Come to The Sea i want to be beautiful like the ocean the kind of beauty that reminds you of your own a mirror, a glimpse like staring into yourself like scooping from within let grains of sand slip through to drag you towards me i want to be beautiful the kind of beauty that brings clarity and alertness as you dive right in salty air and salty tongue take…
Sometimes it’s hard to keep track of all the events and opportunities coming up. That’s why we’ve consolidated some of the most exciting events of February that you should attend! Attend the Clint Smith & Patricia Smith Reading on February 12th! Houston’s own inprint is hosting a reading featuring Clint Smith, discussing his poetry collection Above Ground, and Patricia Smith, discussing her poetry collection Unshuttered, at Zilkha Hall in the Hobby…
Caleb Dukes (‘22) is a playwright who writes grand tales about small people, examining the powerful stories that live inside even the most unsuspecting characters. They discovered this passion whilst grieving the loss of their great-grandmother, which inspired Virginia, a Texas Educational Theatre Association award-winning play chronicling her life as a mother, friend, teacher, and activist. Through this experience, they were able to turn pain into art, which is all…
The Wild Grain welcomes you back to our publication! This month we’re starting off with favorite book recommendations from none other than our own English Undergraduate Association’s (EUA) executive board! Julia Li, Co-President: Bliss Montage by Ling Ma I recommend that everyone reads my favorite book, Bliss Montage by Ling Ma! When I read this short story collection, I found it to be incredibly unique with notes of magical surrealism flowing through…
I was passing the time with an old friend of mine some time ago. We were drinking coffee, sitting lazily on her bed. I don’t remember what inane things led to this topic of conversation, but we started talking about physicality and our bodies, what we liked about them and what we didn’t. This was around the time I had begun questioning my gender identity, something I was open about…
When we first reached out to Paige Quiñones to interview her about love poetry, her initial reaction was to say, “I don’t write about love.” Compared to more traditional love poets, Paige’s poetry definitely breaks the mold of what we normally think love poetry is. Instead of praising warmth and desire, her poems address a different side of love, exploring its deep anxieties. She draws on influences from confessional poets,…
Peter Sellars is an American theater and opera director as well as a distinguished professor at UCLA. His tremendously popular undergraduate course, “Art as Social Action,” insists on the power of art to create structures of equality. Sellars has served as Director of the Boston Shakespeare Company and the American National Theater in Washington D.C., Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Festival, and was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1983…
Lauren Fitte (08′) majored in English with interests in creative fiction writing and hispanic studies. She works as an estate planning attorney with a niche focus on international trusts, estates, and closely-held businesses and the related tax reporting and compliance that accompany these structures. Now, she is a partner of a boutique estate planning firm in Austin, which primarily represent high net-worth families, both in and outside of Texas, as…
“A Day in the Life of an English Major” is pretty much what it says on the tin: a look at how the elusive Rice English major spends their time each day. Do they really spend six hours a day reading Mark Twain up in a tree, as the pre-med students suspect? Do they hide out in the library waxing poetic about Sylvia Plath, like the econ majors hypothesize? Find…
eat pizza with the english department! Being an English major at Rice means that manuscripts, screenplays, novels and other writing projects have deadlines that are coming up in the next few weeks as the semester winds down to a close. To take your mind off all of that important (but heavy) work, come out to Herring Hall (Room 225) on Monday, April 25th from 11:00AM-1:00PM for some pizza. Give yourself…
