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Place, Origin, and Stalks of Corn [by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo]
Keeping with this week’s theme of immigration and community in mind, I asked Marcelo Hernandez Castillo to chime in on his own experience. What follows is his essay about place, origin, and stalks of…
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Monday Comic by Nin Andrews
I've been having fun lately making love comics out of Shakespeare's comics. This week I am playing with Sonnet 25, and of course, Emily Dickinson. — Nin Andrews
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Recuerdo (Remembrance), Resistencia (Resistance), Recreación (Reinvention)[by Javier Zamora]
These week’s posts will try to keep in mind Francisco X. Alarcón’s commitment to the Latin@ community. As many have written since his passing, here is a poet who shows us what can be…
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Javier Zamora, Guest Author January 25-29
This week we welcome Javier Zamora as our guest author. Javier was born in El Salvador and migrated to the US when he was nine. He holds fellowships from CantoMundo, Colgate University, MacDowell, the…
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Snow is general . . .
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to snow again. He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight. The time…
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Happy Birthday Mr. B! [by Stacey Harwood-Lehman]
George Balanchine rehearsing "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" (music by Richard Rodgers) with Suzanne Farrell and Arthur Mitchell, 1968. George Balanchine's "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" is permanently imprinted on my brain, perhaps because I saw…
