SARAH VEST - STAFF WRITER Celebrated country music singer Wynonna Judd’s rich and commanding voice has sold over 30 million albums worldwide and toured all over the globe. An Appalachian native, Judd learned to play
SARAH VEST - STAFF WRITER DeShell If nobody will read it, then why write it? Many authors might grapple with this question, assuming there is no point, but Week Three’s prose writer-in-residence for the Chautauqua
SARAH VEST - STAFF WRITER Oreskes In the age of the internet, there is an overwhelming amount of information available that fosters mistrust of science. Naomi Oreskes, Week Three’s Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle author,
SARAH VEST - STAFF WRITER Igloria How a poet completes the act of language- and image-making is always linked to the historical, cultural and indigenously determined ways in which they see the world. That’s the
SARAH VEST - STAFF WRITER Mark Wenzler is the inaugural director of the newly launched Chautauqua Climate Change Initiative. DAVE MUNCH/PHOTO EDITOR Mark Wenzler has had a long career combating climate change, most recently serving
SARAH VEST - STAFF WRITER Igloria Inspiration can come from a variety of places. For one, it might be a favorite film; for another, it could be their cultural history. Week Three’s poet- and prose
SARAH VEST - STAFF WRITER Lockhart Writer’s block, or the inability to take pen to paper, is a perpetual issue that writers of all strokes have had to deal with at some point in their
SARAH VEST - STAFF WRITER Charo “Gattaca,” the 1997 movie that tells the story of a future society where people are able to design and optimize their children by editing their genes, is what many
SARAH VEST - STAFF WRITER Georges We all carry different languages inside of us — some that can be spoken and some that are difficult to put into words. At least that is what Danielle
SARAH VEST - STAFF WRITER Kolbert People have been hearing that the sky is falling for years, but now the Doomsday clock has ticked uncomfortably close to midnight. And yet, the very technology that people
SARAH VEST - STAFF WRITER Georges Lockhart Language makes up the fabric of our communities and connects people across distance and time. Danielle Legros Georges and Zelda Lockhart use their different crafts to reflect on the
SARAH VEST - STAFF WRITER Illustration by Grace Bukowski, Design Editor Anyone who has been to Chautauqua knows the culture of front porch discussions are as critical to the experience as the programming itself. This
SARAH VEST - STAFF WRITER Livingston “Click” goes the shutter of a camera, capturing a moment in time before it passes by. Just like a camera captures moments in time, so does the memory of
SARAH VEST - STAFF WRITER MA George Orwell wrote in his book 1984 “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” This was at the forefront of Ma Jian’s
MILTNER SARAH VEST - STAFF WRITER Some people see poetry as confusing, jumbled, and hard to understand — or at least that’s Robert Miltner’s impression. That idea is exactly what Miltner, as Week One’s poet-in-residence
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