Miya Carey slid into the satin-and-lace history of African-American cotillions, thanks to the new Leavell-Oberg Fellowship.
Toes clenched, the vividly costumed dancer’s feet thump the stage with a driving, percussive beat in Kathakali, or story play, from South India.
Up-and-coming tween novelists Josh Berk and Aaron Starmer, both C’98, didn’t know each other at Drew, but that didn’t stop us from asking them to interview each other.
Infected with HIV as an infant, Ramona Belfiore spent her earliest years in an orphanage in Nicolae Ceausescu’s Romania. Two decades later, she’s on the verge of graduating college, with all her dreams before her.
Melissa Tooley spent last summer at the White House, part of her plan to address poverty issues.
The vacant stare, check. Skull askew, check. Now all you need is a lumbering shuffle.
Two professors bring personal experience to a debut course on how society considers the disabled.
The inventor of KISS’s rocket-firing guitars lectures about life with Asberger’s.
If you haven’t read Still Life with Oysters and Lemon by Mark Doty, please get a copy. It’s beautiful.
“There’s only one thing worse than being at a poetry reading,” said Paul Muldoon, speaking at the October 2009 Writers at Drew series. “It’s standing at a poetry reading.”
