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Pre-Raphaelite Art: A Movement That Could Inspire Anyone to Create

LRR, March 31, 2023March 30, 2023

Poetry panelist Grace Carver shares her past experiences with Pre-Raphaelite art and how she’s grown to appreciate the genre.

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Read Between The Lyrics

LRR, April 30, 2020April 27, 2020

5 female singer-songwriters who put poetry into pop By Ryan Amato When you think of creative writing, chances are you don’t immediately think of music; but you’d be surprised that the same amount of creativity that goes into crafting the powerful metaphors and storylines that can be found in some…

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Art Prevails in Quarantine, Even in the Smallest Acts

LRR, April 16, 2020April 16, 2020

By Brenna Sarantides The day that UConn closed campus and moved to online classes, I told myself I would have a lot to show for all my free time. I’d read a few books a week. I’d finally start writing the novel I’ve been story-boarding. I’d finish a large canvas…

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Revolutionizing Literature: Literary Magazines and the Digital Age

by Alexandra Cichon

LRR, April 12, 2016April 23, 2016

In the wee hours of the morning, with the DIAGRAM magazine tab open in my browser, I surf the magazine’s current issue, absorbing each pixel of avant-garde poems and clicking rapidly between diagrams. Besides my unequivocal love for the concept DIAGRAM pushes—“odd but good”— oozing from the crisp white and…

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Keeping a Beginner’s Mind: An Interview with Dave Mercier by Carleton Whaley (2016)

LRR, March 12, 2016June 16, 2017

Dave Mercier is the creator of the comic Mercworks, a weekly webcomic strip. He has self-published two collections of his comics, Mercworks: The Joy of Despair and Mercworks: The Cure for the Human Condition. Carleton Whaley: So I guess I’ll just start off with a basic question about Mercworks. How long have…

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The Graphic Novel: Art and Literature Worthy of Merit

by Theresa Kurzawa

LRR, February 23, 2016February 23, 2016

When approaching the subject of graphic novels (or more colloquially known as “comic books”), one often infers that their sole purpose is the mindless entertainment of youths with little to no literary or artistic merit. There are many reasons that this stereotype of graphic novels exists, and one of them…

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2015 UConn BFA Exhibition

LRR, April 17, 2015June 17, 2017

The Windham Artspace in downtown Willimantic was one crowded art space as a sizable bunch of spectators gathered to view the culminating work of nearly fifty graduating Bachelor of Fine Arts students from the University of Connecticut last night. An impressive plethora of photography, painting, illustration, books, sculpture, installation, printwork,…

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“The Power of Words”

LRR, February 27, 2015June 17, 2017

  “I wrote down ‘The Power of Words’ in my sketchbook and I don’t know why.” Mika Caldera, an art student at the University of Connecticut, presented this piece, “Empathy,” (pictured above) to me during a one minute artist-writer speed dating event that was held. She expressed her love for…

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