'Byzantium' celebrates 24 years with a reading at Sally Loo's

The 24th edition of the English department’s “Byzantium” release included good reads and good food.

SLO Poetry Festival celebrates 30 years this weekend

The 30th Annual San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival kicks off this weekend, bringing in talented poets to share their work.

Year’s last ATOG proves ‘poetry is contagious’

Kelly Trom ktrom@mustangdaily.net The sound of snapping, whoops of agreement and resounding “Word!”s filled Chumash Auditorium as the final Another Type of Groove (ATOG) of the year unfolded Wednesday evening. Organized by the MultiCultural Center, the spoken word event gave the…

This is What I do When There is Nothing Else

  Silvano J. Gonzalez is a bioresource and agricultural engineering freshman and Mustang Daily poetry contributor. There was once a man with a secret he couldn’t tell. It was not that he didn’t want to, he simply couldn’t. He didn’t…

Airplanes (in the night sky)

Alicia Freeman is a graduate student and Mustang Daily poetry contributor. *A Zombie Interlude* Watch me carve our names Into that graffitied bench (or that dancing hobo’s neck.) Sometimes when I think of life, I think it’s all an apocalypse…

Cal Poly professor reads poetry in Philips Hall

Cal Poly professor and award-winning poet Kevin Clark, author of “Self-Portrait with Expletives,” read selections of his poetry at Philips Hall Thursday night.