"O, let my books be then the eloquence." -- Shakespeare
About 10 times a year the Broadside committee — composed of both
faculty and students — publishes a piece of original creative writing
in placard, or "broadside," format. Each piece is individually
signed by the author and distributed free of charge to a subscription
list of about 250 people on campus. (Sorry, no mailed subscriptions.)
Since 1976 the outstanding writing of students, faculty and staff members,
as well as visitors to campus, has been honored by such publication.
Poems, songs and short fiction are welcome in the series. Authors are
also encouraged to submit an illustration or visual design for the publication,
which is produced by a paid student assistant.
The Broadside series has included works by these noted writers
as a result of their visits to campus:
Rhoda Janzen
B.H. Fairchild
Cornelius Eady
Pat Mora, Chicana poet
David Dabydeen, novelist and poet, Guyana and England
Donald Hall, poet, New Hampshire
Denise Levertov , poet, Seattle, Wash.
David Foster Wallace, author of Infinite Jest
Seamus Heaney, Ireland, winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature
Garrison Keillor of radio's "Prairie Home Companion"
