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Whither the Humanities: Harvard Rethinks the Canon (and Expects no Tanks)
Declining numbers of students majoring in the humanities have led Harvard to reconsider its academic poilicies. <<<With a recently released report, Harvard University has weighed in on the crisis of the humanities, offering some…
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Samples of exile and hope in Occupied Iraqi and Palestinian poetry, Veronica Golos
“It is not the soil that is occupied…colonialism has settled itself in the very center of the…individual, and has undertaken a sustained work of cleanup, of expulsion of self…there is not occupation of territory…
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Literary Appropriation? [by Veronica Golos]
Help me understand something. For the past dozen years or so, many students, particularly undergraduates, and throughout the country, have challenged me for writing in sympathy or portraying the plight of others not myself,…
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The beginning and the end (by Mitch Sisskind)
Matthew Johnson the founder of Fat Possum records brought a group of North Mississippi blues musicians to the world's attention in the early 1990s. Almost all dead now. One most powerful was Junior Kimbrough,…
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“Happy 41, Suzanne Buffam!” [by Anthony Madrid via Facebook]
SUZANNE BUFFAM (6/12)♪ BUFF the magic dragon ♫ ♪ Lived by the sea ♫ ♪ And frolicked in the autumn mist ♫ ♪ In a land called Hannah Lee ♫ ♪ Little Chicu Paper…
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Haunted by History by Veronica Golos
“The past is not dead. It’s not even past.” – William Faulkner I have just had the pleasure of writing an introduction to poet Eleanor Swanson’s Trembling in the Bones, to be re-issued by…
