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IDEAS is an organization created by and for undergraduate and graduate students at Western Illinois University-QC who are interested in English, the Arts and humanities.

IDEAS Advisor is Dr. Dan Malachuk.
Email: DS-Malachuk@wiu.edu

IDEAS Officers

Leann Weiss - President
LD-Weiss@wiu.edu

Cait Bodenbender - Vice President
CM-Bodenbender@wiu.edu

Jason Kuna - Secretary
JD-Kuna@wiu.edu

Chris Sanders-Ring - Treasurer
CD-Sanders-Ring@wiu.edu

IDEAS Poetry Contest

IDEAS is looking for submissions to its poetry writing contest. Poems can be any length and should take inspiration from one or more of the following three artworks, all of which are currently on display at The Art Institute of Chicago:

From left to right: "Girl with Green Face" (1910), by Alexei Jawlenski, "Time Transfixed" (1938), by Rene Magritte, and "City Landscape" (1955), by Joan Mitchell.

The due date for entry submissions is March 27th. Winning entries in each category will be announced at the IDEAS Spring 2013 "Coffee House Bash" event, to be held this April 4th and will be published in the April 12th issue of the River's Edge newspaper.

For more information, please contact Dan Malachuk at: DS-Malachuk@wiu.edu