Category: Literature

Jillian Larsen (’22): Mattering Transcends Meaning In Identifying the Work vs. Identity of the Artist

Achy Obejas

Writes Jillian Larsen:

Achy Obejas is an adept poet, journalist, activist, writer, teacher, and translator. She was born in Havana Cuba in 1956, and came to the United States at the age of six. Obejas grew up in Michigan City, Indiana, then later moved to Chicago in 1979. At 39 years old, Obejas returned to Havana, to experience the island of her birth that had transpired as a figment of her imagination and integrity of self.

Read  here the whole Jillian Larsen essay,  Mattering Transcends Meaning in Identifying the Work vs. The Artist.

Academe’s Extreme Extinction Event…or Adjuncting in America

HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK, HI – MAY 15: People play golf as an ash plume rises in the distance from the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island on May 15, 2018 in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii. The U.S. Geological Survey said a recent lowering of the lava lake at the volcano’s Halemaumau crater ‘has raised the potential for explosive eruptions’ at the volcano. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Whatever happened to teaching literature?

#$!&^!!!…The Graphic Novel….It’s Alive!


Writes Professor Lin Haire-Sargeant:

This was an end-of-term reading/showing of original graphic novels/comics written as a final project for two sections of The Graphic Novel– about 50 graphic novels in all. Books for reading covered multiple tables  and those who wanted to read aloud from their works did so. Thanks to these readers: Chris MacDonald, Brianna Bussierre,  David Oneacre, Amanda Pedersen, Keagan Marcella, Isabelle Bedarf,Samuel Strojny, Anthony Iovino, Keith Blagden, Jenna Ferland,  Anthony Lambros. Justin Heywood, Otis Meehan, and Isis Hack

Summer Reading, Angela Gerst: Monsignor Quixote (1982)

… an idea quite strange to him had lodged in his brain. Why is it that the hate of man–even of a man like Franco–dies with his death, and yet love, the love which he had begun to feel for Father Quixote, seemed now to live and grow in spite of the final separation and the final silence –for how long, he wondered with a kind of fear, was it possible for that love of his to continue? And to what end?

Graham Greene, Monsignor Quixote (1982)

Summer Reading, Carol McCarthy: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Apollinare Theatre Company, Chelsea: Performing Cyrano de Bergerac under the sky July 17, 2010 (Images: Gerst)

The Apollinaire Theatre Company plays A Midsummer Night’s Dream this summer 7:30 PM Wednesdays through Sundays, July 11 to July 29, at the Port Park, 99 Marginal Street, Chelsea. Free tickets, free parking. Bring your own  blankets and chairs. A Joy!

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