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Teaching Children to Write
The children that poet Robert Glück taught booed the “Poetry Playhouse” and wrote scatological jokes. He asked them for more.
Articles & Essays
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Living Fossils
Amidst a record-breaking national heat wave and second year of rampant wildfires, a group of dancers construct a new form of environmental advocacy in the California redwoods.
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A Tea with a Revelation
The third workshop of the Rewilding Borikén series, “Fotorevelado con anamú”, examines the art of making film developers with local plants and deepens our knowledge of silver’s role in analogue photography.
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COVID’s Decompressing Bodies: A Cultural Critique for the Long Haul
In order to heal through the fog, frustration and fatigue of the pandemic, COVID cannot be the only variant. Our culture must also mutate.
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It Could Be So Much Worse
An exploration of the stigmatized COVID body, the challenges of long hauling, and how to hold the particularities of pain.
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You’re Still Sick
In the first installment of the Long Hauling series, two artists and HIV activists reflect on mutual care and their experience of being sick with COVID-19 during the initial months of the pandemic in 2020.
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The Forest Inside Your Gut
The second workshop in the Rewilding Borikén series, “Fermentos con Frutas y Hortalizas” went beyond the basics of fermentation to examine how ecological successions permeate life from the forest to your gut.
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The Everyday Voices of Migrants
Wanting to help “refugees,” we tell stories of distant disasters and flight and rescue. But what stories do people on the move tell?
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Afectos Cromáticos: Chromatic Affects
The first workshop in the Rewilding Borikén series, “Chromatic Affects” details natural dyeing techniques and how to make watercolors with local mineral pigments.
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Samir Mansour’s Bookshop
In a vibrant urban neighbourhood the loss of a beloved bookshop is always hard to bear—worse when it’s destroyed by enemy missiles.
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Reading and Writing (from The Unpunished Vice)
“I’ve always associated reading and writing with sex,” Edmund White reports.
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Transatlantic Echoes
In this essay from “The Roads of Yemoja,” Laeïla Adjovi examines how a West African deity survived the Middle Passage from Benin and Nigeria to Cuba and became venerated on both sides of the Atlantic.