Author: Audrey Glaser

Slam poets Michelle Jackson and Mae Ramirez came to the 5Cs as part of an effort by Frank Sanchez PO ’13 to bring slam poetry to Claremont. The 5C Slam Poetry Kickoff event was on Wednesday, Oct. 24, and several Pomona College students performed their own work in a short

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham did a reading at Pomona College on Wednesday, Oct. 17. Cunningham was born in Cincinnati and grew up in Pasadena. At first a painter, he shifted his focus to writing as a student at Stanford University and eventually ended up in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop

The boundaries of the typically male-dominated genre of comedy are being redrawn to include women on the small and big screens as well as on the stage. Unfortunately, they are not being stretched enough. Noticeably absent from the comedic spotlight are essentially any women of color, especially Asian American women.

Famous for their claim of putting the “mock” in “democracy,” The Capitol Steps musical comedy troupe performs satiric political commentary set to the tunes of well-known songs. On Tuesday, the troupe performed at Pomona College and had the community-wide audience thundering with laughter.  Notable numbers included “I’m Just A Pill,”

“Ungrateful Daughter: One Black Girl’s Story of Being Adopted into a White Family… That Aren’t Celebrities,” a bleakly hilarious solo show written and performed by Lisa Marie Rollins, was performed at Pomona’s Seaver Theatre Sept. 25.  Rollins, 42, is juggling the show with her doctoral studies at UC Berkeley, her

As Nov. 12 looms near, the presidential election is on everybody’s mind. For some 5C students, it’s also on their resumés. Alex April SC ’15 has been logging up to 14-hour work days since early June as a chief organizer at Organizing for America, the official title of Barack Obama’s