Esprit Plans Poetry Recital

.ThursdaY, March·5, 1992 The Aquinas AS ENTERTAINMENT from Limerick, .Ireland, will be reading from a selection entitled Esprit "Shadows on the Horizon." Pen~ Pal Planet links Both students' poetry will be available in chapbooks at the read . ing. plans Lisa Wamsley; Esprit staff students across globe member and the reading coordina tor, chose to feature Tighe-Saporito . By GARY KOELUIOFFER Associating with the Russian pect a return in about two months, and Little for the first reading be Aquinas Staff Writer . national magazine for schools, Stu with an average of six to seven cause "both have shown consider They are a country without a dent Meridian, Scranton's Pen Pal messages a year. poetry flag. able talent" Tiley do not have an anthem Planet has created a pen pal service However, it is possible to ask for Tighe-Saporito has won Esprit's · that they can call their o.wn. The that will match you with a student up to 20 names of prospective pen Berrier Poetry Award seyeral times. Iron Curtain has fallen and now from the Soviet Union. pals so that the letters will anive Little's work has been consistently citizens of the COWltry, who made Similar to other pen pal serv more frequently. Each name that recital feablred in Esprit. up a nation formally called the ices, ••Pen Pal Planet" provides you you ask for costs $2, and there is a Wamsley says the purpose of Soviet Union, are looking outward with a simple questionnaire that complete money-back guarantee if By JOE REDINGTON the reading is to raise awareness of for companionship. contains questions relating to your you are not satisfied with the re Aquinas Staff Writer student writing on campus. In a poll conducted in the Soviet hobbies and interests. Using the sults. Esprit, the University of Scran "We have a great deal of talent at Union in 1991, eight percent of the information that you provide, the Other than the $2 per name, the ton Review of Arts and .Leners, is the University and we want to make young people surveyed said that service will match you with a stu rest of the procedure is relatively sponsoring a reading of original it available to a wider audience," they would like a new friend from dent from Russia with compatible inexpensive. poetry by Margaret Tighe-Saporito Wamsley said the United States. interests. To mail a letter to the Soviet and .Robert Little on Thursday, Another pwpose of the reading Now is a good time to ask your You will be matched up as spe Union only costs 50 cents for the March 12, at 8 p.m. on the third is to promote the Spring issue of self what you know about the coun cifically as you desire. If no match first half ounce, which is the typical floor of the Gallezy. Esprit. The deadline for submis try once known as the Soviet Un is made within a suitable period of weight of a letter with no enclo This will be the first in a series of sions is Friday, March 27, and ion. time then you have the option of sures. readings by University SOJdents. submission guidelines are available You may have read about it in a taking another name or getting a re If you are interested in making Tighe-Saporito, a University in the SL Thomas mai1ro<m. class at one time, rut do you know fund. an English-speaking friend from the graduate who will pursue a master's Students are encouraged to sub what life is really like in that cmm Once a reasonable match has Soviet Union, then contact "Pen of fine arts degree in Writing, will mit their poetry. prose, original art try? been made, the exchange begins. Pal Planet" for free information. be reading from a selection entitled and photography for consideration. Pen Pal Planef in Scranton of Since letters traveling from the Write to them at "Pen Pal Planet," "Porches and Windows.'* Prizes will be awarded for the best fers the opportunity to make a new United States to Russia take over P.O. Box 3657, Scranton, PA 18505, Little, a junior Eng!i5h major piece in each ,category. friend across the ocean. four weeks to anive, you can ex- or 343-3749. m1xes• :-:· .. : ·::: By MCHAEL LAWLER the volume-drenched distorted Aquinas Staff Writer guitars would make even Neil Young When listening to Teenage ·and Sonic Youth proud his this mix Fanclub' s latest album, Bandwag of old and new musical styles that onesque, the differences between makes the album such an aural treat. this alhlm and othets are apparenL But Teenage Fanclub's style is Unlike most albums coming out such an amalgamation of different of Europe these days (i.e. Jesus somces that their influences are too Jones and the Stone Roses), Teen difficult to pinpoinL All the songs age Fanclub's music isn't drenched sound familiar. but you just can't with the latest hip-hop Ihythms. remember where you've heard them On the contrary, the pace of most before. :·:::::- ·. :=-g ·· ~'''MCLaclil ··:· ·· & lace ,.... 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There's a black cat on the floor/Big The slow rhytluns and exqui Deal/If these things make your day/ sitely beautiful vocals mesmerize If these things change your day/ the listener into a IllOSt tranquil state. Then Do you know where you be When the listener pays close long?" attention to the album, however, The other songs on the album they fmd some truly wonderful continue in this tradition, and it's aspects that justify Spin's procla not difficult to understand why they mation. The music recedes back to have gotten such a favorable criti a time when vocals were king, rut cal response from the media. .

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