Al Landwehr Creative Writing Contest opens for submissions

Hannah Croft hannahcroft.md@gmail.com Columbia University and The Academy of American Poets are just a couple prestigious places winners of Cal Poly’s Al Landwehr Creative Writing Contest have been affiliated with. The contest, in its 43rd year, is named after nationally published…

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…

& All At Once It Struck Me

Sean Bugée is an English senior and Mustang Daily poetry contributor. It was the cold, calculated, inhuman efficiency of the thing: A hive of machinery and gears spinning, whirring inexorably, timed to perfection, that the system remained irrevocably on time…

1974

Cate Harkins is an English senior and Mustang Daily poetry contributor. From the darkness you come strange In memories that don’t belong to me and I don’t keep. Born wild-eyed and late, as the first are, Swaddled in a German…

August

Cate Harkins is an English senior and Mustang Daily poetry contributor. Him Her name knotted around the inside of his mouth — Unspeakable, indiscernible — Through tacks and pins, Before coming to a dead stop In the gutter under his…

Annual literary magazine turning pens

Cal Poly’s award-winning annual literary magazine “Byzantium” serves as a stepping-stone for serious writers, English professor and “Byzantium” adviser Kevin Clark said. The magazine has turned out award-winning and published poets and fiction writers since its beginning. The magazine began…

Poetry contest open for submissions

Cal Poly’s Academy of American Poets Contest began accepting submissions Tuesday. The Academy of American Poets is a national organization that promotes poetry writing for people of all ages. English professor and published poet Kevin Clark, who coordinates the contest at Cal…

Lovers speak out through poetry

Looking for a date idea outside of the over-used and unoriginal dinner and a movie? Look no further. LoverSpeak, the annual poetry reading fundraiser organized by Byzantium, Cal Poly’s literary journal, will be held tomorrow in the Graphic Arts building on…

Award-winning poet returns to ATOG

Joaquin Zihuatanejo brings his “life in the barrio” to Cal Poly.

Poetry at the PAC

Award-winning poet Mary Oliver will enlighten the Christopher Cohan Performing Arts Center (PAC) with readings from her renowned works this Sunday. The audience will also have a chance to ask the poet questions in a Q-and-A section after the presentation.…

Summer Literary Reading Series brings poet performances

Poets Jim Reese and Ephraim Sommers read their works at Cal Poly Tuesday as a part of the Summer Literary Reading Series, directed by Cal Poly English professor Kevin Clark.