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Vincent Katz, Guest Author September 14-18
Vincent Katz with Alain Kirili's Sculpture (c) Ariane Lopez-Huici This week we welcome Vincent Katz as our guest author. Vincent is the author of twelve books of poetry, including Swimming Home (Nightboat, 2015). He edited…
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Michael Roth on “the end of higher ed as we know it”
Michael Roth, the president of Wesleyan Universities, writes frequently on the fate of higher education, with particular attention to the changes wrought the technological revolution. From a recent piece in The Atlantic: <<< Given…
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For what is found there [by Julia Shipley]
In graduate school, my professor assigned us the task of reading the newspaper and responding to something found there, an assignment I found maddeningly difficult, but appreciable for its exercise of palpating that place…
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From the archive: 9/11/2008 (by Stacey Harwood)
My office is in a building adjacent to Ground Zero. The ceremonies are about to begin. The ramp at the far end of the pit is lined with flags of the victims' homelands. Otherwise,…
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September 11 [by Lera Auerbach]
September 11th Can you breathe this air,this thickening air? The ashes of people are in our nostrils. Can you hear this silence?this screaming silence? The ashes of people are in our throats.…
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On Local Rows [by Julia Shipley]
Over a decade ago, I moved to Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, an area composed of three sparsely populated counties in the topmost rightside portion of this long skinny state. I lived alone. I went to…
