Hmong embroidery, known worldwide for its beauty, carries many things: artistic pride, historic documentation, aesthetic ideals and poetic meanings. However, the needlework also represents a
When writing The Fact of a Body, Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich drank coffee from a mug that read “creative nonfiction.” “Because you can’t make this stuff up,”
Charlotte Matthews is many things. To name a few: poet, teacher, environmentalist — and great-great-niece of Rachel Carson. Matthews is also the poet-in-residence for Week
This week’s Chautauqua Writers’ Center workshops will find the magic in the everyday and the unexpected. “Life should remain magical, even as we become adults,”
Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie, Cheryl Strayed’s Wild and Lena Dunham’s “Girls” have something in common. Chautauqua Writers’ Center Week Six prose
Jessica Bruder wrote about the nation’s increasing amount of nomadic workers in “The End of Retirement” for Harper’s in 2014. Six-thousand words later, she was
“Ahimsa” means nonviolence or non-injury in Sanskrit. In the 1940s, “ahimsa” was being referred as a nonviolent resistance method in the freedom movement in India.
The Chautauqua Writers’ Center’s Week Six writers-in-residence, Allison Joseph and Jess Row, will explore poetry and prose beyond cultural divides in their workshops this week.
Nicole Cuffy signs copies of her book, "Atlas of the Body," following the presentation of the inauguralChautauqua Janus Prize on Wednesday in the Athenaeum Hotel
Kazim Ali thinks about genre the same way he thinks about gender: performed categories with codes and expectations for behavior. Kazim Ali “My argument about