A new book by Wagner College Spanish professor Marilyn Kiss, “Signal Moments: Poems of Loss and an Antidote,” has just been released by Plain View Press, an issue-based literary publishing house based in Austin, Texas.

    “In ‘Signal Moments,’ Marilyn Kiss invents her own chronology of loss, from family and pets, to Neruda and Janis Joplin, to her own aging,” wrote Bob Holman, founder of the Bowery Poetry Club. “Time sways back and forth, personal and mutable. It is the poems that hold, unchanging and clear.”

    “Where there is death, there is life — as Marilyn Kiss’s work testifies,” wrote Nancy Mercado, author of “It Concerns the Madness.” “An unforgotten friend, a desperately loved mother, father, aunt or dog who has left this world finds life in the bosom of these pages, teaching us all that true poetry breathes life, resurrects, documents our world, our loves, our nightmares, the truth.”

    Fans of Nimbus, the Wagner College literary magazine, will recognize many of these poems. Professor Kiss has been a regular Nimbus contributor for the last 7 years.

    “Signal Moments,” a 104-page paperback book, is available for purchase online from both the publisher (plainviewpress.net) and Amazon.com.

Wednesday, November 14, 2007 

Immigration in New York City:
Taking the Long View

BY SEWELL CHAN

            On Tuesday evening — in fact, at the very moment Gov. Eliot Spitzer was abandoning his plan to grant driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants — a panel of experts on immigration gathered at the Center for Jewish History on West 16th Street for a wide-ranging discussion about immigration to New York City, past and present.

            Twenty Wagner College students will be inducted into Delta Mu Delta, the national business honor society, at a ceremony this Sunday, Nov. 18.

Come in from the cold and warm up to “Our Town,” Thornton Wilder's beloved drama of small-town America that celebrates the everyday moments we often take for granted. The show is being staged in the Main Hall theater. Performances will be offered this Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday evening at 8 p.m., with matinees on Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. For tickets, call the box office at (718) 390-3259.

Thornton Wilder’s 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama “Our Town” is set in the fictional small town of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire. Narrated by the character of the Stage Manager — which, in the Wagner College version, is played by a three-actor ensemble — it follows the daily lives of the Gibbs and Webb families and their neighbors in three acts. (Wilder himself played the Stage Manager on Broadway for two weeks and later in summer stock productions.)

Choral Evensong at Trinity Lutheran Church,
set for today (Nov. 10), will not take place

            We regret to inform you that a Nov. 10 event listed on the Wagner College photo calendar will not take place.

Tuesday night, a 10-inch water main broke under the road behind the Wagner College Union. At about 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, Campus Operations workers began digging; shortly thereafter, water service to a major portion of the campus was shut off. By 4 p.m., the water main had been repaired and water service was restored to the entire campus.

   FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2007

Mosaic Coalition wants neighbors
to learn about different ethnicities