Rachel Baird’s Poem Published

As I write, the news coming out of Haiti is unutterably sad. This small island nation, despite its proud history, has been battered again and again by disasters both natural and man-made. No doubt the poverty of Haiti is one reason the earthquake that struck near the capital, Port-au-Prince, has taken and will take such…

This post is guest blogged by Prof. Gregory Pardlo. It seems we have not quite put AWP behind us. One of the controversies enlivening the recent writer’s conference has now managed to capture the imagination of people outside the literary community. Picked up by the Associated Press, the debacle over what is now known as…

Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability, the most recent book by Associate Professor of English Robert McRuer, has been honored as a nominee for a 2007 Lamba Literary Foundation Award. The leading organization for LGBT literature, the Lambda Literary Foundation has been running its awards program for nearly twenty years. The foundation’s mission…

English Majors! There is still room in this great course for fall taught by Professor Katherine Keller.  It will, of course, fulfill a pre-1700 requirement … but it will also be one of the best courses you take with us. Renaissance Drama ENGL 3810.11 Tues/Thurs 11:10-12:25 Professor Katherine Keller Shakespeare’s preeminent role in the early…

Definitions of “dog days” differ from source to source. In common parlance, “dog days” refers to the sultry days of late summer, when the dog star, Sirius, rises along with the sun. The online etymology dictionary notes that in Europe, the period between July 3 and August 11 traditionally has been thought of as “the…

[illustration: Ellis Haizlip talks to Amiri Baraka in a promotional image for “Soul!”] “Soul!” was a groundbreaking TV variety show that aired on PBS from 1968-73. Originating at WNET in New York, the program featured an astonishingly broad range of black and Latino performers, many of who had never been on TV before. “Soul!“ presents…