Thank You

It is with a heavy heart I report that despite the efforts of the dedicated students, faculty, and staff, the Board of Trustees of Chester College of New England last evening announced its decision to close the college. Without Chester College, Compass Rose will no longer exist in the way you’ve come to know in [...]

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Caution: Fundraising Ahead

Compass Rose friends, contributors, and followers: Most of you know that Compass Rose is edited, designed and basically made possible by the undergraduate students at Chester College of New England. I am proud to be able to lead them in this effort every year. The school’s motto is “Artists – Writers – Thinkers.” I teach [...]

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Volume XII Available Now!

Compass Rose is pleased to announce Volume XII is available. We would like to thank all of you for your patience and we hope you enjoy this collection of poetry, prose, and artwork as much as we do. You can buy Volume XII here.

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Subterfuge, Snapshots & You Can’t Erase an Idea

The following are previews of the current shows in the Gallery at Wadleigh Library. They will be showing through March 8th, 2012, with a reception on February 15, at 5:00 P.M.    Kimberly Kersey Asbury: Subterfuge (Mock Battle #2)  Ms. Asbury’s show includes a series of photos of plastic army men and the molds they [...]

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Compass Rose Announces Flash Fiction Contest Winner

The editors of Compass Rose are happy to announce the winner of our first flash fiction contest is “The Lifter” by Eliot Wilson of Denver, CO. Our final judge, Tim Horvath, also awarded a second prize to “Midsummer,” by Amelia Boldaji of Salt Lake City, UT. Both pieces will appear in our Volume 12, scheduled for [...]

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Conceptual Artist Gaye Chan to Visit Chester College

On Tuesday, November 29, Gaye Chan will visit Chester College of New England as the finale to this fall’s Visiting Artist Symposium. A conceptual artist, Chan immigrated to the United States in 1969. She received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Though she is recognized equally for her individual and collaborative work, Chan’s [...]

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A Meeting of Wills

An Interview with William Giraldi By William Mercier Jr. I was given the amazing opportunity to interview William Giraldi, author of Busy Monsters, a novel that came out at the end of this past summer.  Giraldi was here almost exactly a year ago.  In this interview, I get to talk with him about family, reading, [...]

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Photographer John Willis To Visit Chester College

Photographer John Willis will visit Chester College of New England on Tuesday, November 8, as part of the fall’s Visiting Artist Symposium. He will lecture in the Wadleigh Library classroom at 2:30 p.m. This event is free and open to the public. Willis graduated with an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in [...]

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Artist Anna Hepler Visits Chester College Today

Artist Anna Hepler will visit Chester College of New England today  as part of the fall’s Visiting Artist Symposium. An alumnae of UW-Madison and Oberlin College, Hepler’s work consists of sculpture, installation, prints, and drawings. For the past few years she has been observing the transitions of two dimensional and three dimensional states, by making [...]

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Interviews with Maura

Christopher Anderson is an assistant professor of writing and literature at Chester College of New England. He recently read from his new memoir, The Bookstore, as part of the department’s Visiting Writer Series. Click here to listen to the reading, which also features Chester College junior Stephen Wicks as the opener. Maura Keaney: Has working [...]

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