Rajiv Mohabir’s new puppy plays constantly. Even when approaching wasp nests, the puppy shows an excited curiosity. Her infinite playfulness reminded Mohabir why he loves
Literary Arts
This week, the Chautauqua Writers’ Center aims to transfigure scribes into wizards and workshops into playgrounds. The workshops this week will be held by poet-in-residence
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.
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder is the selection for the CLSC Young Readers for Week Two. Caroline Fraser, the author of
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
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
"I am offering this poem to you, since I have nothing else to give,” read Vanessa DeStevens, a Jamestown High School student, on the steps
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
“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
As Week One’s theme, “The Life of the Written Word,” continues, lexicographer Kory Stamper will speak about the history of the English language, the creation
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,
Melissa Sweet is a children’s author who doesn’t think children should read all the time. “I think there are two things that are usually important,”
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
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
The Chautauqua Writers’ Center turns 30 this year. Instead of blowing out candles, the Writers’ Center is celebrating with a full season of programming,
A Maya Angelou quote could be the epigraph for Week One of the Writers’ Center programming: “There is no greater agony than bearing an