The 2025-26 Rooke Chapel Gospel Music Fellowship offers current master's or doctoral students (and recent graduates) the opportunity to cultivate the Gospel music tradition within a vibrant, multicultural University worship setting. The fellow leads, in collaboration with the Protestant chaplain and director of music, weekend residencies open to students, staff, faculty and the local community through the course of the academic year, which are designed to teach, explore and celebrate Gospel music. Rooke Chapel is pleased to welcome back Rev. Angela Jones as our 2025-2026 Gospel Music Fellow! The Rev. Angela Jones is a Howard University School of Divinity graduate and gospel recording artist who has performed with genre Billboard-charting artists such as Richard Smallwood, Yolanda Adams, Bebe Winans, Marvin Sapp, Brandon Camphor & OneWay, to name a few. Her singing group, Brandon Camphor & One Way, has been nominated for Stellar Awards, has been included on Billboard's top-30 chart four times, and has received three Wammie Awards. Jones currently serves as minister of worship arts at Word For Life Church Ministries in Maryland. In 2024-25 Rev. Jones served as the Rooke Chapel Gospel Music Fellow and we look forward to welcoming her back to Bucknell. Join us Saturdays 2pm-4pm for rehearsals and Sunday 11am-12pm. Learn more about Rev. Angela here: https://www.bucknell.edu/life-bucknell/diversity-equity-inclusion/religious-spiritual-life/rooke-chapel/rooke-chapel-gospel-music-fellowship (https://www.bucknell.edu/life-bucknell/diversity-equity-inclusion/religious-spiritual-life/rooke-chapel/rooke-chapel-gospel-music-fellowship) Contact chapel@bucknell.edu with any questions. Co-sponsored by the Office of Religious & Spiritual Life, the Rooke Chapel Congregation, The Griot Institute for the Study of Black Lives & Cultures, the Bucknell University Choir, and Voice Lab. Rooke Chapel values inclusion and is committed to ensuring accessibility. To request an accommodation or for questions about accessibility, please contact chapel@bucknell.edu or dial 711 for TDD/TTY.

Rooke Chapel provides Childcare during our Gospel Residency from 11am-12pm

The 2025-26 Rooke Chapel Gospel Music Fellowship offers current master's or doctoral students (and recent graduates) the opportunity to cultivate the Gospel music tradition within a vibrant, multicultural University worship setting. The fellow leads, in collaboration with the Protestant chaplain and director of music, weekend residencies open to students, staff, faculty and the local community through the course of the academic year, which are designed to teach, explore and celebrate Gospel music. Rooke Chapel is pleased to welcome back Rev. Angela Jones as our 2025-2026 Gospel Music Fellow! The Rev. Angela Jones is a Howard University School of Divinity graduate and gospel recording artist who has performed with genre Billboard-charting artists such as Richard Smallwood, Yolanda Adams, Bebe Winans, Marvin Sapp, Brandon Camphor & OneWay, to name a few. Her singing group, Brandon Camphor & One Way, has been nominated for Stellar Awards, has been included on Billboard's top-30 chart four times, and has received three Wammie Awards. Jones currently serves as minister of worship arts at Word For Life Church Ministries in Maryland. In 2024-25 Rev. Jones served as the Rooke Chapel Gospel Music Fellow and we look forward to welcoming her back to Bucknell. Join us Saturdays from 2-4pm for rehearsals and Sundays 11am-12pm Learn more about Rev. Angela here: https://www.bucknell.edu/life-bucknell/diversity-equity-inclusion/religious-spiritual-life/rooke-chapel/rooke-chapel-gospel-music-fellowship (https://www.bucknell.edu/life-bucknell/diversity-equity-inclusion/religious-spiritual-life/rooke-chapel/rooke-chapel-gospel-music-fellowship) Contact chapel@bucknell.edu with any questions. Co-sponsored by the Office of Religious & Spiritual Life, the Rooke Chapel Congregation, The Griot Institute for the Study of Black Lives & Cultures, the Bucknell University Choir, and Voice Lab. Rooke Chapel values inclusion and is committed to ensuring accessibility. To request an accommodation or for questions about accessibility, please contact chapel@bucknell.edu or dial 711 for TDD/TTY.

Rooke Chapel's choir will be practicing every Sunday morning at 9:30am lead by Dr. Caleb Hopkins.

Sarah Kay is a New Yorker. a poetry writer and reader. an educator. the founder and co-director of Project VOICE (http://www.projectvoice.co/). a podcast enthusiast. a postcard lover. the author of five books of poetry including B (http://www.amazon.com/B-Sarah-Kay/dp/1612182798/), No Matter the Wreckage (https://kaysarahsera.com/about/amazon.com/No-Matter-Wreckage-Sarah-Kay/dp/1938912489), The Type (https://www.amazon.com/Type-Sarah-Kay/dp/031638660X/), All Our Wild Wonder (https://www.amazon.com/All-Our-Wild-Wonder-Sarah/dp/0316386650/), and A Little Daylight Left (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/762977/a-little-daylight-left-by-sarah-kay/). a celebrated performer in over 30 countries. an occasional editor for Write Bloody Publishing (http://writebloody.com/). a mediocre driver at best. a musical theater geek (https://youtu.be/pi7DsX6u7wU). a smoothie expert. an education advocate and occasional keynote speaker. an alum of the United Nations International School and a graduate of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program. an alum of Brown University. an alum of Brown University Graduate School's Masters Program in the Art of Teaching Secondary English. a recipient of an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Grinnell College. (newly public) on instagram here (http://www.instagram.com/kaysarahsera). technically/rarely on facebook here (http://www.facebook.com/kaysarahsera). For 40 years, the Stadler Center's Poet-in-Residence program has brought poets of national and international renown to Bucknell for an extended stay during the academic year. The Poet-in-Residence meets individually with qualified students and presents a public reading, a Q&A session, and a craft workshop. The program is meant to honor the achievement of a distinguished poet while providing undergraduate writers the opportunity to work with an exceptional talent.

Poet-in-Residence will present a craft talk on writing poetry. Please feel free to bring a lunch.Sarah Kay is a New Yorker. a poetry writer and reader. an educator. the founder and co-director of Project VOICE (http://www.projectvoice.co/). a podcast enthusiast. a postcard lover. the author of five books of poetry including B (http://www.amazon.com/B-Sarah-Kay/dp/1612182798/), No Matter the Wreckage (https://kaysarahsera.com/about/amazon.com/No-Matter-Wreckage-Sarah-Kay/dp/1938912489), The Type (https://www.amazon.com/Type-Sarah-Kay/dp/031638660X/), All Our Wild Wonder (https://www.amazon.com/All-Our-Wild-Wonder-Sarah/dp/0316386650/), and A Little Daylight Left (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/762977/a-little-daylight-left-by-sarah-kay/). a celebrated performer in over 30 countries. an occasional editor for Write Bloody Publishing (http://writebloody.com/). a mediocre driver at best. a musical theater geek (https://youtu.be/pi7DsX6u7wU). a smoothie expert. an education advocate and occasional keynote speaker. an alum of the United Nations International School and a graduate of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program. an alum of Brown University. an alum of Brown University Graduate School's Masters Program in the Art of Teaching Secondary English. a recipient of an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Grinnell College. (newly public) on instagram here (http://www.instagram.com/kaysarahsera). technically/rarely on facebook here (http://www.facebook.com/kaysarahsera).