Just as artists of the 19th and 20th centuries participated in forging an American natural history as explorers, cataloguers, collectors, and early environmentalists, contemporary artists continue to incorporate and comment on the natural world in their art. Motivated by the inexorable rise of urban-industrial development and the subsequent deterioration of our planet, artists confront the…
Congratulations to Rosemary Candelario for winning the Oscar G. Brockett Prize for Dance Research. This prize is given every year to the best book in the field of dance published within the previous three years. The Dance Studies Association adjuncts the prize every year and a $1,000 cash prize is given by the Oscar G. Brockett Center…
Peter Gizzi, the author of seven collections of poetry, has published a limited-edition artist book, The Afterlife of Paper, with Catalpa. Catalpa has previously published the works of Antonia Pinter, CA Conrad, Rick Myers, and more. They have work forthcoming from Isabella Tudisco-Sadacca. The Afterlife of Paper features six poems by Gizzi and nine collages by artist Richard Kraft.…
Melissa Kwasny and ML Smoker will serve simultaneously as Montana Poet Laureates for 2019–2021. Kwasny is editor of Wesleyan’s popular poetics anthology Toward the Open Field: Poets on the Art of Poetry 1800-1950. Kwansy teaches English at Carroll College in Helena, Montana and previously taught at Eastern Washington University, the University of Wyoming, and the University of…
In this micro-book, acclaimed “Poetry-Witch” Annie Finch harvests her Spells, spun at the intersection of magic, word, and world. The ritual poems in Poetry Witch Little Book of Spells invite readers to experience words not just in the mind, but also in the body and spirit. Celebrated for her extraordinary love and knowledge of poetic craft…
“Using the Sky weaves together a series of questions, thoughts, and actions aimed at stepping, literally and figuratively, into the unknowable.” —Didier Morelli, The Drama Review Deborah Hay is an internationally renowned dance artist whose unique approach to bodily practice has had lasting impact on American choreography. Her commitment to dance as a process is…
Originally published by Station Hill Opening in 1991 and University Press of New England in 1998, Andrea Olsen’s Body Stories: A Guide to Experiential Anatomy aims to heighten readers’ awareness of each bone in their body to show how our attitudes and approaches to our body affect us day to day. Drawing on her twenty years…
Alvin Lucier – Parshall, Colorado, 1997. Photo: Amanda Lucier. “A lot of my work is revealing sounds that are already there…” Composer, educator, and writer Alvin Lucier was interviewed by Maggie Malloy for Second Inversion at the 2019 Big Ears Festival, where his music was performed by Joan La Barbara, the Ever Present Orchestra, and the…
“If there be any doubts that Connecticut residents should take city and town affairs seriously, then the new edition of Local Government in Connecticut should dispel them…The latest version of Local Government offers a very complete textbook on modern city and town administration in our state.” —Donald W. Rogers, Connecticut History Review With election season approaching,…
(Kevin Killian in 1979 Photo: Michael Johnson) Kevin Killian, member of the New Narrative movement and the co-founder of Poets Theater, passed away June 15th, 2019. Killian published over a dozen books across a variety of genres including novels, memoirs, poetry collections, edited works, and plays. He was given the 2010 Lambda Literary Award under…
