Deaf Republic emerges from a confession. “We Lived Happily during the War,” a narrator admits in the title of the opening poem, the first of
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Norma Rees remembers a couple distinct moments from last year’s annual Robert Pinsky Favorite Poem Project, which marked the event’s 10th anniversary at Chautauqua Institution.
David Hassler Shara McCallum There is a figure standing atop a sunset-shaded mountain. The silhouette, with arms outstretched, basks in the otherworldly glow of paint-splattered
Young poets at Seville Intermediate School in Seville, Ohio, describe joy as “perfect,” “pouncing” and “purple.” It’s just one example of the communal creative energy
Abraham Smith When he was a “squirmy, shouty” grade school student, Abraham Smith entered an environmental speech contest. “I’ve always been a performative person,” Smith
Participants of the Young Writers Institute pen essays after their class discussing the form on July 11 in the Literary Arts Center in Alumni Hall.
The personal is indeed political for Shara McCallum, a Week Five poet-in-residence at the Chautauqua Writers’ Center. However, within the context of her lived experience
Glick Robert Glick no longer collects barf bags. In a 2011 interview with Jacquelyn Barnes for the travel website Wanderlust and Lipstick, Glick traced the
This week, CLSC Young Readers will grapple with an age-old question: What does it mean to live forever? At 12:30 p.m. today, July 17 at
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo At age 5, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo crossed a desert. It was spring 1993 when Castillo immigrated from Tepechitlán, Mexico, to the United
Colin Struk, 2, snacks on Cheetos and watermelon during the Great American Picnic Sunday, July 15, 2018, in front of Alumni Hall. RILEY ROBINSON/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Jim Walkup When marriage counselor Jim Walkup wrote an article for his website titled, “12 Topics You MUST Discuss Before Getting Married,” he didn’t expect it
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo Marcelo Hernandez Castillo thinks he might be afraid of the long poem. That is a somewhat provocative admission from the Week Four poet-in-residence,
Last Sunday, near the beginning of her 3:30 p.m. writer-in-residence reading in the Hall of Philosophy, Vi Khi Nao gave a short Vietnamese lesson using
As she wrote and researched coastal communities represented within Rising: Dispatches From the New American Shore, Elizabeth Rush found herself following the rampikes. Coupled with
Week Three of Chautauqua Institution’s 2019 season, “A Planet in Balance: A Week in Partnership with National Geographic Society,” hones in on possible solutions to