Poets Emily Lee Luan (‘15), Leslie Sainz (Managing Editor, New England Review), and Margaret Ray (‘07) will read from their new collections. More information can be found on the English Department events webpage.
Axinn Center Abernethy Room (221)
Open to the Public
The line between wellness and illness seems thick, well drawn, and impermeable. We believe ourselves, and others, to be firmly situated on one side or the other. But that is not true. We all come to realize this about physical illness. We come to realize that eventually it will touch and alter our lives, either through our own direct experience or that of a loved one. So, we begin to learn the language of cancer, of Alzheimer’s, of Parkinson’s. What of mental illness, though?
Axinn Center 229
Open to the Public
On Thursday May 4th, from 4:30-6:00 in the Axinn lobby (near the waterfall), Middlebury’s 2022-2023 Narrative Journalism Fellowship will be hosting a listening event open to everyone. Pizza and refreshments will be provided. The event will be held in a gallery style fashion, so feel free to come at any time between 4:30 and 6:00 to listen to the podcasts.
Axinn Center Winter Garden
Poets Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Farris will read from their work.
The Vermont Book Shop will have books available for purchase.
Please refer to the English Department’s events page for more information.
Twilight Auditorium 101
Open to the Public
Sea Captain Eliot Rappaport will read from his new book Reading the Glass: A Captain’s View of Weather, Water and Life on Ships.
Axinn Center 229
Open to the Public
Award-winning journalist Abe Streep (‘04) will be in conversation with esteemed sports writer, Alexander Wolff to discuss his first book, Brothers on Three: A True Story of Family, Resistance, and Hope on a Reservation in Montana (Celadon Books, 2021). The book follows the boys basketball team from Arlee High School as they defend their state championship. Streep reports on the place of basketball in the lives of members of the Flathead Reservation’s Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes.
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
Open to the Public
Screening and discussion of The Battle of Algiers
Twilight Auditorium 101
Students who have been a part of the Narrative Journalism Fellowship have been working all year on a podcast titled ‘How Did You Get Here?’ which interviews different students and tells the stories of how they ended up at Middlebury. This event will be a listening event that showcases these stories.
Axinn Center Abernethy Room (221)
This event will bring families who are working with the Colibrí Center for Human Rights to find a missing family member lost during their migration into the United States through the Sonoran Desert. These family members are working with the Colibrí Center to identify human remains that might help families bring closure to their search. This event is organized in conjunction with the Hostile Terrain 94 exhibit in Center Gallery.
Davis Family Library 105A
Open to the PublicPoet Cheswayo Mphanza (‘16) will read from his award winning collection, The Rinehart Frames. Mphanza was born in Lusaka, Zambia and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He earned a B.A. in English from Middlebury College and an MFA in poetry from Rutgers-Newark. His work has appeared in the New England Review, the Paris Review, Hampden-Sydney Review, Boston Review, and elsewhere.
Axinn Center Abernethy Room (221)
Open to the Public