As Week Two’s theme, “American Identity,” has proved, identity is both intricate and evolving. The only constant is that it means something different for everybody. “We all contain many identities within us; sometimes those identities
The iconic frontierswoman and children’s author Laura Ingalls Wilder was in her 60s before publishing Little House in the Big Woods. Week Two’s Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle selection, Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Marcus Wicker’s poetry is political. In many ways, it’s a form of social protest. In his Brown Bag at 12:15 p.m. on Tuesday, July 3 on the front porch of the Literary Arts Center at
For Taína Caragol, portraits are skylights to history. “I love portraiture because of the window it provides into humanity,”Caragol said. “It is an art form that fosters connection, and it is striking when that connection can
This week’s Writers’ Center workshops delve into the vibrant lives of the imagination and the elegy. Week Two’s poet-in-residence, Marcus Wicker, will lead a workshop titled “Ode, Elegy, Aubade, Invective: Strategies for the Letter
“Tell me what you can’t forget, and I’ll tell you who you are,” Julie Buntin wrote in the first sentence of her novel, Marlena. Buntin will discuss “knockout” beginnings in a Brown Bag titled “Where Do
Andrew Krivák mastered the anatomy of a story by listening to his grandmother around the kitchen stove. That, and a childhood of roaming, hiking, fishing, camping and fort-building fashioned Krivák’s imagination as a writer. “When
Tyehimba Jess’ Olio exemplifies the urgency of knowing: “If people knew the sheer will that was put into each note, they might know better how those tunes, that music, let this country talk itself through
The subway growls to a stop. Inside, the “Mona Lisa” smiles. Four Catholic priests play backgammon at a table, unperturbed. This is the type of dream that subscribers to Mathias Svalina’s Dream Delivery Service can
Here, word play is taken literally. The newly installed Poetry Makerspace in the Colonnade will act as a bookend to the first-ever Brick Walk Book Walk from noon to 3 p.m. on Sunday and from
The Chautauqua Writers’ Center turns 30 this year. Instead of blowing out candles, the Writers’ Center is celebrating with a full season of programming, under the leadership of Atom Atkinson, director of literary arts.
A Maya Angelou quote could be the epigraph for Week One of the Writers’ Center programming: “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” Mathias Svalina and Julie Buntin
A constellation of texts invites disruption. Before her retirement, Sherra Babcock, former vice president and Emily and Richard Smucker Chair for Education, announced the 2018 Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle’s vertical theme: disruption. The role
The 15th annual Writers’ Festival is winding down, but was in full swing this past week. The four-day event concludes Saturday June 23rd. For the first time, the event was held during the week leading
It was Ella Fitzgerald who said “the only thing better than singing is more singing.” And the only thing better than one person singing, is four people singing. This philosophy certainly rings true for this