“If you want to be happy —be” Leo Tolstoy wrote. And if students are inclined to explore Russian writers like him, Cal Poly’s Russian Literature club says, do!
What began as four friends’ late-night chats and sporadic meetings in the library blossomed into Cal Poly’s first Russian Literature Club.
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“On the Road” Scroll coming to SLO at request of Cal Poly faculty
The single-scroll manuscript of Jack Kerouac’s famous novel “On the Road” will be featured in SLO’s librart for two months.
War Story
Rhiannon Kelly is an English freshman and Mustang Daily fiction contributor. The only thing he knew for certain was that he was dying. It seemed so long ago that he’d somehow found himself at the base, running through a battery of tests designed to evaluate his pumping heart, steady his shaking hands, and build his […]
A poet, an engineer, an author — but above all, he is himself
Allison Montroy amontroy@mustangdaily.net “When I was born, a pack of wolves was brought to its knees.” He takes a deep breath. “Frosted fur, whistling in the blizzard, they nosed at the mural painted by my mother’s blood and whimpered something beautiful … “ The words read like familiar friends — comfortable, worn, steady as they […]
Faculty and students to share love poems
Hannah Croft hannahcroft.md@gmail.com Cal Poly students and community members can start Valentine’s Day early this year. The annual Loverspeak poetry reading comes to campus on Feb. 12 at 8 p.m. Loverspeak is a fundraiser for “Byzantium,” Cal Poly’s literary annual, and the proceeds go toward the production process. English senior and “Byzantium” editor Claire Marshall […]
Sometimes it’s not so easy to “Love the One You’re With”
He loves me, he loves me not. If you love something, set it free. You only hurt the one you love. Love conquers all. We’ve all heard these clichés a million times.
Memoir reveals life of an abandoned foster child
In her memoir, “Three Little Words,” Rhodes-Courter reveals the realities and failings of life in foster care in a harshly honest tone.