Thanks to my girlfriend scanning the various "Free Stuff" pages on Facebook, I now have a Emerson College alumni cap. Now everyone will know where I got my MFA if I pose awkwardly with my head so lowered that I can't really see anyone.
After a feature break last week (one which hopefully won't be repeated again this month.Tonight, we are featuring Ralph Pennel,
a poet who is making a name of himself in the academic poetry world. He
is guest lecturing at Emerson College and was recently a finalist for
Poet Laureate of Somerville, Massachusetts. I hope you will not only
welcome Ralph Pennel to the mic but give encouraging words to his
students, who I am told will be in the audience. It's always exciting
when classes full of new poets are brought in to potentially read for
the first time. We've already had many new voices over the past few
months, but we are always looking for more.