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By Christian Coleman | Gasp! Google Calendar looks much less iridescent and fabulous this June. It’s giving a serious case of the blahs, and the face card is nothing but a 404 error. Where’s that righteous realness for human rights? Oh, that’s right. Google Calendar banished Pride Month into the cyber memory hole. Well, that’s…
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A Q&A with Alisha Dietzman | I mentor a small group of incredible students from my last poetry workshop who wanted to continue to meet. Most recently, I worked as an adjunct at a small Quaker liberal arts college in rural Oregon where I taught freshman composition and intermediate poetry. Over the years, I’ve taught/tutored…
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A Q&A with Aaron Caycedo-Kimura | I teach Introduction to Creative Writing at Trinity College in Hartford, CT, where most of my students are freshmen and sophomores. The goal of the course is to give the students a strong foundation in writing poetry, short fiction, and short creative nonfiction, and to introduce them to the…
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A Q&A with Roque Raquel Salas Rivera | I teach at the University of Puerto Rico. My students are almost all Puerto Rican, and I teach a variety of courses on Gender Studies, Cinema and Human Rights, Puerto Rican History and National Thought, Introduction to Literature—a wide range. I hold a PhD in Comparative Literature…
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By Christian Coleman | Did you check your phones? Is it any shock that Google Calendar genuflected to the current scorched-earth administration’s anti-DEI tour and removed Black History Month from its holiday list during Black History Month? Is it a shock that they claimed their holiday list wasn’t “globally scalable or sustainable?” Talk about Big…
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A Q&A with Danielle Legros Georges | I recently took an early retirement after teaching graduate students for two decades at Lesley University. When I taught, I was interested in activating the prior knowledge of my students, understanding that they had much to contribute to the learning spaces we were co-creating and supporting their learning…
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Whew! Now that we are shutting the door on that messy guest called 2024, we are officially in our unwind and imbibe era until further notice. Join us, won’t you? Because your books should be as good as your booze. We asked our staff members which beverage, cocktail, or mocktail they would pair with their…
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