Lines of Thinking
Lines of Thinking is a monthly feature from College President Emeritus Tom Manley. Each installment features a poem selected for its powers to transport us to some higher, lower or common ground, and, possibly in the process, provide fresh perspective and insight on the ground we occupy daily.
DEEP KRITIK with Dr. NATALIE SUZELIS, Assistant Professor of Literature
Interview by Matt Walker '04. Natalie Suzelis is an Assistant Professor of Literature at Antioch College. She holds a Ph.D. in Literary and Cultural Studies from Carnegie Mellon University, where she was a Schaffer and A. W. Mellon fellow. Her research synthesizes...
A Special Welcome to Antioch’s New President, Jane Fernandes, Who Believes in ‘Eating Poetry’
Two poems by Puerto Rican Victor Hernández Cruz, and one by President Emeritus Manley from Malaysia.
“The Dangers of Tropical Fruits” Victor Hernández Cruz
Two poems by Puerto Rican Victor Hernández Cruz, and one by President Emeritus Manley from Malaysia.
LoVerne Brown and Ed Ruscha
Two poems by LoVerne Brown, read by President Emeritus Manley between the ocean and the art of Ed Ruscha at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Travel Edition
May 15th is nearly upon us. If plans hold, on that day my family and I plus two dogs, a cat and six suitcases will depart from Washington, Dulles International, for a long trip to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Poetry + Baseball = Haiku
Beyond the surging signs of spring, April is also national poetry month AND the beginning of baseball season. It’s a double header of the best sort.
Light, Fog, Fire: Ferlinghetti, Milosz, Ammons, Bashō, Komachi
At 101 Lawrence Ferlinghetti had outlived his era-mates by many years. That, it occurred to me, may have been bittersweet: the deepening saturation of truth and beauty “happily amid complexity and paradox” and the physical absence of those we write and make for.
Seeing Red: Williams, Sojun, Stevens
Poems that help us see red—these are what I delight in sending to you on a snow-blown afternoon from Yellow Springs.
A Quickish Story, Rimbaud, Wright (Again)
One of my most satisfying interludes with poetry involved “wrapping” an entire 65,000-square-foot building in a poem by Arthur Rimbaud.
Lorde, Wright, Sogi
The Japanese poet and diarist Sei Shonagon noted among the tricks of time and distance the deceptive proximity of the last day of the year and the first day of the new year: things that were near and far at the same moment.