... In Richard Brodhead’s remarks at the induction ceremony of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004, he shares personal reminiscences that illustrate the value of poetry and art in understanding human experiences. William Shakespeare William Wordsworth American Academy of Arts...

.... Archive and Black Feminist Breathing Chorus to campus. Tying the engagements with those pedagogical events together is a focus on Sylvia Wynter's concept of “ceremony,” which I elaborate in relation to a longer discussion of “evental ontology.” the deictic wake work Black feminism endarkenment...

... transposes the spatial organization of traditional designs used in body painting during sacred ceremonies. These designs evoke the mythological/ancestral story that is important to the painter’s identity, specifically regarding a place that serves as a water source. There may also be reference...

...Ceremony The writing in this section has served as ceremony, ritual, prayer, lament, and invocation. “Shema” came out in a flood of words the day after 9/11. “Dark of the Year” was written in the aftermath of a terrible breakup that was impacted by the eruption of war. “Grave Song...

... Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri’s Big Cave Dreaming with Ceremonial Objects (1972) combines the representation of a physical place (a cave, cliffs) with the ancestral events and contemporary ceremonies associated with an important sacred site. The mixing of conventional Indigenous imagery...