Creative writing by Austin Community College Students
Ice
My pain has changed
And therein so have I
Mind the beauty, it's fresh arranged
Just as my smile, a new discovered lie
I can't say when it happened—or why. All I can say is that it did. I don't know why it had to be me; there is nothing special about me, and there are many others more deserving. I suppose I was blessed with friendship—because someone found a way to communicate—with difficulty.
She helped me see within myself, but still I was blind. Then she was gone, no longer there to hug and guide, so I began to search for that voice. I went to the places she discussed, but still she was nowhere, but something changed. I started seeing more of them, shadows in reality.
Such beauty there is In the great unknown Vast empty darkness A blue dot, called home Ages have passed With obtuse explanations The stories still last Stirring all my frustrations The sullied perspectives The hidden agendas The crooked
Creative writing by Austin Community College Students
Ah the bleak abandon of a silent neighborhood And the masochistic query: How could? How could? I have made the choice to dispel all light and love? And given up all the grace, warmth and sun above? Forlorn be the spirit of the woman who chooses wrong, Desperate be she who could not see the glory all along
Creative writing by Austin Community College Students
Sleep to take your mind off things
Rest your weary soul
Sleep to mend your broken hearts,
And free you, is the goal
Freed from chains of monotone
Freed from weight bearing on your bones
Your bones that break when words are said
Over and over, inside your head
Sleep to help with woes foretold
Rest your hardened stance
Sleep will make you strong and bold
And give you one more chance
Wake to life and start again
Wake to love and let it mend
Oh, wake and feel like you had then
Wake and know where you have been.
Creative writing by Austin Community College Students
She was the sort of woman, who upon entering a room, immediately compelled every other double x chromosomally inclined life form to question their own femininity. There were few moments in the day when she didn't look as if she had just exercised her libido though she often claimed that she was not prone to brief romantic encounters.
Art faculty, students show off their artwork at ninth annual East Austin Studio Tour
For the second year in a row, students and faculty members from ACC's art department presented their work – a mixture of ceramics, drawings, paintings, sculptures, and prints – at the ninth annual East Austin Studio Tour (EAST).
Writer Julia Alvarez speaks as part of ACC’s Big Read
If this was written in the Dominican Republic during the time of President Rafael Trujillo, his government would have forced this article to praise his name. Instead, the focus will be on Julia Alvarez, who escaped the Trujillo regime with her family when she was a child.
In November, everybody with access to a word processor and an overactive imagination is challenged by The Office of Letters and Light, a nonprofit organization based in California, to write a novel in one month.
Kids came to paint sugar skulls for the altar while their parents looked at the car and bike show and listened to live music.
The Mirabal sisters were sisters in the Dominican Republic who stood up to political injustice in a Dictatorship. Although they faced hardship, they continued to persevere and in doing so brought about revolution in the hearts of the common person. "In the Time of the Butterflies," by Julia Alvarez, is the fictional account of how the quiet heros in society pursuing education and equality can bring about change in the hearts of men and furthermore change the environment in which they live in.
Sidney Frost is living proof that anything's possible. At 73 years old, he currently holds the title of Austin Lyric Opera singer, worldwide traveler, ex-Marine, devoted husband, Austin Community College computer science professor, and Elder at his church. And, with the recent publishing of his first novel , he can now add ‘novelist' to the list.
Austin's Staple! Con is an exciting look at the indie comic world. When I attended in March, by far the highest point of my Staple! experience was discovering the art of Boston transplant Paul Maybury, a local comic artist who's worked with Image Comics (the publisher that brought you Spawn) on award-winning comic anthologies like Popgun and Comic Book Tattoo, and the graphic novel Aqua Leung, the result of a two-year collaboration with writer Mark Smith (The Amazing Joy Buzzards).
Following Hellblazer and Lucifer, Michael Carey’s Unwritten is disappointing.
With Michael Carey's most recent project, "The Unwritten," it seems he was abducted by aliens and replaced by an illiterate doppelganger. "The Unwritten," a series in progress, is being published by Vertigo, DC's seal for graphic novels intended for mature adults. The new series hit the shelves July 9, and is currently on its sixth issue.
Books, live shows, theater and events/features to be on the lookout for.
Books, live shows, theater and events/features to be on the lookout for.
A quick release following up to the unsuspected best seller "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies;" "Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters" was released on Sept. 15. The authors of the works are listed as Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters.
The Student Literary Gathering (SLG), held monthly at Austin Java, proved to be an event not only for ACC students, but also fellow Austinites with a yearning for literary prose.
"From the Calle Bucareli, in Mexico City, to murder, you must be thinking…But it's not like that at all, which is why I'm telling you this story…" These are the closing lines of the first lengthy paragraph of "The Skating Rink," Roberto Bolano's most recent translation by Chris Andrews released Aug. 28.
David Thompson does not want the audience to remember his face.
Google, the ubiquitous presence that every scholar, college student, and layman has grown to depend on and utilize will soon be the largest rights holder of copyrights our civilized existence has ever known. Google Books began scanning and then digitizing books in the University of Michigan's library in 2004 which set off an alarm for the Authors Guild (AG), Association of American Publishers (AAP), and a small band of authors and publishers.
While working as a supervisor for European and North American animation studios outsourced to Asia, Guy Delisle documented his experiences in two previous graphic novels, "Shenzhen" (2000) based in China, and "Pyongyang" (2003) in North Korea. Both are excellent and worth reading, however, his most recent travelogue, "Burma Chronicles" has been even more rewarding.
Near the end of his life, Roberto Bolano became obsessed with the savage murders of hundreds of women that have been occurring in Ciudad Juarez throughout the past two decades. Through extensive research, he compiled an impressive amount of forensic information regarding the history and nature of these brutal crimes, which he has in turn used to craft a true-to-life fictional account of the culture and victims of Juarez (a town he never actually visited) by way of Santa Teresa.
Roberto Bolano's "2666" is arguably the greatest novel of 2008. Unfortunately, Bolano passed in 2003 due to liver failure. He was born in Santiago, Chile in 1953, and spanning his half of a century of existence, his loved ones can definitely call him a poet, revolutionary, intellectual, journalist, critic, and novelist.
Coming at the end of the fall semester, the Austin Community College Arts and Humanities Division will publish its next edition of the student-run "Rio Review", a per-semester literary journal, which features memoirs, poetry, short fiction and photographs by students.
Readers of Bret Easton Ellis's novels and viewers of film adaptations such as "American Psycho" and "The Rules of Attraction" may be surprised by his latest venture into the horror genre, "Lunar Park," now in paperback and accompanied by Ellis's second book tour since the novel's publication.
Lindsay Preston Staff Writer "Blindness," a novel written by Portuguese noble laureate Jose Saramago, is a brilliant and compelling portrayal of the dark chaos and greed both within and outside of society. The story begins as an anonymous city is inexplicably stricken with an epidemic of "white blindness".
For those who grew up with and are familiar with Kurt Vonnegut's witty banter, unyielding cynicism, and succinct metaphorical prose, "Armageddon In Retrospect" is not just a collection of previously unpublished short stories, a speech that he never delivered, and the letter he wrote and sent to his family informing them of his "missing in action" status.
J.K. Rowling casts a spell on audiences of all ages through her captivating tale about a young wizard in her "Harry Potter" series. Elementary school readers are lining up to buy her books, as well as teenagers and adults. For anyone who first thought this was a series for children, Rowling has proved herself to be a writer for people of all ages.
Multi-talented artist shares his stories, experiences and unpublished works with ACC
Poet, playwright and performance artist Keith Antar Mason gave a poetry reading, March 23, at the Austin Community College Eastview Campus, in which he read works from his books along with poems from his personal journals never before published. First published at the age of nine, Mason won the Harvard Book Award in 1974 at the age of 17.
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