Advisement Day November 7; Spring 2024 English Listings

It’s time for advising! Advisement Day is coming up on Tuesday, November 7. Make sure you make an appointment with your advisor. Here is a PDF file with the course descriptions for Spring 2024 semester English courses. The complete listing of all the College’s courses is posted at strose.edu/ugcourses.

St. Rocco’s Reading to be Held on Saint Rose Campus on November 4

St. Rocco’s Reading for the Dispossessed will be having a reading on campus on Saturday, November 4 featuring Nancy Klepsch Kenning JP Garcia as well as a Student Open Mic.

The reading will be held on the Saint Rose campus at MidKnight Eats in Centennial Hall, 930 Madison Avenue, Albany, NY. The entrance is on the left side facing from the street. The event begins with a gathering at 4pm. Readings begin at 4:30pm.

Featured Reader Bios

Nancy Klepsch is a poet and teacher who was born in Brooklyn, NY, and currently lives in Upstate NY. She has been writing poetry since she was in the fourth grade and decided to go to college after watching her mother type envelopes for a penny a piece in the late 60s. She studied education at College of Saint Rose, co-hosts the 2nd Sunday at 2 open mic for poetry and prose, and is one of the founders of Riverside Community Press. god must be a boogie man is her first published book of poems.

Kenning JP García is an Afro-Absurdist diarist, humorist, performer, and tragedian . Xe is the author of OF: What Place Meant (West Vine Press), With (Really Serious Literature), Ghost Notes (Spiral Editions), and Suffused (If and Only If Press). Xe is an editor at Rigorous and Dream Pop Press, and a founding member of St. Rocco’s Poetry Collective.

About St. Rocco’s

St. Rocco’s Poetry Collective was founded in September 2016 as a writers’ workshop-cum-reading series, by founding members Alexis Bhagat, Aimee Harrison, Kenning JP Garcia, Michael Peters, dgls.n.rthschld and Alifair Skebe. Albany writer Brandon Tankersley was also a member of the workshop in the first year.

St. Rocco’s Poetry Collective is currently Alexis Bhagat, Kenning JP Garcia, and dgls.n.rthschld.