Bates Authors Guild

10/01/2018

By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infinite, undying -
Lady, make a note of this:
One of you is lying.

- Dorothy Parker

09/19/2018

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore must be the storm -
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm -

I’ve heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me.

- Emily Dickinson

Fun Fact: "hope" in latin is "spero" -- Emily was making a deep-cut sparrow pun.

11/08/2016

Tomorrow, at 8:30 pm, please bring all your bags to the ronj and chant "Bob Dylan should be given the nobel peace prize as well". Then disperse after 15 minutes.

02/27/2015

Tonight! Friday Night! 8 pm! Try starting off your weekend with some prose, poetry and uh, a 5-10 minute Fulbright Arts spiel about how you can go on an adventure for a year because you make art!

8 pm to like 8:30! No one goes to parties before like 9:00, so come on over before you go party like you're a fish in space or a debater in Yucca-land or whatever you crazy kids do these days.

01/26/2015

Tonight! 8 pm! The Ronj in the back purple room (THUNDER DOME). Come to the first meeting of the semester. Doesn't matter if you've never made it to a meeting before, we'd love to see your beautiful faces.

What's on the roster:
Arts crawl
A bust decorating competition
Valentines Day reading
Literary Movie next Sunday
and of course the general reading and sharing of poetry and prose

SEE YOU SOON!

-BAG

10/19/2014

Tonight! Pierce House Common Room at 7:30 PM, BAG is coming back full throttle, full of ideas, and full of enthusiasm! BRING YOUR BODIES.

- The Spooky Spirit of BAG

10/05/2014

LET'S ACTUALLY USE THIS FACEBOOK PAGE!

Tonight, meeting at 7:30 pm, Thunderdome.
GET READY FOR SOME BRAINSTORMING AND GOOD TIMES.

05/20/2014

TO ALL YOU BAGGERS IN BAG-LAND. Tomorrow Steve Roggenbuck will be reading poetry in the Fireplace Lounge from 5-6. You should probably go see it. YOU NEED TO, ACTUALLY. It's like an amino acid your body doesn't produce: a necessary thing to consume to continue living. Idk, I could be wrong, I'm a humanities major.

09/04/2013

We hailed down a police car in Orange, N.J., and Police Director John Rappaport pulled over. We explained our situation. He thought for a moment. Then he was inspired.

07/23/2013

Calling all Boston Batesie BAGgers! Don't forget to get inspired and march on down to the 2013 national poetry slam taking place this August! More info here: http://nps2013.poetryslam.com/

Hope you are all having fantastic story-worthy summers! -Babs

National Poetry Slam 2013

04/25/2013

Who needs a weekly Monday meeting when you can have a Thursday celebration?

TONIGHT in the ronj at 8:30 we'll be doing just that, and also handing out copies of our student work anthologies (feat. 17 of BAG's own!)

Other notable things include the usual ronj hospitality, GLITTER, word games, and prompts.

Also bring your favorite piece of writing (or copies of it to give away!) that you've read or written this year and we can share.

04/12/2013

The most important bracket you'll fill out this year (sorry sports and public radio fans). Thanks Jameson! HAVE A WONDERFUL BREAK!