This past Wednesday evening from 7-9, Women Poets at Barnard hosted a public reading where the winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize read her poetry. Possible poet Caroline Lee was in attendance. Since 1986, the Barnard Women Poets Prize has been awarded biannually for exceptional books of poetry written by female poets. This year, […]

So we all knew that Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard revitalized Columbia’s School of Mines, but did you know that he also founded Columbia’s School of Mimes? Just kidding, not really, but he was actually deaf. According to Professor James C Egbert, who knew him when he was President of Columbia: He was very deaf, and […]