... Indigenous, being Tongva specifically, and also trying, at the request of some of our elders, to use Gabrieleno at least occasionally as well, since they feel that it’s important to recognize that name (for our tribe), which was used by many of our people for a long time, and I’m trying to be respectful...

... ic p e d a g o g y o f lib e r a t i o n t h a t t o o m a n y h e te r o s e x u a l m a le s and non-people of co lorha ve failed to take seriously, la m one of these masculinists who had, for so many years, found it easier to expend more energy to dismiss, ignore, and try to rebut Chicana fe m...

... is called hana no’eau . This is a practice that is passed down traditionally and ancestrally. When you’re making stuff with your hands that your ancestors have done, it’s an ancestral memory that comes up. I really try to emphasize that in my work and be very intentional about the ways I approach this. I’m...

.... And then I stepped over it. It's either the best or the w orst thing I've ever done. My light cut across the cathedral, the sanctuary, whatever they call it. Dust floating in the beam, so that I tilted the light up to the ceiling to try to find the source of the disturbance. The light w o uld n't reach...

..., which she surely should have conveyed to me. We looked at each other in mutual bafflement. W hat I knew then, I try, as a poet, to retain now. A written script does not find fu lfillm e n t outside speech. The problem of address and its relation to speaking is not even a problem I tru ly wish to resolve...

... in the same discourse about which I w ant to think. Perhaps the exhaustion is sim ply about running out o f the energy it takes to maintain the belief. It is like losing faith in God, only to discover that you had been an atheist all along, which was w hy you had been trying so hard to sustain your faith...

... humanistic tradition of rejecting anything that smacks of dirtying our hands with mere science and em piricism , such as trying to find out if what we do is actually w orking or not.The fierce hostility w ith which many humanists have recently reacted to so-called "out­ comes assessment" (I too wince...

... that Septimus has in Woolf s novel: he is a lower-class, self-educat­ ed clerk and aspiring artist valiantly trying to improve himself cul­ turally and socially through a regime of public lectures and read­ ings; he is impressionable and especially susceptible to nurturing women who try to make him m ore...

.... On the day th e y m eet, Bee escapes w ith her sister, N kiruka, in to th e ju n g le : she is afraid th e y w ill be kille d as w itn e sse s to m u r­ der. On th e d a y Bee and Sarah m eet, Sarah is ta kin g a w a lk w ith her h u sband : th e y are try ­ ing to patch up th e ir m a rriage d u rin g an u...

... our comprehension. Pandemic-inspired articles, novels, stories, poems, blogs, tweets, videos, songs, and artwork are being produced at a prodigious rate as we try to make sense of what we all have, to varying degrees, witnessed and experienced for the last two years and continue to confront...

... acters refusal, at the climax of their stories, to try to save a close associate from drowning, are so striking as to suggest Gwynne s influence on George Eliot s conception of h e r character.7 Richard, like Gwendolen, is a gifted and sensitive child, of mixed blood (Richard s m other was an East...

... kraine: Celan once called th e place "a v ic tim o f h isto ryle s s n e s s "1» Celan su rvived the H olocaust, p u b lish e d his firs t p o e try in Vienna, then settled in Paris, b u t co n tin u e d to w rite in G erm an a lth o u g h , like Kafka's, a "d e te rrito ria liz e d " German...

... r the North Hollywood library. In these years he had devoted himself to chronicling the Latino history of the San Fernando Valley, the place where he was born and would die. Trying to find a home fo r Mr. Martinez s life s work, we found ourselves calling every library in the greater L.A. area...

... of the word in your mouth. Adam: But there are precious fe w I'm having trouble of thin king of even one other American Jew ish w rite r w h o can engage w ith a sacred te xt on th a t level. Nathan: I do n't know, I can't really help you there. All I'm trying to point out is that, fo r me, it's like com m...

... hovering over the boy suggests th at she is n o t helping, b u t confining him. The boy could be trying to jo in the play of the young woman who is already hitting the shuttlecock. The young woman at the left has apparently avoided or escaped the confining actions of the nurse and is playing freely...

... and drove to Worcester. The documents I needed to see at the AAS chronicled loss and disillusionm ent.The Panic of 1837 began as a massive run on banks, w ith people trying to exchange paper for specie. By the tim e the depression it triggered had fina lly sputtered and come to a stop, the Panic cost...

..., but the poetic I can never be purely autobiographical because it has been co n stru cte d as a co m p o n e n t o f th e poem and Is in fo rm e d by co n te xtu a llza tio n . As p o e try necessitates a h e rm e n e utic approach, th a t co n te xtu a llza tio n Is p a rtia lly created by the reader...

..., the "Turk," the woman, the Jew, etc.This characterization, o f course, is reductive, but not absurdly so; one need only try to discuss our scholarship w ith a university-wide, interdisciplinary committee, filled with chemists, political scientists, biologists, business professors, etc. (a modern academic...

... the waters below. But, as Blake s own depictions of the C reator would indi­ cate, such divine editors must risk destroying the very m atter they re trying to create, shrinking o r trivializing ( stonifying, in Blake s term ) the text in the process of trying to give it clear outlines and a determ inate...

... and the conscious, or between "p o e try" and "prose," demarcations Lee's w riting eagerly seeks to cross (as is m ost evident perhaps in the prose poem mem oir, The W inged Seed). Sim ilar to the way "m e m o ry" operates for Nora, in Lee's w ritings remembrance becomes suffused w ith the "em otion and m agic...