poetry

  • Want to publish your poetry? Meet INverse: Indiana’s original poetry archive

    Want to publish your poetry? Meet INverse: Indiana’s original poetry archive

    Hoosier-created and powered, INverse is a poetry archive made up of original poetry written by poets all around the state.

  • Manuscripts: The process behind Butler’s literary magazine

    Manuscripts: The process behind Butler’s literary magazine

    Starting in the fall semester, Manuscripts’ executive team collects and edits undergraduate literary pieces to release in printed magazine form in the spring. The magazine has a variety of contests during the school year to encourage more submissions.

  • Poet Sam Sax continues Visiting Writers Series

    Poet Sam Sax continues Visiting Writers Series

    Award winning poet Sam Sax will be visiting Butler University on Oct. 3 as a part of the Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers Series.

  • An ode to Blue Indy

    An ode to Blue Indy

    Ah, Blue Indy. These dumb, little blue cars are everywhere. Everyone’s seen them, most have taken joy rides in them, but nobody has taken the initiative to roast them. But, fear not, for I have composed the ode of all odes to articulate my mixed feelings for Blue Indy.

  • Fourth annual Divedapper Poetry Carnival will be Sept. 14

    Fourth annual Divedapper Poetry Carnival will be Sept. 14

    Divedapper Poetry Carnival is a free event featuring fair food, games, poetry workshops and poetry readings from published poets.

  • Black Student Union hosts Arcade Slam

    Black Student Union hosts Arcade Slam

    On Oct. 20, poets from the Indianapolis area competed in a Marvel themed poetry slam.

  • Ocean Vuong to be the next Visiting Writer at Butler

    Ocean Vuong to be the next Visiting Writer at Butler

    Award-winning poet, Ocean Vuong, is a Vietnamese American writer whose latest work, “Night Sky with Exit Wounds,” was the winner of the 2016 Whiting Award.

  • Reflecting on love, life and poetry

    GINNY SPELLMAN, STAFF REPORTER While most people in academia may view summer as a time to catch up on some housework or relax by the pool, Chris Forhan, associate professor of English, saw it as an opportunity to share an intimate period of his life with the world. Over the summer, Forhan published his third…

  • A composer for the ages

    The legacy of a man considered to be one of the top five most programmed composers—along with Handel, Brahms, Mendelssohn and Mozart—can be found deep within the workings of Butler University’s Lilly Hall. This composer, teacher and faculty member is music theory and history professor James Mulholland.  Mulholland has worked as a music professor at…