Literary Arts Festival Tonight

As I’ve mentioned before, City Tech’s long-running Literary Arts Festival is being held tonight. The LAF begins at 5:30 and runs for about an hour and a half followed by a reception in the lobby. Awards will be given to students for their writing, and the invited poet Jose Olivarez will give a reading and speak with students afterwards. This is a tremendous opportunity to learn about the writing your fellow students are doing and being recognized for, and a chance to meet a prestigious writer. To incentivize your attendance at the LAF, which is being held in the theater of the new Academic Building, those of you who are interested in going may leave around 5:00pm, but you’ll need to do something to earn bonus points for your attendance: write at least 250 words describing what you see, who speaks, and what the experience is like for you. You might focus on some of the student writing that gets shared, or Olivarez’s reading. You might describe the experience of being in the new Academic Building’s theater. As long as you write about your attendance at the LAF and email it to me before our next class, you will earn bonus points (I’ll apply them where you need them–they could replace an after-class writing assignment or they might boost your final exam score, for example). You don’t need to stay for the whole event, but if you leave early, choose where you sit strategically to avoid any interruptions when you step out.