Events

Gary Snyder was once asked what the difference was between poetry and prose.  His answer:  "You can't force poetry".  Is his implication then, that prose is a more self-conscious form of sentence making?  I don't necessarily agree with Snyder's assessment—particularly when it comes to results—which for me mean nothing less than creating writing that records the engagement with the beauty and terrible beauty of the world—evident in people, in animals, in inner living, in disease, in adversity, in redemption and when praise lifts up the object of desire.

Interested in learning more about genetic counseling and/or applying to the Joan H. Marks Graduate Program in Human Genetics at Sarah Lawrence College? Please join us for an open house!

Vivian Gornick writes essays, memoirs, and criticism. Her newest book is The Odd Woman and The City.

The Writing Institute's Wrexham Road Reading Series brings together writers from within and outside the Sarah Lawrence College community to share their work. 

Join us for an Open House to learn about our graduate programs, characterized by Sarah Lawrence’s strong emphasis on individual scholarship and intensive collaborative work with faculty. 

Be informed—hear the candidates discuss the issues. Audience questions welcome.

President Cristle Collins Judd will discuss the value of the liberal arts, the role of arts and humanities in civil society, and the pressing issues facing higher education today.

Dr. Joshua Bennett is an Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth College, and a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. He is the author of The Sobbing School (Penguin, 2016)—a National Poetry Series selection and finalist for an NAACP Image Award—as well as Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man, which is forthcoming from Harvard University Press. Penguin Books will publish his second collection of poems, OWED, in 2020.

Learn about the admissions process for the Joan H. Marks Graduate Program in Human Genetics  at Sarah Lawrence College.

“Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose,” famously wrote Gertrude Stein. Stein is just one of the many writers who have employed repetition to myriad memorable effects in their  writing. But is repetition simply repeating a word or a phrase or a sentence or a structural element? In our session, we will examine repetition as both a philosophical and craft approach.