Four Left Turns

Finished

2008-05-07T01:14:00.006-04:00

A visual catalog of thesis completion:

Potential Thesis Project?

2008-04-07T23:16:00.009-04:00

Via Post Secret

Talk about procedural...

2008-04-02T11:37:00.009-04:00

Some wonderfully poetic (mis)translated t-shirts:

found at Goodwin Films

The C.I. Social Experiment, V. 1

2008-03-07T01:00:00.002-05:00

Uncanny, huh?

Desire Paths

2008-03-05T20:38:00.006-05:00

Desire Path: a term in landscape architecture used to describe a path that isn’t designed but rather worn casually away by people finding the shortest distance between two points.

This term comes from Gaston Bachelard's book The Poetics of Space. This post comes from Shape & Colour

Can you think of a better term to describe these creations we take for granted everyday (especially those of us on campus 24/7)?

2008-03-02T18:30:00.009-05:00

Jenny Boully graduated from Hollins University and received her MFA at the University of Notre Dame, and is currently completing a Ph.D. in English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her book-length essay, The Body, was released by Slope Editions in 2002, and her second volume, a mix of fiction/poetry/essay entitled One Love Affair, was released by Tarpaulin Sky Press. Her next book, Book of Beginnings and Endings, is forthcoming from Sarabande Books. She was born in Thailand and raised in Texas.

MFA Graduation Gift Proposal #1

2008-02-29T23:01:00.005-05:00

Thanks Mom! *via treehugger.com*

2008-02-20T20:35:00.003-05:00

Beanstalk Reading Tomorrow Night!

Marcia Douglas, 8:00 PM, Hollins Room

Marcia Douglas was born in England and grew up in Jamaica. She is the author of the novels Madam Fate (1999) and Notes from a Writer's Book of Cures and Spells (2005) as well as a collection of poetry, Electricity Comes to Cocoa Bottom (1999), which received a Poetry Book Society Recommendation in the United Kingdom. Her work has appeared in anthologies and journals internationally including The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse, Mojo: Conjure Stories, Enlaces: Transnacionalidad- El Caribe y su Diáspora- Lengua, Literatura y Cultura en los Albores del Siglo XXI, Whispers from Under the Cotton Tree Root, The Forward Book of Poetry 2000, Cultural Activism: Poetic Voices, Political Voices, The Edexcel Anthology for GCSE English, and Sisters of Caliban: Contemporary Women Poets of the Caribbean. Douglas lives in Broomfield, Colorado.

B-SIDE #1 : AMELIA BOLDAJI

2007-12-07T19:02:00.000-05:00

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(Janna Levin + Jonthan Lethem + Seed Magazine)

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"Lights flash across the harbor. Signals, if you can read them. They have a different language, that of water. Do they have memories? Some would say yes, that of ships and the topography of wind. Indifference is not memory, you say, it is not the same thing at all. And it may be that you are right. But on evenings when the mist begins to settle and the shore rolls in and out through the fog, there are some who hear voices. The melody of a past they can never remember, and yet will never quite forget."

CANTO INAUGURAL

2007-11-02T11:40:00.000-04:00

Welcome to Four Left Turns, the first blog of the Hollins MFA Program!

This weblog is intended to serve as an informational hub for the program, complete with updates, upcoming events, and other general going's on.

We also have some special content in the mix, including the first of what (we hope) will be many "Audio Broadsides." We're also working on a series of graduate student "digital profiles," though please bear with us through this beta stage.

To keep things interesting, we'll update regularly with poems, stories, essays, images, videos, and anything else we think might get the creative engine running...

And with that possibility-rich metaphor at hand, ponder this image of your beloved R. H. W. Dillard.

Hilarious? Intriguing? Terrifying? Some glorious mixture of the three?

Let us know in the comments section!