Click the gallery above to view the next photo. When he started working at Jitters Coffee Cart his sophomore year, now-junior Joel Haines would occasionally doodle outdoor scenes of mountains or grand scenes from imaginary tales on the back of Charger Change deposit slips when business slowed down. Many of his drawings ended up taped on the back of the...
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Visiting Writer discusses his writing influences, Kentucky childhood, and the music of poetry
This semester, the Visiting Writers Program will bring poet and English professor Maurice Manning to campus March 14-15. Manning is the author of multiple collections of poetry, including “Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions,” “Bucolics,” “The Common Man,” and “The Gone and the Going Away.” Manning has taught at DePauw University and Indiana University, and he is now a professor of...
Hillsdale dancers take the stage in annual concert
As the Tower Dancers twist and twirl across the stage this weekend, they will present the work of six different choreographers, embodying six unique approaches to ballet and modern dance in their only professional-caliber concert of the year. “Each choreographer has their own particular style, their own choreographic DNA,” Hobbs said. After months of practice, the Tower Dancers will perform...
In Review: Manning’s ‘The Common Man’
Maurice Manning’s poetry in his 2010 collection “The Common Man” is an invitation to converse with the unique voices of his rustic Kentucky home. Manning uses each poem as an opportunity to narrate a single tale. But beyond merely relating events, his narrators sing of themselves, their concrete personalities and manners, and their relationships to their neighbors, the natural world,...
