Editors’ Choice: Adriana Páramo

Oil Spills Remind Me of Him The moment we walked into a trendy club in the upper-class party strip in Bogotá, the women stopped talking. Their heads turned in our direction and their smiles got silly flirty. He smiled back, did this thing with his spiked-up hair, winked with a slow flutter of his eyelashes [...]

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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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Chester College Visiting Writers Series Features Christopher Anderson

Christopher Anderson will be the feature reader in the Fall Visiting Writers Series at Chester College of New England this week. Stephen Wicks, a junior creative writing major at the college will open the event at 6 p.m. Wednesday, in Powers 29. An assistant professor of writing and literature, Anderson joined the Chester College faculty [...]

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Editors’ Choice: Corey Ginsberg

My Quarterlife Crisis I can’t decide what the worst part about my job is. Maybe it’s cleaning the caked, orange urine stains from the inside of the Fabi’s toilet bowl rim. Maybe it’s being hungover from drinking cheap vodka out of a You’re #1 mug alone in my apartment last night while I ignored term [...]

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Janke & Glasser Close Out Chester College Fall Visiting Writers Series

On Wednesday, December 8, at 6 p.m. in Powers 29, join not one but two fabulous writers for the final event of this semester’s visiting writing series! The first featured artist that day will be Christopher Janke. Among other things, Janke is the owner of Suzee’s Third St. Laundry in TMFA and the senior editor [...]

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“Laura Gives Good Interviews:” Interview with Debra Monroe

Compass Rose staffer Laura Evans sat down with visiting writer Debra Monroe during her recent visit to Chester College as part of the Visiting Artist Symposium and Visiting Writers Series. Laura Evans: I know that in your writing place is a very important theme.  What is it about a certain place that inspires you? Debra [...]

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Editors’ Choice: Mark Cugini

Swagger If there is something to take pride in from being a native Staten Islander, we have yet to discover it.  The majority of my generation are descendants of the children from other boroughs, and the history we’ve carved for ourselves is ripe for parody and satire.  That is why we identify with our nationalities [...]

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Kevin Keck Returns to Chester College

Author Kevin Keck will return to Chester College of New England February 22-26. As a guest on campus, he will attend numerous creative writing classes throughout the week. At 6 p.m. Tuesday, February 23, he will give a free public reading in Powers 29. Chester College creative writing major Chelsea Paige will open. A resident [...]

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Gretchen Heyer

A Bit Thin and Slippery to Hold Gretchen Heyer (From Compass Rose Volume IX) He was in love with my voice, the story I told: the woman who sat by his bed while he waited at the cusp of life and death. The idea of love can kill as well as cure. Didn’t Charcot talk [...]

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Nancy Tupper Ling and Eric Pinder

I Tell the Truth Nancy Tupper Ling (2006-2007 Parnell Prize Winner) a good mother wanted her children to denounce her, her Kuomintang ties, her rightest secrets: how she tucked dried plums into her daughters’ pockets when other children went without, how she stitched the Golden Gate to her pillowcase, Slept on its strong, burnished beams [...]

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