The sounds come from North Florida. A choir is singing a spiritual, a woman is speaking, crickets are droning in a cedar swamp. They are indicators of things that are changing, says New York artist Allison Janae Hamilton — insects, the migratory patterns of birds, people living with the land. […]
Read articleAwardwinning novelist Junot Diaz gives a rare reading at Williams College
He’s reading Watchmen in a tough neighborhood in Jersey. He’s surviving high school with role-playing quests and the mental disciplines of Dune. He’s writing elvish on the white board in his Rutgers dorm and a space odyssey in the Caribbean town where his mother was raised. It’s not easy loving […]
Read articleOcean Vuong holds calm in chaos with contemporary poetry rooted in Viet Nam
In honor of National Poetry Month we honor and thank a poet who recently came to visit. Five years ago he was giving readings in Brooklyn — Zachary Finch heard of them through a friend in the city and listened, awe-struck, to poems like Aubade with Burning City. Ocean Vuong […]
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