After a lifetime of breaking boundaries in the fields of poetry, publishing and education, Haki Madhubuti came to Augustana to share his life stories and offer advice to future generations.
On March...
The African American Read-In has been an annual event at Augustana since the 1990s but had a few gap years until Lucas Street, the director of the Reading and Writing Center, brought the event back in...
On Wednesday, Oct. 18, Augustana welcomed award winning poet Yashika Graham to the stage for a poetry reading featuring works from her upcoming collection “Some of Us Can Go Back Home.”
Yashika...
Raw expressions of anger, hopelessness, fear, love and nostalgia fill the pages of incarcerated students’ notebooks. With no computers in the prison, students of the Augustana College’s Prison Education...
This story is from the Observer’s Injustice and inequalities inside Augie magazine publication. Print March 2021.
When she was 11 years old, Ashanti Mobley went with her siblings to the corner store...
On Tuesday, Oct. 1 at 7 p.m., River Readings hosted its fall 2019 speaker, Carolyn Forché, in Wallenberg Hall to read from her new memoir “What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance.”
River...
On Sunday, April 28, the Take Back the Night rally was held in the Olin auditorium. The event was organized by the students from the introductory women studies course, Women and Change, taught by Dr. Jane...
Dr. Monica Smith, Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion, delivered the third Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK) keynote address in the Gavle rooms on Monday, Jan. 21.
After 14 years of lively choral celebration...
This past Friday, Inauguration Day, Augustana students and members of the community, gathered together in the Augustana Teaching Museum of Art, to share poems, songs and, generally, the spoken word, in...
Bearded and in shadow, his face was the least of the audience’s concerns as they listened to the mellow voice of poetry sooth them under the poor lighting and damp coffee scent of Roz Toxx last Wednesday....
Todd Davis will read original poetry on Sept. 30 in the Wilson Center, as part of Augustana's "River Readings" program.
Davis is a professor of American literature, creative writing and environmental studies...
