Calling All Faculty: Poetry across the Disciplines

In honor of National Poetry Month, the Chronicle of Higher Ed is sponsoring a contest inspired (in the broadest sense of the word) by Keats’s “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer.”  Deadlines is April 20, dawn; length should be no more than 28 lines.  Reward is very limited glory and publication online and perhaps in print.  Click here [...]

Writing Opportunity for Full-Time Upperclassmen

Please tell your  juniors and seniors about the Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics Essay Contest, which has a deadline of January 8, 2010.  It comes with honor and glory and a $5K first prize–and seems a particular good fit for MU. Even better, can you help students identify some writing they have done for class [...]