Please join biographer and friend to the author, Sol LeWitt; artist, author, and curator Pablo Helguera; and Karen Gunderson artist and colleague of Lewitt, at McNally Jackson bookstore (Prince Street), March 6, at 6PM. Read more about the event here. An excerpt relating to Gunderson’s relationship with LeWitt. During the 1970s, LeWitt split his time…
Catch up with Wesleyan authors at AWP Wesleyan Sponsored Events! Saturday 12–1:15 Portland Ballroom 252, Oregon Convention Center, Level 2 S208. Writing In and Out of Worlds. (Rae Armantrout, Abigail Chabitnoy, Joy Harjo, Priscilla Page, sam sax) A reading by Wesleyan authors, illustrating differing experiences and methods of expression in 21st-century language arts. Whether reconfiguring the language…
Evie Shockley’s award-winning book semiautomatic is now available in paperback! Poetry that acts as a fierce and loving resistance to violence. “Evie Shockley’s semiautomatic goes beyond mere weaponry. This book is revelatory. A tool in the chest of cultural workers, a vocabulary that resists decoration; this is self-portraiture and truth-telling at its best. From her epic ‘the topsy…
Inquisition, is a finalist for a Lambda Award. Read the finalist list here. from Inquisition John Who was I when I was writing this name Copper oxidizes to green Air packs itself tight in the seed Seed unspools in the ground writing the biography of dirt A little down the road another tower is going up…
Mary Kathryn Nagle contributed a powerful original essay to introduce Wesleyan’s new theater volume, Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light: A Play by Joy Harjo and a Circle of Responses. Her essay is entitled “Joy Harjo’s Wings: A Revolution on the American Stage.” Nagle explains how negative and demeaning representations of Native people in…
We celebrated the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day this past weekend. This was the 100th anniversary of the end of the Great War that would later become known as World War I. In Gerald Vizenor’s Blue Ravens, readers were introduced to Basile and Aloysius Hudon Beaulieu, Anishinaabe brothers from White Earth Reservation who joined the…
In How to Dress a Fish, poet Abigail Chabitnoy, of Unangan and Sugpiaq descent, addresses the lives disrupted by US Indian boarding school policy. She pays particular attention to the life story of her great grandfather, Michael, who was taken from the Baptist Orphanage, Wood Island, Alaska, and sent to Carlisle Indian Industrial School in…
Congratulations to Evie Shockley! Her book, semiautomatic, is the winner of the 2018 Hurston/Wright Foundation’s Legacy Award for Poetry. In the words of the judges: “Despite the ugliness of the violence around us, she has written a collection of poems that both chronicles it and decries it, all while offering us the beauty of her…
Congratulations to Camille Dungy, Shane McCrae, and Evie Shockley, all finalists for 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards! Winners announced tonight, at a ceremony also featuring honorees Ntozake Shange (Recipient of the 2018 North Star Award) and Charles Henry Rowell (Recipient of the 2018 Madam C.J. Walker Award). We thank the Hurston/Wright Foundation (named for Zora Neale…
For Immediate Release—August 29, 2018 Wesleyan author sam sax is recipient of a 2018 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from The Poetry Foundation: The Poetry Foundation and Poetry magazine announce the winners of the 2018 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships: Safia Elhillo, Hieu Minh Nguyen, sam sax, Natalie Scenters-Zapico, and Paul Tran.…
