If you’ve ever had a writing class with Professor Mark Turcotte at DePaul, you’re probably familiar with this story.
He tells it every quarter to his creative writing students: the story of him...
Rose O’Keeffe, Content Managing Editor
/ March 3, 2025
Irish writer Eavan Boland once reflected, “I began writing in a country where the word 'woman' and the word 'poet' were almost magnetically opposed. One word was used to invoke collective nurture, the...
The second month of the year is filled with love and, who would've guessed, Valentine’s Day. Yes, I’m still riding that high ten days later. I think it should also be filled with poetry. But then again,...
It has been almost one month since Amanda Gorman gave her inaugural poem on the Capitol steps.
Gorman, the youngest inaugural poet in history and first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate at the age...
The poet Allison Joseph stopped by DePaul to read her poetry and answer questions from students Thursday, Oct. 5.
Joseph lives, writes and teaches in Carbondale, IL. Joseph is editor of Crab Orchard...
On Monday, Oct. 2, a poetry symposium was held in the DePaul Theatre School atrium honoring the 100th birthday of Pulitzer Prize-winning author and poet Gwendolyn Brooks. Angela Jackson, Brooks’ biographer,...
The floor seating of the Arie Crown Theater was packed with over 2,000 students cheering, dancing and laughing with their friends. In one corner of the VIP section was a camera crew adjusting their tripods...
