What is one music genre you think is underrated? I’ve spent the past 25 years playing instrumental surf music, which was born in the early ‘60s in Southern California. Most acts from that scene were primarily instrumental, without much singing, with the electric guitar playing the melodies. My two bands, the Madeira and the Space...
Assistant Professor of English Kelly Franklin uses poetry to process his memories. “In the poem, ‘Trespass,’ we found this shack and broke into it thinking it was abandoned. But once we got there, we realized, ‘Oh, somebody lives here,’” Franklin said. As a child, Franklin spent three years in Latin America: one year in Costa...
For some, “home” is the house they grew up in. For others, “home” is synonymous with “family” or “friends.” But for students interning at the college this summer, “home” will be Hillsdale. Career Services is organizing its second Hillsdale Summer Fellowship, an eight-week program spanning June and July that teaches students practical ways to appreciate...
With a striped button down and tucked sleeves, he enters the classroom. “Hello.” He takes his reading glasses from his shirt pocket and begins the class, as he does every class, with a poem: She was young; / I kissed with my eyes / closed and opened / them on her wrinkles. / ’Come,’ said...
The downfall of education did not begin with the iPhone or the television; it began with the invention of writing. While that statement may be a bit dramatic, it’s true that for the majority of Western civilization, memorizing poetry, among other forms of rhetoric, was a critical component of a young scholar’s education. Today, such...