Thursday, August 31, 2017

Random Photos

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Unlike previous summers, this has been mostly a quiet one, with recuperation from the semester (and a bit of surgery), and preparation for ...
Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Hurricane Harvey: How to Help Its Survivors

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from  Washington Post This past weekend, Hurricane Harvey  struck the Texas Gulf Coast , becoming the first cyclone to make US landf...
Friday, July 28, 2017

Happy 90th, John Ashbery + Roffman's New Ashbery Bio

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John Ashbery receiving the National Medal for the Arts from President Barack Obama, in 2012 Today is the 90th birthday of John Ashbery...
Saturday, July 15, 2017

Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal Special Issue on Paule Marshall

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The vagaries of literary fortune are such that a writer who was quite famous in her time might very well be forgotten a decade later, ...
Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Newark Rebellion

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Protesters and guardsman with a bayonet (Neal Boenzi/The New York Times) Fifty years ago today, the Newark Rebellion , also known--st...
Saturday, July 08, 2017

Quote: Ibram X. Kendi

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"Hate and ignorance have not driven the history of racist ideas in America. Racist policies have driven the history of racist ideas ...
Thursday, June 22, 2017

The Pen Behind Jeremiah Moss (Vanishing New York) + 27 Cooper Square Dedication

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Add caption For a decade, a blogger writing under the nom de plume Jeremiah Moss  has been chronicling the Bloomberg  and post-Bloomber...
Saturday, June 17, 2017

Boston Globe Picks Counternarratives + Matthew Cheney on My Sentences

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Counternarratives originally appeared roughly two years ago in hardcover, and since then has received a host of reviews, on these shores...
Friday, June 16, 2017

Tracy K. Smith New Poet Laureate of the US + Poem

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Photo by Rachel Eliza Griffiths In a marvelous move, the new Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden , has just named Tracy K. Smith  (197...