Annabel Pyne
Student Life Editor
Students gathered to celebrate their literary works put into print last week. Calliope had their book release party Feb. 16 in the Jazz Lounge of Kemp Library. They had refreshments and copies of the literary magazine people could take home with them.
Calliope, a club that collects and puts together small collections of student creative work, had a book release party for their 2024-2025 book. In this book there is prose, poetry and photography.
“It’s nice to hear all these very talented students reading their stuff and having a good time doing it,” said Richard Madigan, Calliope’s academic advisor.
The launch party started with students who were in the collection getting up to read their pieces to the group. The staff then opened the floor for anyone to read their prose or poetry. Some of the authors that had already spoken went up again and some new people got up and shared their works.
Among these works was one poetry piece by Sam Krol that detailed how she felt as though she was swept up by a painting called “Ship on Stormy Seas” by Ivan Aviosovsky. She also contributed the majority of the photography to that section of the literary magazine.
People were sharing their stories and poetry for almost the whole hour before the co-presidents made their final speech thanking many of the people involved and encouraging people to send in anything they may want in the next issue of the Calliope including: visual art, photography, prose, poetry, or small comics.
“I think it’s important to have events like this because writing has become less and less especially with AI, so I think it’s important for people to come up here, write their own original, creative thoughts, read them to people and inspire people to do the same,” said Delaney Zeidman, Calliope’s co-president.
Zeidman shared a short story called “A Train From Poland.” This piece was about a child in 1939, forced to leave on a train to France without her parents and charged with taking care of her two brothers.
On his way out from the event, one English professor, Jeffrey Hotz commented:
“Creative fires of ESU are ablaze.”