Chester Writers House

01/12/2022

I published a blog post expressing my desire to see an increase in public art in Chester and was met with a reply from Widener. See the flyers below…

12/17/2021

Opportunity for artists!

04/28/2021

Today is Superhero Day, and we at the Chester Writers House want you to thank the heroes in your own life! Say thank you for everything they do for you and perhaps share with them one of these amazing Superhero poems:

Click to read 'superheroes' poems and comment...

04/23/2021

Looking for more inspirational Earth Day service stories? Check out this article about the efforts of some residents within our very own Chester!

CHESTER — It was a cold and breezy Earth Day but that didn’t stop a group of Delaware County residents from turning out to improve the planet. Volunteers gathered at

04/13/2021

Join us for a free online writing workshop with the marvelous Andrea Zittlau this Saturday, April 17, 2021 at 2 p.m. Feel free to share the flyer!

04/13/2021

Dogs are one of man's best friends! They are there for us when we need them the most and any good owner showers their dog with much affection. Here are a few dog poems to celebrate the special pooch in your life!

From Emily Dickinson to Pablo Neruda, this selection of poets demonstrate the range of ways we relate to dogs in these short dog poems.

04/11/2021

With the City of Chester's recent Citywide Clean-Up Caravan having recently finished up after collecting a reported 122.9 tons of trash in various neighborhoods, we thought that it would be appropriate to mark this victory with a few poems about cleaning up the environment. Cheers to all of those who helped out with this amazing initiative!

The earth is a truly remarkable place, but its environment is something that all too often we take for granted. The natural beauty of seas and forests are beyond compare, and yet we continue to pollute and corrupt them. We depend on our environment for our very existence, while all the while we cont...

04/08/2021

This month is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. We here at the Chester Writers House want to provide this resource for those who want to know how to help those who experience this horror and to learn the history of this movement!

April 2021 marks twenty years of SAAM — a campaign that shines a light on the issues of sexual harassment, assault, and abuse and focuses on solutions to ending these types of violence.

04/06/2021

In honor of the National Day of Silence and Poetry Month, Wideners Wolfgram Memorial Library, the LGBTQ+ Task Force, & the English and Creative Writing Department are holding LGBTQ+ Open Mic Thursday, April 22 at 7pm. Readings are open to all members of the Widener community and all content performed will be written or performed by members of the LGBTQ+ community. Consider joining in for the opportunity to socialize, enjoy live performances, and break the Day of Silence by amplifying LGBTQ+ voices in celebration of our community and culture!

03/30/2021

Today marks the last day of the USA's involvement with the Vietnam Civil War as the last US troops pulled out on March 29th, 1973. The war left many scars throughout both sides, so let us take a moment to look at the stories that helped veterans heal or come to terms with some of the things that they saw.

Genesis of the Japanese American Viet Nam Memorial by Judge Vincent Okamoto (reprinted from the Japanese American Historical Society Journal, 2001) The Japanese American National War Memorial Court is the only location in the country that honors by name the almost 1200 Americans of Japanese Ancestry...

03/22/2021

Today in 1965, the first successful march from Selma to Montgomery took place with the help of MLK and US Army Troops. We would like to highlight this historic day and moment with a poem and brief history by Danielle Gibson!

A Poem

03/18/2021

For those who are interested in learning more about Jericho Brown prior to the upcoming event, check out this interview that he did with Arriel Vinson from Sarah Lawrence College!

“I just wanted to make a mutt of a form that reflected how I feel about the single architecture of a human being holding several identities, so I invented a form that merges the ghazal, the sonnet, and the blues. The entire book is about questioning what we think of as traditional and that meant u...