Today’s throwback Thursday poem was brought to my attention via a surprise Christmas gift from Clayton Eshleman: Eternity at Domme, a beautiful bi-lingual edition, published in France some years ago. I don’t know exactly when. The book has no copyright page. At the Tomb of Mallarmé Death is an erratic too source obscure…
DATE: December 8, 2015 National Endowment for the Arts Awards More Than $27.6 Million Across Nation Includes $25,000 awarded to Wesleyan University Press Middletown, CT—In its first 50 years, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) awarded more than $5 billion in grants to recipients in every state and U.S. jurisdiction, the only arts funder…
Connecticut Veterans The Battle of Antietam, pictured here, claimed over 22,000 casualties in one day. Years later, a soldier remembered: “for the six months following everything I ate drank or smelled had an odor of dead men in it and the memory of the scene and the place and the four trees that stood…
Atlantic Reasonings Between Caribbean Sisters Performances by M. NourbeSe Philip and Gina Athena Ulysse October 15th, 7:30PM in Wesleyan’s Memorial Chapel. Two Wesleyan Press authors, M. NourbeSe Phlip and Gina Athena Ulysse are teaming up for an evening of powerhouse performances sponsored in large part by Wesleyan’s own Center for the Americas, with a…
The work of choreographer Jill Sigman exists at the intersection of dance, theater, and visual installation. Described as an artist of “prodigious imagination and intelligence” by The New York Times, Sigman transforms simple actions like walking on eggshells, sliding down the stairs, and eating hot pink roses into complex statements about self, society, and human…
Today’s Throwback Thursday selection is a James Wright poem found in a forthcoming poetry collection for children: Book of Nature Poetry. The poem was originally published in Wright’s 1963 volume, The Branch Will Not Break, which is also available as an adorable mini-book. “A Blessing” by James Wright from The Branch Will Not Break (Wesleyan UP, 1963) Also found in…
Panelists include Carmen de Lavallade, George Faison, and Raven Wilkinson. Sunday, September 20th 2PM Barnes & Noble, 150 East 86th Street (86th & Lexington Ave.), New York, NY 212-369-2180 Moderated by author Yaël Tamar Lewin, to celebrate the paperback edition of Night’s Dancer: The Life of Janet Collins. A panel of renowned artists will…
Today’s Throwback Thursday images are from the book Heroes for all Time: Connecticut Civil War Soldiers Tell Their Stories. These photographs depict two rather young Union “soldiers”. The name of boy on the left has been lost to history. He was most likely a former slave who sought shelter with Union soldiers. Many such…
Janet Collins (1917–2003) was a renowned dancer, painter, and the first African-American soloist ballerina to appear on the stage of New York’s Metropolitan Opera. It took her many years of resolve, facing the blatant racism that existed in the dance community (as it did elsewhere in the United States), to achieve the status of prima ballerina at…
“Robert Ryan: An Actor’s Actor” Special screenings of films featuring Robert Ryan Sept. 4–10 @ Anthology Film Archives A six-film Robert Ryan retrospective in conjunction with The Lives of Robert Ryan (Wesleyan UP) ACT OF VIOLENCE (Fred Zinnemann, 1948) September 4, 7:00 PM; September 6, 4:15 PM; September 8, 9:00 PM ON DANGEROUS GROUND (Nicholas…
