper
By: Marc Arteaga, CW
Right off the bat, Jerry Paper’s newest single “Cholla” strikes the listener’s ears with a bouncy instrumental that...
Persian Poetry and Prose opens IRANspiration
IRANspiration week started on Monday, Jan. 27. Students piled into HUB 377, picked up sandwiches and took seats for a lecture presented by Dr....
Written Voice
I’ve fallen in love with writing.
The rhythmic tapping of keys,
The faint scribbling of a pen,
The sound of an eraser taking away the mistakes that...
Haunted UCR
The moonlit sky
Shining on the haunted peaks
Of Box Springs Mountain
The pale white ghost cackling over the empty streets
He came down from the mountain
To find...
The Verbal Coliseum’s second annual showcase features a night of UCR’s...
The Verbal Coliseum held their annual spoken word showcase on Thursday, March 7 at HUB 379, in a room packed with spoken word aficionados....
UCR lecturer Rachelle Cruz wins 2018 American Book Award
On Oct. 28, the Before Columbus Foundation (BCF), a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting contemporary American multicultural literature, hosted their annual American Book Awards...
41st-annual Writers Week brings literary luminaries to UCR
The 41st-annual Writers Week was carried out from Feb. 12 to Feb. 17, bringing a total of 20 writers to the UCR campus to...
Writers Week returns to UCR
UC Riverside will be hosting its 41st annual Writers Week this week, from Monday, Feb. 12 to Saturday, Feb. 17. Writers Week is the...
Urban Roots of Poetic Justice showcases students’ spoken word poetry
May is Asian Pacific Heritage Month and the celebration continued with Urban Roots of Poetic Justice: A Spoken Word Event. The event was hosted...