And just for good measure this is their excuse for a “luxurious single with bath…” in a dorm with virtually nobody else imprisoned here! They should be ashamed to house students here let alone fee-paying conference goers. The food, more over, is cafeteria basic, and in my opinion, atrocious. Worse yet, there are no vending machines or snack bars available at all. Not during the summer. So if you don’t get to the mealtime swill, you are out of luck. Appalling! Warning to prospective Catholic univeristy students!
Charming ain’t it? This is the room with which they punished me for requesting a single! FAHs!
Phoebe Sparrow Wagner, formerly Pamela Spiro Wagner, is an award-winning poet, author and artist who wrote WE MAD CLIMB SHAKY LADDERS (Cavankerry Press, 2009) poems about her life with schizophrenia, and co-author, with her sister, a psychiatrist, of DIVIDED MINDS: TWIN SISTERS AND THEIR JOURNEY THROUGH SCHkIZOPHRENIA, a memoir, which was a finalist for the Connecticut Book Award and won the NAMI Outstanding Literature Award in 2006. It is still in print, and available at Amazon.Wagner second book, a first volume of poetry, is WE MAD CLIMB SHAKY LADDERS, (2009) which is available at a discount now from Cavankerrypress.org. Her newest book of poetry and art, LEARNING TO SEE IN THREE DIMENSIONS (Green Writers Press/Sundog Poetry Center 2017) is also now available at Amazon and other booksellers.
Her work has been published in Tikkun, Midwest Poetry Review, and the New York TImes Sunday Magazine as well as the Hartford Courant and the LA Weekly, among other places. She also won an international poetry competition sponsored by the BBC in 2001/2.
Wagner’s art was on display in Connecticut area libraries in 2011 and 2012 and in Vermont, in Brattleboro, in 2016 and 2017. Many pieces are available for sale and charitable donation. She currently lives in Vermont.
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Considering that this was a conference made up of psychiatric survivors, it was not considered apparently, how much like a seclusion room these dorm rooms were! I was not (by far) the only person to compare the two ! Sheesh! And to think this is a very very expensive univeristy that many students leave at graduation with enormous debt…horrendous accommodations, in my humble opinion!
Sheesh! What did you do to deserve that! There are a few women I study with who live on campus, it’s not glam living but it’s ok, yours – is – actually a bit spooky.
And just for good measure this is their excuse for a “luxurious single with bath…” in a dorm with virtually nobody else imprisoned here! They should be ashamed to house students here let alone fee-paying conference goers. The food, more over, is cafeteria basic, and in my opinion, atrocious. Worse yet, there are no vending machines or snack bars available at all. Not during the summer. So if you don’t get to the mealtime swill, you are out of luck. Appalling! Warning to prospective Catholic univeristy students!
Considering that this was a conference made up of psychiatric survivors, it was not considered apparently, how much like a seclusion room these dorm rooms were! I was not (by far) the only person to compare the two ! Sheesh! And to think this is a very very expensive univeristy that many students leave at graduation with enormous debt…horrendous accommodations, in my humble opinion!
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Sheesh! What did you do to deserve that! There are a few women I study with who live on campus, it’s not glam living but it’s ok, yours – is – actually a bit spooky.
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