Writers’ Center

Cooley SARAH VEST - STAFF WRITER Samuel Beckett once said, “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” It is this idea of “failing better” that Martha Cooley — Week Nine’s

Toni Morrison said in her lecture “Unspeakable Things Unspoken” that “we have always been imagining ourselves.” “Personal Geographies,” the theme for the 2021 Chautauqua Writers’ Festival, directed by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, echoed that idea of how

Laura Kasischke is obsessed with images. Her workshop at the Chautauqua Writers’ Center this week is titled “Revisiting the Image,” and she and her students are thinking about the ways in which poetry is a

The Chautauqua Writers’ Center will welcome Philip Brady and Kevin Haworth as its writers-in-residence in Week Four. The two authors plan to focus on different conceptions of time with their students. Brady and his students