Author Thomas Senesac

Published in 1922 and widely regarded as one of the greatest poems of the 20th century, “The Waste Land,” by Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot, is the quintessential Modern poem. The poem is composed of a chain...

Emily Dickinson was born on Dec. 10, 1830, in Amherst, Mass. Dickinson—though she only started writing poetry when she was 22—wrote 1,775 poems (Johnson, v). However, in her lifetime only seven were...

“Lycidas” was composed in November of 1637, by John Milton, and is a poetic elegy for Milton’s friend and classmate at Cambridge, Edward King, who passed away in a shipwreck over the Irish Sea. Both...

“God gave Noah the rainbow sign, No more water, the fire next time!” “The Fire Next Time,” by James Baldwin, was published in 1963 and comprises two essays. The first essay is a letter Baldwin...

“She was so sad, so very sad, that when you saw her standing in the doorway of her house, you would think you saw a funeral pall hanging in front of the door. What ailed her, it seemed, was a kind of fog...

When Ernest Hemingway was being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, only one of his novels was directly praised by the Swedish Academy: “The Old Man and the Sea”. The myth of Hemingway, along...

Before beginning “Paradise Lost,” by John Milton, the reader already knows the ending and all the preceding events. “Paradise Lost” in a way, is a poem that nobody should feel a desire to read, much...

In the course of a year, we tend to lose ourselves in the low months of January, February, and March; the sun loses its luster, the streets are barren and harsh and a universal sorrow introduces itself to all...

When Adger Cowans received his first camera as a child, he always first kept it by his bedside. But one night, he had a different and even more unique idea. In an effort to capture the unreal, he placed his...

On Wednesday, Nov. 10, the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts hosted “Through a Different Lens: Innovation Lab Lecture Series.” At this event, renowned intermedia visual artist Claudia Hart gave her...