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University of Maryland’s Jiménez-Porter Writers' House Magazine Email the editor-in-chief Iman Naima Smith, at [email protected].

The Writer's Bloc is the University of Maryland’s Jiménez-Porter Writers' House literary arts publication. Updated weekly online.

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16/11/2022

By Neha Dheen Once the clock hit 7:30, excited murmurs began to permeate through the audience. Parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and friends shuffled in their seats out of excitement. The lights dimmed and Faux Paz and DaCadence began their jaw-dropping, show-stopping concert. University of Maryland a ca****la groups Faux Paz and DaCadence performed onstage Friday night at the Hoff Theater in the Stamp Student Union to an excited crowd....

13/10/2022

By Alice Bi The problem with fall is the sentimentality it drapes over campus. College Park's treetops will soon blush, sooner still they’ll wither and droop. Walking between classes, I burn in the noon heat. Yet by nightfall, the winds cut, cold and curt, harrying me on the sidewalk home. By home I mean this half-underground room and its lonely, rust-silled window – a short term spot in College Park, not my real home....

By Alice Bi The problem with fall is the sentimentality it drapes over campus. College Park’s treetops will soon blush, sooner still they’ll wither and droop. Walking between classes, I burn …

20/04/2021

By Molly Szymanski Maryland Night Live hosted its sixth comedy and music show on Saturday, April 10, bringing wacky and topical sketches to their online event held on YouTube Live. The show was hosted by junior math major Rachel Niswander, who has been involved with the organization since Fall 2019. Her opener seemed just like any other until she was Zoom-bombed by politicians Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Ronald Reagan, played by other MNL cast members....

http://umdwritersbloc.com/2021/04/20/live-from-youtube-its-mnl-season-6/

MNL Season 6 streamed live from Youtube.

15/04/2021

By Shreya Vuttaluru Student Entertainment Events hosted renowned voice actors Dante Basco and John DiMaggio in two light-hearted Zoom conversations, discussing their experiences in the voice-acting industry. Basco is best known for his role voicing Zuko in the Nickelodeon series, “Avatar, the Last Airbender,” and DiMaggio is recognized for his work voicing Jake the Dog in Cartoon Network’s “Adventure Time with Finn and Jake.” …...

http://umdwritersbloc.com/2021/04/15/see-chats-with-voice-actors-virtually/

Dante Basco and John DiMaggio spoke about their careers in SEE's Voice Actors Series.

12/03/2021

By Shreya Vuttaluru Activist and Me Too Movement Founder Tarana Burke discussed the evolution of the Me Too Movement, transformative justice and student activism in her recent lecture. Around 170 attendees tuned in to watch an hour-long event hosted by Student Entertainment Events on February 22. SEE Lectures Director and junior Nabila Prasetiawan moderated the event, asking Burke a series of questions regarding her career as an activist....

http://umdwritersbloc.com/2021/03/11/tarana-burke-discusses-the-metoo-movement-during-sees-lecture-series/

By Shreya Vuttaluru Activist and Me Too Movement Founder Tarana Burke discussed the evolution of the Me Too Movement, transformative justice and student activism in her recent lecture. …

06/02/2021

By Caroline Klecka In 2011, Abel Makkonen Tesfaye lived in a Toronto one bedroom apartment with a friend after leaving home virtually empty-handed at the age of 17. Coming from a single parent household where his mother and grandmother helped raise him, he learned a standard of hard work early in his life. Although his early mixtape “House of Balloons” boasts about constant partying, casual s*x, heavy drug use, and overall mental health struggles, it was three songs from this carefully crafted record that eventually put him on Candian rapper Drake’s radar…...

http://umdwritersbloc.com/2021/02/05/from-trilogy-to-after-hours-how-the-weeknd-earned-the-super-bowl-stage/

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Writers Here & Now: Featuring Carmen Boullosa & Philip Levine

September 14, 2011 Writers Here & Now at the University of Maryland, College Park featuring Mexican novelist Carmen Boullosa and U.S. Poet Laureate Philip Levine

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