Week 10 Newsletter

Week 10 Newsletter Greetings Symposiasts!　
Calendar & Updates
Last week’s them was wisdom and, although we were without our beloved president—for Caitlin and Josh were out attending noble duties—we carried on to gather what wisdoms we could. Many sage lessons were shared; Brian read for us an insightful Bible verse, Geraldine recited 'The Storie (sic) of William Canynge' by Thomas Chatterton, and these were but a few of the gems shared. Laura shared some of her favourite Roald Dahl poems—a perfect finale to the meeting.

Entertainment Corner
What We're HearingThis week, Michael shared the powerful and moving song that had come to him in the wisdom of a dream. It was sung by a wise old woman and warned him of troubled winds ahead.
On our facebook page, Brian linked us to a rather awesome video he made for Green Day’s ‘Boulevard of Broken Dreams.’ Check it out!

Writing ChallengeThis theme for the second official Symposium writing contest is:

Describe an animal in a way converse to their stereotypical portrayal
Good luck, entries are due at the final meeting of the semester.


POETICA GRATIA POETICAE



Sincerely,
Katelyn

ps. Please leave book/story/blog/etc recommendations on our facebook page! Our "What we’re reading’ section is ver sadly empty this week.

Week 9 Newsletter

Greetings Symposiasts!

I hope you all had a nice break and are refreshed for another term of poetic greatness!

Calendar & Updates

This past Friday was out first meeting of the new term sadly, with the impending doom of assignments and exams, turnout was smaller than usual but we encourage you all to come along for a much-needed break and a chance to wind down before you plough into another week of study. Last week, we heard poems that tied into the theme of colours. Josh shared with us a classic Yates poem, Geraldine read a delightful snippet from a PG Wodenhouse story involving gambling for a footrace at a village fair and a poor choir boy named Harrold. We also heard Lan’s heart-breaking and soul-touching drabble that related to both the colour and man-as-a-flower themes. Lastly were some fun poems about the colour—or some argue tone—black.

For those of you confused as to the venue change for out movie night, we are back in our usual place—General Purpose—on Fridays at 5pm. At the next meeting we are going to discuss details of the next writing contest and also our poetry-slam/cocktail fundraiser.

Entertainment Corner

What We're Hearing

This week, Brian shared with us a fun song about the colours of love: New Indigo. It seems this song—and its artists—have an underground following at symposium with many members confessing they follow its producers on youtube!

What We're Reading

Over the next few weeks it seems most of us will be reading textbooks and lecture slides, but the UQ Alumni Book Fair last week was a chance to pick up a few good reads for the study breaks. Feel free to bring along some of your poetry finds to symposium meetings!

For those of you who missed out, the Lifeline Bookfest is from the 11-14 June at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre.

Writing Challenge

This week’s fun writing challenge is to make a few critics cringe and go purple with prose! Have fun breaking all those writing rules.

POETICA GRATIA POETICAE

Sincerely,

Katelyn