Whan that Aprille Day
A celebration of Multilingual Poetry, Chaucer, and National Poetry Month, sponsored by English Honor Society Sigma Tau Delta and Poetry Club in conjunction with the Global Education Office and the Rose O’Neill Literary House.
03/30/2016
Professor Rydel introduces the event.
Poetry Club president Olivia Serio reads the General Prologue by Geoffrey Chaucer in modern English.
Leslie Rothstein '16 reads the General Prologue in middle English.
Professor David Hull reads the General Prologue in Mandarin.
Economics professor Mook Lim reads the General Prologue in Korean.
Kayla Kyle '16 reads "Gefunden" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in German.
Anna Black '16 reads in Russian.
Rachel Brown reads "Alturas de Macchu Picchu" by Pablo Neruda in Spanish.
Professor Philip Walsh reads Sappho's #31 in Greek and #5 by Catullus in Latin.
Kayla Kyle '16 reads "The Wanderer" by anonymous in Anglo-Saxon.
Erin Smedley '15 reads "Wife of Bath" by Geoffrey Chaucer in Middle English.
Olabisi Alabi '16 reads "Wife of Bafa" by Patience Agabi in modern English.
Cody Bistline '19 reads "Le Vin des Amant" by Charles Baudelaire in French.
Professor Emeritus Bennet Lamond reads "To Rosamonde" by Geoffrey Chaucer in Middle English.
Casie Jahnigen '17 and Valerie Wilson '19 read Arcite and Palamoun's fight from "The Knight's Tale" by Geoffrey Chaucer in Middle English.
Rhea Arora '18 reads "Varsha Aayi" by Madan Gopal Sharma in Hindi.
The readers pose for a group photo on the Rose O'Neill Literary House porch after the event.