Plymouth State University Professor Emerita Marcia Schmidt Blaine will explore the 18th and 19th century views of the Merrimack when the river served as a highway for European incursion and settlement.

Location Information
Event Space at the Roger and Francine Jean Student Center

Contact Information
Humanities@Anselm.edu

Whether we are aware of it or not, the Merrimack River--quietly and forcefully--runs through all of our lives in ways far beyond the water we drink.  Join us for a year-long exploration of the geographical, ecological, biological, historical, economic, and cultural relationship we all share with the Merrimack River.

This year-long series of lectures, panels and discussions will help us all to consider the origin, nature, and consequences of our individual and shared beliefs from religious faith to superstitions to conspiracy theories.  Why and how do we believe the things we do? Where do those beliefs come from and what experiences in our lives inform, strengthen, challenge, or change them? How dependent are our individual lives and our lives as citizens upon a set of shared beliefs? And how do we reconcile our beliefs with those whose beliefs contradict our own, especially when those other believers are our fellow citizens, our colleagues and friends, or members of our family?

Location Information
Melucci Theater at the Roger and Francine Jean Student Center

Contact Information
Humanities@Anselm.edu

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Facilitated by Dr. Jay Parini, Axinn Professor of English and Creative Writing at Middlebury College

Geisel Library will host a book discussion of "Tastes Like War: A Memoir" by Grace M. Cho as part of Overdrive's Big Library Read May 3-17, 2023.

Ebook and audiobook copies are available to the SAC community (monastery, faculty, staff, and students) for unlimited, simultaneous use via Overdrive’s Libby App between May 3-17. Contact Melinda Malik (mmalik@anselm.edu) or Laura Gricius-West (lgriciuswest@anselm.edu) if you need assistance in setting up the Libby App on your Android or iOS device. 

As we enter a post pandemic healthcare world, never has it been more important for nurses to share their voices. Year after year, nurses have been deemed the most trusted profession by the public, so what we have to say matters. This workshop will explore the ways in which nurses can use writing to not only advance the profession and impact the future of health care but also accelerate their own career growth. Writing can be for the self, as a means of processing challenging clinical experiences (Hello! Pandemic!), writing academically for other nurses and health professionals, or writing for the general public with blogs or news articles. Topics include: Idea generation, writing for journals and getting published, and sharing your voice with the public through blogs and articles.

Multiple speakers

Nursing contact hours- 5

Cost $99

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Rage Hezekiah is the author of Yearn (Winner of the 2021 Diode Editions Book Contest and 2023 Lamba Literary Best Lesbian Poetry Nominee),  Stray Harbor (2019), and Unslakable ( 2018 Vella Chapbook Award Winner).  

She is a Cave Canem, MacDowell, and Ragdale Fellow and recipient of the Saint Botolph Emerging Artist Award in Literature and nominee for Best New Poets of 2017.

The word is ‘yearn.’  Not ‘yearning’—not that soft. Yearn. A command. A dare. The poet’s directive to herself and to us, Reader. Do you want to feel your body alight & vibrating? Yearn. Rage Hezekiah’s poems walk that walk, show—in stunning images, in did-she-say-that? word-witchery—a woman making her desires known to herself, so she can step out to meet the life she wants to live.

- Evie Shockley, author of semiautomatic

https://www.ragehezekiah.com/

Location Information:

Jean Student Center Melucci Auditorium

There will also be a workshop with the poet at 3PM in Learning Living Center (LLC) at Saint Anselm College. 
Free but space is limited, registration required.