After floating down the stairs and offering a Daily reporter some sparkling water, author and poet Sandra Cisneros needed to do her hair. She had
Literary Arts
Stephine Hunt recommended Hala Alyan’s novel The Arsonists’ City to the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle shortly before 2021’s Bryant Day ceremony. “I recommended it
When it came time to write her award-winning short story, “Jean,” Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos wanted to try something a little different. “This story is a
When it comes to the Chautauqua Lecture Series theme, “More than Shelter: Redefining the American Home,” and the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle’s vertical theme
For Todd Fleming Davis, metaphor is always a moment of transformation. “With a simile, we create distance,” said Davis, a poet, educator and the Week
In a week packed with literary arts events, members of the 1874 Society, Eleanor B. Daugherty Society and Bestor Society gathered for a showcase of
Todd Fleming Davis’ newest poetry collection, Coffin Honey, takes on issues of climate and collapse and climate catastrophe. “It’s a book of eco-grief, told in
When Rebecca Donner wrote a biography about her great-great-aunt Mildred Harnack, she had no idea the accolades it would receive. Along with many other awards,
For Kristin Kovacic, one of the most essential parts of being a writer is to make art in a world that is growing more dismal.
Writing her novel Great Circle was a six-and-a-half year process for Maggie Shipstead — but she didn’t intend for it to be. “I wrote my
Given the social, political and economic upheaval of the last few years, the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle Class wanted of 2022 its banner to
It begins with a poem: “When I see the first / New moon, faint in the twilight, / I think of the moth eyebrows /
Jim Daniels’ new poetry collection, Gun/Shy, looks backward and forward in time, through time, across time. “I ended up juxtaposing poems that looked backward to
Light and dark cannot exist without each other. They serve as complements, two forces always separate, but never quite coexisting in the same moment. Yet
Of all the teachers David Lazar had over the years, one sticks out: the famous short story writer Raymond Carver. “I remember going up to
Each United States Poet Laureate picks a project that they work on for the duration of their tenure. When it came time for Robert Pinsky