General updates from my writing life.
“August Bloom Log, Entry 1: Emergence” appears in the fall 2017 issue of St. Petersburg Review.
According to the editors: “The journal was founded in 2007 to honor the spirit of samizdat, the disenfranchised Soviet writers’ practice of publication through whatever means, and to celebrate the Russian literary tradition of perseverance. Over the years we have expanded the scope and breadth of our journal to feature work by writers from more than 50 countries.”
The Harvard Review will publish my essay “The Secret of Jefferson Market Garden” in its fall 2017 issue.
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Above is a link to a video of a portion of a presentation delivered last month at Harvard University. Below is the text of the event program. The sex discrimination case referenced is Sharon Johnson v. University of Pittsburgh (Civic Action No. 73-120; United States District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania).
“THE GREAT MELT” SNOWBALL CEREMONY
June 14, 2017
Schlesinger Library Research Grant presentation
In connection with the projects:
My Aunt: Chemist, Black Belt, Plaintiff (book chapter)
Year of Discovery: Essay as Sculpture or ENTICEMENT TO ACTION
Participants
Snowball, circa terrible Boston winter of 2014-15
Ivelisse Estrada, Snowball Bearer
Kevin Grady, cinematography
Joe LaRocca, fife
Ben Miller, writer
There wasn’t a snowball’s chance in the Mojave that M.I.T.
PhD Sharon Johnson would sit back and let the University
of Pittsburgh deny her tenure without a fight….
Noon
Snowball Homily, steps of Schlesinger Library
12:10
Snowball Procession, across yard, with fife accompaniment
12:20
Snowball Melts in the Bright Light of Facts
12:40
Discussion
“A Banquet of Lilacs: An Essay Enacted” is the title of the essay.
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On April 20th at Cornell College students and faculty gathered to translate the poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” (William Carlos Williams) into some of the many languages spoken in the urban Midwest, including German, Russian, Portuguese and Spanish. This effort is another in support of my on-going Mural Speaks! project born at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in 2014.
“Dunasaygrlomiplin” is the title of the story.
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A spread consisting of eight works from Phase One of “Cage Dies Bird Flies,” my on-going collaboration with painter Dale Williams, will appear in Issue #60 of the Hayden’s Ferry Review. To visit this print journal’s website, follow the link below:
