Desired Learning Outcome: Go a Little Nuts
By Charles O’Connor “So what’s your major?” Ask that question on an average campus, and less than 1 in 10 students will answer something like music, art, theater, dance, film, design, or creative...
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Monday’s Poem: ‘To Poetry,’ by Edward Hirsch
Don’t desert me just because I stayed up last night watching The Lost Weekend. I know I’ve spent too much time praising your naked body to strangers and gossiping about lovers you betrayed. I’ve...
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Juilliard Pianist Wins Prestigious Monk Competition
Kris Bowers bows to the audience after performing in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition. He took home first prize. (Brendan Hoffman/WireImage--Photo at NPR.org) Juilliard pianist...
View ArticleHarn Museum at U. of Florida to Open New Asian-Art Wing
The Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida has announced that it will open its new Asian art wing on March 31, 2012. The Cofrin Asian Art Wing, designed by UF alumnus Kha Le-Huu, is a...
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Alum Gives Bard Conservatory $9.2M
Laszlo Z. Bito (photograph from Wikimedia) The Bard College Conservatory of Music has received a $9.2-million gift from Bard alumnus László Z. Bitó, class of 1960, for the construction of The László Z....
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Monday’s Poems: ‘Vanished Harvest’ and ‘Bludgeon-Man,’ by Larissa Szporluk
Vanished Harvest They call it a lazy breeze. Under its slow grope, trees drop their favorite work. And pigeons, their pigeon droppings, and the bleach that I drop on the porch because my son might...
View ArticleThe Word on Writers’ Conferences
By Elise Blackwell This summer I was on the faculty of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Years ago, I had a terrific experience there as a participant. It was founded by a beloved professor...
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Monday’s Poems: Three by Jane Hirshfield
BRUISES In age, the world grows clumsy. A heavy jar leaps from a cupboard. A suitcase has corners. Others have no explanation. Old love, old body, do you remember— carpet burns down the spine,...
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Art Schools Offer High-School Students a Summer Preview
Christina Pettersson got a taste of art school from a summer program when she was in high school. (Photo courtesy of Petterson) By Daniel Grant For many high-school students, college is a given and...
View ArticleMonday’s Poems: ‘Hearsay’ and ‘First Frost on Windshield,’ by L.S. Klatt
HEARSAY The mailman sent piecemeal a rare donkey to the city of waters; to the city of waters a rare donkey was sent, swaddled in blueprint. And it came to pass that the waters were troubled. Woe in...
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